Cocaine How much/long do you have to use cocaine to develop withdrawal?

[KillSurfCity]

hey everyone! long time no talk.

got off opiates last june (besides bupe) so i haven't been around much, lately. mainly sticking to pot, mdma, lsd, 2c-b, blah blah blah.

anyway, i have been getting blow for cheap over the past few months and went on a two week bender. i decided to take a break day before yesterday and got a headache yesterday afternoon. a BAD one. anyway, the headache would not go away though i took 1000mg APAP and 600mg ibuprophen. i went to drop a sack of bud off at a friends house about 45 minutes ago and they gave me a foily. headache went away before i even exhaled. (didn't buy any. will power, kids.) i know some about cocaine withdrawal from reading erowid but "headaches" is not listed. is headache a common WD symptom? i have NOT experienced any depression, mega cravings, irritability, long periods of sleep, or extreme hunger (which is the withdrawal symptoms listed on erowid).

my question is this: what are cocaine withdrawals like for any of you that may have experienced them? two other questions are in the title of this thread. your experiences?

 

[pharma-sutra]

sorry i couldn't really help you there, bc i've never gotten WD from blow. but then again, its bc i never understood how anyone could do a 2 week bender. my nose would be falling apart.

 

[The Doc.]

Its all in the mind of course I never go any physical symptoms besides being tired for a few days. I did coke all the time before discovering opiates now j just use opiates to deal with the come down if I do coke so I don't notice anything. But before I would crash after about a half hour after doing my last rail then I would fiend for 3 hours just feeling depressed, anxious, irritated and tired. The next day my nose always felt like it was gonna rot off and I would have bad headaches all day like you said but not if I injected the coke. I think since it only happed when I snorted it mabye its cause of it burning away your sinuses coke is really harsh on them. Did you sniff your cocaine?

 

[Cuzie]

It varies per person I believe. But for me, it's generally a day of irritability. There's definitely a desire to have more, but it's not life or death.

The hard part is stopping once I start for the night. Ex. Hey it's 9pm and I work tomorrow, but another bump won't hurt!

 

[sarajenni88]

I've gotten very bad headaches from coke. Honestly I hate it until its in front of me... then I get very selfish anxious etc...but yes. Headaches for me anyway are very common. I've never had w/d symptoms from cocaine...but I've used opiates to come down from coke...in fact that's how I fell in love with them...

 

[The Doc.]

I've gotten very bad headaches from coke. Honestly I hate it until its in front of me... then I get very selfish anxious etc...but yes. Headaches for me anyway are very common. I've never had w/d symptoms from cocaine...but I've used opiates to come down from coke...in fact that's how I fell in love with them...

Me too lol the first time I did opiates was when coning down off cocaine I know lots of people who say the same thing

 

[Mr.Scagnattie]

There is no cocaine "withdrawal", certainly not in the real sense of physical dependency. If you've kicked opiates, that means you know what real withdrawals are.. you wont have a problem stopping coke physically. You don't get sick like you do quitting opiates.

At worst, you'll feel a little anxious and irritable for a couple days. Cocaine is not physically addicting. Now the mental addiction.. that's a whole other thing.

 

[bunnyrabbitz]

There is no cocaine "withdrawal", certainly not in the real sense of physical dependency. If you've kicked opiates, that means you know what real withdrawals are.. you wont have a problem stopping coke physically. You don't get sick like you do quitting opiates.

At worst, you'll feel a little anxious and irritable for a couple days. Cocaine is not physically addicting. Now the mental addiction.. that's a whole other thing.

That's downright outrageous misinformation. Just because H has a "worse" withdrawal doesn't mean it's the only type of withdrawal.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000947.htm

OP, everyone's different, there is no "set" time when WD kicks in.

 

[Mr.Scagnattie]

^^^

Cocaine withdrawal, is not physical dependence. Do some research. It's a crash. A rebound effect. That's all the article you linked says.. "withdrawal" is just a word used to describe the effects of stopping something, not necessarily in reference to physical dependence, which is why that article you linked does not mention it.

Physical dependence vs. Rebound Effect

There is a huge difference between rebound effects (What occurs from quitting stimulants like cocaine), still often called "withdrawal", then actual withdrawals as a result of a true physical dependency, which cocaine does not cause. Nor does meth, etc. Benzos, opiates, alcohol, those are drugs that are actually physically addicting.

Have you ever kicked opiates and then cocaine before? Because if you have, you'd know the difference and that your body does not become dependent on cocaine. It's been a known fact in the medical community for quite some time.

 

[bjpark]

^^ Is accurate. It is a psychological dependance; the 'withdrawal' IS the crash. After a period of steady use, you will probably feel depressed and sluggish until your brain chemistry normalizes, but you should not feel any physical effects. Your migraine might be a coincidence, or, a psychosomatic thing (your mind is a powerful thing!)....probably a combination- you had a small headache and you mind attributed it to withdrawal so it made it worse.

 

[BlueHues]

Yeah, cocaine can definitely have long lasting aftereffects, but doesn't cause a true withdrawal syndrome like opiates, and this topic is extensively dealt with in other threads....