Hydrocodone withdrawal

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Hi, I been on them for about 3 years also and I was up to 20 or 30 a day but now I'm at about 8 ten mg a day. Please tell me if u can how bad withdrawal would be if I quit cold turkey on about 8 each day. I'm really scared after reading all these posts on how bad everyone felt after quitting. Will it be less bad for me since its from 6 to 10 a day rather then what it use to be??? Please help.
 
Hi I posted sumwhere on here but not sure to whom. I forgot to mention I take somas on a dayly basis also, about 2 to 5 a day which is not too bad to me but I could be wrong. My main prob is hydrocodone ten mgs about 8 or so a day. Use to be about 20 or 30...possibly 40 a day but that was for a short time. Now its around 8 a day like I said so I was just wondering if anyone out there could please tell me how bad withdrawals would be if I quit cold turkey on 8 a day or if I would even have withdrawals cuz I'm really scared after all I've heard about withdrawing but does that only apply to really high doses or any dose? Please someone give me their advice I'm freaking out and I havnt even quit yet but I so badly want to. Thanx.
 
Hi Drouser - was it difficult for you to cut down from the 20-30 per day to 8 per day? How long have you been on the meRAB?
 
Hi Neverforget, thnx for the post. I didn't go from 20 or so a day directly to 8, I kinda taperd a lil bit which at the time didn't seem very difficult. But since that last post abt 3-4 mnths ago I've went through sum very tough life circumstances and couldn't seem to get a handle on it anymore. So currently I am back up to 12-15 per day though I hav lost exact count because of this. I hate myself and the carRAB life has been dealing me lately. So I've let my self control go and it seems, slip away from me comepletely. I have not improved as I intended to do. I seem to be getting worse every day. I don't know what is wrong with me other than the adiction itself. But I know there's a lot more "things" that are keeping me from getting any better, I just don't know what all the things are. I feel like I have no idea how to just live life, or how to react to anything or make any move every day of my life without that medicine in my system. Its there as I speak cause I "re-upped" just today! Idk wat to do at all anymore. If anyone else sees this post please reply to it with watever help they can give me. I need it more than anything right now. There's no one I have to go to. Thanks and please help and good luck to everyone.
 
Hey Drouser,

Now Let me start this by saying I'm not a Doctor, but I do know a fair amount about psychology and addiction, and it sounRAB like you're having a bit of difficulty with both. The problem with someone such as yourself, who seems to have both depression as well as an addiction to drugs is that both are entangled to the point that it comes down to being a singular problem. Or to use an analogy, Its like having an open wound that's infected. You can stitch the wound closed, but doing so will only bury the infection which is going to just fester under the skin, eventually to surface worse then it began with. Or you could just clean the wound and leave it open to maybe heal on its own, or maybe just become infected again and be back to where you started, with an open infected wound. Just trying to fix one or the other isnt going to fix the anything.

Its only going to be when you adress both problems that you are going to find any sort of real help. It might help you to know that you arent alone in the way that you are feeling right now. I can pretty much guarantee you that if you were to ask everyone who has an issue with addiction that you would find out that about 90% of the people had some sorrow, anger, or other situation that they just felt unable to deal with, so they used drugs or alcohol to bury the problem and drive it out their mind so that consciously they no longer had any problem in the world. The thing is, no matter how deep you bury something it always seems to pop back up.

What I'm getting at here is that you may (and almost certainly do) have a problem with addiction to opiates. The real difficulty is that you are also likely suffering from some big time depression, and any decent doctor or addiction specialist is going to tell you that without treating both problems one of them is just going to drive you back to the point you started at. What you're saying right now isnt that unusual actually with addicts its more usual then you would believe. Anyway, let me end this harangue by just saying this......With a situation such as yours trying to do things all on your own is likely just not going to work. Sometimes you got to ask for that helping hand and take it and grab it when it is offered. You just need to know that at times trying to do things all on your own just isnt gonna work.



Just dont stop looking and trying to find a way out. Its worth it,

........Jay.........
 
Jay, thank u so much for taking the time to reply an offer your imput. You pretty much hit the nail on the head! As of right now, I'm worse off than when I first posted. Thank you again though.
 
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