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Cocaine Cocaine Withdrawal, Has anyone else been through it?

ScarecrowPANA

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So I have been dabbling with cocaine on and off in my past years, only if i could find really quality coke because i find it strongly euphoric if its quality...

I recently in the past month came across a connect and it was stupidly easy to acquire it without any effort due to seeing the connect on a daily basis through activities i had been a part of, would rather not post exact situation on here for my safety...

I had probably blown through numbers of 8balls through the course of 2weeks going pretty hard as cocaine can do that you... I never really did it in the past enough to experience any withdrawal symptoms, i went cold turkey today and am feeling what cocaine withdrawal has in store for me...

Now I have been through endless counts of heroin, oxymorphone, hydromorphone, etc withdrawals, bad as you could imagine, almost admitting myself to the ER but didnt due to pride of doing it myself... I keep saying to myself, this withdrawal isnt a damn thing to me compared to what i used to get through every couple months.

The reason i'm making this thread is to i guess ease my mind talking to some people AND possibly finding a way to alleviate these withdrawals as I have things to do that are important to my life...

Are there any over the counter remedies as there are for opiate/opioid withdrawal? I know that benzos would be help to me I think i might be able to acquire some but anything will help... These withdrawals really aren't that bad i keep telling myself its just a-lot of anxiety i feel...

Any help or input is HIGHLY appreciated.. Thank you all
 
Honestly, cocaine withdrawal is nothing compared to opiate withdrawal. Does it suck? Yes. Is it going to make your life a living hell for a little while, well... not really. It's not really a situation in which you need to be scrambling for some OTC remedy that may only slightly help one symptom, like with H withdrawal. All you really need is a couple days to yourself and some benzo's and you really wont feel that bad. I used to take long acting benzo's, mostly klonopin or valium. Some people say drink, but I've never had anything good come from drinking during withdrawal from any substance. Basically, you just want to chiiillllllll out.

Oh yea, weed, copious amount of ganja. Honestly, some good movies and some weed is all you really need.

btw, if you end up taking a benzo, just remember that benzo addiction is a fucked up, insidious beast. Benzo withdrawal makes heroin withdrawal seem fun. It's so easy to get addicted to benzos.
 
Thank you for such a fast reply... I know for a fact, no one more needs to say it, that this what im feeling, is 100fold easier than heroin withdrawal.... but i have work, and school, a final in just a few days, i just wanna get my head in the best place possible for studying and all that mess.... I really dont have any worry to benzo withdrawal as to waht ive educated myself from others experiences, and the fact you can have a seizure is just downright enough to keep me away from that... then the fact that i really dont like the felling of the benzo high... its too long, and it makes me feel stupid and i dont even like feeling drunk either, i guess the two go hand to hand...

theres nothing i can take otc to get my head right? just to give me a little extra push? maybe a certain vitamin, maybe 5-HTP or something, idk, hoping someone who has found out for themselve to relieve me with a post..

but still, like i said, any input is highly appreciated

and i cant smoke weed anymore... i wish i could, weed was always the best thing out of everything next to relapsing to make my pains go away...... it really can be medicinal but out of no where i started getting crazy crazy crazy anxiety from it, used to take it for sleep, and one night, it just kept me up, thinking and thinking...


ive also noticed one thing that is very similar to heroin withdrawal.... any drug i take that is not the drug i am withdrawling from seems like its combatting with the withdrawal... like i didnt get the same feeling from updosing on my suboxone as i would in the norm, and i took and snorted some ambien im also prescribed to help alleviaet which it did, but its not knocking me the fuck out at all like it normally would...

yes i know, im a mess, im just living hard young, and plan on growing up and getting my life straight and sober in the next few years, just having a hard time leaving my kid days, alot of you would look down on me and say, you'll never leave your kid days like that or with that attitude, but i started so young, weed at age 12, and first opiate at 14 into a 5 year long addiction ive been clean for about 4 years now, well, not clean, on suboxone, tapered down to 4mg a day, once in the morning.... ive made alot of positive progress in my life, and am very proud of myself, and im not stopping until im sober soon enough, i guess i had one more hard lesson to learn along the way, and here i am.... please dont flame me with this and get off topic, ive come a million miles from past life making a brand new life from opiate addiction.


disregard my rant, happens when i take ambien, stay on topic if your going to post :) thanks bluelighters! you guys are awesome
 
I commend you on choosing the sober life. I wish I had done that earlier. Keep it up.

