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Day 14 - Opiate PAWS hitting hard. Please support me

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Bluelighter
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I can hardly move today with lethargy and lack of energy. I was going well with a some benzo and dexies but have cut the dexies out as its not a LT solution to PAWS. I can hardly get off the bean bag. Please help me with suggestions. i can't even muster the energy up to step outside the house.
 
Eat vitamins and minerals. Stay hydrated. I would try to eat some protein powder, made into a drink. You could adjust the protein drink dose down. You will be helping with neurotransmitters and muscle issues, due to the amino acids present. I feel for you. I'll help support as best as I can. Look at it this way. Pain is weakness leaving the body. Also try to eat healthy. Speed King
 
I'm really sorry that you are suffering. Pay close attention to your diet and force yourself to at least take a short walk outside. This helps everything. <3
 
When my gf came home yesterday I said nuffs enuff and took her out for burgers. I felt awesome all the way. Getting out of the house really helps....so true. And hey, I am into week 3. For me that's HUUUUUUGEE!!!!! :) Thankss so much guys. Sober living forum is awesome!!!!! :)
 
I'm really sorry that you are suffering. Pay close attention to your diet and force yourself to at least take a short walk outside. This helps everything. <3

Diet herbavore, you are so right. My main problem at the moment is that I have zero appetite before let's say 11-1pm...so around lunch. I think this is making the metabolic issues from withdrawal worse and affecting my mood....hence the PAWS. What are your thoughts? Should I just force anything down, like a banana or a protein shake?
 
Hey WWI! I'd recommend making sure you're eating plenty of vitamins and minerals and make sure you get plenty of exercise. I know when you feel that tired, exercise is the last thing you'd like to do, but put some upbeat music to your taste on the mp3 player of your choice and go to town on a nice walk or similar. Personally, I found 2 bananas in the morning to be really helpful.

Keeping busy is another thing that helps - so that you don't even have time to notice how tired you feel. I'm not sure if you live in or near a big city, but look up your local Cocaine Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous groups, make a list of them, and go to as many meetings as is physically possible without being in two places at once. Going to meetings in early recovery is good for sanity being around other sober people who get what it's like to be an addict, and also the shares at every meeting from people help remind you WHY you got sober, and WHY you're better off not using, no matter how you may feel at the moment. You really need to FORCE yourself to do things. The longer you sit on that bean bag, the harder it will be to get up. Remember you're changing your life here - if you were somewhat sedentary before, it's time to change the habits and get more active.


By this point my friend, you are not detoxing or in acutewithdrawal anymore, or shouldn't be, so this is mostly just life on life's terms, so it might be time to cut out the benzo. You may not think that Benzos are part of the problem, but we are masters at combining and substituting one drug with another to get high, and remove the drug of choice, and you may find that quickly benzos become another problem. It's part of the addict mentality.

Also try not to read up on PAWS at the moment or related syndromes. As addicts we're prone to "look" for a problem and then "Look" for a solution and we can think ourselves into rattles, or think ourselves into PAWS. That's not to say your symptoms don't exist, but try not to focus on them, because from what I've heard from a lot of ex-addicts I've met recently, the vast majority of the time, you can psych yourself into PAWS or make it worse by being over-cerebral about it. So the best advice I can give you on top of the above is to STOP READING ABOUT THE NEGATIVE THINGS! If anything, you'll start obsessing over it and trying to guess if it's part of your "Rattle" and you might even use it as justification for relapsing.

You're doing REALLY REALLY well so keep at it and you'll be feeling better soon! I know I'm a little tough love here, but it's really what I think will help. x
 
^^^^post acute withdrawal system


and to the OP how has your sleep been? What would always add to the fatigue for me was sleeping 2-3 hours of choppy sleep a night falling asleep at like 3am then waking up at 5 thinkin fukkkk. The body doesn't get to rest, and can mess a lot of shyt up.
 
Thanks heaps man. I've been swimming 40 laps every second day now, been to the beach once, do walks and socialised a couple of times. You are right about the benzos!!!! Trying to deal with this issue now so have devised a quick taper for 1-2 weeks, more so for mental reasons as physical. Good point about reading about negative things. I will stop that. My sleep has been soso. A little bit random. The strange thing is the higher a benzo dose I use the shorter I sleep so I definitely am stopping that stuff.

I'll post back in here in a week or 2 and see how the benzo situation has played out.
 
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