I’m having an interesting experience attempting to quit hydromorphone and want to share.
My usage background: I started using opiates approximately 7 years ago. I first started popping Percocet 5/325, and 15mg would get me pleasantly high. After trying that a handful of times over the course of several months, I tried hydromorphone for the first time, I snorted 12mg and was nothing hard. For the first 2-3 years, I would snort Hydromorphone on the weekends exclusively and use anywhere from 12-18mg. During this period I would periodically do oxycodone, any where from 60-180mg insulated. These doses would get me comfortably high. After year 3 I starting IVing my hydromorphone half the time, insufflating the other half, still sticking to mostly just the weekend. This continued for another 2 years. After year 5, I would periodically use 2-3 times a week, always IV in doses of 12-30mg. This continues for 2 years. After around 7 years, being this past year, I started using 4-5 times a week, always at least 18mg IV, sometimes twice a day for 3 months.
I have never experienced withdrawal symptoms of any kind until this most recent point, I ended up stopped for a week and I had some decent symptoms, not unmanageable but one of the most uncomfortable things I’ve had to deal with. I would begin feeling it 6 hours post dose and they would peak from hours 18-36, and by 72 hours I was withdrawal free.
That was a pretty eye opening experience, I couldn’t believe how horrible it felt. Even that said, I needed up relapsing a week later.
This relapse was about 2 months ago and I really went off the deep end. For the last two months I have been IVing 18-60mg hydromorphone daily. I never used this frequent and after the first withdrawal experiment I was terrified to quit again, thinking it would be 10x worse.
Im now 4 days deep since my last dose. I woke up in sweat 8 hours after it, and by 16 hours I was having, runny nose, diarrhea and extreme chills/cold sweats. By the 32nd hour symptoms began rapidly improving and after 48 I felt no symptoms at all. I’m now 4 days deep and feel incredibly good.
I’ve always had to take large doses of drugs to get where others do on something smaller. I have a very rapid metabolism. Why is it I managed to avoid symptoms for so long, and when I did have them, the first time was 10x worse than the second? The worst part the most recent time was the anxiety felt in anticipating being sick. Are there groups of people are are not susceptible to physical addictions?
My usage background: I started using opiates approximately 7 years ago. I first started popping Percocet 5/325, and 15mg would get me pleasantly high. After trying that a handful of times over the course of several months, I tried hydromorphone for the first time, I snorted 12mg and was nothing hard. For the first 2-3 years, I would snort Hydromorphone on the weekends exclusively and use anywhere from 12-18mg. During this period I would periodically do oxycodone, any where from 60-180mg insulated. These doses would get me comfortably high. After year 3 I starting IVing my hydromorphone half the time, insufflating the other half, still sticking to mostly just the weekend. This continued for another 2 years. After year 5, I would periodically use 2-3 times a week, always IV in doses of 12-30mg. This continues for 2 years. After around 7 years, being this past year, I started using 4-5 times a week, always at least 18mg IV, sometimes twice a day for 3 months.
I have never experienced withdrawal symptoms of any kind until this most recent point, I ended up stopped for a week and I had some decent symptoms, not unmanageable but one of the most uncomfortable things I’ve had to deal with. I would begin feeling it 6 hours post dose and they would peak from hours 18-36, and by 72 hours I was withdrawal free.
That was a pretty eye opening experience, I couldn’t believe how horrible it felt. Even that said, I needed up relapsing a week later.
This relapse was about 2 months ago and I really went off the deep end. For the last two months I have been IVing 18-60mg hydromorphone daily. I never used this frequent and after the first withdrawal experiment I was terrified to quit again, thinking it would be 10x worse.
Im now 4 days deep since my last dose. I woke up in sweat 8 hours after it, and by 16 hours I was having, runny nose, diarrhea and extreme chills/cold sweats. By the 32nd hour symptoms began rapidly improving and after 48 I felt no symptoms at all. I’m now 4 days deep and feel incredibly good.
I’ve always had to take large doses of drugs to get where others do on something smaller. I have a very rapid metabolism. Why is it I managed to avoid symptoms for so long, and when I did have them, the first time was 10x worse than the second? The worst part the most recent time was the anxiety felt in anticipating being sick. Are there groups of people are are not susceptible to physical addictions?
