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What is the worst drug to have withdrawals from?

What is the worst drug to have withdrawals from?

  • Heroin

    Votes: 100 13.4%
  • Methadone

    Votes: 99 13.3%
  • Oxymorphone

    Votes: 27 3.6%
  • Tramadol

    Votes: 22 2.9%
  • Benzodiazepines

    Votes: 292 39.1%
  • GHB/GBL

    Votes: 20 2.7%
  • Alcohol

    Votes: 47 6.3%
  • Meth/Amphetamines

    Votes: 39 5.2%
  • Cocaine/Crack

    Votes: 13 1.7%
  • Ketamine

    Votes: 1 0.1%
  • SSRI/SNRI/MAOI/TCA/TeCA antidepressants

    Votes: 21 2.8%
  • Other Opiates/Opioids

    Votes: 65 8.7%

  • Total voters
    746
feels like i have to stretch them all the time like i need to get the muscles tight or something.

That is the absolute worst. I get such intense restless leg syndrome at night, especially 40 hours after my last dose. I simply CANNOT lay in bed without moving my legs due to the weird pain right in the joint reasosn and the only thing that relieves it is walking, so im pacing back in forth like a caged lion in my room. Smoking helps a lot to pass the time because it just draaags. if you get really stoned you might catch an hour or two of sleep, waking up shocked that u slept by how ansy my legs are. it is the most frustrating thing in the world, knowing a quick shot would help this, however you KNOW that your gonna be going through the saaaame thing in a day or two when you cant find. For me, if my last dose was on a Monday at 4 pm, I wont be horribly sick till Wednesday morning / Tuesday night. Once you get through that second night of torture, think about getting a sub. Once you get one and you dissolve it, you feel so wonderful and relieved that you are not forced circle the bedroom literally 1000 times and you can lay down and smoke and catch some Z's. oh man if you can get thru cold turkey bravo! and never do it again, im telling you know, once ur sick it IS NOT WORTTH IT. unless mental and physical torture is your thing.
 
fentanyl for the most acute.

morphine for the nice, drawn out 2 weeks of hell before theres any resemblance of normality (after a few months solid use). closely followed by/tied with tramadol (years of use of both)

been through the rattling of codeine, tramadol, low dose bupe, fentanyl, morphine and oxy - all after long term usage. i may be missing one, i think.
 
Hands down methadone! It's the severity mixed with the length. Just imagine going through wd for months and months. It was the worst! Stay away from this if you can at all cost!
 
The amount of meds they give for alcohol addiction is very little I've gone thru withdrawal at a hospital numerous times, and it didn't stop DTs at all. I've also withdrew at home without meds and the difference was negligible. DTs aren't tremors or shaking, it's something much worse. All withdrawals are nightmares. To try to compare them is just some sort of pissing contest.
 
Benzo detox feels like every one of your nerves is firing off non-stop. The world over-stimulates you to the point where even silence is insufferably loud. Opiate withdrawal feels like a terrible deathly flu. I can't say I would want either but IME benzo withdrawal and particularly xanax withdrawal is the worst. I hate to say it because xanax was the only med that worked for a while when I was going through a rough patch and I feel the stigma it gets is largely undeserved. There are a lot of normal people who take xanax for normal reasons and somewhere a long the way the medical community has lost sight of all that.
 
Bupe for me. I have quit morphine cold turkey....that was pretty bad. Two weeks is a great estimate of the physical points of painful light radiating from your constantly tensing muscles. After that the complete despair and anxiety lessens after a month.

I have only ever made it to day eight of bupe. It is not intensely physical, but the horrible despair, anxiety and loneliness makes me always go back and stabalize on it again.

Prozac sucked, but it was all mental.
 
I voted methadone. Granted I haen't had much experience( if any at all) in the department of amphetamine withdrawal but in my experience kicking on done was by far the worst case of dopesickness ive ever experienced. Totally unable to sit still, kratom did nothing to help, horrific diarrhea, dry intense painful coughing, every inch of my body in overwhelming pain including in places like my finger tips but mostly in the kidneys back and of course legs, mind blowing panic, suicidal ideation, yawning, sneezing, crying, too sick to sit up in bed, too sick to lay still, unable to stand, unable to walk, heavy breathing. Truly fucking horrendous. Would only wish it on a couple people one of which cuts her ketamine with glass and sells it to kids.
 
