Chronic Pain Support Group

Jenn,

Gosh - I sure am not in a position to diagnose, but will share from experience.

I went through withdrawl from oxycontin/oxycodone mixture and had chills and shakes for a couple of days.

I had food poisoning once, (fish taco at a fast food place) and got chills, horrible body ache, severe, acute onset, and it lasted exactly 24 hours. My stomach hurt so badly that I left fingernail marks in it trying to relieve the pain.

The sudden onset you describe sounds more like food poisoning, especially if it quickly subsides.

thanks for your reply, but i know that it was NOT food poisoning related at all. I know this because I didn't eat anything all day and I'm only limited to 3 things anyway for my GI diet and i never change my eating... did you ever get back on oxycodone? how did you deal with your withdrawls?

I find the short acting percocet (oxycodone) to be most helpful, rather than combining it with the every twelve hour one (20 mg oxycontin). The latter didn't seem to help and I didn't like the idea of having it in my system all night.

I can usually sleep without a late p.m. dose of percocet (if I adhere to a careful routine including trazodone 1 hr. before sleep).

My withdrawls were only a bit troublesome (shaking and chills) but the symtoms went away after two days. My pain is largely caused by nerves and I use maximum gabapentin and cymbalta. Nothing really helps that much so I figured it wasn't worth the price of getting too dependent on it (to take my pain from a 10 to a 9, basically).

Well, we can rule out food poisoning being that you had NO food all day. But sometimes when your stomach's super empty it can be upsetting to take meds. Occasionally that happens to me. Can you eat a piece of toast or whatever you're allowed with med. dose?

Jenn,
Even though I have never experienced medication withdrawal, but I have seen patients experiencing withdrawals and the most common reactions are: sweating, diarreah, dilated pupils, chills, tachycardia, nausea/vomiting, muscle aches and pains, etc.
I certainly can not diagnosed you, but because you had a fever I think that maybe it wasn't medication withdrawal.
Have you called your Doctor about these symptoms? I think that it would be a good idea to call him and then follow his instructions.

If you always get sick when you take your pain meds, why is it that he hasn't given you an anti vomiting/nausea medication? Since you have GI issues, he can give you an anti nausea medication in suppository or patch form so your GI system won't get affected. Good luck to you and keep us posted in your progress.

Hi Tipper, thank you for your response, but I do not call doctors anymore when things go wrong.. considering all they can say is "Go to the ER or Urgent Care to be evaluated etc.." and because I have been hospitalized soooooooo many times and I have chronic illness that cannot be treated or cured, I do not think any more medical doctors can help. I was just trying to see if this was medicine related or not. I do have those other meds like you suggested, but they are very strong for me and sometimes its easier to deal with the side effects rather than be sick and sedated all day and night.

I understand Hun, I also have several conditions that are irreversible..... but guess what? Last week I had a real funky symptom.... I pee on myself, yup, incontinence for no reason whatsoever! It just came out with no notice. I knew that something was wrong, but waited till the next day. The next day I had #2 incontinence, well that was it for me!! Even though I know that there is not much that they can do for me medically anymore, I ran to the ER. Guess what? I have something new!!
After 6 days in the hospital and two Myelograms, I was diagnosed with "saddle anesthesia". To make a long story short, I am glad that I made it to the ER..... I now catheterized myself and I am doing rehab at home to learn how to deal with my new reality. Sometimes, we need to go to the ER's of the world, sometimes our symptoms can be telling us something different and unless we go to an ER or call our PCP we could harm ourselves even more. Just some food for thought.....

I went 6 weeks without the medications.
Alot of sore stomachs and feeling sick, hardly moved cause of the pain, couldnt eat, couldnt drink.
Had mood swings all day long.
After 30 days i was fine got up one morning and didnt crave the drugs.

I too have had the withdrawal from Morphine..

I have the shakes and tremors..Also upset stomach and hurt so badly I felt like I could not move.

I did not have the fever though..Makes me wonder if you picked up something that caused that...

Blessings and Good Luck!

Hi,
My mum is in hospital thanks to some so called pain doc! he told her she needed a pain pump as her morphine had to be administered through a drip right now,well thanks to him building her up she is now in the high dependancy unit because the pain doc didn,t have the guts tko tell her to her face that he couldn,t help her.

Let me explain,my mum is in severe acute chronic pain 24/7 she has been on antidepressants as well as morphine and sleeping tablets well things were going ok and mum,s pain doc had told her she would benefit from having a painpump fitted then she wouldn,t have to clock watch for her next dose of morphine,he then sent her to a doc over 125 miles away to see if he would be willing to implant the pump,when my mum got back she was so happy as the surgeon she had been sent to told her yes i,ll do the implant as long as you can find someone local who will give you the refill,s mum came home so happy and she went to her own doc who had told her tell the surgeon i will do all in my power to help you,yeah right! he told my mum sorry can,t help you! in that one sentence he literally screwed my mum up!

Thanks to that idiot my mum stopped taking all her med,s not by accident but because she felt she had no more hope,that was last week,my mum is in the high dependancy unit because she withdrew all her meds in one go she was shivering sweating she had severe pain in her guts she kept screaming out in pain and to be honest it was pure hell the hospital had to get a court order to get her back into hospital which runs out in just under an hour and unless the hospital can get another order then my mum will be woken up and i know she will discharge herself again,i can only tell you what i witnessed and it was horrible,

Hi,I myself have never had to detox myself but i've worked in a drug rehab for 10 yr.s.I'm not a nurse but I witnessed many of people detoxing from many thing's.I think the worse part of this is your body craving the opiates it need's to survive.The body will scream out and take it out on you in many way's most of them have been mentioned above.But it take's the body 12 hr's to relize it's not getting the drug another 3 to 8 to start it's evil revange.I'm no dr. but it's never wise to detox alone,you never know what your body will do when it all start's to come down.So pleasse if you choose to detox for what ever reason,do not try it alone.My god bless you and help you through this rough time in your life.