Hello ladies and gentlemen!
For those of you who have followed by threads, I honestly feel I am over opioid addiction after a two year struggle [with one year leading up, and being in some stage of quitting since March of 2019].
About two weeks ago, I decided to shove a Narcan nasal spray up my nose about 40 hours since I had taken methadone [which was the first opiate/opioid substance I had taken since 72 hours prior to that]. I was experiencing no withdrawal when I self-administered that 4mg Narcan nasal spray, and WOW - did I ever get sick as a dog for an hour or so there. Sheesh. No wonder addicts who are saved by Narcan immediately go back to putting an opiate in their body!
My doctor has prescribed me something called Naltrexone, which, as I understand it, is a full opioid ANTAGONIST...the same as Naloxone, right? I have not purchased my prescription yet.
What is the theory behind Naltrexone working? Is the logic that if we boot all remaining micro-particles of opioid off the receptors, that they "digest" faster when off the receptor? As in - withdrawal will last longer with the opiate bound to the receptor, thus booting opiates off their respective receptors will help us get through this process faster?
My doctor said it will "reduce cravings", but I'm just thinking physiologically about what a full opioid antagonist would do, and it seems like Naltrexone would do exactly what Narcan/Naloxone does, which is to simply bump the opiates off the receptors. So...what's the benefit to that? Faster processing of the opiates in terms of ejecting them from our bodies?
If this is the case, given that I want to accelerate my current post-acute withdrawal [PAWS] phase, and given that I have two more Narcan nasal sprays here at home [one of which expired in April...I'm not sure if that matters, so if anyone knows - please let me know], would it benefit me to just self-administer them, and continue with Narcan self-administration?
My guess is - the topic of Narcan/Naloxone or Naltrexone self-administration to accelerate opioid withdrawal hasn't been well-researched, thus we can all only speculate as to the physiological process that entails, if this is even an occurrence at all.
Regardless, any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you.
For those of you who have followed by threads, I honestly feel I am over opioid addiction after a two year struggle [with one year leading up, and being in some stage of quitting since March of 2019].
About two weeks ago, I decided to shove a Narcan nasal spray up my nose about 40 hours since I had taken methadone [which was the first opiate/opioid substance I had taken since 72 hours prior to that]. I was experiencing no withdrawal when I self-administered that 4mg Narcan nasal spray, and WOW - did I ever get sick as a dog for an hour or so there. Sheesh. No wonder addicts who are saved by Narcan immediately go back to putting an opiate in their body!
My doctor has prescribed me something called Naltrexone, which, as I understand it, is a full opioid ANTAGONIST...the same as Naloxone, right? I have not purchased my prescription yet.
What is the theory behind Naltrexone working? Is the logic that if we boot all remaining micro-particles of opioid off the receptors, that they "digest" faster when off the receptor? As in - withdrawal will last longer with the opiate bound to the receptor, thus booting opiates off their respective receptors will help us get through this process faster?
My doctor said it will "reduce cravings", but I'm just thinking physiologically about what a full opioid antagonist would do, and it seems like Naltrexone would do exactly what Narcan/Naloxone does, which is to simply bump the opiates off the receptors. So...what's the benefit to that? Faster processing of the opiates in terms of ejecting them from our bodies?
If this is the case, given that I want to accelerate my current post-acute withdrawal [PAWS] phase, and given that I have two more Narcan nasal sprays here at home [one of which expired in April...I'm not sure if that matters, so if anyone knows - please let me know], would it benefit me to just self-administer them, and continue with Narcan self-administration?
My guess is - the topic of Narcan/Naloxone or Naltrexone self-administration to accelerate opioid withdrawal hasn't been well-researched, thus we can all only speculate as to the physiological process that entails, if this is even an occurrence at all.
Regardless, any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you.
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