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What is the worst drug to have withdrawals from?

What is the worst drug to have withdrawals from?

  • Heroin

    Votes: 100 13.4%

  • Methadone

    Votes: 99 13.3%

  • Oxymorphone

    Votes: 27 3.6%

  • Tramadol

    Votes: 22 2.9%

  • Benzodiazepines

    Votes: 292 39.1%

  • GHB/GBL

    Votes: 20 2.7%

  • Alcohol

    Votes: 47 6.3%

  • Meth/Amphetamines

    Votes: 39 5.2%

  • Cocaine/Crack

    Votes: 13 1.7%

  • Ketamine

    Votes: 1 0.1%

  • SSRI/SNRI/MAOI/TCA/TeCA antidepressants

    Votes: 21 2.8%

  • Other Opiates/Opioids

    Votes: 65 8.7%
  • Total voters
    746
Besides heroin and alcohol, I also believe that cigarettes have a lifetime 'withdraw' for a lot of people.
The body metabolism changes completely and like any other drug ex smokers still think a lot about it 10 or 20 years later.
 
Pure praz powder......first friendly goofy slowwwwww and calm, then forgetting why you walked to the kitchen then forget where you walked from, to the point reality and dreams are tough to decipher in my experience At least, leading to hallucinations audible and visual and were very real to me then. To an almost breakdown where I rampaged threw my house shouting nonsense.
Finally to my sister breaking down begging me to stop.
Then to top it off and reallllllyyyyyy hit bottom I quit cold turkey and am at community service at a sheriffs station starting the day feeling ok ready to stop and I was.
Smoking a cig I put it out walk to get in like like every morning so the cops can frisk us and check us before we enter the station. Then I wake up on my back with a huge bald angry beefy looking sheriff not looking happy at all yelling heyyy what drugs are you on?
To which I reply none. Haha
had a grand mal seizure almost bit my tongue on half be careful everybody.
 
I'm just going to add to this thread that PAWS of any sort is just extremely fucked up. I came off an ssri and a-typical antipsychotic (which to this day i never knew why i was taking) and that shit was over in like 2-3 months. Might have still been a little wired after the experience but I think it gave me balls and audacity to kick a half gram of morphine and 6 mg lorazepam habit C/T.

The memories from the years 2013-2014 will forever be traumatically burned into my psyche, and I will forever look back and say FUCK THAT 2 YEAR PERIOD OF MY LIFE.

Can't wait to work again.
 
Benzos are the worst to come off of and take the longest to really get off of properly (6 months recommended). And at that, if you use benzos, especially Klonipin, Ativan, diazapam, or midazolapam for even a few months, and properly titrate off, you can have long term effects that do not always go away due to the way it alters the brain. Here is a reference to check out...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_long-term_benzodiazepine_use
 
Benzodiazepines, alcohol, any GABAergic.

They're all basically the same? And, if you're stupid like me and have been taking a cocktail of them all for months...

Anyways, all the Horrors of the other withdrawals plus, extra bonus of death!

Which doesn't just 'sneak up' on you unawares but tells you its coming, *vomits bile / dry heaves so hard you see 'stars' and can't breath, shivers, twitches so hard you fall out of bed, sweat puddles* its coming! *shits pure acid, prays to God* its coming!! *audio first then full blown visual hallucinations* etc.

For days. And days...when an hour can stretch out forever.

All in all...
a really shit way to go.
 
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Etizolam withdrawal was really bad. A laughable habit resulted in three months of pure agony, talk about unbearable anxiety. Don't listen to those who say etizolam withdrawal ain't bad, cuz it is for some...
 
Just to be different, I won't state the usual benzo/opiates reply

Not the worst, but has anyone here had experience coming off high doses of venlafaxine? It has a very distinct feeling to it when it starts to run out in your bloodstream, and I'm lost for the words to describe it, as anyone that's been on this drug will knowvwhat I mean, can someone else better describe it?
For me its the most brutal anti depressant I've used, and ive tried them all virtually!
 
Engage said:
Benzodiazepines, alcohol, any GABAergic.

They're all basically the same? And, if you're stupid like me and have been taking a cocktail of them all for months...

Anyways, all the Horrors of the other withdrawals plus, extra bonus of death!

Which doesn't just 'sneak up' on you unawares but tells you its coming, *vomits bile / dry heaves so hard you see 'stars' and can't breath, shivers, twitches so hard you fall out of bed, sweat puddles* its coming! *shits pure acid, prays to God* its coming!! *audio first then full blown visual hallucinations* etc.