Honestly, vitamins can really never hurt. Herb-wise, I think valerian *might* help. Focus on the basics, eat enough, drink enough water, sleep enough, etc. I really don't think coke withdrawal is going to get in the way of any of that stuff. What are you feeling right now?
 
Yeah, there really is no cocaine "withdrawal". Not in the textbook sense of psychical dependency. What you're feeling is rebound effects from serious psychological addiction. It doesn't last long and is brought on way more by your mind than anything else.

Get your mind off it with other things to occupy your time. Just remind yourself that your body can't get dependent on cocaine.. it's just not how the drug works, and get past the anxious crappy feeling.

I mean, if you really needed to take something, I don't think anything would help more then benzos just to relax. As always, a good diet and some exercise can do wonders as well.

I'm surprised you said you had experienced opiate withdrawals before. Usually that makes people pretty immune to any rebound effects from stopping
coke.

I've gone through periods of IV'ing coke everyday for months at a time and one point for over a year every day. Then I just stopped. Sure I craved it to all hell but I wasn't sick.. Like I said, that's because I've actually been sick hundreds of times from kicking H. But, everyones experience is different.
 
ive always been interested in stim WD bc i hate stims and have never ever really done them out of anything more than trying them a few times with diff things...anyway....i know speed wd is nasty business, ive gone through all forms of opiate wd and xanax wd and to an extent pot wd (if you can call it that, maybe more rebound effect from stopping)

to the op, is there any physical symptoms to speak of>? lethargy, apathy, malaise ect? or do you just want to do coke realllly bad? since you say pot makes your mind race, maybe try a mild indica only strain with high cbd and see if that doesnt help to unwind you a little. benzos would probably be the best feeling remedy but if i could go back in time i dont think i would have tried so hard to be put on xanax...bc in the long terms it sucks. im down to .5mgs a day from 6mg so thats good, but i still think it would be wise to avoid benzos for more than a day or two.

also, what if you took a really mild stim? like drank a cup of strong american drip coffe? would that provide any pick me up? i know its basically a pns stim and therefor kind of unpleasant in high dose, but wondering if it works the same way with opiate wd where any other opi can pretty much take the wd away.
 
Idk, a-lot of it was in my mind, i almost wouldnt even call it withdrawal... today i just woke up, after a long sleep with a bunch of ambien with coating taken off, and i dont feel anything like i did yesterday at all...

yesterday my nose was runny like it gets during opitae withdrawal, and i was slightly shaky, high in anxiety, my equilibrium was definitely off... i really dont think those minor physical things were in ym head, becasue i really barely was even thinking about cocaine until later last night when i made this thread.. cocaine doesnt appeal to me like opiates did, yes i enjoy it, and went on a binge, but i just went cold turkey not even thinking about it, the reason i stopped is because i thought i shouldnt waste anymore of my money, not because i ran out of money, and couldnt get it anymore.... i just stopped b/c i wanted to.

and i took some caffeine pills, and it didnt have any effect to taking away my symptoms...

some of you say there is no physical symptom, but i think it all relies on the human being, everyones body/brain might re-act slightly different.... like for me, i have no idea how or why, adderal can last like, 24+ hours for me, just one 10mg dextroamphetamine IR's, i took it once i was prescribed, never took it again...

and also, i always seemed to withdrawal worse than a-lot of my friends from opiates, could be because im an unhealthy eater maybe? idk...
 
^could be. diet hage such a huge impact on EVERYTHING. remember that old addage, you are what you eat? its totally true. during WD making sure i was eating clean healthy unprocessed food was huge, organic too if its something you will not be peeling...apples, peaches, lettuce esp.
 
what worked for me was a lot of relaxing, your body id used to being pumped up, now the car is sputtering out of gas and wants to keep going, so it needs fuel, lots of liquids and eating a lot of fruits, spend some time alone and try to avoid stressful situations like family drama, they say there is no withdrawal from cocaine, which in my experience was true when i quits 22 years ago and never looked back, that's when cocaine was cocaine, not filled with 40%+ of stimulants now, so in closing, you need some "me" time a couple days later you'll fell better, go buy some new clothes with the money you would have spent on it, and what ever you do don't use alcohol, alcohol is a muscle relaxant, if you get wasted forget about ever reaching rem, you'll wake up hung over and none the wiser. if you can get your hands on a few Valiums or klonopins they are better than xanax, they have a 1/2 life of at least 12 hours so really no withdrawal when using short term, and use them to help you sleep. and if you do get off it, don't go back, it gets harder ever time to walk away just like nicotine.
 
