Opioids made it thru withdrawal, how long should i wait?

[socalrollin]

heres my story and my question. ok so im a pill head i love opiates. ive been doing pills here and ther since i was about 21 and i just turned 26. never had a steady supply so never got addicted but always jumped on the chance to get norcos, oc, opana, etc etc... well within the last five months my supply on norcos became steady so i kept myself opiated for the most part. After stopping pills for a couple days i experienced withdrawal symptoms and realized i had become addicted. well i played this game back and forth for a few months doing pills for a week and then stopping just long enough for the withdrawal symptoms to clear and then starting again. needless to say that game fucking sucks so here i am 10 days clean feeling great wondering one thing.

if i were to take norcos tonight would i experience withdrawal?

how long do i need to stay clean before i can use just one night and not experience any withdrawal symptoms?

im by no means trying to quit pills just trying to keep my habit from being an addiction. i never want to experience withdrawal again in my life and if that means quiting for good so be it, but if i could quit for a certain amount of time and be able to use randomly like i used to without experiencing withdrawal i would sure like to know.

thanks for any insight peeps it sure is greatly appreciated.

 

[StartedHydro]

Everyone is different. Some people can do pills for a few days after going thru Wds and not XP much other than a day or two of a crumie feelingss. Others can go thru the WDs and do a night of DOC and feel like a bus hit them the next day.

I have gone thru some nasty WDs a few times and after about nine days of nothing most of physical WDs over with just left with no desire, no motivation, no energy, no joy and did three days of a OC 80(each day) spaced out for a few doses every few hours. After that ran out out I feared the worse, but it was not that bad. I did in fact have some WD issues but no where near as bad as when I first came off nine days the first time.

I think its all rather subjective to a degree and how much your mind sets you up.
Thats just MO, though.

EDIT: Honestly from a person who has lost about almost everything in life due to my addiction, if you made it that far take a long long break. You are dancing with fire. Read thru the threads here dealing with withdrawals, the agony, the pain caused to everyone around you who truly care doing anything to help you, the horrid depression for months afterwards. Please be very careful, addiction sneaks up on you and if your mind is like mine, will rationalize and justify ANY reason for saying its ok to use.

If you really do have the will power to basically chip per say and do casual use, great for you... Just be very very careful. Its not the substance that ruins your life... its ones own doing that ruins their lives. Stay safe and be careful.

 

[socalrollin]

thanks for the reply and the honesty man. im still debating on wether or not to use yet, leaning more on the side of not. or not yet i should say.

 

[RedRum OG]

everyones different. however if that was me and i dosed, yes for the next day or two i would experience light WDs such as chills and watery eyes and sneezing. maybe a little anxiety.

the only way i'd do it tonight is if you could go another 10 days after than, get high, then another 10 days etc etc. or just take a 1-3month break and then use a little more frequently. i would not recommend getting stoned tonight though.

however all you are doing here, is playing on the edge of a very steep slope. this is how fiends come to be.

 

[qwe]

the more often and the sooner you do it after WD, the harder things will be when you're not on it. i'd probably wait at least a month. i've waited three but i'm not able to acquire goodies atm

 

[karkov25]

if i were you i would do my best to stay clean forever. you've already gotten addicted once and if you try to recreationally use the chances of a full blown relapse are very very high.

 

[RedRum OG]

yeah stop with the opiates. youre so close to losing control, you just dont realize it.

 

[Midflight]

Well man I have been down the same road as you many time. Everytime I "tried things out again" I would go deeper and deeper. I remember reading this site a year ago and thinking "These people are gross shooting pills. I will NEVER touch the needle." And now I sit here wanting nothing more than to cook up a 80 or some MS Contin and slam the shit out of it.

My first withdrawl was with lortabs. Next was percs....and now. Just stop man, dont touch the stuff until you no longer think about it. I know I will always want more, and that scares the shit out of me.

 

[Murz]

If you feel great at day 10 - and you aren't lying to yourself (...are you?) - you're ok to get high and won't withdraw. When I'm in your situation I look at it this way: if I could sleep the night before without problems the withdrawl won't reset to day 1 if I use again.

This depends on the intensity of your usage of course. Also if you're gonna "relapse" don't stay high, take a few days off in between to avoid sickness.

 

[Zexx]

Personally, if i go through withdrawals for about 3-4 days and then do some pills after that, no matter how much I do, the next day I wake up feeling fine but that's worse than if you felt bad, because when you feel good you're just like alright fuck it i've gone through this hell, did some last night, and I'm not sick anymore, so why not do just a little today too, and eventually today becomes tomorrow, and the whole week, and etc etc.

 

[stray cat]

i don't think doing anything for just one night at this point would have any severe physical repercussions. in my experience, i have done what you're talking about a few days earlier after w/d and not had any physical w/d symptoms. like the other posters said though, it varies for everyone, and it's a slippery slope.

the above excludes discussion of any mental effects like cravings, which would likely increase after one day's use this soon after w/d.

 

[ThePharmicist]

Well man I have been down the same road as you many time. Everytime I "tried things out again" I would go deeper and deeper. I remember reading this site a year ago and thinking "These people are gross shooting pills. I will NEVER touch the needle." And now I sit here wanting nothing more than to cook up a 80 or some MS Contin and slam the shit out of it.

My first withdrawl was with lortabs. Next was percs....and now. Just stop man, dont touch the stuff until you no longer think about it. I know I will always want more, and that scares the shit out of me.

Dude amen, I remember thinking - fuck I'd never touch a needle. I've never been steady on it but I've definitely done it.

In my opinion you should take a break, addiction gets deeper and deeper. Withdrawals get worse and worse the more times you go through the cycle. If you can get off the first time - stay off. The next time you WD it'll be worse than the first, the third time will be worse than the second and so on. If I were you I wouldn't get sucked back in, we've all been at the "I've been clean for x months, I can take a few pills just tonight" next thing you know your strung the fuck out again.

Good luck man.

 

[SackFromTheBack]

I would say definitely minor wd's. If you for sure want no wd's then just stop doing it altogether. After lengthy binges I try and hold myself to using only one day a week. If you must use, set a "schedule/plan". Helps with the urges..

 

[hellocatastrophe]

i used oxycodone today after only 3 days off, however i was using suboxone on those 3 days- ~o.125mg each day. i used 50mg of oxycodone today which is about 1/3 of my usual daily dose. i'll let you know how i'm feeling tomorrow. i will however say that i don't recommend you using just yet even though i don't know how i'm going to feel tomorrow. i'm sure the cravings will be through the roof though.