Hey everybody. I joined this forum to post about by to year addiction to Loperamide and my attempts to quit.
About 4 years ago I began taking Oxycodone on large doses and eventually with the addition of smoking 100mcg Fentanyl Patches almost daily. Sometimes I would smoke heroin as well if I had a hard time fueling my addiction.
After 2 years of this my wife became pregnant and I knew it was time to quit. After months of trying cold turkey, I tried suboxone I bought from a guy and it helped enough I could work, but that ran out and back came the withdrawals
I should mention I think I may have permanently damaged my nervous system. Everything I quit even After month I was still had horrible depression,inability to sleep more than a couple hours... and unable to work because the constant shifting around due to aches and pains and tiredness.
Soooo... at this point I read about loperamide. And that's when the rabbit hole began. I found if I took 30- 60 pills the withdrawal was mostly gone and I could work, laugh, and live my life again. I should note that there was no Euphoria, just the pleasure of not feeling like I was dying anymore.
So that has gone on for two years (about 90 pills a day) and now I'm sick of it. In fact I recently began feeling sickly and close to nausea all the time. Bowl blockage was never really an issue.
So now I'm 5 days clean and taking some gabapentin and 2 1mg xanax a day (10 left). I've been so tempted to pop 40 or so lopes and stop the terrible back aches, but I need to do this.
Just thought I would share my story and hope for support and let everyone know that Loperamide can work as an Opiate... but the addiction and withdrawel are just as bad or worse. I'll let yall know how it goes.
About 4 years ago I began taking Oxycodone on large doses and eventually with the addition of smoking 100mcg Fentanyl Patches almost daily. Sometimes I would smoke heroin as well if I had a hard time fueling my addiction.
After 2 years of this my wife became pregnant and I knew it was time to quit. After months of trying cold turkey, I tried suboxone I bought from a guy and it helped enough I could work, but that ran out and back came the withdrawals
I should mention I think I may have permanently damaged my nervous system. Everything I quit even After month I was still had horrible depression,inability to sleep more than a couple hours... and unable to work because the constant shifting around due to aches and pains and tiredness.
Soooo... at this point I read about loperamide. And that's when the rabbit hole began. I found if I took 30- 60 pills the withdrawal was mostly gone and I could work, laugh, and live my life again. I should note that there was no Euphoria, just the pleasure of not feeling like I was dying anymore.
So that has gone on for two years (about 90 pills a day) and now I'm sick of it. In fact I recently began feeling sickly and close to nausea all the time. Bowl blockage was never really an issue.
So now I'm 5 days clean and taking some gabapentin and 2 1mg xanax a day (10 left). I've been so tempted to pop 40 or so lopes and stop the terrible back aches, but I need to do this.
Just thought I would share my story and hope for support and let everyone know that Loperamide can work as an Opiate... but the addiction and withdrawel are just as bad or worse. I'll let yall know how it goes.
