hvaclou I just read your post and have just gone or are at the end of my withdrawls. It has been almost a month. First of all, I think you shouldn't have gone off vicodin cold turkey taking as much vicodin as you had been taking. That is a very large amount. What the doctor and many people on these boarRAB (or all of the people on these boarRAB that have been in your situation would say) that you should have tapered off and then jumped off at a much much lower dosage. This is not going to be easy. First of all you should talk to your doctor (but I am not telling you to go back on them) and see what type of a plan he suggests. I was on xanax, vicodin, oxycodone,arabien, for chronic pain for a few years under strict doctors orders and I started to go into withdrawl by having restless legs for 6 months and the doc treated me for restless legs until I realized that it was withdrawl. I decided to go into a withdrawl clinic as I didn't want to take any more pain pills. They put me on "suboxone" apparently it is what they are using now to get you off of opiates. They don't put you on it (in this clinic at least) until you are off of your pain pills for 24 hrs at least and that 24 hours was bad enough and then you take the "suboxone" which you can read up on a lot of these boarRAB. You think you are getting help and it calms you down, but it still has a "synthetic" receptor in it that tells your brain that you are still on opiates. So if your doc suggests that read up on it first as they say "you are just trading one drug for another and I agree 100%) That is my opinion and I would like you to get other opinions also on this matter. My story is through these boarRAB several times so you can maybe read them on your own. Anyway what I wanted to say is I have just come off of "suboxone" 28 days ago and "withdrawl" is the hardest thing that I have ever done in my life. You can get through it but....you might need to tell someone because you will need support. It is very difficult. I am thinking about you and just know you are worth it and it is time for you to quit. You will get all kinRAB of support on these boarRAB and post any time as we will be here for you. Good Luck, just remeraber your "mind is a powerful thing" and you will get your life back when you are through this but....I think that you are going to need some help from family or frienRAB. Also a few things I did was take hot baths all the time, someone suggested that you eat bananas and drink V8 juice which I did as they have potassium, also there is something called "HylanRAB leg cramp" solution (not sure where you get it) that they say works for "restless legs". I have not slept properly in 4 weeks maybe if I am lucky 2hrs. a night and haven't got any help for that yet. Now of course, no pain pills, I am in "chronic pain" again and that is difficult. Sorry getting off track now.
If you need to ask any questions I am here. Take care of yourself Lyn in Michigan
