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Urgent advice needed!

I just phoned and he was surprisingly ok about it. Maybe he could tell I wasn't faking it. I just wish I could get better NOW. It's not even been 24 hours and this is physically and mentally unbearable now. Will I even feel happiness again at the end of it?
 
I'm gonna see if a doc can come do a house visit tomorrow. Hopefully that way I can get prescribed something to help. Do the benzos/Valium really help?
 
Definitely. They use those to detox people off booze in rehabs too. It will eliminate the danger of seizures, but don't take them for more than 2 weeks I'd say, or you'll get hooked on them. And benzos are a habit I don't wish upon my worst enemy. Same risks as alcohol detox, less intense, but much, much longer lasting. I'm talking months.

All the best, I know what it's like, I'm in the same boat, only it's from a pretty big oxy habit (400mg+/day).

Good luck and hang in there!
 
I may ask my doc for some of those then if this gets much worse. Currently on 36 hours CT. Bad rls last night stopped me from sleeping much. Very anxious and restless in bed now, staring at the clock (it's six am here). Gonna spend the day as I did yesterday, watching Ugly Betty boxsets, which I'm hoping will last me through the whole withdrawal process. In a way, it's a good way of measuring time. I'm nearly at the end of season one, then I have three more to go. Seems kind of fitting with my wd, lol.

Thanks for everyone's encouraging words. I'm determined to beat this!
 
Update...thought I was doing well. Just broke down in tears. This is too much for me to handle. I am ringing my doctor to see if I can be prescribed meds to help. I don't see how others make it through this without anything. Props to those who do but also to those who ask for help.
 
Hey man, hope you're doing OK. This is probably not going to be of much help to you right now, but it might be a good idea to have a general plan in place for a recurrence of the situation you find yourself in with your job. Here in the US there are laws in place to protect the rights of workers. The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)allows for absences due to a serious or chronic illness. This can range from Cancer to depression and situational stress. Your doctor is only required to provide a general diagnosis (i.e. depression, psych) without specific mitigating circumstances (suicide attempt). Is anything like this available to you in the UK? If you're too sick to investigate Employee Rights websites or forums, perhaps your partner could do it for you. Given the similarities between our countries I thought it might be worth bringing up. I can tell you that I would have lost my 20+ year job long, long ago without it.

I know it's not much, but I hope it helps in some small way. Best of luck, just try to hang on and something will shake out. It always does.
 
Ok so I'm back...73.5 hours into withdrawal and I am feeling so much better than I was, physically at least. I still feel quite chilly and the sweats haven't completely gone but they are sooooo much better than they were. The rls is much better too, though is still present enough at night to keep me from getting any real quality sleep. I think I must have slept about 6 hours in total during the whole process so far. Hoping for a better night tonight. Doc won't prescribe me anything and the chemist was useless. They just don't know how to treat withdrawal. So I'm sticking with my kalms and propranolol (which I had anyway for generalised anxiety) for the panic and taking magnesium supplements for the rls, tho dunno if they actually work. At this point I really want sleep - have some night nurse but think that makes the rls worse?

I'm planning on having tomorrow as my last day off sick and then gonna push myself to go in on Thursday. Mostly doing this due to pressure from my boss to return to work, but also I think it might be good for me to get out of this flat. Think I'm going crazy.

Thanks again for all the support and advice, it really helps when you're at your lowest point and you can't see a way out.

I am going to look for a more secure job soon that offers sick pay etc in case this ever happens again. But it shouldn't, because I'm seriously so done.
 
d0wN that's actually an idea and something worth looking into. Thanks dude. I think we must have a similar policy here in the UK, I'll do some digging. Even if I don't end up going through wds again (fingers crossed) I'm sure there will be other situations in my life when I need some respite (especially when living with a fair bit of generalised anxiety anyway) so that's really helpful advice. Thankyou!
 
Glad you're feeling better! GL with your prick of a boss if you're going into work tomorrow. (or today by now) ;)
 
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