For days. And days...when an hour can stretch out forever.

All in all...
a really shit way to go.
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I can relate to this so closely, just add in a seizure or two and the most severe sleep deprivation I've ever experienced and you've got close to where I am right now.
Just throw in CT WD from 120mg/day Morphine and being poisoned by a mislabelled RC - y'know, just to make it more fun.
 
I would have to say methadone being that it gets into your bones ... And that's just the physical ode rather have a wicked junk fix
 
SproutOnSmack said:
I can relate to this so closely, just add in a seizure or two and the most severe sleep deprivation I've ever experienced and you've got close to where I am right now.
Just throw in CT WD from 120mg/day Morphine and being poisoned by a mislabelled RC - y'know, just to make it more fun.
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I know your pain bro. My benzo habit was kicked in conjunction with a hefty morphine habit. Seizures suck, as do the seemingly endless months and months of severely crippling mental and physical symptoms associated with PAWS. It does get "better" I guess.
 
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MDMA, or what passed for that in San Antonio. My (ex) gf and I would do 1-2 g in about 3 hours and when inevitable crash hit, it would hit HARD, for like the whole day.
 
All of them!! Any true withdrawal is horrible.. You all know.

I have been into deep withdrawal from opiates, benzos and amphetamines. Each alone at times and others all three at once. It is absolute misery. When I was on all three could turkey I was in an inpatient detox for 17 days. It was actual HELL.

no sleep, pain, burning skin, absolutely no emotion... Some was permanent.

Personally,the worst is Amphetamines for me. I have ADD with downgraded nuerons.

After almost 3 months of sobriety (felt more like a permanent bad crash) I went back on the Adderall (30mg 2x daily) and I have a life back.
 
Give_me_some_pants said:
I know your pain bro. My benzo habit was kicked in conjunction with a hefty morphine habit. Seizures suck, as do the seemingly endless months and months of severely crippling mental and physical symptoms associated with PAWS. It does get "better" I guess.
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I ended up relapsing, unfortunately.
I forgot about the tolerance drop and got absolutely laid out by my old maintenance dose. Quickly climbs straight back up and 600mg DHC didn't even get me itchy yesterday.
Stopped the Librium and went back to Diclazepam - 0.25-0.5mg is now enough to mostly eliminate my anxiety, 0.75mg+ and my balance is affected in typical benzo fashion! So my 25mg should last months rather than the 7 days it used to!
 
semiazas said:
MDMA, or what passed for that in San Antonio. My (ex) gf and I would do 1-2 g in about 3 hours and when inevitable crash hit, it would hit HARD, for like the whole day.
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If your worst experience is an MDxx crash, consider yourself lucky!
After experiencing polysubstance WD, on multiple occasions, I'd take the worst serotonergic crash imaginable every day and it'd be a holiday in comparison!

@SE: I feel you on the stimulant WD - it doesn't get spoken about much and sure, it's nothing, in terms of physical agony, compared to GABAergic/Mu agonist WD, but the psychological aspects are brutal!
I have AD(H)D too, so I inevitably use stimulants daily, if they are available, to function at 'full speed' (pun completely intended), but I find it difficult not to push the doses in pursuit of recreation and end up binging. MPA is the best thing I've found, much better than MPH! Complete focus, no tweakiness, just a feeling a sober clarity, along with almost zero recreation when the dose is upped.
 
After experiencing withdrawal from almost every narcotic painkiller there is, I can honestly say that the withdrawal from 75 mcg fentanyl patches makes me dream of hydromorphone or hydrocodone or oxycodone withdrawal any time. I literally would go through any other kind of withdrawal again and again before fentanyl patches at 75 mcg. The longest I've made it before checking myself into the emergency room was 3 days. Constant diarrhea. Constant vomiting. Constant nausea. Constant restless leg, arm, body restless everything syndrome. Sleep? Hah, I didnt sleep for a second until I was in the ER. Not to mention horrific painful cramps in your stomach on top of the chronic pain I have which is the reason why I am on them in the first place. There is no escape whatsoever unless you take about 5 norco and that lasts about an hour tops. The worst part is, I didn't even do it to myself, by overusing them or anything. The stupid patches fall off if you sweat too much. I can't imagine anything worse than that and I've had my entire leg completely crushed in a farming accident. Trust me. If you can avoid it, never go on fentanyl patches.....
 
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