azgaza
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Well I've made a mistake in judgement the past month that I am now being 'punished' for; the past few weekends, starting a few weeks before new years eve I used fentanyl (nasally); usually for 2-4 days in a row; then around christmas I also used fentanyl and then not for two days which is when I first noticed withdrawal symptoms; being hot and cold at the same time and sweating and some shaking. I had xanax though so I went to sleep and the next morning bought codeine cough syrup which as I expected helped. That evening was the evening before new years eve though and at the evening I used fentanyl again, about constantly until thursday; the 3th of januari. Stupid enough though on most of the weekdays I used low doses of codeine against a throat-cough-thingy I had, the doses were maybe around 20-30 mg at a time but I'm hypersensitive for codeine; it lasts really long and constricts my pupils very much and I even feel the opiate high mentally from it pretty well; I think my liver is the type that hyper-motabolizes codeine into morphine; did not really take that into account though but all together I've used opiates about constantly for around a month.
Withdrawal symptoms started on friday; around 16 hours after last fentanyl usage and got to their worst around 24 hours later maybe; from then on it has stayed about the same. The most pronounced symptom is the cold sweating; it's a lot of sweat and this is not how temperature is supposed to feel. I'm either freezing or much too hot, I also shake a lot; not like shivering more like actually shaking. My energy is really low but I'm also very restless. There's also random pain and my muscles are too tense, when not on xanax I feel rather restless. Unfortunately for me, last night I ran out of xanax which until then I had been taking to ignore the withdrawal by sleeping most of the time (worked pretty well) and I'm not addicted to any GABA substances and have no tolerance to them so running out isn't a problem other then I don't have it to self medicate anymore from now on. On friday evening I also self-medicated with ketamine (worked pretty well too, ran out of that too unfortunately) and I had in total 8 mg of loperamide which I took one at a time until yesterday; ran out of that too. Not sure if such a low dose made any of a difference... so now all of the self medication is gone and the withdrawal is still here; today it's just shaking cold clammy skin. I've been able to eat the whole time, today too; no nausea or anything no other digestive tract problems at all. I am normally also pretty much immune to nausea anyway so maybe I'm lucky and will skip that entirely.
I'm not mentally addicted, it's just a physical thing; I don't crave opiates (do crave ketamine but that's a different story), I never was mentally addicted, I was just stupidly using too long in a row. Now I'm just trying to sort of feel ok and smoking some hash and hoping that since it's the third day already and fentanyl has a really short half life it'll pass soon. I think as soon as these physical symptoms of lameness will go away I'll be feeling ok again on all fronts. It's by the way by far not the worst I've ever felt; K-cramps were much, much worse, it's still pretty awful though. I'm posting this hoping that there's people who have experience with fentanyl withdrawal or withdrawal from opiates with a short half life and I hope to hear how long I'll have to deal with this. Symptoms started friday evening and its now sunday afternoon, I thínk the worst is sort of over; I'm guessing the worst day was yesterday but I slept most of it on xanax. Also I'm wondering if there's any non-medication non-drug tips anyone might have. I'm too weak to move around much or do anything at all; I was considering taking a shower in a bit and hoping that helps a bit for how my skin feels. Other then that I can't really think of anything but the combination of having no energy whatsoever and the restlessness is nasty and I'm not sure what to do other then looking at the clock and waiting for time to pass.
Withdrawal symptoms started on friday; around 16 hours after last fentanyl usage and got to their worst around 24 hours later maybe; from then on it has stayed about the same. The most pronounced symptom is the cold sweating; it's a lot of sweat and this is not how temperature is supposed to feel. I'm either freezing or much too hot, I also shake a lot; not like shivering more like actually shaking. My energy is really low but I'm also very restless. There's also random pain and my muscles are too tense, when not on xanax I feel rather restless. Unfortunately for me, last night I ran out of xanax which until then I had been taking to ignore the withdrawal by sleeping most of the time (worked pretty well) and I'm not addicted to any GABA substances and have no tolerance to them so running out isn't a problem other then I don't have it to self medicate anymore from now on. On friday evening I also self-medicated with ketamine (worked pretty well too, ran out of that too unfortunately) and I had in total 8 mg of loperamide which I took one at a time until yesterday; ran out of that too. Not sure if such a low dose made any of a difference... so now all of the self medication is gone and the withdrawal is still here; today it's just shaking cold clammy skin. I've been able to eat the whole time, today too; no nausea or anything no other digestive tract problems at all. I am normally also pretty much immune to nausea anyway so maybe I'm lucky and will skip that entirely.
I'm not mentally addicted, it's just a physical thing; I don't crave opiates (do crave ketamine but that's a different story), I never was mentally addicted, I was just stupidly using too long in a row. Now I'm just trying to sort of feel ok and smoking some hash and hoping that since it's the third day already and fentanyl has a really short half life it'll pass soon. I think as soon as these physical symptoms of lameness will go away I'll be feeling ok again on all fronts. It's by the way by far not the worst I've ever felt; K-cramps were much, much worse, it's still pretty awful though. I'm posting this hoping that there's people who have experience with fentanyl withdrawal or withdrawal from opiates with a short half life and I hope to hear how long I'll have to deal with this. Symptoms started friday evening and its now sunday afternoon, I thínk the worst is sort of over; I'm guessing the worst day was yesterday but I slept most of it on xanax. Also I'm wondering if there's any non-medication non-drug tips anyone might have. I'm too weak to move around much or do anything at all; I was considering taking a shower in a bit and hoping that helps a bit for how my skin feels. Other then that I can't really think of anything but the combination of having no energy whatsoever and the restlessness is nasty and I'm not sure what to do other then looking at the clock and waiting for time to pass.