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Heroin Severity of Withdrawal

TheManWithNoName

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I have been using for the last six months, IV dope very good quality. Sometimes a bundle a day sometimes one or two, sometimes none for two or three days. I went to a rehab for 3 weeks, and they gave me suboxone over 5 days weening me off. I felt a little better but still felt mild withdrawal when I left on the 20th day. When I got out I bought a bundle and did it over three days. Took a day break then got high for another two. That day I took a break I felt withdrawal. How long should this last. I am getting sick very quickly.
 
ManWithNoName, CrimsonJunk could well be right. Though it takes a good few weeks to establish any kind of proper habit worth speaking of first time round using opiates, once you've had that habit and detoxed it takes only days to reestablish a new one if you start using again. Your brain will always remember what to with opiates once it's been trained. I would strongly advise you nip this in the bud now and trust to luck that you've got away with it this time, see how you go, cos one thing's for sure: use for any longer and the withdrawal can only get worse. Best of luck!
 
I should have made it more clear when I said, "I have been using for the last six months..." I have been using for the last three years. First with Oxycontin for about a year, then I got clean on suboxone May 2010. I was on subs for two months then tapered myself unintentionally, and with the help of weed it wasn't that bad. Some say the first detox is the worst, others say the easiest. I go with the latter, for the soul reason that I wasn't kicking myself in the head thinking I have gone through this before and why on Earth did I allow myself to have to do it again. In that regard it get's worse each time. I have kicked cold turkey in jail twice, one of those times the first three days in the hospital where they didn't give me anything except benadryl and on the day I left for jail they gave me a Clonidine patch which I had to take off anyway for obvious reasons (the other inmates might want it/try to take it for some reason and other BS)
 
What is really killing me is that even when I get high, I still feeling some of the withdrawal symptoms. Even when my habit was much worse I would do a shot and the withdrawal symptoms would go away for at least six hours if I did a minimum bag (sometimes 2) shot. Now I get high even higher since my tolerance is lower bit I still get the sweats. Could it be that since I never fully detoxed from the suboxone anytime I sweat it feels like and I read this on another forum and I liked it "on the inside," like I feel a warmness in my body along with that crawling feeling. For me that's always the worst, the cold sweats. I can deal with vomiting, diarrhea, not sleeping, anxiety, etc. I have all my life but the only time I feel this way is when I'm detoxing or actually sick from a illness (which I can't remember when that was. Is this all stemming from the fact that I was still feeling minor withdrawals after leaving the program just two weeks after my last dose of suboxone? I believe they gave me (two) 2 mg suboxone then 6 or 8 hrs later another 2 mg suboxone. Then (one) 2 mg suboxone three times a day the next day then (two) 2 mg suboxone the following day, then just one. Something like that. Subs don't make me feel much better like the used to when they where the tablets and I was just doing oxy's. I wanted to do it cold turkey but my insurance company would of not gave me more time had I refused medication. I did however try and run out of the nurse office every dose and spit out what was left in my mouth. I did stabilize slightly and the subs definitely helped because I didn't throw up which I always do if I'm coming off dope. Also, the withdrawals form the subs took a day or two to start due to the long half life and were sporadic, and with my luck 90% at night when i was trying to sleep lol. Any input would be appreciated.
 
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