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hi everyone.
I wanted to ask, to those of you who have personally gone through coming off your medication or have gone through withdrawls, what the experience was like. Do you get fever? Body aches, how do you deal with it all? Are you able to eat? etc... If anyone can perosonally share with me what you went through and the outcome, I would greatly appreciate it. The reason i ask, is last night, i had the most unusual thing happen to me and I'm not sure if it is withdrawl-related or not. I took my usual evening pain meds, oxycodone, then about 45 mins later, I got real sick...I was feeling sick earlier today.... and I threw up everything, most likely including my pain meds. So about 1/2hour later I could not move my entire body. I got a high fever, i had the chills and was sweating and i have major body aches. I didn't want to eat or drink a thing, which is so unlike me, and I just layered there without moving, awake yet weak from 6pm until this morning. MY body feels so achey still and my chest does hurt and I'm still very weak but no fever. Do you think this was from a possible withdrawl since I got sick with my meds? I usually do get sick after taking them, but its not till about 2-3 hours later and the meds have already digested into my system. ( i get sick due to other GI issues, btw. ) What would you think? i was thinking it could have been the meds? i dont know, i just refuse to go to any hospital either so thats out of the question. thank you all in advance! Posted on 06/28/09, 01:06 pm |
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thank you all for your information, but to answer the last post on here, i was NOT trying to detox in any way. i have been on chronic pain medications for almost 2 years now and do not plan anytime of coming off them. i just vomit a lot due to my other illness andt this time i had gotten sick right after i took all my meds. and i'm not one to re-take them either if i feel i just got rid of them, because there is always that risk of over-medicating etc...
so this was not a detox try.and like i also mentioned before, i have anti-nasuea meds, but they only make me more sick and sedated and they don't help regardless. thank you for all your responses, and i'm so sad to hear about your experience with your motherARCHANGELS! 
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My doctor has always tld me to hold down the medications for at least an hour before being sick.
If you were sick just after taking your medications, your body would have gone into withdrawals as it would have gotten a little bit of the drug before you were sick.
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I was in hospital once when they refused to give me my regular meds. I got sick, sweats, nausea, shakes (like shivering but I wasn't cold), muscle pain, and hearing sounds that were not there. I had a fever also but that was most probably due to the initial problem not the withdrawal. It started about 4 hours after missing my first dose and just got worse and worse.
The good part for me was that I changed PM's after that experience. I found one who was able to cut out some of the meds by using different medications that last longer. Based on what you had to eat that day, I'd think the pain med was a little too much without any food. But that is just what would happen to me. You'd know better how often your GI problems do not intefere with your medication. Is there any way that you can try having a little drink of Coke before or with your medication? We used to give it to babies who came into the resturant sick. Just a thought. Hope you feel better by now and can take your pain meds,
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See, for some reason.. the problem that I was happening continued all day yesterday until this morning.. and in the meantime, i HAVE been taking my regular scheduled meds.. so i'm wondering what the heck this was. I could NOT in any way move my body, i was hot cold and just a... ah.. very tightness in breathing, hard to breath and pain in rib area and 2 days later, gone.
oh well thank you all for your help!!
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Hello Friends ~
Way back in the beginning of my opiate use (when I was still naive about the power of these meds!) I ran out of MS Contin and did not give it a second thought, knew I was seeing my Ortho doctor that afternoon etc. etc. Well...I ended up experiencing withdrawal and it was pure HE*&! I was hot/cold, nauseated, headache, everything felt like it was a million miles away even if it was within reach! My husband took me to our GP, he thought I had taken too many at first, he was testing me by asking me questions, he asked me my address I felt I answered him immediately..my husband said it took close to 5 mins. for me to answer! When I did answer, it felt like the information was coming from the nape of my neck all the way over my head to my lips! Husband ran to the pharmacy with a script, I took one and within 15 mins. I was feeling so much more 'normal' my husband could not believe the change! I still felt a little 'off' for a day or two but nothing like being in the midst of it all. Considering you had the flu, (ain' t it a bit$@ when you cannot keep your pain meds down, I hate getting the stomach flu!) and likely only keep a small amount if any in your system, you could still be feeling the effects of the withdrawal. If you aren not feeling better in a day or two I would be checked out just to be safe. Crafty
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