• 💊 OTHER DRUGS 💊 Welcome Guest
    Posting Rules Bluelight Rules
    Notable Threads 1 Notable Threads 2
    Dangerous Combos Addiction Support
    Emergency Services Benzo Guide v.1
    Addiction Stories Scary Case Studies
    Biology, Pharmacology & Drugs 101
  • Select Your Topic Then Scroll Down
    Alcohol Bupe Benzos
    Cocaine Heroin Opioids
    RCs Stimulants Misc
    Harm Reduction All Topics Gabapentinoids
    Tired of your habit? Struggling to cope?
    Want to regain control or get sober?
    Visit our Recovery Support Forums

Opioids How bad is opiate withdrawal ?

I just realized that the hardest part of my withdrawal was dealing with the legal consequences that arose from funding my addiction :P
 
Ancient_Hippy said:
I have just finished reading a book called Romancing Opiates by Dr Theodore Dalrymple in which he claims that withdrawal from opiates including heroin is no more than a minor discomfort.

Doctor Dalrymple has worked in what he describes as a slum area and the prison service and has a lot of experience with drug addicts.

According to the doctor addicts greatly exaggerate the suffering of withdrawal to con doctors into prescribing opiates.

But the book contains contradictions as it also describes the desperate measures some addicts will go to get a fix. Why are they so compelled if withdrawal is such a minor thing to endure.

Never having been addicted to opiates I cannot make a judgment about the accuracy of the book.

I would be interested in the views of people who have been through opiate withdrawal - has the doctor got it right or is he wrong?
Click to expand...

I can quote from personal experience that opiate withdrawal is easily comparable to a day in hell you wake up with your stomach cramping, an intense way of anxiety which is constant, your eyes and nose are constantly watering, you feel sick and proceed in throwing up for around 1-3 days, you shit yourself uncontrollably not to mention the constant craving for heroin as you know one hit and all these nasty side effects will disappear within a few minutes.
Take a look at my blog it documents all aspects of my life struggling with my heroin addiction including withdrawals, crime, methadone and struggling to stay clean.
My Heroin Addiction Blog
 
cold turkey is an absolute cake walk compared to viral infections, venomous bites, aircraft and auto wrecks and a wealth of other violent things that i have also gone trough .
shit lasts a few weeks and then when the physical and mental symptoms are totally gone, one is left with a clean slate that, hopefully isn't shattered with caving into infantile desires for instant gratification once again.
kick****kick***kick *** as it is the most rational, easy, logical solution to what ails the addict.
 
Withdrawals from opiates are the worst of all drugs but not mentally. That would be meth or crack. Depends on the person. There's definitely worse feelings in life but its up there
 
junkymandan said:
possible how?? please inform me
Click to expand...

Actually no it isn't possible. But some have less withdrawal than others and they can stop cold turkey with almost no difficulty. I find it hard to believe but a friend of mine does way more than I did and never got dope sick. I sweat like crazy from 30 mg oxy the next day
 
It really depends on the type of Opiate you are withdrawing from. When I started out with Hydrocodone the withdraw was just bad head aches and joint pains. Taking no more than Ten 10/325's a day. When moved on to OC it seamed to be the same type withdraw just much more increased. Once you get to the point where you are banging OC's that's when it gets down right unbearable. The DOC for me was Hydromorphone. I somehow got really lucky( or truly unlucky in the big picture of things.) I had a friend with sikkelcelanemie who was prescribed 4mg Dilaudid. By then I was deep in my addiction so they were being IV'd. at this point I had a tolerance that was unheard of anywhere around my area and the street tar available just wasn't doing it. I was getting these things so cheap it was unreal. Not to mention I was being handed hundreds of dollars with no job, my own place, $30,000 dollar car, and had pretty much everything I could think of. I would do about 4-8mg every hour. Which would end up being 48-96mg daily. I continued this until he was out and there were none left to buy for a long long time. The withdraw was unlike anything I had ever experienced. My body was not only constantly soaked in sweat but every muscle in my body had felt as if It had been beaten with a baseball bat. I was shaking uncontrollably like I was having a seizure. I would vomit constantly and my skin felt as if it was on fire in a way I can not describe. My head ached beyond anything I could have ever fathomed before. Feeling as if I was dying is by far an understatement. I still couldn't stay away from the shit for a couple more years until I got on a Methadone Program which truly saved my life. Once I got to my stable dose, I felt just like I did before I started using that shit.. Heroin withdraw was one hell of a painful experience as well to say the least, but nothing will ever compare to that hydromorphone withdraw...
 
