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Opioids First time Opiate WD

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FreeMeForeva

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So, I'm coming off of a 16 month run on Percocets and the last few months I've started taking Oxys. I tapered myself off with hydrocodone and took my last half pill 6 days ago. Needless to say I went through some ugly withdrawals. I'm taking a lot of vitamins and drinking 50 mg protein shakes. I also drank a shit ton of green tea. I got so restless and desperate for sleep I tried the loperamide trick. I took 30 mg and slept all night. 24 hours later the restlessness came back and I took another 14mg and slept almost 8 hours (with bad dreams). Today I'm just feeling sluggish and a bit down on myself for snapping at my kids because I'm being a crabby ass. I just want this to go awayyyy! When will I feel better? This whole experience with the WDs is totally not worth going back on drugs. Ugh. I've already told my primary care doctor about my abuse and the local hospital ...
 
You will gradually start to feel better. We can't really tell you when exactly the WDs will stop.
Glad you decided to stop.
 
16 months is a good bit of time but not horribly overdone.. Kudo's for jumping off now because it could have gotten Much Much worse.. Once the physical symptoms subside there is an adjustment of your brain trying to heal itself this is called Paws.. Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome.. and this is where it continues to be hard.. not so much physically but mentally.. things seem boring. .and you just don't have the same zest for life as your brain adjusts to creating it's own endorphins.. It won't last forever but don't be surprised when your physically back fine and then your still mentally shitty.. I'd suggest to keep yourself busy and read up on things that stimulate endorphin production
 
in 5-7 days you'll be relatively functional again. (appetite will return, sensitivity to temperature is gone, you'll be able to sleep through the night)

three weeks after that you should be feeling almost totally normal.
 
FreeMeForeva said:
So, I'm coming off of a 16 month run on Percocets and the last few months I've started taking Oxys. I tapered myself off with hydrocodone and took my last half pill 6 days ago. Needless to say I went through some ugly withdrawals. I'm taking a lot of vitamins and drinking 50 mg protein shakes. I also drank a shit ton of green tea. I got so restless and desperate for sleep I tried the loperamide trick. I took 30 mg and slept all night. 24 hours later the restlessness came back and I took another 14mg and slept almost 8 hours (with bad dreams). Today I'm just feeling sluggish and a bit down on myself for snapping at my kids because I'm being a crabby ass. I just want this to go awayyyy! When will I feel better? This whole experience with the WDs is totally not worth going back on drugs. Ugh. I've already told my primary care doctor about my abuse and the local hospital ...
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Something that me and many others experience with opiate withdrawal is this:

When it starts to come in waves with hours in between where you're feeling normal, you're reaching the end of the acute phase. In your case, I doubt it will go on for much longer than a week or so after that...

It's always the worst in the middle of the night to early morning hours too. It just takes time really. Aside from that, proper nutrition and hygiene will speed your recovery. Greasy food, dehydration and just laying around seem to prolong it...but you feel so shitty, it's hard to do even simple things for awhile. As far as supplements, I just use Emergen'C packets that have your standard vitamins, especially a high dose of C, I've never personally gone too crazy with buying a bunch of other stuff, although there's a long list of things that may or may not do anything noticeable.

6 days from oxycodone, your first time? You should bounce right back!
 
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Mr.Scagnattie said:
Yeah the first few detoxes, especially the very first, is always pretty easy. You bounce back very quickly. It gets worse and worse, harder and harder every time you go through it.
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Also it takes less days of usage to find yourself in withdrawal each time. I can go a month without using and use 1-2 days and get withdrawal symptoms.
 
^^Thought it was only me...and psychological. Feels good to know I'm not crazy. Thanks for sharing somnilicious and Mr. S. Hey, good for you for stopping FreeMe!!!! You are almost there...and believe me, you are doing the best possible thing you can do for yourself. Good job.
 
in my experience loperamide prolongs the withdrawals but this is not the case for everyone
 
Mr.Scagnattie said:
Yeah the first few detoxes, especially the very first, is always pretty easy. You bounce back very quickly. It gets worse and worse, harder and harder every time you go through it.
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I find this advice the best, as the first few times it was easy, then I thought I had it down. Nope. That shit the third time around was hell, and you'll find yourself searching for things like suboxone, which IMO is better left untouched. The sleep wds from that lasted months for me
 
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