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Opioids How long to not w/d

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weedman615

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How long do you have to stop taking opiates to where you can take them once and not w/d after? I have been trying to test myself lately and see, and i know after stopping for 2, 3, and 4 days all still make me w/d. I know everyone is different but what would you say is a general amount of time?
 
Once you are out of acute withdrawal, taking opiates once shouldn't put you back into it anymore than a regular comedown and usual day after effects. Perhaps these normal after effects are compounded by paws and seem worse than you remember? Either that or your aren't as fully through withdrawal as you thought you were and are just kicking it back up a notch by using.
 
If your asking how long WD lasts before you feel better it depends on what you were using.

If your asking how long it takes after WD is over before you can take more without getting hooked again then you should just thank god it's over and never use them again, short of that you should be able to use once and not have WD shortly after acute WD is over.

Even when the acute WD is over though you will likely have a lengthy period of post acute WD syndrome which will make you depressed and want to use. You can fight through that and get clean.




I assume you are still using and have never gotten all the way through acute WD though based on your post. If you have been using most short acting opiates the acute WD will last a week or two at least. If you were on methadone or subs then it could take a month or longer for the acute WD to pass.
 
Wait at least 3 weeks with short acting opiates. Even then its risky, especially if you have PAWS. If you were on Methadone or Subs it will take months. 2-4 days isn't even through physical withdrawal so you'll have to wait quite a bit longer.
 
OK, this is a little off topic, but is sort of similair.

Ive been on suboxone for 1 year now, doses varying from 2 -36 mg (in the past 6 months its been pretty consistantly high though, 24 mg avg.). In the last six months, I started screwing around with heroin a lot. The usual lenghts of my benders, would be 2 weeks, no suboxone, 1 bundle of heroin a day. The withdrawls were not nice, but thank god I had the suboxone to switch back to until I could get back off the wagon. Now, there were other times, where I would take heroin for only a few days (3-4), and then try to see how the withdrawl was, and I found that while it was still present, it wasn't as bad. which of course makes sense. But what I've always wondered, was if I had become physically addicted to the full agonist, in those four days, and I was w/d'ing from that, or if it was just the suboxone w/d. I know an opioid is an opioid is an opioid, but the ACUTE w/d from full agonists seems harsher/
 
Znegative said:
OK, this is a little off topic, but is sort of similair.

Ive been on suboxone for 1 year now, doses varying from 2 -36 mg (in the past 6 months its been pretty consistantly high though, 24 mg avg.). In the last six months, I started screwing around with heroin a lot. The usual lenghts of my benders, would be 2 weeks, no suboxone, 1 bundle of heroin a day. The withdrawls were not nice, but thank god I had the suboxone to switch back to until I could get back off the wagon. Now, there were other times, where I would take heroin for only a few days (3-4), and then try to see how the withdrawl was, and I found that while it was still present, it wasn't as bad. which of course makes sense. But what I've always wondered, was if I had become physically addicted to the full agonist, in those four days, and I was w/d'ing from that, or if it was just the suboxone w/d. I know an opioid is an opioid is an opioid, but the ACUTE w/d from full agonists seems harsher/
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Yeah, full agonists are very harsh but the withdrawals last a fraction of the time that suboxone and methadone withdrawals do.
 
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