inflagranteineveryway
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I thought I would just throw this out here while I was thinking about it, sitting here at day 6 in the worst self induced opiate withdrawal of my life: I could write a novel about what I've experienced over the last 6 days, and today is really the first day I can even type on a keyboard because of the hellscape it has been, but I thought I would share this one tiny universal tip that I think I credit with keeping me from totally losing it.
Super hot showers, all the time.
This sounds simplistic, and it's certainly nothing compared to the myriad medicinal/nutritional aids that can help, but I just never saw anyone else talk about this incredibly simple thing to do. I originally started just turning around in circles under a scalding hot shower stream because of the horrific skin crawls/restless legs madness that for me are worse than all the physical pain. They lasted almost three days and I wanted to climb up to my roof and throw myself off of it. Flailing around on my bed, unable to sit still for more than 3 seconds, pacing around my house at 3am feeling like I could climb the walls with nothing but my fingers and toes; I kept getting back into the hot shower. I would say I got into the hot shower and just kind of stepped in place or whatever I had to under the hot stream and it........actually helped. In fact, I would drag myself into the shower, unable to just stand still, but found that after just a few minutes I was able to kind of just sort of stand there with my head hung, letting the water pummel my back and neck, and I stopped having to move so much. The fidgits seemed to subside for the remainder of the shower - and for a period of time afterwards.
The obvious other benefits - muscle and pain relief when there is no one to massage you or help in any way, not to mention how underrated cleanliness is during this time are also of benefit. It's the toughest psychological fight of your life, and oftentimes a self done home withdrawal is just a nasty week in hell of stomach ailments, and usually the last thing you can even think of is keeping your room/area clean, as well as yourself. I mean for long periods of it you can barely even walk or move or bend over at times, so I think oftentimes people just allow themselves to let everything go in this department, thinking they'll just clean up when it's over. Again, every psychological trick in the book is handy, and the side benefit of the constant scalding showers is that your body stays pristine throughout and believe it or not, it really helped with the mental torture. I am not talking about dressing well or even attempting to look good or even do a thing to my hair other than let the water go through it. I'm talking simply standing under the water and letting it do the work.
I know this is a very small thing, but I wanted to share it because when you are in an unholy withdrawal you will do literally anything to take even the smallest bit of suffering off of you to soldier on and not quit. I will never forget how helpful this was to me and I wanted to share.
To be clear: I'm not just saying "take a shower". I'm saying I pretty much lived in that thing for 2 straight days as a form of therapy. Every few hours, round the clock. It helped me, maybe it can help you.
Best wishes people.
Super hot showers, all the time.
This sounds simplistic, and it's certainly nothing compared to the myriad medicinal/nutritional aids that can help, but I just never saw anyone else talk about this incredibly simple thing to do. I originally started just turning around in circles under a scalding hot shower stream because of the horrific skin crawls/restless legs madness that for me are worse than all the physical pain. They lasted almost three days and I wanted to climb up to my roof and throw myself off of it. Flailing around on my bed, unable to sit still for more than 3 seconds, pacing around my house at 3am feeling like I could climb the walls with nothing but my fingers and toes; I kept getting back into the hot shower. I would say I got into the hot shower and just kind of stepped in place or whatever I had to under the hot stream and it........actually helped. In fact, I would drag myself into the shower, unable to just stand still, but found that after just a few minutes I was able to kind of just sort of stand there with my head hung, letting the water pummel my back and neck, and I stopped having to move so much. The fidgits seemed to subside for the remainder of the shower - and for a period of time afterwards.
The obvious other benefits - muscle and pain relief when there is no one to massage you or help in any way, not to mention how underrated cleanliness is during this time are also of benefit. It's the toughest psychological fight of your life, and oftentimes a self done home withdrawal is just a nasty week in hell of stomach ailments, and usually the last thing you can even think of is keeping your room/area clean, as well as yourself. I mean for long periods of it you can barely even walk or move or bend over at times, so I think oftentimes people just allow themselves to let everything go in this department, thinking they'll just clean up when it's over. Again, every psychological trick in the book is handy, and the side benefit of the constant scalding showers is that your body stays pristine throughout and believe it or not, it really helped with the mental torture. I am not talking about dressing well or even attempting to look good or even do a thing to my hair other than let the water go through it. I'm talking simply standing under the water and letting it do the work.
I know this is a very small thing, but I wanted to share it because when you are in an unholy withdrawal you will do literally anything to take even the smallest bit of suffering off of you to soldier on and not quit. I will never forget how helpful this was to me and I wanted to share.
To be clear: I'm not just saying "take a shower". I'm saying I pretty much lived in that thing for 2 straight days as a form of therapy. Every few hours, round the clock. It helped me, maybe it can help you.
Best wishes people.
