dabeachbum17
Greenlighter
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- Nov 14, 2014
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Okay so I've been taking opiates for about 10 years now. I've always been able to have a good handle on it taking it recreationally for a weekend and then going weeks or months without taking any. About 4 years ago my wife passed away and I got into them real hard for about 6 months. After that I stopped cold turkey and went through some serious withdrawal. about a year after that I started taking them recreationally again continuing my same habits of taking some for only a day or two and then going weeks or months without taking any. But without realizing the last 6 months or so I guess I've been taking them pretty continuously maybe only having a day or two in between. So I know that my withdrawals are going to be pretty gnarly again. I haven't taken any actual pills like Norco or percs for about 8 days now. But I have been taking some Tramadol to try and taper off and make it as easy as possible. The last three days I've been on a very small dose of half a Tramadol each day bumped my withdrawal symptoms are here already. I've got the cold sweats, chills, diarrhea, no sleep. I have some Gabapentin cuz I heard it helps with some of the symptoms but I took 1 800 mg last night before I went to sleep and I was able to sleep about 5 hours but I woke up feeling like absolute shit and it feels like depression parts are kicking in. I've been pretty upbeat about it lately thinking about how I will be nice to get away from all of it but today has been pretty tough for me. What are some things that I can do to help me get through this and will they Gabapentin help me? Since I've already been through and I know what the pains are it just really scares me to know what's coming up. I know the only last for a few days of the physical symptoms and since I've already been going through them and my almost out of the clear or because I've been taking a half a Tramadol and today I took my last half am I expecting to have even more days of physical pain?