first day off of percocet

[Lily]

no, it did not take me months to recover....at the height of my use i think i was only sick a week or so. you can get thru this!

how are you today?

[bvaljalo]

Hey 19.

Naw, it won't take that long. 4-5 days tops you'll start feeling loads better. It takes a bit longer to get to 100%, but usually 5 days is all a person has hellish withdrawals from opiates. Probably less for you due to your age and it sounds like it's your first real go-around with this class of drug. Plus, 20 a day may sound like a lot ... but ... there's *LOTS* of us who's habit's got WAY worse than 20 percs a day. That's about what I needed just to get up in the morning, put it that way. Coming off 20/day ain't gonna be no picnic though, be prepared.

Here's the stuff that i know of that helps that you don't need a doctor for:
1) Immodium for the runs
2) Pepto-bismal for the nausea/messed up stomach
3) Unisom (or anything else with Doxylamine Succinate) to sleep
4) Anything you feel like eating, even if it's junk food, you gotta eat something, force it down if you have to.
5) Lots of water/gatorade.
6) If you normally smoke or drink caffeine, now is *not* a good time to stop them, imho, but you wanna go somewhat easy on the caffeine.
7) Hot baths before bed really help.
8) Aspirin and/or Ibuprofen.
9) Get to some friggin NA or AA meetings as soon as possible. They're free support, and you're gonna need it right now.

Best of luck. Don't worry, you won't die from withdrawals, though you'll feel like you're gonna, it won't happen. Let this suffering be a lesson to you ... you DON'T wanna have to go through this crap again, RIGHT? The only way to be certain you won't ... is to never take another drug to get high/drunk again.

In NA/AA is where you learn to actually LIVE clean/sober, not just GET clean/sober. Again, I recommend you check it out. FInd a meeting in your area on line, and just GO. You don't have to talk to anyone if you don't want. Just go, buy yourself a big book they're like 5 bucks or some meetings will just give you one if you tell them you're broke. You'll find caring people there who just want to help. And trust me, you're gonna need help.

Take care sweetie.