[need help please]

Ok I've decided to suck it up and withdraw from Oxycontin immediatly. I have Firday, Saturday and Sunday off work. Starting on Monday I have to be at work and bee 100% because I have prospective clients coming to town for presentations and negotiations.I have a 200mg per day habit for several years . My quesion is since I don't have time or resources for"professional"help, what can I do for the next few days to help relieve the terrible withdraw symptons and make it possible to be ready to go come Monday morning. Professional Rapid detox is not an option at this time so I'm asking for home remedies otr any over the counter products I can use. It's not to pass a drug screen or anything so I'm not looking for things to flush my sytem for that purpose.Any help would be appreciated but please only answer if you've been through it or know what your talking about.

[Jill S]

Pump massive B vitamins, and exercize like hell. Even though you feel like crap. Dont give yourself excuses to relapse...you will have plenty but dont. If you have to sleep till noon every day then kick butt to sweat it out do it. good luck

[Tisker]

I don't know if you are abusing Oxycontin, it sounds like you are, so congrats on your decision. I know you want to do this on your own and that you want to do it fast, but I would suggest you do it slowly. Perhaps decrease by 50mg every week, until you are off the drug. I think that if you try to quit cold turkey (or over 3 days) you will have detox tremors by Monday and will most likely miss your appointment with clients because you will be hospitalized or dead. You seriously need professional help, get some and good luck.

[Gnurse]

You really need to taper off it. I have had patients go into serious withdraw on doses much less than yours, and after a much shorter duration.I am not a doctor so I can't tell you what you should do, but I did find this onfoiscontinuation: When patient no longer requires controlled-release oxycodone, patients receiving doses of 20-60 mg/day can usually have therapy stopped abruptly without incident; taper higher doses over several days to prevent signs and symptoms of withdrawal in physically dependent patients. Reduce daily dose by ~ 50% for the first 2 days and then by 25% every 2 days thereafter until total dose reaches 10 or 20 mg q12h. Therapy can then be discontinued. If signs of withdrawal appear, stop tapering, and slightly increase dose until signs and symptoms of opioid withdrawal disappear; begin tapering again, but with longer time periods between each dose reduction.Good luck!

[Michael R]

Oxy is not an easy one to detox from, and it will not be detoxed in such a short time period. This does not mean that on Monday you will not be able to go to work, you can and I am sure will do so. But, one of the big withdrawal symptoms you will encounter is a feeling of extreme cold. You will want to keep the temperature of your home at 78 or 80, and you still will feel the cold. Roll with this, as it will leave you evenutally.You really ought to do this under the control of a doctor. Talk to your doctor about catapress for detox (used effectively for heroin withdrawal and this is basically taking heroin in pill form!) Down side is the severe stupor the first few days,much sleep. thats also the up side. After 10 days life get dramatically better and continues to. For the mental they used clonopin. While it is a benzo it's 1/2 life is much longer than vitamin x therefore you use less HOWEVER if you can avoid another drug please do so.Hot and cold flashes can be another withdrawal symptom, as are coughing and uncontrollable diarrhea. It may not be typical butt I also have also heard of multiple seizures.I guess I am saying, be forewarned about all of these various things you can and probably will go through. Each of them mean that you are getting closer to being back to your good old self.I hope and pray this helps.

[gently]

It is virtually impossible for your plan to succeed. Cold turkey from this drug is also dangerous. You certainly had time and resources for yr habit. As a recovering addict, I recognized that every word you wrote is governed by the addict in control. The best you can safelydo on yr own is make a reasonable withdrawal schedule from this narcotic. For example, 50mg. less daily for a minimum of one week, etc. No pattern of any kind that has lasted for several years can be"fixed"in just three days. You're on a lifetime ride with nothing to lose and everything to gain once you get clear in sobriety. No couch potato life for you. Not everyone gets the depth and wisdom that this sort of life or death malady has to offer. There is light at the end of this tunnel but you have to stop fooling yrself first. Narcotics Anonymous should be listed in yr telephone directory. If not , try the AA listing for help with where to find a local meeting. The"only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using". You can attend FREE, unwashed and nodding out. These are the people who already know you better than you know yourself.

[deltaqueen]

I am a huge fan of detoxing Cold Turkey, but 3 days is not an option. You can however taper off of the oxy by as much as 50mg a day or every 2 days. Ebbing off of the drug will reduce withdrawal symptoms considerably and since there is no drug testing scare, you should be able to function with your business. After you have reached your lowest of doses, you will probably want to have a couple of days to yourself without work or obligations because there will still likely be, cramping, nausea, sweating and edginess.Start today with lots of vitamin B and lots of water, eat health, fibrous foods.I'm sorry that there is no quick fix, it's just not that simple. But as addicts we are used to not simple, and also to adapting to what we need to to pull things off. So if you take time to ween your self and use these next 3 days to work on yourself mentally you should be ready to deal with clients and they will never see the"monkey". As addicts we want what we want and we want it right now, unfortunately in this case it is simply too dangerous.Good Luck to you and don't push yourself too hard, your decision to stop the drugs alone will help carry you through.

[bc12012]

Gnurse is the best advise for you.I used Oxycontin for 4 yrs daily.I had prescriptions for a medical condition and 4 different doctors rec commended i just live off pain killers.Finally i found one that wanted to operate and my pain went away.I was up to 400ml a day.i whined myself off and don't have an addiction.addiction comes in 2 forms physical which i think is the addiction you have and psychological which s what i had.i didn't want to trust the fact that my pain was gone forever at first. it took a 6 weeks.my plan was to keep cutting my dosages in 1/2 week to week.to the point where i was down to 125 ml /day then went cold turkey.get a pill split if you don't have one already.that worked for me.If it didn't i was going to talk to my Dr and see if i could use methadone to get off the oxys. they give you 2 pills and you do one one day and the other 2 days later ten your done.methadone is very addictive and you don't take it more than twice.if i failed again i was going to do rapid detox as a last resort.good luck ,hopefully you can do it on your own, it will make you a stronger person.if you fail don't give up