LotusExige
Bluelighter
- Joined
- Jul 19, 2014
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- 65
First I'm very happy to say that after 5 years of being addicted to opiates, prescribed by my pain management doctor, I am finally free of them. I just completed a 30 day treatment program and as I write this am 33 days sober. The program was amazing and after 13 days of withdrawal hell and years of believing I'd never make it through that I am finally physically back to normal - well mostly. Zero cravings since finishing the detox (cold turkey BTW - refused all meds) and I feel the best I've felt in MANY years.
I have had one very odd lingering issue - night sweats. I've been a total insomniac my whole adult life, if I get 4 hours sleep that's epic for me, usually in 2 2-hour blocks with say 2-3 hours awake in between. What's happening now is about 2 hours after I fall asleep I wake up soaked in sweat. Have to change my clothes, my pillow/pillow case and sometimes the sheets. Many times I'm so cold that I have to shower to bring my temperature back up enough or I just lay there shivering. Again this is POST detox, my sweats during detox weren't all that bad but now that I'm "normal" again they are terrible.
I've made sure the room is a proper temperature. I've tried wearing just a t-shirt/boxers or full PJs. Thin sheet or heavy blanket. So far nothing has changed this. It's pretty miserable and I'm tired of constantly doing laundry!
Anyone else experience this? The only other physical issue I have is I can't stop sneezing but it does seem to be slowing down. 20+ times a day around day 15, 15 around day 25 and about 10 now around day 35.
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I have had one very odd lingering issue - night sweats. I've been a total insomniac my whole adult life, if I get 4 hours sleep that's epic for me, usually in 2 2-hour blocks with say 2-3 hours awake in between. What's happening now is about 2 hours after I fall asleep I wake up soaked in sweat. Have to change my clothes, my pillow/pillow case and sometimes the sheets. Many times I'm so cold that I have to shower to bring my temperature back up enough or I just lay there shivering. Again this is POST detox, my sweats during detox weren't all that bad but now that I'm "normal" again they are terrible.
I've made sure the room is a proper temperature. I've tried wearing just a t-shirt/boxers or full PJs. Thin sheet or heavy blanket. So far nothing has changed this. It's pretty miserable and I'm tired of constantly doing laundry!
Anyone else experience this? The only other physical issue I have is I can't stop sneezing but it does seem to be slowing down. 20+ times a day around day 15, 15 around day 25 and about 10 now around day 35.
-X