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  • BDD Moderators: Keif’ Richards

does this ever happen to yo while dope sick?

I went through a period of drenching night sweats when I transitioned from a long-ish period of Oxy/H use to using an opiate with a longer half-life. The night sweats lasted about 3-4 weeks.

I woke up at 4-4:30am every night, soaking wet. At first I just slept on some towels and tried to ignore it, figuring it would go away quickly. But it didn't. So I slept on 3 layers of new bath towels, and set out a change of clothes for when I woke up.

My condition may have been exacerbated by the psych meds I was taking at the time (100 mg Lamictal + 50mg Serqouel), but based on my subsequent research, I don't think so. However, one of my friends experiences the same type of night sweats from Effexor alone.

Anyway, I had just purchased a beautiful new mattress when these night sweats began, and even though it was dry when using the 3x towels, I decided to lay down a canvas rubber-backed tarp under my towels just to be sure.

After a few weeks, the night sweats went away. It's weird. Nowadays if I'm kicking, I'll have those nasty, clammy w/d cold sweats, but not the drenching night-sweats. There's a difference. The w/d sweats have that clammy feeling and that strange w/d smell (how else to describe it? Opiate users will know. Not like regular body odor, just fucking weird and unpleasant.)

The night sweats were odorless, but really fucking wet, just like sweating really hard from running 7 miles fast at the gym.
 
you wake up drenched in sweat because of sleep cycles and the way your body adjusts its core temperature. i don't know the specifics, but its cause when you enter a specific sleep cycle you're body maintains heat and in w/d causes you end up sweating a lot more.
 
This is the one part of WDs that I absolutely HATE. I could deal with everything else except waking up 5 times a night drenched to change pajamas and throw towels all over my bed to mop the sweat up. The other thing I hate but luckily haven't had recently is intense restless leg and restless body syndrome. One time it was so bad I had to be standing pacing around or if I'm trying to rest in bed I get the sudden urge to kick at everything and toss and turn. Ugh, fentanyl patches have made withdrawal almost non existent and I have a lot of bupe which I can transition to before being in WD with no precipitated WDs. It's all about very gradual dosing to transition to it.
 
according to wiki the "Symptoms may include: sweating, malaise, anxiety, depression, priapism, extra sensitivity of the genitals in females, general feeling of heaviness, cramp-like pains in the limbs, excessive yawning or sneezing, tears, rhinorrhea, sleep difficulties (insomnia), cold sweats, chills, severe muscle and bone aches; nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, cramps, and fever.

Many symptoms of opioid withdrawal are due to rebound hyperactivity of the sympathetic nervous system, which can be suppressed with clonidine (Catapres), a centrally-acting alpha-2 agonist primarily used to treat hypertension. Another drug sometimes used to relieve the "restless legs" symptom of withdrawal is baclofen, a muscle relaxant. Diarrhea can likewise be treated with the peripherally active opioid drug loperamide."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin_withdrawal check this for more info
 
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This is the one part of WDs that I absolutely HATE. I could deal with everything else except waking up 5 times a night drenched to change pajamas and throw towels all over my bed to mop the sweat up. The other thing I hate but luckily haven't had recently is intense restless leg and restless body syndrome. One time it was so bad I had to be standing pacing around or if I'm trying to rest in bed I get the sudden urge to kick at everything and toss and turn. Ugh, fentanyl patches have made withdrawal almost non existent and I have a lot of bupe which I can transition to before being in WD with no precipitated WDs. It's all about very gradual dosing to transition to it.
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I totally agree, Bupe, Suboxone, Subutex etc.....All good to have a stash around for when you run out, or as the OP mentioned, couldn't get ahold of any dope! My DOC is Dilaudid IV, and the W/D symptoms come fast & hard, and if I don't have a bunch of Oxy's, or some form of Bupe, I'm in big trouble....the puking, and restless legs are the worst for me....SLEEP....faggetaboutit! I'm up walking around for 2-3 days! But the W/D's go as fast as they come with Dills, 2-3 days max.

Kicking any opiate sucks, and as someone mentioned, if your that far along being strung out, why start all over again?....WELL, we all know the answer to that one!8o
 
everyone gets the night sweats when withdrawing.

I don't really sweat during the day if I'm sick, but I get hot and cold flashes.

but sleep with a fan pointed directly on you, and no covers ontop of you, maybe a sheet if you get cold, but if you're awake and realize you're getting hot, kick it off before the sweating starts.

I just recently had to go through that and my sheets and blanket were stinkin'. but I knew I got my pills in like 4 days. so I just sweated it out every night and then the day I got my pills I washed everything on my bed, pillows, pillow cases, fitted sheet, sheet, blanket.
 
Dont you hate when your starting to get into your sickness,and your laying there waiting for morning to arive, you dose off,wake up and some how you think its been a couple hours,but it was only 30 seconds. ohh I hate that
 
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