What are opiate/opioid withdrawals like? Try sticking a buck knife up your anus, while downing a gallon of sour milk and having someone constantly pounding your cranium with a ball peen hammer - all while jumping into a bath of ice for a minute and then going out into the summer heat of Death Valley, CA. Take all that and combine it with a shit sandwich, diagonal cut and with the crusts cut off, for sex appeal.
Sound fun, that is what I go through all the time... More times than I can even fathom.
This is why most opioid users either shoot their brains out (or try to), or they learn a skill called "radical acceptance".
Personally, I try to get some of the tools from the "Thomas" and others' method.
Oh yea, smoking-topical-oral-sublingual forms of massive ganja intake will help you if you let it.
P.S. Stay away from sativa (if you have paranoia or schizophrenic tendencies) - instead: look for some ruderalis as well as your known indica.
May Ja be with you...
Imagine the absolute worst flu of your life, multiply it by ten, and pretend you're walking 5 miles to the hospital...and just as you cross the street to enter the hospital, you get hit by a bus. When you get in the hospital, they transfer you back and forth every 5 minutes from a sauna to a walk in meat freezer. This goes on non-stop for three days, then you SLOWLY start to feel better. Then after it's done, the boredom, deppresion, anxiety and insomnia is left with you as a parting gift.
At least this is what it was like for me ( Classic JUNKIE...Primary Oxycodone addiction <500mg a day> , plus Oxymorphone, Hydromorphone, Morphine, Heroin, Vicodin, Fentanyl, Hydrocodone, codeine, Methadone) for over a year.
I know this post is old but I thought someone might stumble across it someday. If they do and need some support getting over the sickness, PM me. I'll help if I can.
Imagine the absolute worst flu of your life, multiply it by ten, and pretend you're walking 5 miles to the hospital...and just as you cross the street to enter the hospital, you get hit by a bus. When you get in the hospital, they transfer you back and forth every 5 minutes from a sauna to a walk in meat freezer. This goes on non-stop for three days, then you SLOWLY start to feel better. Then after it's done, the boredom, deppresion, anxiety and insomnia is left with you as a parting gift.
I know this post is old but I thought someone might stumble across it someday. If they do and need some support getting over the sickness, PM me. I'll help if I can.
Never done heroin, but withdrawing cold-turkey off of long-term 12mg/day Suboxone was nasty enough.
Apart from the already mentioned intense flu-like symptoms, inability to feel at all comfortable, body temperature going wild (I remember at one point having on two t-shirts, thermals, two jumpers, a rug, and a thick blanket, and was still bone-chillingly cold, but suddenly very hot, and back again), insomnia (up for 3 days straight), cannot eat anything without throwing it up... the worst part for me was the "restless leg syndrome". It felt like every cell within my legs (and even arms) was itching, and the only way to stop the itch was to move wildly, but then it would instantly come back. So at one point I was lying in bed flailing around like a fish out of water. It's the closest I have ever come to knowing what the word "torture" truly means.
The other part which I find unbearable was the depression. I've felt depression before in my life, but this was absolutely rock-bottom raw melancholia, with nothing to hold you up.
So yeah, opiate withdrawals are not at all an over-hyped myth, they are genuinely the worst experience one will probably go through in their whole life. But that's the price you pay for a peek into heaven
Also as people have said, it's often not about getting over the physical hell, it's the persistent inability to feel joy, and flat-lined emotions which persists afterwards as your neurotransmitters attempt to get back to normal. For me this never got better even after 5 months (!) so I went back on Suboxone and life is fairly good.
I've been putting up with suboxone PAWS for about 2 years! will this shit ever end?? im bout to start using again even though i can't afford anything because i've been so sick i can't work! i only started opiates because i was in pain, now im tryna get outta them and im exactly where i fucking started, is there a silver lining?
Oh yeah and what wds can be compared to? How bout death, and every emotion you've ever felt in your life plus a few new ones all going through you at the same time.. plus if you're surrounded by people who dont understand, and are very negative to you about what you're going through, you feel VERY hopeless and alone.
Good luck to anyone who decides to read this thread and decides it's worth a shot to roll the dice and gamble with your lifes overall meaning and losing everything and everyone who ever meant anything to you..
Jumping off 12mg's of bupe? Yeah that's rough. You couldn't taper?
I think people are way too quick to blame paws on their problems.. just because you're a little bummed sometimes, or anxious, or not totally perfect 100% of the time, does not mean you're still in paws.