Many here will swear differently but physical withdrawal from heroin is 72-hours cut and dry. If you reuse within that 72-hour window goodbye withdrawal, you have simply been late fixing. If you have gotten passed those 72-hours of course you will be deeply addicted psychological (if truly addicted) but your tolerance will be way down & therein lies a lethal danger. If so, be extremely cautious and if you are in a scene where Antagonists like Nalaxone (i.e. Narcan) are available get yourself afew. Good luck.
Sayeret? Are you Israeli or am I mistaking your handle for a language other than Hebrew? I hate to knock a fellow yid, but you're essentially refuting the experiences both of myself personally and many others here.
Are you actually a junkie? Even if your experience is somehow abnormal and you completely clear sickness by the absolute 72hr mark, you must at the very least have encountered other junkies and heard their experiences, which I'm sure are vividly different from what you're describing. I mean, in my experience, all we ever talk about when we're dependent is either shooting dope or talking about how sick we are. Attempts to discuss politics, religion or the nature of our universe will typically all devolve into discussion about either dope or dope sickness.
The "withdrawal is a 72 hour process" notion is the bane of our lives. We end up in jails and institutions where they expect us to be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed on day four of the process, ready to effect positive change in our lives. All I can say is, the process begins to resolve around the 72hr mark for most people. Your experience mentions nothing of the nature of Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS) which further baffles me.
I'm not going to comment on the experience of my friends and fellows in my life and here on Bluelight, respectively. I'll just comment on my own. I feel like I was a pretty typical Heroin user for about a decade and this would be the typical progression of my syndrome:
0-96 hours
Severe Vomiting, Diarrhea, Yawning, Lacrimation, Bargaining with God for dope
96 hours - 1 Week
Intermediate withdrawal characterized by a lessening of symptoms but with still, nearly complete inability to think, sleep, eat. Bargaining with Satan for dope.
1 week to 1 month
I wake up on day 8 with the previous night being the first time in over a week that I've gotten more than, at most, 3 hours of sleep per night. I wake up with the distinct feeling that my thoughts, emotions and my physical functionality are improving. Ideas start flooding in that would've been meaningless in the weak previous. "Should I take a shower? Brush my teeth? Eat something? Tell my girlfriend I'm still alive?"
1 month -
This is when you are feeling 80%-90% better, but with lingering symptoms of heightened anxiety, depression and insomnia to name a few. However, when you make it this far, you begin to recover your soul and humanity (humanity meaning your connection to this dimension, reality, the people in it and your specific place in that world). You'll have higher level executive function and the strength gained from enduring the process up to this point empowers you to overcome the more mild, lingering symptoms still present.
I'd be curious to hear from others regarding their experience. I'm not going to say the "72 Hour" statement is outright fiction, as it's based in medical science and upon the patient "getting better", which makes sense, however, the syndrome is infinitely more complex than simply the vomiting ceasing. Their are phsyical, psychological and even spiritual elements to the entire process that are often overlooked by the medical establishment as just more complaints and begging from junkies.
