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Opiate addiction and SSRI's?

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Droppersneck

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I have recently quit, for the most part, opiates. But I never come out of the funk like I used to. I have always had depression and anxiety like most. I am thinking about giving Lexapro a shot. Anyone have any experience with SSRIs and opiate addiction? What are your thoughts and were there any positive effects?
 
From what I can gather, some SSRIs really help opiate withdrawals (especially PAWS) but others have the opposite effect.

No first-hand experience with Lexapro, however :\
 
K'd-OUT-in-AZ said:
I've quit opiates and was put on Effexor and still crave opiates, suffer some depression. And I'm on Suboxone too.
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I think I will forever crave opiates and am not willing to get suboxone anywhere but the black market for fear of being labeled. Plus subs put the hurt on my libido and bowels something fierce. I just want to get back to a point where I have some drive and ambition without the need of a pill. Im sure Im only preaching to the choir lol:)
 
i think i was just replying to you in another thread...Ive been through the same thing..I feel for you!! If its that bad you might want to try something...(i think the other thread was about taking supplements, which i HIGHLY recommend btw) Maybe try the natural route first, if that doesnt seem to help then try an SSRI. Im still recovering from the same thing and its been months and months, right after kicking opiates i seriously thought i would die of sadness and misery but im still here and its 5 months later and i feel waaaaaaay better and i just used vitamins and excercise - and of course having someone to talk too helps a great deal too
 
lyrica really helps with w/d's, forget those shitty SSRIs, maybe smoke some weed instead?? but that is replacing one addiction with another, i suggest exercising more, eating good foods like fruits, lean meats, complex carbs, and veggies..stay away from fried foods (its really hard, french fries are amazing on benzos, anything fried is amazing) i find a proper diet really helps...try eating bananas, they will replace the dopamine and serotonin that the opiates exhausted during your usage...
 
Droppersneck said:
lyrica seems to be the ticket. I have been thinking about getting o ambien b/c of the great sleep/ ambitious feelings I get from it. I agree about the exercise and diet, I used to do that to the extreme but I cant get myself to feel like even attempting that, feel too shitty
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for me ambien had no recreational value, unless you think passing out and blacking out is fun?? i don't know just wayyy to sedative especially combined with other drugs... wasted my oxy and blacked out for 4 hours that was fuckingg creeeppy and scary...on the other hand lyrica is generally more mild and produces much more therapeutic psychic and somatic effects
 
laCster said:
for me ambien had no recreational value, unless you think passing out and blacking out is fun?? i don't know just wayyy to sedative especially combined with other drugs... wasted my oxy and blacked out for 4 hours that was fuckingg creeeppy and scary...on the other hand lyrica is generally more mild and produces much more therapeutic psychic and somatic effects
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I think I like ambien b/c I have abused benzos for years. Makes me feel like I should do exactly like my heart desires IE move to Louisiana and hunt gators for a living. I wonder if ambien does this to anyone else?
 
Droppersneck said:
I think I like ambien b/c I have abused benzos for years. Makes me feel like I should do exactly like my heart desires IE move to Louisiana and hunt gators for a living. I wonder if ambien does this to anyone else?
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yes, benzos can be quite fulfilling, they make me feel like im home and comfortable in my skin...but ambien like other benzos disrupt REM sleep patterns especially during the latter stages of sleep when short term memory is converted into long term thats why your memory goes to shit...on the other hand, lyrica does not disrupt REM sleep and i get crazy dreams and an amazing sleep!
 
K'd-OUT-in-AZ said:
Ambien can be enjoyable if you want trip out and enjoy a pretty crazy psychedelic experience. Stay awake on it and some pretty crazy shit can happen. Take too much and you'll black out and kind of forget your trip. Some of the stuff that have happened on Ambien was crazy.
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i feel like I can do all of the dreams I ever had on it. Wierd drug
 
i have tried ambien 5 times...all of which i either blacked out or just straight up passed out...its disappointing i bet its amazing if i can actually stay awake, maybe i took to much and shouldnt mix it with other drugs...if i come across it i would def try it, but its not something i will go out and pursue
 
Well its not a drug I seek out either but if it lands in my hands I'll take it (at night) without thinking. It isn't a good sleep aid for me and I generally have a harder time sleeping because I purposely try to stay awake. I've had some of the craziest experiences on it and done some of the craziest things to, like running naked in the neighborhood and laying down on the floor by the trails and masturbate. It was late, like at 1am so nobody saw me. I remember running back with my dick flopping around in the air
 
clonidine helps me at night when in opiate WD, it rests my legs so i can sleep, benzos help too..either way i cant go cold turkey opiates, i got kicked off suboxone, been in withdrawl over a month, kept relapsing to get better, what a bitch of a drug
 
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