Day 1 of Detox (roxycodone)

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reef

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Hi everyone. I thank god i found this forum, its helped me do some research.

My case is not as severe as other cases I've read in here, however i will write everything, hopefully someone will read it and learn not to play with prescription pills.

About 4 months ago a friend gave me a bottle of roxycodone pills, little blue pills which are 30mg. Since i had mild depression for several weeks he though this could help me out to relax a bit.

I started taking 1/4 of a pill ,i would take one at around 11PM and would get a nice buzz and sleep like a baby.

About 2 months later i was taking 1/2 to 3/4 of a pill and couldn't get a buzz like before, however i still could sleep well.

last Saturday I took the most i had ever taken which was 1 and 1/2 of a pill. When i woke up on Sunday it was 4pm and i found my wife very upset, she basically told me how much i had changed and she wanted her husband back, i no longer had a sex life and i barely made it to work, mind you i own my own business so i put in my own hrs.

SO yesterday I realized how much these little pills can mess up your life, even though it is something as innocent as taking it once a day.

SO i flushed all the ones i had left down the toilet and didn't take any last night. Making this day one of detox. First of all i couldn't sleep last night. I finally fell asleep at 7AM and woke up at 1PM feeling horrible, I had the worst anxiety ever and my back hurts a little. I am wondering how much worse it will get and what i can do for the anxiety which seems to be my biggest issue. I won't take anything that will make me drowsy or have WD of its own.

I guess, its my fault for getting more greedy however, i do feel these drugs are like giving me a shovel so i can dig my own hole, i want to get out of it before i lose my wife and kiRAB, i suppose ill take this pain over the pain of loosing them any day.
 
Hello

So happy to see you giving this up before it does make really harmful changes to your life. Good for you.

Not sure if you are experiencing diarreha, but Immodium will help not only with that, but also to calm you a bit. It has ummm, Loperdine, I believe, in it that will help.

Also try the bretahing techiques like slow and steady, counting the seconRAB in letting breath out and so on.

Lastly, remind yourself constantly that the anxiety is a symptom of the body and brain restoring itself and getting on an even keel again.

I don't believe you will get away with no symptoms, but they should be very short-lived...probably no more than a couple of weeks. Implant the memory of them in the brain as something not ever wanted again. Pill misuse and abuse can sneak up on us in a heartbeat as you now know.

Wishing you well
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You are lucky to catch it when you did, because withdrawals are horrendous for many of us who have suffered pill addiction. You will probably feel off kilter for a few days, but take it as a lesson that this is a sign of things to come if you were to continue abusing pills. The anxiety is one of the worst parts of it but it will subside in a few days. Good luck to you.
 
Thanks for all the wise worRAB.

day 2 was better than day one, although i had different symptoms than yesterday. i was very jittery this morning and felt very weak.

I did pick up some L-Theanine tabs and i must say.. it is very helpful, is calms me just a bit, enough to make a difference, i take a tab every 8 hrs, it doesn't make me drowsy and it says it non habit-forming.

no stomach issues.

im starting to feel very good about this.Back hurts like hell, although less than yesterday.

cheers!:wave:
 
hey reef how are you doin? its good you caught this early, before you know it 5-10 years can go by. sounRAB like you were on a low enough dose to keep the w/d minimal. motrin seems to help a bit with the backaches. just be careful you dont fall back into the trap, thats great you were able to realize it was ruining your life so quickly and decided to quit.
 
week enRAB in a country side,
Going out to the night live, without drinking alcohol, wearing style.
playing footbal with your 3 neigrabroadours,and so on...up to you
Depression is quickly over with that.
chao
 
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