Opioids Really weird withdrawal symptoms

[Rio Fantastic]

Hello,

So, next week it is looking very likely that I will be involuntarily withdrawing from opiates. As this will be my eleventh time withdrawing, I have a good idea of what to expect and am totally dreading it. I have a pretty big habit now, I do about four points of heroin a day and have been augmenting this recently with methadone, dilaudid and oxycodoone when I can get it. None of the other addicts I know get some of the symptoms I get though, so I'm wondering if anyone here has had them, and if so how to alleviate them. My first unique symptom is that I throw up a lot. Basically from the end of the first day of withdrawal until I'm totally in the clear I can't eat a thing lest very shortly after I'm locked in the bathroom for up to an hour puking up whatever I ate and then dry heaving for a long time after that, and it's one of my worst symptoms.

Secondly, and not a single person I've asked shares this, from day two to day four or five I start to hiccup none stop. It might sound like a minor irritation compared to the other symptoms, but it gets really aggravating and painful, especially when the restless legs and the general horribleness briefly cessates and I feel like I might be able to grab a precious hour or so of sleep and then I violently hiccup and it jars me awake. It really pisses me off and has happened every single time I detox, like clockwork by hour 36 of detoxing I'm hiccuping like a madman. It would be a relief just to find out I'm not alone with this symptom and if anyone has any ideas for a cure I would really apprecaite it, it would make withdrawing just that little bit easier.

Third, you know those jerks you get sometimes when you're falling asleep and you violently snap out of it, almost feeling like you're falling? Well, I get those all the time, even when awake. I'd estimate this happens about once an hour while I'm withdrawing, sometimes more regularly, but these nyclonic jerks have accompanied my withdrawal every single time along with all the rest of it.

Fourth, I can't wear clothes during withdrawal. This sounds ridiculous, but it's as if I become allergic to all fabrics or some shit. All of my clothes feel like sandpaper against my skin, and the horrible scratchy, clingy, rough feeling gets unbearable by the second day of withdrawal. Every type of clothing against my skin feels horrible and this has made withdrawal even worse when circumstances force me to wear clothes. It also fucking sucks when the cold chills come, because it's a choice between feeling like I'm freezing to death or like I'm wrapping myself in broken glass.

If anyone else has these symptoms or even better knows how to alleviate them i would much appreciate it!!!

 

[The Doc.]

Those are pretty typical symptoms of withdrawal actually I get the whole can't stand fabrics on the skin and the puking well everyone gets that I always thought or at least everyone I've met gets nausea from withdrawal and can't eat anything till they get well. The hiqups well that's nothing I've heard of but yawning is one that I get always.
I know the jerks too that can happen with withdrawal that's all normal except for hiqups.

I hear gabapentin and/or lyrica works good for the legs but with those sudden jerks that are almost like DTs from alcohol I don't think it can really fully stop it. They still happen even when sedated with alcoholics they need to be paralysed to stop the jerking motions. But I'm sure opiates wouldn't be quite as bad but still its not pleasant.
As for nausea I've just used gravol and ginger ale you would have to ask your doctor for something stronger by prescription.
Clonadine helps withdrawal a lot and benzos can help calm you so you don't crawl out of your skin ( or clothes )
Trazadone is good for sleep and not habit forming like other sleep aids they give it out in detox where I live.

 

[eeevilgenius13]

I know....EXACTLY...what you're talking about. I LOATHE the feeling of clothes touching me during these times. I am a recovering heroin addict who first spent 2 years in pain mgmt. on huge amounts of oxy (rocknroll doc), then graduated to IV heroin use, then methadone for two years, then heroin again, and finally I've been on 16 mg bupe for almost a year now. I haven't touched an illicit drug for this entire year, and I've taken my subs as prescribed, but backlash from an old legal issue has forced me to taper off them. Only, in typical addict fashion, instead of tapering my last scrip as directed, I took them all as I normally would and just took the plunge when they were gone. I'm on day #6 of W/Ds now, and it. SUCKS. I'm coping however I can... I find that high-dose lopermide really helps, and I've ordered some (indo) kratom to see how that treats me, as well. Anyway, point being, I hate every piece of clothing I own, as it all feels like those pink rolls of fiberglass insulation that you'll see in attics sometimes when it touches my skin. Also, the constant yawning causes constant gagging, etc, and MY own personal weird symptom of W/D that no one understands: The horrible, godawful way that my legs streettttccchhh involuntarily like slinkies every time I stand up, causing an icky head-rush and a massive increase in heart rate/bp as well as attacks of tremors and more yawns/eyes pouring water. Dude, I just cannot DEAL with that crap. ANyhow, it's nice to look around here on bluelight and remember that I am far from the only one that is suffering. Sorry this post is so long, but once I get starting on bitching about it all, it just runs away with me sometimes. How badly I'd love to just have a normal brain again...