Opiate Withdrawal Dreams?

Bstr83

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Hello everyone. Not sure this is the right spot for this but it seemed best to me. Anyway...so I'm 10 days into a CT withdrawal from about 250-300 mg oxycodone habit. Certainly hasn't been fun but not as bad as it seems for some people fortunately. Went through most of the usual stuff, but worst was the insomnia for me personally. Went 5 straight days without any sleep. Starting night 7 I've been getting rest each night, about 5-6 hours, which is great! However I am having absolutely horrible and extremely vivid dreams. Like I wake up and for a few minutes think these things actually happened. Has anyone else experienced this? I've never made it this far without using, which I'm very proud of, but these dreams are killing my mental state. Does it settle down? Is my brain just in overdrive from being shut down for so long?

I could smoke some herb and stop dreaming, it has that effect for some reason with me, but I get random DOT 5 panel drug tests for work and that is not an option. Only drug I can get away with is synthetic opiates as the DOT panels don't currently test for these. Cautionary note however this will soon be changing as to comply with US law they will have to add the expanded opiate panel in the near future. I'm digressing but I've passed many a DOT 5 panel as soon as 3 hours after using. They don't test for the synthetics in case you ever wondered but soon will.

Back to the point though, does the dreaming calm down? I'm not worried about it making me go back to using, it's not like that. It's just disturbing, dark really intense dreams that I could do without. Anyone have experience with this and how long this continues? Pretty much everything has subsided at this point beyond occasional sneezing and moodiness, the occasional fever.
 
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First off congratulations on getting past the worst of it, that is a lot more then most can bare. You will be happy to know the dreams most definitely stop and they will decrease in frequency very soon. Dreams are based on previous thoughts and memories, depending on the theory you choose, so if you build a new future of memories you won't default to those old ones so much.

It will get way easier with time in that area. If the dreaming is the biggest worry you have you are on easy street my friend you just have to start doing fun things!
 
Thanks for the reply. It's pretty much exactly as you said. I went through the ringer with some things which is what lead me down the perc path. All the dreams are in some way related to all that mess which is not somewhere I need or want to go. That's what makes it so tough. I'm definitely glad to be sleeping though however disturbing it is. Dusted off the bike yesterday and planning on doing that every day. Sore as a mother f'er but it's nice to actually feel I can say that. Hopefully help along the brain reset too. Tried to quit many many times and know I'm nowhere near past it but I'm 6 days further than ever before so I'm taking that as a positive and one day at a time. Just get through tomorrow I keep telling myself until I'm free of this mess. Good luck to anyone struggling with this nasty beast! Stay positive!
 
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