can someone talk about oxycodone withdrawal...i've been hooked on oxy for just about six months and the last two months iv'e gone up to 180mg-500mg a day dependng on what i could get. it's such a rediculous tolerance and i'm scared. it's only been 9 hours since i took a pill (perc 10, hardly did anything to me). almost all of the time i've been taking these pills they've been the new long lasting OPs f that means anything. usually 80s cut up into pieces.

i'm very uncomfortable, a very uneasy feeling in my abdominal, and this weird tearing up in the eyes. it's not as bad as i thought so far but i have a feelng it's gonna get a lot worse...especially the whole not sleeping thing...thats not fun.

i have a questin about trazodone. a while ago my friend gave me two 30mg pills of it and they've been sitting around forever. ive never taken sleeping pills n my life, let alone on w/d, does anyone think these will be useful? i woud just kill to be able to get even a few hours fast forwarded through this...

also, what am i looking at time wise most likely...probably a week of the worst symptoms? everyone tells me oxy w/d is a lot worse than heroin...what do you think i'm in for?

i havent admitted to anyone that i'm addicted but i' thinking about calling my sister and getting her to pick me up and i'll leave my bank card and phone here so i'll be absolutely forced to grind through it until she takes me home whenever. however, if i do that i'm not sure how she will feel about me bringing weed and i feel like weed helps tremendously. i'm just feeling so shitty and scared of the next few days, i just want any insight anyone has, or any ways to ease the pain...thanks...
 
wow mild lol I have wanted to die while going through w/d and mine would be what one may call mild, I have been on 30 mg oxy for a long time and quit cold turkey with my big bad self and today I went to the Doc and subutex after being sure I was going to die for thr last 48 hrs. Do yourself a favor, dont take anything that you have to w/d from if you dont already know what its like. Chances are you wont just go through it once either
 
hey ninteen42 dont do it cold turkey those little blues bitches are the worst to get off of. I can feel the pain through the subutex
 
Nineteen42 I would smoke weed till u forget ur w/d ing. Listen to music. Run at top speed. Paint, draw, or whatever. The worst of it will be gone in a week I believe. U gotta have a strong will to quit. U sound like u do. Cold turkey is quick, painful, and most likely to work imo. Just keep thinking about how good you'll feel when its all over. Oh ya sex helps too if possible. Takes a lil while till u actually feel like even having sex. Oxy withdrawal is physically worse but heroin withdrawal is mentally worse imo. Eating helps too. Take multivitamins. If u do decide to go back to oxy than drink cough syrup instead. It supposedly helps. Make sure to get syrup only containing dxm. Reading will distract you from cravings. Baths and showers help muscle tension. Try travelling somewhere peaceful if u can. That's all I can think of. Good luck buddy! Were rootin' for ya
 
his statement is laughable. like some are saying, it largely depends on the opiate in question and your severity of addiction, in the case of heroin, to use the term mild to describe its addictive properties, is unreal.if you're talking about codeine, i can see it a little more maybe, but even then, it's all pretty awful. Dr. Dalyrimple is verbalizing from his colon.
 
Hi there sorry but the drs a dick.my pain specialist told me that it wasn't uncommon to come off 30mg of methadone it really was the worst thing I've ever done, ended up in hospital for two days put on benzos and oxy for pain the worst 4 weeks of my life. Hope u have beta luck.flu my arse
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top