If the clonidine is really hitting you hard and making you feel hung over you might want to try halving the dose. Especially if you have noticed serious effects on BP.
I really hope you can get something like gabapentin from your doctor. I guess you’re having your appointment as I write this. Super glad to hear you were able to see them to hopefully get some help with some of this.
I’m sorry, I’ve become a little confused with something - are you currently still tapering or have you jumped off?
I’d really encourage you to dip into your benzo supply Little so as you can lower your clonidine a tad and get more relief all around.
The biggest single thing that would help you right now is probably getting some good nutrition in you. That can be one of the hardest things to do in withdrawal, but the ondansetron should help a lot. Even if it is just sports drinks (better yet get “rehydrating salts” which are all the good stuff in sports drinks without any of the sugar and shit you don’t need - wilderness EMTs use this stuff to treat dehydration), meal replacement shakes, bananas a and crackers, believe me when I say you want to do whatever you can right now to get as much food in you as you can. It doesn’t even really matter right now if it is healthy or not - your body simply needs more calories.
What kind of food do you like? Maybe your son can help you cook something super simple?
Foods I find really useful in withdrawal:
- Fruit
- Ice cream (specifically run raisin, but I’ll stick to sherbert if I’m feeling nauseous)
- Soup soup soup!
- Spicy food (mixing some hot peppers and cream in hot cocoa is actually really tasty; the capsasin or however it is spelled actually helps with pain and your body working out a new state of equilibrium withou opioid use)
- As many vegetables as you can manage (specifically green leafy veggies; making a smoothie out of fresh veggies and fruit juice or carrot juice is actually very easy to consume when in withdrawal; V8 is better than nothing but doesn’t count as a veggie, part of what you want from veggies is fiber and stuff that gets lost when processed veggie beverages are processed )
- Ginger everything (ginger tea is great for nausea and stomach cramps; I find high potency ginger tea works a little better than ondansetron when it comes to stomach nausea, meaning it doesn’t just prevent the nausea but seems to prevent the nauseous feelings to begin with)
- Kombucha is nice during detox
- Crackers (classic detox food)
- Bananas (another classic)
- Canned soup (I find it gross, but another classic)
- Rice (ideally rice and beans, but rice is better than nothing)
- Cereal (I find fiber rich cereals to be really useful dealing with the shits)
- If you eat meat try and stay with low fat content stuff, as too much fat can upset the stomach etc)
But really just eat whatever you can if it is hard to keep stuff down. You body needs plenty of hydration and nutrition to heal properly. Not getting enough nutrition will lead to more longer symptoms and a longer lingering symptoms.
Hope your doctors appointment went well. Do consider reducing you clonidine a tad more and taking some benzos at night. Hopefully you can get some gabapentin, because that will make a huge difference.