Recovery Wanting to get off opioids and needles...

[MollyPrimrose]

Guys I really want to get off opioids. I've gone through withdrawal so many times and I keep going back to it like a dimbass. I probably could have taken a sub today after only doing some cotton shots yesterday and waiting like 13 hours. but I'm so scared of precipitated withdrawal, but I also know I'm going to miss that rush
I'm just as addicted to the needle and rush as I am the drug it'sself (have shot just water before to satisfy that urge to shoot). I have a couple questions.
1. How do you guys deal with sweating/freezing during withdrawal. Id love a hot bath but we only have a shower and I like to wrap up in a towel and lay in the shower with hot water running, but then the steam makes it feel like I can't breathe. But standing in the shower is hard because I feel so weak from the withdrawal.

2. Once y'all got clean from iv drugs, how did you get past that mental fixation on seeing the blood register and getting that shot. Idk how to describe it but it's like it's own high.

3. I know this might be a dumb one, but if I usually can wait ,say, 12 hours before taking a sub after my last bag, if I did a cotton shot like 6 hours after my last bag, am I starting that clock over because there's now new opioids molecules in my body? Or just add a couple hours on. I know people say just take it when you feel your worst. But I just don't know how tiny amounts of dope would affect the sub, does it go by like, half life? If I did a bag and the whatever the half life is of all that dope was out of my system for the sub, wouldn't only a little dope be out quicker?

Sorry this was so long I just have questions and instead of digging deep deep into the Internet ( like I did all last night) I just wanna see the answers in one spot. Would help me immensely. Thank you!

 

[Mushoku_Sensei]

Hey.
1. I'm not an expert but where are you from? Rn right here it's spring and finally getting warmer, so I like to sit in the sun and soak up that warmth. Otherwise all I'd want is to stay in bed possibly with a source of heat near. I generally don't like to take shower when I'm weak as it always consumes some energy... I might be extreme with that though
I currently don't feel qualified to talk about the rest

 

[MollyPrimrose]

Pennsylvania USA. It has gotten really warm here

 

[Mushoku_Sensei]

Pennsylvania USA. It has gotten really warm here

Nice, can you enjoy that a little?

 

[LucidSDreamr]

I gave up the needle before I quit abusing opioids. Used IV for 7 years, then quit IV and continued to abuse by other ROAs for another 7 years.

The thing that got me to quit the needles was just reading a ton of stories about blood infections, endocarditis, hep c and HIV.

Read the IV complications in the mega thread below and read on google scholar in medical journals about all the real life examples of horrible deaths died by IV userer…the amputations. Scare your self

Go to a hospital and watch someone dying of endocarditis that will scare you straight really quick. After the second person I knew died from it and I heard how horrible it was for them I was done. My friend that died was a 3rd year medical student and using only pharmaceuticals and still killed himself injecting. There is no such thing as a life long IV user. IV use or complications will most likely be your fate if you continue…it’s just a matter of waiting.

Harm Reduction Thread '⫸INJECTIONS: I.V. FAQs & Info MEGATHREAD⫷'

Apr 1, 2016

⫸INJECTIONS: I.V. FAQs & Info MEGATHREAD 4⫷

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The I.V. Megathread 3 can be found here: https://www.bluelight.org/xf/thread...fo-megathread-faq-iii-vs-i-want-blood.602800/

So we've decided to comprise a thread dedicated to Injecting, more specifically people who have had something go wrong and want some information and ask questions. Also included is some information about the injection process and complications that can arise as well as an array of other information to be added.

Intro to Injecting...

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[Mushoku_Sensei]

Right. I had Hep C myself. It was found years after I first quit. Got the chemo and was treated successfully. But it cost me my hair, my tonsils and definitely some of my life-span. It was also my first big lesson on what it means to be weak... I could collapse just from standing in a warm place, etc...