Opiate Taper - Trying to Be Sober by May 23rd. Need Your Support!
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Snowflake, you can do this! Hydrocodone was my DOC too and I'm very happy to have more than a year free from it, my life is so much better.
In the end, I had an experience like yours: I took a large dose and didn't feel high. When I realized that given how flooded my receptors were there would be no high, just an absence of withdrawal, it became much easier for me to ride out cravings.
The physical WDs were not that bad for me, hydrocodone WD is often less severe than oxycontin and some of the stronger opiates, I hope you have a similar experience.
Good luck to you!
SD
In the end, I had an experience like yours: I took a large dose and didn't feel high. When I realized that given how flooded my receptors were there would be no high, just an absence of withdrawal, it became much easier for me to ride out cravings.
The physical WDs were not that bad for me, hydrocodone WD is often less severe than oxycontin and some of the stronger opiates, I hope you have a similar experience.
Good luck to you!
SD
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Snowflake am thinking about you today and proud of your determination to do this (do I sound like a mother?). I know you can do this and am praying for as easy a time as possible. Many are here to cheer you on or listen to you rant or moan. Keep going!
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Join Date: Apr 2014
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Thank you! It's getting worse. It definely is full on flu. The chills are setting in. I still gotta muster up the strength to leave this couch and take my cousin to the airport at 3:30. At least she replied to my text and told me when to be ready. I could not be at work today like this. I just hope the diarhea wave doesnt strike when I'm on the road. I took some pre-emptive immodium. My eyes sting. It hurts to urinate. Jesus suffered for me before he died. Now I'm going to suffer for Him. That's my motto for today.
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Join Date: Apr 2014
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Owie. I'm hurting here. Can't pee even though my body is telling me I need to. I just stand there. My skin is burning like I have sun burn. Still cold. Can't get warm no matter how much I bundle up because the cold is beneath my skin. It's within me.
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Day Two: I feel better today than I expected. I didn't sleep too great last night, but today I just feel weak and foggy, but no chills / sweats and no body aches. And I can pee! I'm still gonna take it easy - lay and further thin out my DVR. It's such a beautiful day. Part of me feels bummed that I'm not out there enjoying life. This is one thing I need to work on in my sobriety - is creating a better social life for myself so I don't feel so stinking lonely all the time.
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Glad to hear you are feeling better today! Hopefully by Monday it will mostly be gone. Kris is right, just think how wonderful it will be to enjoy the beautiful sunny days ahead with summertime around the corner not being in a fog.
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I definitely think I'm out of the woods. I invited my parents over for afternoon coffee (I told them must not be the flu because I feel better today). I hate having to lie to them through all of this, but it will be past me soon enough. I just feel slightly clammy and a little chilly, but nothing like yesterday. I'm mentally foggy but have more energy. Still going to get back to my awesome tv shows now that I had a nice visit time with my parents... the first one without being under the influence of a pill in a long time! 
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