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How much longer can I expect to be withdrawaling?

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velocity92c

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I've been a pretty heavy opiate user for the past 2 years, mostly Oxycontin recently, 1 to 2 80's IV'd a day for damn near every day over the past two years. For the past 3 weeks I haven't touched any Oxy at all. For the first part of this month I did IV some 8 MG Dilaudid's several times over the course of a week but in the past two weeks I haven't touched anything but Suboxone in extremely small amounts. I only started with a half of an 8MB Suboxone 2 weeks ago and snorted the tiniest of lines daily to stave off WDs. Well the Suboxone ran out yesterday. This is my first time "clean" in so long I didn't really remember how normal felt, but today I am sitting up at 5:45 AM unable to sleep because of WDs, and kind of surprised really considering the lack of dope lately and the small amount of Suboxone I had been taking.


I am definitely not experiencing full blown WDs but my eyes will not stop watering, mild cold sweats and insomnia, can't stop yawning, etc. I was really feeling energized to finally kicking this addiction but now all I want to do once daylight comes is find another fix so I don't feel so crappy.

I guess if I knew this would be over in a couple days that I would be willing to fight through, hence the title of this thread. But if this is going to last a week or more I will have to find another method to get clean, whatever that may be. Be honest with me, how much longer can I expect to feel like crap?
 
4 days of intense withdrawl, followed by 2 weeks of mild effects. the insomnia has lasted as long as 90 days for me. i think technically post acute withdrawl can last for months im sure sombody knows numbers but for some reason ur not being flooded with answers here, your story is kind of hard to figure out but my suggestion is try to get somthing to help with the sleep, also benzos can really help make a lot of your problems milder and your quitting much easier, but as we all know benzos are a whole new can of worms. maybe a bit more suboxone? its great that your giving quitting a chance i hope you stay strong bro! good luck!
 
I know in a normal cold turkey situation I would expect up to a week of heavy WD symptoms but even after 15+ days of no dope at all other than a TOTAL of 4MG Suboxone stretched over a 2 week period I'll still have heavy WDs for 4 days? That really sucks. I was surprised I had any WD symptoms at all beyond cravings and very very mild cramps, along with diarrhea of course.

I might pick up another sub and stretch it out another 2 to 4 weeks. I would love some additional input though, and thanks for your response.
 
You are more or less in mild w/d now from the bupe, rather than the oxy. I don't expect you to have heavy w/d, but you will still experience some discomfort. Can't tell you how long because after the initial w/d you will have PAWS and such.

You can get another sub, and use a little as possible daily, and also taper daily, but you will still have discomfort at the end of the sub usage. Stock up on benzos & imodium to ease the sub w/d, and stick it out.

Good luck!
 
i quit oxy cold turkey (from 400 mgs a day to nothing) and while I felt like was seriously going to die (and the doc said I'm lucky I didn't have a seizure or something), the worst of it was over in three or four days. the WORST. Then for like two weeks I felt like shit, sleepy, but can't sleepy, felt uncomfortable, like i was in the wrong house, the wrong person, I call it a case of the seventies, but that's another tale.

A few weeks ago I ran out of suboxone, because after a fight with my doctor regarding dental surgery I took more than my dosage for a week to kill the pain that I Couldn't take pain killers for. I took Loperamide for most of the w/d, but when I went to the doc 9 days later I was mentally still climbing the walls. Of course I've been on it for two years for addiction and chronic pain control. Suboxone withdrawals are sucky, even if you taper and i don't care what the doctor says.

I really suggest some loperamide and a hot bath and sleep through as much of it as you can. Good luck.(we're all counting on you)
 
jjdonkey said:
Good luck.(we're all counting on you)
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Huh? I wouldn't say we're counting on him for anything, I'd say we're all hoping for the best. Anyways, just be thankful you're not having full blown withdraws. I've done cold turkey at a detox center from a much bigger habit and it was horrifying. All the drugs they gave me to help had no effect. Even benzos at night wouldn't work, in fact they had adverse effects (paranoia, hallucinations). The only relief I could get was by taking a bath, which was gross because it was a hospital and I had a roommate that didn't clean the tub after use. So if I was able to make it through all that you can surely make it through watery eyes. Don't get me wrong I'm not saying it's an easy process by any means, but just remind yourself it could be worse.
 
It's gonna be a lot longer than a Heroin user since you were using Opioids rather than an opiate. Unfortunately i can't tell you how long because i only have experience with Opiate withdrawal.
 
Ahh, if only you could spend a month in a hot tub. I know all the household remedies (except Loperamide, that one was new, and it surprisingly did help a little), was just curious how long I should expect to feel this way.

I remember tapering off of Subs when I was prescribed to them before and not having any withdrawals past day 1 sober, so I was very shocked I was still feeling crappy, especially when I stretched 4MG over 14 days (0.28MG a day).

Anyway, thanks for all the replies. Thread can be closed.
 
From what I understand, coming off the needle gives you worse w/d than eating, but doesn't last as long as an eating/oral habit. I can't say too much about injecting because I've only done it a handful of times, but I know a few friends that say after the 3rd or 4th day of withdrawling from an IV H habit it starts to ease up.
With me, I've been eating upwards to 210mgs of Morphine daily + occasionally snorting/smoking H for over a year and I know I've had close to a week of full blown withdrawal, with probably the worst stomach cramps I've ever experienced. After about 6-7 days, relief comes.
Unfortunately, I'm very set in my ways. William Burroughs wrote about how junk is a way of life, and he was very right. It's tough man, I haven't yet been able to kick my habit cold turkey. I've always resorted to Suboxone or detoxing meds.
 
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