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Any ideas on how to beat opiate addiction at home?
Question : Any ideas on how to beat opiate addiction at home?
I have a horrible problem. I started taking opiate drugs (such as Vicodin and Percocets) about 4 years ago for pain. I always had legitimate prescriptions. I would take them on and off but always atleast a few weeks out of every month. I think at that point I was mentally addicted but not physically. I have horrible kidney stones and I am always passing them. I have pain constantly now. My doctor says that when a person passes so many kidney stones, that the pain receptor gets turned on and doesn’t turn off again. Anyway, in September I was hosptalized for a surgery on my kidney. I was then put on all sorts of opiate drugs. I have been trying to taper off since then. It is the most horrible, painful thing that I have ever dealt with in my life. I think that it is worse than the kidney pain. Anyway, does anybody have any ideas of how I can beat this horrible addiction. I never imagined that I would be addicted to something….. I cry all the time and I am sad 
I don’t really want to go to a rehab. I was wondering about any home remedies…herbs?….anyway to get my opiate receptors back to normal so that I can have a natural high instead of only being happy when I am taking a pill? Please some help?
opiate addiction
Best answer:
Answer by missyhardt
Try joining a support group…or go to rehab.
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#2 written by LUCY 1 year ago
i can FEEL ur desperation…i truly KNOW ur pain you see you DO NOT have a MONOPOLY on that feeling…..i must say(to me) that feeling is a fate worse than death….now tell me how old r you? r you healthy other wise? because you have to be REALLY careful with opiate withdrawl!!!all has to be accounted for..blood pressure,dehydration,etc….do YOU have a support system???there r sooooooooooo many factors!!! WITHDRAWL SUCKS there is NO way around that fact…but there r certain things you can do to make it easier on ur MIND & BODY! you have to decide the best way for you! you DON’T have to suffer….if you would like to further this matter ..PLEASE feel free to EMAIL me!!!! REALLY there is NO need to CRY anymore!!!! hope this helps…GOOD LUCK!!! L
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#4 written by hiscinders 1 year ago
I was taking morphine and became addicted. Because I did have pain one thing that had to happen was I needed something to take away the pain, when you go off an opiate you have a lot of anxiety so I was on Valium but it is also hard to sleep so I took something to help me sleep.
I did this at home with the help of my Dr. and was off morphine for good.
I don’t know if that helps any but that’s how I did it.
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#5 written by FKC 1 year ago
I’m currently on a some of those meds after a horrible accident. I have been tapering my doses very very slowly, and replacing the missing pills with vitamins. Drinking lots of water and taking the vitamins will really flush out your system, and the vitamins are the same as swallowing pills so you don’t feel like there’s a break in your routine.
Good luck to you, I know how difficult it is!
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#6 written by Ginger P 1 year ago
You have certainly taken the first and sometimes hardest step….admitting that you have a problem. I also was addicted to pain medication due to a car accident. I was on them for about two years. I just came off…cold turkey about three months ago. I actually came off cold turkey. The first thing that I did was set up a support system…made sure my mom knew what I was going through because I needed someone that understood how hard it was. I KNEW what it was going to be like because I had tried to quit before. I took some time off work…about two months and for two weeks I was in a living hell! It felt like I had the flu everyday. I constantly thought about the drug but I was so proud that each day was another day clean. I just got tired of planning my day or activities around my pills. It has been three months now and even though I still have times where I think about taking a pill…it is more out of habit now. It is no longer a physical need but a mental reaction because that is what I was used to. I had people tell me that I should get on Methadone but I was adament that I didn’t want that. To me, that was substituting one drug for another. I just think that you are already on your road to recovery. Just know that it will be hard but the feeling of being clean and “normal” beats anything else. GOOD LUCK and take care.
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Ok… I don’t tell you my entire story but you need to know that I’m 40, had a neuralgia that made doctors to prescribe me strong narcotics since I was 29.
So, I have taken morphine, hydromorphone for near 10 years constantly. Last year, a neurosurgery (cutting a branch of the trigeminal nerve) made me near-free of pain. But, I was physically and mentally addict to narcotics. 1-2 years ago, I need to inject (not IV, subcutaneous only) me 8-10 mg of Dilaudid (hydromorphone) a day. It’s equivalent to near 500 mg of oral morphine a day.
My opinion ?
You could make it cold turkey (that was my first choice) BUT see a doctor that is competent first. It’s not the question if your “a real tough guy” or if you can do it, it’s you life… Yes, some can do it cold turkey, but some have heart failure too !!!
I was against taking methadone but a doctor that REALLY know how to treat with methadone convince me to try. It’s not like in movies – you know, taking the methadone at the drugstore and PAF feel good for all the day. It’s tough too. Adjusting the dose, then reducing constantly and slowly the dose. But I had not suffer from physical pain like when I tried cold turkey. But in this case, you have to decided solely to stop narcotics. Methadone don’t do this for you…
And after +/- 1 year: methadone was stoped. Not taking it anymore, and no need to take other narcotics too. This time, there was a good ending. With the aid of methadone for me. Truly hope something will work for you !!!
And by the way, reducing the dose of my hydromorphone before trying to stop with methadone was desastrous. Maybe cold turkey, but not the “slowly stop” method. I think it’s the “never stop” method !!!