Opiate withdrawal

[ladycodeine]

I am usually careful and space dosing so that I am not constantly on any of my pills but for several weeks Iv been abusing tramadol and withdrawal from that is worse in my experience than codeine withdrawal so I swapped tramadol for codeine and when I stop taking it my mood is low, I get random pains which are bad, especially in the areas where I had surgery a year ago and I just feel like crap

I stopped taking pain meds for pain a long time ago but occasionally I use them for the pain I am in.

mentally I am going through a bad patch where I struggle to even leave bed without being on pain meds because O just feel like be alive is a chore

iv if got stuff piled up in the way of chores, I hardly look after myself or eat when I am high I feel stable and alive
i read some people on review sites, they lived on tramadol for years and part of me wishes I could live on it just to keep ticking over.

my life felt like it ended several years ago when I was literally tortured both mentally and physically by a group of individuals and It left me with PTSD, nightmares and severely depressed to the point that I am not as out going as I once was, I hardly leave the house other than to see a therapist.

its not that I am lazy I find it hard to face things, even getting up to go out feels like someone's asking me to do a hard task that most people would find easy.

when I am high it all goes away, I just pop two little pills, lay down with head phones on, a hour later I am good to go and that's fine. Weed used to help me cope with life but I can't get weed so I turned to pain meds

 

[Opiatehell85]

Hey,

im in the same situation as you but with codeine prosphate, and I'm on much higher doses, wish mine would go away with two pills.

Whatever mg you're taking withdrawal from codeine is hard, tramadol is harder. I'm going to hell and back at the moment with this evil little drug.
Opiates to have a tendency to make u not wanna do stuff, especially when withdrawing from them.

Ive been to a rehab clinic today who want to put me on methadone for a codeine addiction. How ridiculous, but how serious it's also become for me. Please be careful sweetie, don't end up like me

xoxo

 

[ladycodeine]

Hey,

im in the same situation as you but with codeine prosphate, and I'm on much higher doses, wish mine would go away with two pills.

Whatever mg you're taking withdrawal from codeine is hard, tramadol is harder. I'm going to hell and back at the moment with this evil little drug.
Opiates to have a tendency to make u not wanna do stuff, especially when withdrawing from them.

Ive been to a rehab clinic today who want to put me on methadone for a codeine addiction. How ridiculous, but how serious it's also become for me. Please be careful sweetie, don't end up like me

xoxo

When I had surgery I was on Tramadol non stop for a month and then I stopped without knowing what withdrawal was or even that tramadol was an issue and It was a difficult time, after that I switched to codeine and would chop and change from Tramadol to OTC codeine and back again, so I understand where your coming from about withdrawal.

i swore I wouldn't allow myself to go through any type of withdrawal again but yesterday I used codeine just to stop the phantom pains and I ended up on double my usual dose

today I suffering but since Iv not taken pills in almost 24 hours I might just down a few alcoholic beverages to at least put a smile on my face while I stay off of pain meds for a few days.

part of me wants to take more and live on tramadol for a while because I was told today that I will need further surgery in 3 months time, the surgeon is aware of my pain med usage which I get scripts for.

my issue is that my mood is low much of the time, I see a therapist but it's not helping that much and when I am on tramadol I hardly have any low moods.

 

[The Shadow Self]

The problem is that because of the receptors that opiates/opioids act on in the brain tend to keep depression at bay, and when you remove them, depression sets in and it sucks. Hard. I think that many people who succumb to opiate addiction are actually self-medicating an underlying depression, and so for those unlucky enough to be prone to depression, removing opiates exacerbates the problem wildly. I have a friend, who is a well-known author and who suffers from life-long depression, anxiety, and bi-polar disorder. He's tried everything under the sun in terms of treating the depression, and he has told me for years that opiates and only opiates actually lift the veil of depression for him, and going off of them makes him more suicidal than he is at baseline. But yes...opiates kill pain, and when they begin to be ineffective at killing physical pain, they continue to suppress psychological pain, hence the ease with which many people become dependent upon them. It's a rough road, that of opiate addiction. Been there, done that, more than once, in fact.

 

[ashking85]

withdrawals..

I am trying like hell to get thru day 3 off heroin wd.... it is maddening the legs shaking the cold sweats the lethargy ugh... I've been doing a gram a day IV for about 2 years and 30 mg oxys before that.. tried methadone and suboxone but I always go back to dope.. anyways The physical pain Is 1 thing but it's the mental pain.all the emotions come back and I have no energy whatsoever I can't even stand for 15 seconds before I am exhausted.. god I wish I never touched this.all started with a 5 mg percocet. 15 yrs later I'm 30 and have 2 kids I love dearly but my addiction has me in a chokehold.
All I can say is one day -hell -one minute at a time... you only have to go through the withdrawal one time...just keep on going. .. it's your life and opiates Have stolen it from you. US.... I don't even know who I am anymore I'm so used to living on drugs. I don't know how to live sober but I'm trying like crazy to be strong. Your not alone in this. So I'm going to take a suboxone they put me in precipitated withdrawals before but I managed 3 days now so it will help me get food in me and That should help my energy...idk lying in bed days on end going crazy is not good for you so I don't wanna take a suboxone but it's going to help me function. That and a xanax when it gets unbarable... and antidepressants too.. good luck