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Sick on top of opiate withdrawals.

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Bman2

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So I'm day 8 clean off sub and today a pretty bad cold entered the picture. The withdrawals I'm experiencing now are 3x worse than the day before. It's like this cold has completely weakened my body and now the withdrawals are just kicking my ass. Anyone have any advice what I can take? I just added some dimetapp into my list of meds to help combat this cold(will probably try Nyquil tonight), and it seems to be helping slightly but my body is just so weak right now.

edit- oh ya the total list of meds im taking now: 20-30mg lope, vitamin b, motrin, dimetapp, a little weed, and nyquil at night.
 
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gabapentin will help the withdrawals tremendously if you can get a scrip, should be easy it's non narcotic. As far as the cold, Hot tea, hot showers/baths(these help withdrawal too), and healthy food. Basically no different then getting a cold normally, not much you can do but ride it out. :/

Good luck!
 
Yea that's what I'm going to do. Ride it out. I'd almost rather die than relapse so whatever happens, I will just deal with it. My hope and prayer is that by the time this cold fades, the withdrawals will start fading too and I should feel WAY better. Or at least I hope I'm not in for too much more of this. I wanted to stop the lope today because I've been on for a little over a week and I'm probably flirting with another dependency. BUT i honestly just couldn't take it. I took 30mg lope a couple hrs ago and normally that will knock out ATLEAST half the withdrawal, but now it's not doing shit ;(
 
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Hang in there your doing great=D.. she may ramp up for the nest week or so but you can do this.. nothing back there for you anyways.. just kkep plugging and you will find your way out.. remember it gets better and you have to pay the piper sometime so since you made it this far keep going.. I would really reacomend going to the doctor as you still have a bit to go and getting some of these medications will help you greatly..

The medications I would explore the use of for detox would be:
>Clonidine< DOSED EVER FOUR HOURS..

one of either
>NEURONTIN< >HERE< >HERE<
OR >Lyrica<
OR >phenibut<

>A BENZO BUT JUST AT NIGHT<
>a nsaid<
>melatonin<
tylenol

You can do this B2<3 fight fight fight:!
 
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Yeah I had clonodine the first 5 days, which helped greatly. But I honestly don't want to go to my doctor over this if possible. My addiction isn't really out in the open, crazy I know considering how long I've used and everything. Last time I went to doc with a cold he prescribed me a bottle of hydro syrup. I don't even want to risk giving in to that. I don't know how I would get a lot of these scripts without the doctor knowing what's really going on. Also money is kind of an issue.
 
Thanks for the offer man I really appreciate it, but I will go check into that tomorrow myself. I should be ok taking that with the other meds on the list? I haven't taken the nyquil yet, my head is so spinny already and I know that will just make me go crazy if it doesn't put me to sleep. Think I should just take it? I know I need something to wipe out the cold so it's either that or Dimetapp. Nyquil seems better tho, looks like it has DXM which I kinda hate but I hear it helps?

edit- Man, just thinking how much easier this would be without the cold, I was doing OK. Well, when it rains it pours I guess.
 
Oh yea, this is like attempt 3 to get off sub. I had gotten off shorter acting opiates in the past but this shit is nutso.
 
Yeah it is.. your doing great.. your about halfway.. keep it up your amazing. what is the reason you want to keep you addiction a secret from your doctor.. just so you can get more opiates in the future and end up right back in hell.. just something to think about.. I kicked methadone at a huge dose so I have been where you are and my heart and suport go out to you. I would recommend that you start doing things.. this shit last so long that if you sit around a think about how rough you feel its miserable.. just get up and get out and keep doing shit.. I never sat around even one day when I detoxed.. football games, water parks, museums, baseball games.. I just said fuck it I feel so damn wretched that I wont feel any worse.. and i didn't I actually felt a little better and I only thought about how awful I felt every twenty seconds as opposed to every second.. you can and are doing this and thats amazing in its self.. fight fight fight.. you got this<3

"this shit is nutso." this made me smile cause I know as it is and i have been in the thick of that shit.. your doing great keep it up!!
 
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