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A week clean and still feel like shit!!

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ronthedon

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so i really need some advice from some people who have been through oxy withdrawl before....I became addicted to oxys(daily use) in january and went on a run until july 22 when my life was just unmanageable and i needed to quit so i told my ma and got checked into a rehab to detox where i was from friday morning till wednesday night....i currently have been clean for 8 days with the exception of one 5mg vicodin that did about as much use as a tylenol. My question is how much longer is the withdrawl gonna last i mean i definently felt 95 percent better after the 5th day but the anxiety, depresion and TERRIBLE insomnia is still kicking my ass and its making me get the worst cravings so my question is how much longer till i start to get back to normal sleep patterns and a normal emotional state and what can i do to speed up the process and help with sleep.... i have no access to benzos or other strong sleep aids..........just in case it matters my habit was like 40mg a day for the first 4 months and 50-80mg for the past 3..... PLEASE HELP and if anyone has any advice or tricks to beat the lingering withdrawl it would be greatly appreciated
 
damn a 5 mg vicodin would fuck me up, tylenol pm, booze, prolly help with sleep
 
A good rule of thumb with opiate usage is that it takes about half of the overall amount of time you had been using to feel totally normal again once you are clean. So your body should return to its fully normal state within about 3-4 months.

That being said, don't let the wait get you down, it's way worth it. And you'll keep feeling a little better as every day goes by. Best of luck and be sure to let us know how things are going.
 
Here's what they don't tell youo about the rehab and getting the bupe: You go to the rehab and they give you the bupe injection in your arm, that's a very nice reprive from withdrawal symptoms, you feel pretty good in there, they give you those bupe injections for 3 nights and then they cut you off so on the 4th and 5th days you start to not feel so good and that's because all the bupe injections really do is temporarily mask the withdrawal. So on the 5th day they send you back out into the sunny world and on day 6 the bupe is totally out of your system and NOW is when the withdrawal resumes it course. I've been through that many times. You dont start withdrawling until you get home. Sometimes sooner you'll feel it hit, like on the 5th day I usually would get cold sweats and feel the depression start creeping up my spine.

You've got a good month of feeling like shit ahead of you. And after that it may take 6 months to a year or possibly more (depending on the size and length of your servitude).

My post acute withdrawal syndrome lasted a little more than half a year. You can do it, it gets better each day and you learn to cope. You know the rules now... if you play you will have to pay all over again and they get worse every time and every year. The W/D never gets easier to handle.
 
Even when you get over the physical symptoms (which may last for a week or so longer due to it's lipid solubility) there's always the possibility of you experiencing PAWS (Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome).

This can last for months :\ But you can get through it. Get on an Antidepressant of some sort (I'd suggest a Tricyclic or Bupropion, maybe even Tramadol if you can get it).
 
edgewise1 said:
Exercise.
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this.

i had a srs habit for 5 yrs. did all the oxy/hydo i wanted. at 1 point i was doing 30 10/325 a day with no cwe. at the end i would eat a fistful and not feel much just wanna sleep. When I quit, i did it cold turkey, the insomnia almost killed me, i only ate about 200 calories a day for about 3 weeks, the anxiety and depression were horrible...then something magical happened. I went to jail for a year. Best thing ever happened to me as far as getting off this shit. took me about 6 months to feel completely normal. the worst of it was over within 3 months.

the bad news I was out 1 month and got a script for 20 10/325's took them all in less than 24hrs.

the good news all I felt was sleepy and that I hated the way it made me feel.

stick with it...it's worth everything you are feeling now.
 
From what you explained it sounded as if you had been using for 7 months. You'll need to give yourself 1-2 months before you start to begin feeling more like yourself again. The PAWS could last up to a month. An anti-depressant and possibly a sleep-aid to be used for 7-10 days may help.
 
thanks for the responses guys and if anyone has anything else please please please help but a month seams like a general consensus till shit gets somewhat back to normal and that seams more worth it then a lifetime of opiate use. Thanks again
 
I've read on BL another rule of thumb concerning opiates: you take the number of hours an opiate lasts (not the effects, the half-life) and you change hours with days to have the duration of the WDs: ie. methadone half-life is around 48 hours = 48 days of acute withdrawal if stopped abruptly. I take the methadone example 'cause that's what I know (although I never withdrawaled abruptly from methadone, thank god). I don't know the exact half-life of other opiates, but you do the maths.
 
I hate to be the guy that rains on parades but from my experience, anti-depressants and even exercise do not work to get rid of that hell you will be feeling for a while. Also the older you get and the more times you've been through it, the withdrawals get harder and harder to bear and the long term PAWS lasts longer and longer. You would think it might be the opposite, but addiction(for the addictive personality type) it's a progressive mental disorder. Even when you're sober for years straight the disorder progresses and gets worse.

What I do understand tonight is I'm nearing a full-on amphetamine psychosis episode and I'm clinging for dear life to anything familiar. Hooray for drugs.
 
You may still feel like shit but exercise is a good way to get motivated and back into a drug free routine. I can't talk I was demotivated as fuk from years of smoking meth but eating healthy getting your immune system up and exercising releases endorphine - none of that can hurt. Take some multi-vitamins, supplements etc and get your food right, but yeah bottom line you'll notice gradual improvements but about 3 months and then it's still not peachy...
 
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