jesus christ, amphetamines are a huge help. The depression is finally gone.
During real physical withdrawal or after that? I read that it help some people in PAWS time. Actually I think comig down from stimulants will be horrible during opiate withdrawal.
How much did you take? How did it help? What did you take? Gave you more energy? Helped with depression? What else? Any help for withdrawal symptoms like pain, nausea, flu-like syndroms, diarrhea, ...?
Amphetamines work on some neurotransmitter like dopamin and norepinephrine, I think. That could have positive effects during withdrawal. But it cold also make it worse, I think.
More norepinephrine in Locus coeruleus is probably really bad during opiate withdrawal. But I don't know where which neurotransmitters are produced by amphetamines.
The following study says that it probably has no effect:
Derik Hermann, Eckard Klages, Helga Welzel, Karl Mann, Bernhard Croissant. Low efficacy of non-opioid drugs in opioid withdrawal symptoms. Addiction Biology Volume 10, Issue 2, pages 165–169, June 2005
But I would think that there should be an effect. Either really positive or real negative because it works on dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine.
And the other thing is: Insomnia. This is a great problem for me. I know that some people can sleep during opiate withdrawal. For for me withdrawal means total insomnia. I'm too tired to stay awake but too sick to fall asleep. And after acute withdrawal it really takes a long time for me until my sleep patterns normalize.
When I take good (meth)amphetamine in the morning, I cannot sleep at night. And when I take it in the evening it is even harder to fall asleep at night, of course. So I believe it will increase insomnia problems.
I never tried it during withdrawal. I was afraid to use it during PAWS time, too. When I come down, I probably want to take some heroin in order to calm down and to sleep. So I didn't use it.
But I would be glad if some more people would write about their experiences. Please write from what opioid you were withdrawing and how much and how long you used it. And tell what kind of amphetamine you took and how much and in what way it helped (or made it worse).
The best thing I'd like to see were clinical studies. But I couldn't find any on stimulant use during opiate withdrawal. The only thing I could find is the aldready posted abstract of this one study. If somebody has a link to some studies - that would be better than personal experience reports.
BTW: Some people advice really you not even to use caffeine during opioid withdrawal because it could make it worse.
And what about restless legs? Did it help with that or made it worse?