I voted methadone. Granted I haen't had much experience( if any at all) in the department of amphetamine withdrawal but in my experience kicking on done was by far the worst case of dopesickness ive ever experienced. Totally unable to sit still, kratom did nothing to help, horrific diarrhea, dry intense painful coughing, every inch of my body in overwhelming pain including in places like my finger tips but mostly in the kidneys back and of course legs, mind blowing panic, suicidal ideation, yawning, sneezing, crying, too sick to sit up in bed, too sick to lay still, unable to stand, unable to walk, heavy breathing. Truly fucking horrendous. Would only wish it on a couple people one of which cuts her ketamine with glass and sells it to kids.

That sounds just about like my last oxy withdrawal. + puking. lots of puking.
 
That sounds just about like my last oxy withdrawal. + puking. lots of puking.
I never puke, it's always the other end. Anyways... my experiences quitting various substances cold turkey:

Methadone #1: You Cold Turkey this shit and you are in for a hell-storm. Undeniable and chronic muscle spasms, diarrhea, beyond excessive sweating, extreme dysphoria, extreme insomnia, extreme fatigue, your entire skin feels like the tip of a penis scraping against sand-paper (supposing you aren't into that), the list goes on. I even feinted twice. The WD is bad enough; it has one of the longest half-lives in the opiate world. Plus when WDing from 'done, as I did, most people are going cold turkey after potentially multi-year daily consumption. There is no "out of stock" at the MMT clinics.

Oxycodone #2: After a 160mg a day OxyContin habit of two years quitting cold turkey obviously included the usual: diarrhea, excessive sweating, insomnia, fatigue, anxiety, loss of appetite... but most of all I remember the pain. It felt as if the very marrow of my bones had been replaced with broken glass. This one physically hurt the worst. But due to the duration being half that of Methadone I have to rank it mi número dos.

Heroin #3: Quitting heroin after two years, my daily consumption and ROA being: 1 gram if IV'd (the town I was living in coupled with no car and a shared apartment with my father made it tough to get a steady supply of clean/new syringes); 2 grams if smoked. I should note this was BTH--many more psychoactive alkaloids, however consistently lower in potency than ECP or CW. My muscles weren't twitching like they did from 'done WD, but there was a distinct fogginess of head coupled with the usual anxiety, depression, flu symptoms, insomnia, RLS, displeasure at any tactile function... Obviously it fucking sucks. But because it didn't last as long as the 'done WD, didn't hurt as bad as the OC WD, I rank H 3rd.

Opiate WDs comprise the absolute worst experiences of my life. What I'm real scared of are combined Opiate/Benzo WDs. I won't lie to you all and myself, I'm a complete benzo addict. Yet even at high doses: 6-8mg clonazepam daily for weeks on end, abrupt cessation hasn't caused me quite the level of grief as Opiate WD. Possibly because I generally have opiates + cannabis when WDing from benzos. I don't know.

Benzo WDs seem to be very similar to Opiate WDs: less pain, but more anxiety and insomnia obviously... the panic attacks are hell... and the risk of seizures (luckily I've only had a minor one once from benzo WD)... plus the actual threat of death to an otherwise healthy body... I'm scared. Maybe Benzo WD is the worst and I just haven't felt it's full effects yet.

Stimulant WD: Walk in the park. Less energy, increased appetite, foggy mind. That's literally it. And that was after 9 straight months of daily crystal meth usage. I have heard of people experiencing nasty brain zaps and headaches, but I dunno. Always been easy for me, let me say though I recognize we all have different brain chemistry.

GHB: After two straight weeks of a GHB binge (plus Bupe, Kpins, Meth, Cannabis) abrupt cessation of the GHB brought on intense cravings and what most probably was a small seizure. I already carry enough proverbial monkey's on my back, the experience was enough to motivate me to back off for a while.

Cigarettes WDs: Not bad as long as you don't get angry or anxious. Or Drunk.

Marijuana WDs: Bullshit. Smoked a quantity of quality herbs daily for over 6 years. Many abrupt cessations, of varying duration (some lasting as long as a year) have never aroused any problems for me other than decreased appetite and boredom--which shouldn't be confused with absolute dysphoria/hopelessness. Stop complaining. If you think this drug is addicting you could get addicted to moth balls.
 
Alcohol has got to be the winner man. Towards the later stages of my addiction to the bottle i had to drink to pretty much do anything eat,sleep,im talking anything. I would get the shakes really bad after just a few hours of not drinking. Went to bed one night pretty loaded and feeling alright, woke up the next morning shaking and sweating, 5 min after waking up i was on the floor, i had 2 seizures at my house and another one while i was in the ER. Got put in the ICU for 7 days of what i can only call the most fucked up, insane experience of my life. Even with massive doses of ativan, librium, and valium i still was seeing shit, hearing shit, thinking people were out to 'get me'. I got so out of control i had to be strapped down the the bed for the rest of my ICU stay. I've wd off of alot of opiates before, nothing could compare to the total mindfuck alcohol wd and dt gave me.
 
