Hey everyone. So I've been sober on and off the last 4 years of my life. I was on suboxone the last 8 months and my doctor slowly tapered me down. Even though I went as far as a half MG down it still felt hard not having something to take everyday. I relapsed pretty quickly after being off of it for 4 days. I bought some methadone, and was able to get Vic's and oxy from a doctor. I'm shocked at how quickly my body goes into withdrawals from opiates. This was only a week of using. And not to the point of nodding off, just taking 5-6 then going about my day. It felt as bad as when I had been using heroin for several months everyday. Does the brain simply reset to where it was when you serveral months in to hard dope use? I'm basically incapacitated the last 3 days. Curious if others have experienced this before.
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hey dde and welcome. I got hurt in a bad car accident and was already using opiates pretty regularly, so my tolerance naturally went up. I also tried suboxone, and I had poor results. For one thing it tastes so bad, and is so much of a time and financial burden. Medicare doesn't pay for the doctor, his visits take hours upon hours, etc etc. And yeah my WD's seem to scale up and never get weaker; but the particular opiate's half life can make things easier (quicker.) So not methadone. I use pod tea for maintenance of pain and WDs, and I find I can usually go 36-48 hours before WD's get too rough (nausea and digestive tract). Some things help me cope with WD though; clonidine for one, and stuff like pepto etc to handle symptoms directly. Sometimes another drug to transition off the opiates, basically to counteract the dysphoria while trudging through the physical discomfort, helps tremendously. Reefer, DXM, whatever is working for me (and I have access to.) Good luck, and yeah I've felt the exact same thought you have, like it's just a "reset" some sorta time shift. I don't know if dependency really works that way, but it seems to. Same with cigarettes actually. Perhaps not with psychological addiction, but doesn't seem to apply in my case.