Symptoms of Percocet Withdrawals - Part 2

Be careful with Kratom, it's just another opiate. You're just switching one type for another; you're not reducing your body's dependence on opiates.

Yes I am in the same boat I forget everything.

I have been on oxycodone and tramadol for about 10 years.  I have a doc appointment in the next couple of days and can easily get my meds refilled.  i usually run out before i can fill my next script and go through horrible withdrawls each month.  i have high blood pressure, so i have had one stroke and one tia during my withdrawals   i too cannot afford rehab and i do not have insurance. i know there is know way to not go through these withdrawals  but it sure would help if y'all had any secrets.  i want so bad to not take anything ever again.  i have R.A., Degenerative disc disease, scafolunate dissociation and bulging discs in c4 and c5. and arthritis all over.   i am only 47.  i have had these issues since 1999, but did not start experiencing any issues with withdrawals until the last 3 years.  i am currently looking for a possible community clinic that may be able to help me.  

Thank you everyone. I'm on day 7 no percs. I am reassured reading your posts that the worst is over for me.

I have been on percocet for a fractured skull Augest 2012; started at 3 per day, 10 mg. each. January 2013 I strarted to run out of my weekly prescription by day 4. I was going through some withdrawl for 3 days each week until I could get some more on day 7. This was tolerable, so I continued. Last Friday the 15th March, the doctor gave me a month,s prescription because of a planned trip. I couldn't believe my eyes but had taken them all by Sunday! I thought; this is it; I can't go on this way. This is now day 4 of withdrawl and I'm hoping I can beat it on my own. I've gone through the vomiting, lack of appetite, hot sweats and last night the leg aches and restless leg sydrome. I know it isn't over but am hoping I have gone through the worst of it.

The symptoms are- craving another one- headaches, anxiety, nausea, vomiting, extreme sensititivity to just about any sense (hearing, smells, taste, etc.). I've been on them twice 1st for back surgery (getting off- the usual above, plus when I was lying on a feather bed quilt I could feel just about every feather quill poking me in the back). 2nd for gall bladder removal.  The second time I got to enjoy extreme depression- so bad that it was difficult for me to get out of bed other than for use of the toilet.  And I was actively considering suicide. 

And the second was after only two days of use, I was hooked. It took about a week to get over the 'need' for it. I find it interesting to note that I still had my percs from the last ER trip.  What'd I do with all of the leftover percs? I flushed them down the commode. I refuse to leave temptation within arm's reach.  Even though I still get the bad back pain occasionally, I refuse to keep any leftovers. It's too easy to get hooked on what is there.  And I say this as someone who is weaning himself off of Lorazepam.