Is it possible to become immune to withdrawal?

[suchislife]

I do Heroin 3 days a week then goes through a shitty feeling for 2 days then it passes then repeats. Can your body get adjusted to withdrawal feeling? so the feeling doesnt feel so bad after awhile. This is a very good question and maybe people with a controlled habbit can answer this or people with strong will that dont tend to go nuts everyday of the week with a drug

 

[effie]

It tends to go the other way, infact - repeated withdrawals become nastier and nastier.. sorry..

 

[Ligaturd]

Yeah, withdrawals for me just meant some bitchiness when i first started using semi-regularly. After 3 or 4 week long binges it started to get unbearable...or atleast thats what i told myself, now im terrified of withdrawals and use everyday. I wish it was the way that you are asking about though.

 

[IndustrialStrength]

I'd have to agree with the above posters. It tends to go the opposite way.
I believe there was even a thread over in ADD speculating on whether w/d's experienced a "kindling" process over time.
I don't recall any definitive conclusions being drawn though. From personal & subjective experience I'd say it gets worse.
Much much worse...

 

[d3Xo-fan]

It's a shame... Could the explanation be that the opioid receptors have been "tampered" with much more when we are talking long term use?

 

[Cane2theLeft]

^ while I'm sure there is a physiological component to this phenomenon, I'm positive there is a substantial psychological aspect as well. You begin to fear the sickness and as a result you worry about it before hand, you focus on it during and throughout, it seems worse and worse. As the fear of the withdrawal grows, the perceived intensity does as well. You condition yourself to have worse withdrawals and for some, just running out is enough to produce the symptoms of withdrawal long before enough has cleared their system to provide a physiological explanation.

 

[Glitched]

I have to disagree with the majority here and talk from personal experience.

Personally, I find that the minor WD's actually get easier to deal with. For me, I know that if I have a week on the gear and then stop, I know that I will have 2 or 3 days of feeling a bit sketchy with watery eyes, yawning etc and 5 or 6 nights of broken sleep, the first 1 or two nights are the worst and I get hardly any sleep but then it gets better each night. I used to do this once a month, sometimes twice for a 12 month period and noticed no difference in the WD's. If anything after the first couple the WD's seemed to ease off probable, as Cane2TheLeft said, because I wasn't anxious about them and knew what to expect.

This is of course only my experience and I may be an abnormality. It is only refering to short term use.

 

[LadyCulebra]

This is an interesting question. I have a theory: maybe it depends on the brain chemistry of the individual (like they said above). I absolutely love heorin, but i have never felt a need to do it (even after a 3day binge). All my friends say im weird or something, i dont even get withdrawls but my roomate will be dying in the other room after partying all week. Is it possible some people are just built to resist this kinda stuff??? I also have a very good immune system (despite heavy drug use), but maybe i dont experience withdralws cuz heroin isnt my drug of choice.?

 

[Sepher]

I'd have to agree with the above posters. It tends to go the opposite way.
I believe there was even a thread over in ADD speculating on whether w/d's experienced a "kindling" process over time.
I don't recall any definitive conclusions being drawn though. From personal & subjective experience I'd say it gets worse.
Much much worse...

In my experience, yes that was the case. I don't really understand how kindling works, but every failed attempt at detoxing made things worse further on down the line when I was ready to try detox again. Withdrawal symptoms were subjectively and objectively more severe as time went on with me continually adding to the number of failed attempts, in a way that wasn't necessarily relatable to changes to ROA or daily dose.

Suchislife, it may that you've got better at coping with feeling a bit shitty at the end of a few days run. In my opinion not sure the shitty feeling is actually even explainable as withdrawal. It took me a good coupla months of daily use before I experienced what I'd call proper physically-dependant withdrawal symptoms. Once you have established a habit, and gone through a proper detox it takes a lot less time to reestablish the habit of course, but still not convinced the shitty feeling you describe is truly physically-dependent withdrawal?

 

[SeekerOfEuphoria]

I know a shit load of people who do more opiates than me every damn day and half think withdrawals are a myth and the other half have no issue whatsoever with them. I wish that were the case with me =/, but I've noticed if I'm particularly busy or have things to do I barely notice withdrawals.