Drug-Alchemist
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My wife is addicted to opiates. Last year she already managed to quit for some months, but one day her body just collapsed. (She often looses conciousnes, has severe problems with her memory, feels constantly like throwing up etc.) She's been to all kinds of tests since that but the reason is still unclear. The tests continue but the public health care is slow. She's okayish (a.k.a. can walk to another room) when on opiates, so she has medicated herself since. Now she's waiting for methadone treatment, but it'll take a while before it begins. Several doctors have adviced her not try to quit opiates in her present health.
She has medication for problems with bloodflow and to be able to breathe (+ several other things that are unrelated to this post). A doctor said 1,5 years ago about her breathing difficulties that the human body can't cope with the doses she needs to stay healthy or with the withdrawals she has and suggested that she'll die very soon if she does not quit. These problems are all back now.
What I want to ask about is that she also has cardiac pains, which are accompanied by another type of breathing problems (feeling like her chest would be crushed inwards) and pain in her left hand. We've previously thought the pain in her hand to be due to damage caused to the veins. She's had pain because of also that in the past. Recently a friend who is medical student informed us of the possibility that the pain in the left hand could be indication of some kind of heart condition and might be linked to the aforementioned cardiac pains.
Her heart pain is worse than ever now at the moment. All she's had today is codein + benzos which is as good as nothing in her situation.
Has anyone of you encountered similar heart-related problems which are connected to opiate withdrawals? Any advice?
She has medication for problems with bloodflow and to be able to breathe (+ several other things that are unrelated to this post). A doctor said 1,5 years ago about her breathing difficulties that the human body can't cope with the doses she needs to stay healthy or with the withdrawals she has and suggested that she'll die very soon if she does not quit. These problems are all back now.
What I want to ask about is that she also has cardiac pains, which are accompanied by another type of breathing problems (feeling like her chest would be crushed inwards) and pain in her left hand. We've previously thought the pain in her hand to be due to damage caused to the veins. She's had pain because of also that in the past. Recently a friend who is medical student informed us of the possibility that the pain in the left hand could be indication of some kind of heart condition and might be linked to the aforementioned cardiac pains.
Her heart pain is worse than ever now at the moment. All she's had today is codein + benzos which is as good as nothing in her situation.
Has anyone of you encountered similar heart-related problems which are connected to opiate withdrawals? Any advice?