Hey burton.. what was your dose of subs again and how long ago did you stop? it been quite awhile.. the length of acute withdrawal is determined by the particular drugs half life.. this may vary for each individual it ranges from 24-42 hours with and average around 36 hours.. so an average of five half lives eliminates a drug from your system.. 5x36=180 hours= 7.5 days for the subs to exit your system + 2.5 for the initial miracle means that it usually takes about 10 days for subs acutes to begin to clear significantly and then it is still a slow process. But we need to include the methadone you took in the middle.. also have you been taking any opiate antagonists at all like loperamide or kratom as if these are taken constantly will just replace the subs as a new physical dependence.. you just seem to be doing really well
.. walking around in parks and swimming and exercising a ton.. how long were you on the subs..
anyway im glad you made it through last night
without grabbing any H.. but please remember that any opiat including codeine will prolong the withdrawal process.. I know people have their favorite opiat I like to look at it as an addiction and physical dependence to opiates. Cause as you noticed last night any opiat will do the trick to get ya unsick.. but then we are just pushed back farther down the path that is so hard to travel already..
The exercise is an amazing weapon against the paws symptoms and from your posts I thought you were definitely in the paws stage as you were really unhappy with your rapid mood swings... also some acute withdrawal, especially the stuff related to the epinephrin will linger and come and go, like the burning skin, fibromyalgia like pain, fatigue, akathisia. I had a patch of goose bump frozen sunburn that sailed it crazy self around my body, SLOWLY getting smaller, until when the second miracle happened at 4.75 months and the opiate receptors finally shut down.. literally my mind cleared so much overnight and the patch left for good.. i had been using for so long I had no idea how clouded my mind actually was.. I mean i was still able to do complex math and other really mind intensive tasks, but now that my mind has cleared it seems like before that clear i was stuck in second and now I role in fifth or above.. something to look forward to.
another thing is the addiction will push really hard at times.. right before you get out of the acutes is one time where it can become unbelievably powerful, at that time its scared because it knows its about to die.. but the real addiction the psychological addiction can really push hard as well.. like they say in the white book of NA if the compulsion becomes to strong put yourself on a five minute basis of not using.. in other words when it gets rough and it will, just tell yourself this will pass and im just not going to use for the next five minutes.. then again.. this actually works really well.. also find some one to call when this happens.. you've been to rehab i see so you know the drill, maybe time to implement some of those techniques so you are able to get enough clean time to allow the addiction to loose power.
YOU REALLY ARE DOING GREAT AND SHOULD GIVE YOURSELF THE CREDIT YOU HAVE EARNED.. now how do you get past those tough times.. so glad to see you didn't say fuck it
, you already know where that leads.. you seem a little like me, in the way you play your luck hard, dont play with the law burton, they really do lock people up.. Its good to have a plan for when it gets tough, because when it gets tough its really hard to come up with one8(.. you truly are doing amazing