thanks for the replies, its now near the end of day 2, and i got ahold of some ativan, which is literally the only benzo i can enjoy, took only 1 of thoser little guys when i woke up, still had the runny nose, which could just be from messing up my sinus's from coocaine use, and i still got the fatigued and ive been eating ok the past two days as well.

i know alot of you would probably read this like this guys a joke, talking about coke withdrawal, well your right, like ive said ive been through probably worse than most of you as far as withdrawal being unhealthy as i am, not eating a thing, barely getting 1 bottle of water in my body a day for 4 days straight. but really i think all this was just adding to what i call sober alerady having clinical anxiety since i was a kid, causing severe insomnia since age 12...


i'm probably going to stop posting in here, idk how you guys do threads, if you close them to keep space, or it doesnt even matter, im still pretty new here so im still learning
 
Yes, it sucks, just have downers, even just beer will be good, it'll create some cocaethyl and allow for a less depressive state before one sleeps. Extremely good fishscale cocaine tends to cause much less of a depressive state and going to bed is even glorious then.

It is absolutely nothing compared to downer withdrawals, it is 100% in the mind.
 
coke withdrawal is all in your head it is not a physical withdrawal you are feeling that is just your mind playing tricks on you...move a mussel change a thought a craving only last 7 seconds unless you entire it and then it will last until it drives you to give in and use...keep busy and w positive people to keep your mind off of it..Remember when you are alone and thinking about it you are sitting w the last person you got high w and are in very bad company..good luck I have been there many times and I know it feels like it will never pass and nothing will ever fill that space it took up in you but stay strong it will get better day by day
 
Some peopel would say have some beers but in my case it brings out the cravings for blow. If you smoke weed smoke some and watch somethign. Do an activity to take your mind off it. Thats it IMO. Pop a benzo if you feel the need for it.
 
OP I'm glad you madee this thread, I'm dealing with the same situation. I've been using coke almost daily for about 3.5 years now. Like you, my frequent use is b/c of the ease of getting it--have to see the guy everyday in my normal daily life... I don't even like coke, I'm a downer guy too, am currently on methadone. Was on Bupe for 2 years and got down to 4mg/daay also, but then got injured, relapsed, and went methadone. (Should have gone back on bupe tho)

But as much as I don't enjoy coke, I DEPEND on it to get me through the day. Sure I don't get sick like with opi w/d, but when I don't do coke I feel exhausted and bummed out/apathetic. Yes its mental, but that can still be unpleseant. The methadone makes me super groggy, and I've been justifying the coke by saying I need to do it to stay awake at work or I'd be nodding off.

The thing is, now that I'm used to the coke, when I stop using, I feel like I'm even more tired than I should be if I were at a true baseline. I've been trying to quit coke for months now, and when I get lke 7 days clean from coke I notice my energy starting to come bacck and my mood starts improving. Then of course I get tired one day like we all do, I walk past my guy as I have to do every day, and I make a stupid impulsive decision and use. I regret the choice while I have the bag in my hand, even before snorting any of it. But I do it anyway...

I was never able to quit opi's cold turkey, I'd always relied on a mantainance/replacement drug like bupe or mmt. So I've never had to quit a drug cold turkey before without replacing it with something.

That said, I've tried every otc/legal stim I could find to give me the energy boost I need and have been using coke to get. Well I finally found it. One particular otc diet pill called "FASTIN" works like nothing else. I've tried all those diet piills before and was still nodding off on them, drank 6 packs of energy drinks, cafffeine pills, ephedrine, etc...and nada. Well whatever it is, the combo of various PEA's in this pill has me so jacked up I truly don't need cooke. In the past 11 days I've done coke 1 day and that was in the evening.

So armed with my Fastin, I am trying to get past the allure of coke. Now its just a mental game. If I can get over my cravings to get high in the evenings iill be okay. So far. Its been the grogginess from the mmt and the rebound grogginess from using coke that has kept me using coke to stay alert on a daily basis. Now I'm treating those physical issues and am seeing myself crave coke purely for reccreational use. Hopefully I can stay away.

As for you OP, look at why u were using. I started using the coke when I was rxed Bupe and ambien also. At that time I thougt I'd never touch opis again--i had no desire to at all. But the coke was so easy to get and thrown at me and it gave me a "high" albiet one I didn't really enjoy, but a high nonetheless and I missed feeling high. And that put me on a track to relapse. I then relied on cooke for energy. If ur like me, try replacing the coke with Fastin or whatever otc stim u find effective. And then remember that as pleseasny as the coke will feel while high, it will feel 5x worse when ur crashing, and maybe that will help u stave off cravings. W/e the case may be, goodluck!
 
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