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Opioids What can opiate withdrawal be compared to?

If anything withdrawal symptoms from opiates are underhyped. If I had any idea how difficult opiates were to quit i would like to think I would not have played with the fire. I've been trying for 7 years to be free and I can assure you that opiate withdrawal is a hellish experience that has caused me to place the importance of my life below the importance of not being sick...which is sick.
 
hell

I wish I could go back in time and tell myself never to pick up that first oxy/opana...

-constantly switching hot/cold
-depression so severe you're suicidal
-irritability so bad you'll scream and throw shit
-shaking
-restlessness, tossing/turning
-diarrea (that burns your ass like FIRE so bad you cry) every ten minutes
-stomach cramps 10x worse than period cramps
-leg cramps, very severe, you can't really walk
-EXTREME weakness, yet you cannot sleep
-complete and total insomnia for months aferwards


there are many more symptoms, but this is just my own general experience. don't do opiates for long periods of time. please. my life is hell and i want to die most of the time until i feel that warm rush, even if it's weeks away... that's all i feel i have to hang on to, to live for. going through it now, fyi.
 
I just hate having to piss really bad and 1 ounce coming out then 20 minuts later having to piss really bad
 
AtxBigBallin said:
You wimpy girl..Hydrocodone...you cant ask for a more pathetic opiate than those cat testicles. If you are going to have withdrawls from practicly over the counter pain killers then i suggest you try something for real and experience real pleasure and suffer the consequences. its probably worth it and you wont regret it.
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Real great advice champ.
 
It sucks ass bigtime and I must be crazy in a new way that I hadn't known about before because when I think about it in and of itself I keep doing this to myself despite, at least physically and financially, having the ability to not have done it more than once.
 
Uncontrollable sweating while feeling cold, and the yawn spells that let u know its coming. Restless leg syndrome, cant sleep, toss and turn all night and can never really get comfortable. body aches, and the worst diarrhea ever. Ive been doing anywhere from 6-10+ bags a day and I feel like im dieing when i start getting sick. I have yet to make it past day 2 and at this time I dont have any desire to. I wouldnt wish WDs on my worst enemy
 
Only had mild WD once.. Still sucked.
Did Oxycodone, bupe and methadone for like 8 or 9 days. When i stopped fuck i felt serious, I knew that the WD's was creeping and i was very aware of that. Suffered 3 - 4 nights tossin' and turnin after i went to my doc who scripted me some 15mg oxazepam. After that i got sum proper sleep and the mild (still shitty) WD was gone.
 
trip407 said:
i hate the cold feeling so much, you can put a thousand blankets over you and you still frezze, and just the second you thing you feel warm , it gets so intense hot that sweats almost floods out of you. And you always thing what is this shitty life for why do all the shit, nightmare depressions. This discription doesn´t nearly cover 1/10 of all symptoms. :(
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GOD AWFUL.

You start to yawn constantly, eyes tearing up watering. Hot and cold flashes, cold sweats. I just feel chilly no matter how many layers of clothes or blankets I have, until I DO feel warm, then I feel incredibly hot.

The insomnia just seems to never end. Three days without sleep will have you incredibly tired and irritated, and no matter how hard you try to sleep, your achy, sweaty, cold, shaky, sick body won't let you. You are exhausted and lay down, only to want to kick around in your bed because you're so uncomfortable. Whenever you find a slightly comfortable position, some other part of your body starts to ache and just NEEDS to move, like restless leg syndrome but with your whole body.

I can't wait til this is over.. I can't wait to be off these f'in drugs. Right now I'm on day 4 without any opioids, I was on suboxone for a year then started relapsing on heroin again after running out of suboxone. Never had to deal with withdrawals this shitty, although I'm sure many people have had much much worse times than I.
 
Yeah, the insomnia drives me fucking nuts. I could suffer through all of the pain during the day if at night, I could just go to sleep. I find that it gets so intense that even OTC med's or benzos don't help with the insomnia.
 
Insomnia sux. With the restless legs. And your heartracing. People say its like the worst flu. I went thru a bad roxi withdrawal an had the flu this winter. The flu was awesome in comparison cuz with the flu u sleep
 
You guys got it spot -on!!! For me the things that I hate the most about w/d is the diarrhea and I found the cure for that right here on B/L ------loperamide, a.k.a. Immodium A.D. which was a blessing but I still hate insommnia the most!!! Nothing helps; Ambien, Trazodone, Lunesta, all those and more they just don't work at all for me;( So you lie there tossing back and forth and right and left and your legs are going different directions) while sitting on the can for hours and nothing happens but if you cough or sneeze?--------> OOPS!!!! Got any T.P.? It happened to me on the city bus!! But FUCK IT!!!, I wasn't going to get off the bus til my stop came, so I sat there in my own shit(Yuuukkk!!!) then when I got off I ran to the back of my buddies house cause I had to pee bad; when I finally started it started coming out both holes(Once it started, I couldn't stop at all!!) My friend took one whiff and told me to hit the shower!! I was sooooo thankful and while I bathed he washed my clothes then threw them in the dryer. A true friend indeed!!!! But yeah, I am sooo thankful to BlueLight for having a forum for all us lost souls who dabble once or twice or dabble daily to keep us normal in the pharmaceutical placebo that is sometimes called addiction...from a 25 yr heroin addict
 
Whoever says it's like a flu doesn't know what he/she is talking about. A flu feels totally different. Opioid withdrawal is horrible in its own way. And every opioid is different. That's what most people don't get, and that's one of the biggest mistakes that "medicine" commits. OPIOIDS can't be switched (for example switch from morphine to oxycodone) for every person, just by calculating the potency. People are unique, and so are substances. Each opioid has its own characteristics, and this fact is proven by withdrawal symptoms of different opioids. Oxycodone was PURE HELL. Worse than everything before (heroin, morphine...). Oxycodone was the worst for me. For other people, it might be heroin, or fentanyl, or even buprenorphine.
 
I never said its like the flu. People say that. I said the flu. Is a walk in park. Compared to opiate withdrawal
 
Years later, after having been through countless WD's I have found it's only as bad as I make it.

All the symptoms, the pain, the mental and emotional turmoil happens to everyone during WD's. What made it worse for me is laying around, feeling sorry for myself, watching tv, thinking of dope. I also hated talking to other people who were WDing because all they did was complain, complain, complain. After looking back on it, WD is part of the game...wana stay high? gotta pay for it eventually. I hated the rls though ;)

BuMp
 
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The thought of the pain of withdrawal is a million miles away when you're about to blow a fat shot, though.

Can say I've found that...

Then taking a fat shot while in the clasp of the frigid early onset W/D's.... oh lawd.
 
its much akin to having a aggressive icy hand job from margret thatcher round the back of asda while working as a trolley boy only to return the next day and doing it all again -the terror seems never ending...
 
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