Post acute withdrawal and resuming drug use

[Mlgjp8612]

So they say paws can last month's sometimes years. I'm just curious do the mental symptoms of it go away if you start using drugs again ...what do yall think? I googled this and could only find basic info on paws and nothing on this particular question.

 

[SS373dOH]

If you're using the type of drugs that caused paws, then yes, paws symptoms will cease.. until you detox again.


-hs

 

[keeping]

if you get back into the cycle of addiction expect to have to get out of it again.

 

[Mlgjp8612]

Say you were using in both cases the same amount of time and frequency...do you think paws symptoms would be less severe if your using gradually lessened over time as to cold turkey? Or do you think both would be the same because the damage was done in frequency and time length the same in both cases?

 

[T. Calderone]

In theory, tapering would help make paws more tolerable as opposed to cold turkey. But for many people, each time you put yourself into withdrawal, they they get worse. I found a couple threads that might help:

http://www.bluelight.org/vb/threads/553020-How-do-you-deal-with-PAWS

http://www.bluelight.org/vb/threads/651393-PAWS-Megathread-and-FAQ

 

[opiatekrzy]

I think paws would disappear of one continued to pick up drugs again. I think tapering to prevent paws would still only delay the whole process. However ,once I was clean from methadone, and going thru bad withdrawals for like a month, i decided to take 40mg of it. Magically, all my withdrawals virtually disappeared the next day. That's when I started taking subs after that, actually, I was taking subs to help kill withdrawal symptoms from methadone which it barely helped at all, but when I decided to take methadone just one time , it literally killed all my methadone withdrawals after that point. Sorry to ramble, I'm in one of those moods where I feel like posting, then dont, at the same time lol. I just wanted to help the OP with my experience