I never puke, it's always the other end. Anyways... my experiences quitting various substances cold turkey:

Methadone #1: You Cold Turkey this shit and you are in for a hell-storm. Undeniable and chronic muscle spasms, diarrhea, beyond excessive sweating, extreme dysphoria, extreme insomnia, extreme fatigue, your entire skin feels like the tip of a penis scraping against sand-paper (supposing you aren't into that), the list goes on. I even feinted twice. The WD is bad enough; it has one of the longest half-lives in the opiate world. Plus when WDing from 'done, as I did, most people are going cold turkey after potentially multi-year daily consumption. There is no "out of stock" at the MMT clinics.

Oxycodone #2: After a 160mg a day OxyContin habit of two years quitting cold turkey obviously included the usual: diarrhea, excessive sweating, insomnia, fatigue, anxiety, loss of appetite... but most of all I remember the pain. It felt as if the very marrow of my bones had been replaced with broken glass. This one physically hurt the worst. But due to the duration being half that of Methadone I have to rank it mi número dos.

Heroin #3: Quitting heroin after two years, my daily consumption and ROA being: 1 gram if IV'd (the town I was living in coupled with no car and a shared apartment with my father made it tough to get a steady supply of clean/new syringes); 2 grams if smoked. I should note this was BTH--many more psychoactive alkaloids, however consistently lower in potency than ECP or CW. My muscles weren't twitching like they did from 'done WD, but there was a distinct fogginess of head coupled with the usual anxiety, depression, flu symptoms, insomnia, RLS, displeasure at any tactile function... Obviously it fucking sucks. But because it didn't last as long as the 'done WD, didn't hurt as bad as the OC WD, I rank H 3rd.

Opiate WDs comprise the absolute worst experiences of my life. What I'm real scared of are combined Opiate/Benzo WDs. I won't lie to you all and myself, I'm a complete benzo addict. Yet even at high doses: 6-8mg clonazepam daily for weeks on end, abrupt cessation hasn't caused me quite the level of grief as Opiate WD. Possibly because I generally have opiates + cannabis when WDing from benzos. I don't know.

Benzo WDs seem to be very similar to Opiate WDs: less pain, but more anxiety and insomnia obviously... the panic attacks are hell... and the risk of seizures (luckily I've only had a minor one once from benzo WD)... plus the actual threat of death to an otherwise healthy body... I'm scared. Maybe Benzo WD is the worst and I just haven't felt it's full effects yet.

Stimulant WD: Walk in the park. Less energy, increased appetite, foggy mind. That's literally it. And that was after 9 straight months of daily crystal meth usage. I have heard of people experiencing nasty brain zaps and headaches, but I dunno. Always been easy for me, let me say though I recognize we all have different brain chemistry.

GHB: After two straight weeks of a GHB binge (plus Bupe, Kpins, Meth, Cannabis) abrupt cessation of the GHB brought on intense cravings and what most probably was a small seizure. I already carry enough proverbial monkey's on my back, the experience was enough to motivate me to back off for a while.

Cigarettes WDs: Not bad as long as you don't get angry or anxious. Or Drunk.

Marijuana WDs: Bullshit. Smoked a quantity of quality herbs daily for over 6 years. Many abrupt cessations, of varying duration (some lasting as long as a year) have never aroused any problems for me other than decreased appetite and boredom--which shouldn't be confused with absolute dysphoria/hopelessness. Stop complaining. If you think this drug is addicting you could get addicted to moth balls.

Yeah you're right about the fkin pain that's for sure. Replace the 160 mg oxy with 600 mg a day and I'm sure u'll be puking out the proper end too (don't really do it lol).
 
Benzos without a doubt.

it cripples you mentally and physically. Horrible stuff.

second would be nicotine than cocaine.
 
Alcohol for me. I thought heroin withdrawls were bad, I had no idea. After I first quit doing dope I started drinking since it was legal, easy to get and cheap. 10 years of heavy drinking later and I can't stop drinking without severe nausea, dt's, insomnia. It's awful. After reading this thread I'm glad I've never gone too far with benzo's.
 
Gotta love that special mixture of hallucinosis, suicidal and homicidal ideation, panic, muscle pain, formication, RLS, and brain fog that tends to be associated with severe acute gabaergic withdrawal, especially alcohol, barbiturates and benzodiazepines.
 
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