Misc What is the most times you subjected yourself to drug withdrawal?

[JessFR]

To clarify I mean withdrawals to the point of successful remission... meaning 7-10 + days for heroin, 14-21+ days for suboxone, 10+ days for alcohol and 7-60 days for benzos depending on length of half life..

And I believe phenibut withdrawal lasts around 7-14 days. \

So basically I mean successfully returning to normal from drug usage.

OK then by that definition I selected 1-2.

God knows how much cumulative time I've spent in withdrawal, but full start to natural completion? Its only happened once, and not by choice.

Every time I've been in withdrawal 100% of my energy has been spent on getting well again. Pretty much always successfully sooner or later.

 

[Mntngrace]

Ive only been through complete withdrawal once. That's without any meds other than anti-nausea pills. That was from easily, a gram a day habit IV. It was fricken MISERABLE. I stayed clean 19months after that tho.

 

[TheInvisibleStoner]

Every withdrawal sucks. Have made it through acute heroin, methadone, and xanax quite a few times. It is post withdrawal that gets you.

The worst withdrawal ever I felt was methadone, heroin, benzo, alcohol, nicotine, weed. In cook county. Got a dope case early in the morning on the way to the clinic. Got an ibond, but was literally 3 days with not a single drug. It was hell. I had almost no sense of reality. I was trying my hardest to keep it together since getting medical would only slow down the process. Got out and went right to the spot, IV'd even though I normally didn't and felt so much better. Then made it home and took some bars, drank, smoked and was basically normal again. The good thing that came out of that is I had to restart again at 30mg at the clinic and just stayed there. Was an 80mg to 30mg reduction. I never went up high again in my dose.

 

[pally pete]

I've lost count.

And

I am not talking about Mini shakes and sweats about a full blown withdrawal like near death bed ridden?

i believe this is my Second suboxone withdrawal. I’ve been through around 4 heroin withdrawals and one phenibut withdrawal.

someone please tell me they have suffered worse pains than I have

I spent my entire 30's in and out of withdrawal. At my worst I was taking 400 mg per day of Oxy as well as 20 - 40 mg of Xanax. Or I'd leave the Opiates out and just takes hundreds of Xanax alone. I cold turkey'd countless times like a complete f****ing idiot! (Don't try it anybody) I ended up with Psychosis/Delerium/Catatonia

Anyways, to my knowledge, you can't really measure another persons suffering even if you have both been through the same experience... So to some people using way lower doses it could feel to them as if they're suffering worse due to different physiology, and of course.. previous exposure to pain/suffering.

I used to go on BenzoBuddies site and think they were all lightweights/hypochondriacs for talking about 'jumping' off 0.2 mg Diazepam and it being hell! ... So, just goes to show how we differ.

 

[Anonymous Dissident]

Once going cold turkey from a multi-gram a day cocaine habit after which I told myself I would never become physically dependent upon another non-prescription compound again. That was about 15 years ago.

Unfortunately, after over a decade of kratom use without any addiction, I managed to get myself seriously addicted to kratom. I'm about two months into my taper, and am down from ridiculously high, 70g+/day doses to 27g/day and probably still have months of painfully slow tapering left. I dont know if you consider a slow taper with some comfort meds to be a "withdrawal" in the context of this poll, but going cold turkey off of cocaine was nothing by comparison...

 

[MDPV_Psychosis]

Ive followed through with full withdrawals to completion twice now.

First was after several years of constant addiction while working my way up the ladder a bit: tramadol, codeine, morphine then poppy pods. That wd was awful, I'm still amazed I stuck with it. Not my first wd but the first one I followed through to soberity.

Second time I had used oxy for awhile, then switched to suboxone. Stayed on the suboxone for a couple years while slowly tapering off. Finally jumped from a tiny dose and the wd wasn't bad but it lingered for weeks.

One of these days I'll get through #3. Haven't felt ready yet.

 

[evo4ever]

I've only ever been through extremely bad benzo WDs once 4 years ago, I was taking 8mg of Alprazolam a day and I was forced to stop cold turkey I probably had a few "near death experiences" going through that! After 7 days I was fine and I've never looked back! As for Opioids I've only ever gone through full blown Oxy WD once or twice over the many years of taking them but I always find a way to stop the WDs.

 

[Dick&Warty]

Heroin withdrawal that really fucked me/had me totally bedridden maybe 5 times? Benzo withdrawal a couple of times, I've had 3 seizures...

Fuck benzos.

 

[fightingthetoot]

Av had small rattles from benzos & heroin loads of times, why I have ended up on methadone and carry on with my street benzo use isn't at habit stage, had a shitty few earlier with a half g of heroin smoked, smoking weed now I should sleep ok tonight

 

[Pickledlemons]

Even though I've been addicted to opioids for around 5 years now (currently on sub) I've only ever been in withdrawal a handfull of times. My doctor will usually re-write my prescription if I lose it and I always have backup drugs on hand incase emergencies happen. Xanax, ativan, phenibut, kratom, tramadol, tapentadol, immodium, gabapentin and others. But I have been through precipitated withdrawal and let me tell you... that was the single most frightening experience of my life. I didn't think it was possible to be that sick. I was hallucinating, I was convulsing, sweating a river, shitting my pants, unable to talk coherently or use my phone or even get to the bathroom. It was brutal. wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

 

[Kara Kava]

10-15 that i could remember. The majority was drying up from booze/benzos in jail. The rest pills a few times a year for 3 years methadone twice

The worse by far was in jail

 

[Juniper Bruhmomentius]

Maybe 20-25 times with pregabalin/benzos. Way too many times anyways. Luckily only need my current doc every other/third day so currently on the better side of things.

 

[mokele]

Wish I could say the same.

I wonder why some people wind up doing such horrible things to themselves and others while others don't?

Differences in addiction severity? Will power? Psychology? Social influence or other experiences? All of the above?

Dont beat yourself up cause of that!
You harmed noone and you needed that money!! Relieving hash dealers of their dope and money ( cause they dont tend to fight back or hunt you with a gang) at gunpoint to buy gear on a nearly daily routine- that is fu...d up, i'd even say you did what you had to do while keeping your dignity. Some people just cant beg for money....up to a certain point i guess. I hope you never got caught or managed to leg it! Would love to know what you were after/ what sold the best.
For a while ( maybe still? I dont hang out with such people anymore) expensive booze ( JD etc) to taxi drivers was a good income.

 

[GetMeOutOfThisCRAP]

Oxy withdrawal a couple of times gone cold turkey really wasn't too bad. Of course this is relative but even from 120 milligrams kratom helped greatly and made it liveable until it passed.

But my god...fent withdrawal has supernatural depression that makes every second of being alive intolerable. I couldn't even fake through it. Just stopped responding to any texts for two weeks over the obscene depression and could not get out of bed or know what to do with myself. Although i suppose we cause withdrawals to ourselves. It still doesn't mean anyone deserves to feel like that lol.

 

[Joey]

I"ve been in severe alcohol withdrawal many, many times. Ive been in opiate withdrawal a fair few times as well. Meth a lot too but it doesn't seem to be a part of the poll or subject not being as sickening or dangerous.