I fell out of the iron, and got busted up real bad at work back in 2000. Ended up on oxycontin with a bucket full of metal plates and screws.
My pain doctor got in trouble, and cut off all his patients. I ended up going to a methadone clinic... Worst mistake I ever made.
Spent the next 8 years bumping up my methadone dose, to keep from being sick all the time.
I decided to quit after my son was born.
Tapered my dose till I was too tired to move then jumped off. Thought I was gonna die for a couple of weeks, then felt like I had a bad case of the flu for another 2 weeks.
6 weeks later I started feeling better, but never fully recovered until I got on TRT-
I feel for anyone who's addicted to pain pills, but do yourself a favor, and just go cold turkey instead of getting on methadone or suboxone. Pain pills will make you sicker than hell for about a week... Methadone and sub withdrawal will last 6 weeks, or more and chances are you'll need testosterone shots to ever feel normal again.
Here's a few tips on comfort meds to help relieve the worst of opiate withdrawal-
Clonadine is a blood pressure med, it helps most people take the edge off. Your still gonna be sick, but not as bad...
Immodium is a type of opiate, but it doesn't cross the blood brain barrier. It helps with more than diarrhea when detoxing.
I also took xanax very carefully to help get a night or 2 of sleep for the first couple of weeks.
I've also heard that medical marijuana can help...