Does anyone experience "physical withdrawal" symptoms long after withdrawal?

[smadak]

Does anyone experience "physical withdrawal" symptoms long after withdrawal?

Hey guys,

So I've been off heroin for 24 days now, but sometimes when I first wake up in the morning, in between consciousness and unconsciousness, I feel sweaty and chills as if I were dope sick. Also sometimes if I start thinking about using, I'll break out in dopesick sweats and have chills. Of course this must just be all in my head, right? Has this happened to anyone else with opiates?

 

[neversickanymore]

Hey smadak and welcome to Bluelight. This is really common and you can expect to find relief from this when the extra opiate receptors are retracted back through the cell membranes. For me this happened just before the fifth month.. I became really tired and after sleeping only three or four hours a night I finally slept for ten hours straight for three days in a row.. then when I woke up the patch of frozen tingly sunburn skin that had been sailing around my body for months went away.. my mind cleared to degree I cant really even communicate and all of my symptoms besides some fatigue disappeared. The pain specialist I talked to said this happens right around month seven and a half but I feal this is just an average. I also think many things can make this happen sooner including aerobic exercise and meditation.

Here are some really good stuff on Paws..

PAWS LINKS
Why We Don’t Get Better Immediately: Post-acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS)
Post Acute Withdrawal (PAW) Excerpted From “Staying Sober” By: Terence T. Gorski
Post-acute-withdrawal syndrome Wiki
http://www.clairedorotik.com/NLWC-EXERCISE_AND_MOOD.htm

ADD take http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/threads/673580-Hey-I-thought-the-grey-matter-of-ADD-could-chew-on-this
Managing depressive thinking

it is a powerful thing to keep our thoughts possitive and here are some threads many of us use to help us do this.
Good things about being off drugs/getting sober
Share something POSITIVE from your day!
Today I Am Thankful For... Ver. 3: Earth, Wind and Fire!
Here is the mindfulness thread.


Amazing work on getting off the H.. keep at it as it gets so much better with time and effort.. I promise you!!

 

[caseface99]

Welcome Smadak!

Like never sick has said, this is totally normal and will get better with time!

Exercise and eating healthy are huge when it comes to getting your body back to normal. Meditation can also be a huge help for the mental aspect of things. I never thought any of these things would really help that much, but once I started doing them the difference was noticeable right away.

Congrats on what you have achieved so far, you're doing so great! Keep up the good work and remember that there is no such thing as "one more time". Statistically, the only people who ever get high just one more time are the people who don't live to tell about it. The pathways in your brain that lead to craving can deactivate and stop firing over time but they will never go away, so using again will reactivate them and you will be back to square one - just thought I'd share that bit of info. Keep it up Smadak! :D

 

[ad lib]

Just to reiterate what everyone else had said, it is completely normal. For me, it's the runny nose It's more annoying to me than anything. Sometimes I do still get the sweats and chills. Terrible.

 

[m060mm]

Aside from the depression, all my symptoms are physical. I definitely understand if you feel some kind of detachment from your body: mentally you're past using but physically your body is not happy.

For me it's watery eyes and knots in my stomach. But feeling absolutely freezing is the most frustrating and challenging. I'm ~75 days along on minimal Suboxone (kind of a confounding factor) and it's good to hear about Never's 5-month turnover.

Oh and Nth'ing exercise and meditation. Exercise definitely got me to a whole new level of feeling better immediately and meditation helped me become aware of the sense of urgency that leads to a lot of frustration. Experiment with what works for you, individually. It helped me 'settle in' and stop counting the days.