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Misc What was your worst detox/withdrawal?

pnillyg

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Just curious…

Name of substance(s)? Duration of use? Dose? How bad was the detox?

Ill start

Diazepam 5mg 3x daily + 8mg Buprenorphine 2x daily

Was on the diazepam for 3yrs and had been on the subs for 11 months

Diazepam was 15mg daily and bupe was 16mg daily

I jumped from that dose so no taper and was detoxing from the Buprenorphine for 26 days and the diazepam for 2-3 months.. the first 26 days I didn’t even charge my phone or watch tv, i could barely open a water bottle and literally had to wear a diaper those few weeks… it was literal hell on earth and the worst detox ever ever been through. The combo of the long acting benzo and long acting partial agonist was excruciating. Probably also didn’t help that I wasn’t in good shape at the time (suuuper skinny)… anyways lets hear yours
 
I didn’t even charge my phone or watch tv, i could barely open a water bottle and literally had to wear a diaper those few weeks…
yea when I jumped off ksalols I still had to take one every third day because food would have rotten on the floor otherwise because I could not pick it up after dropping some or wash bed sheets or shit anything at all. it slowly got better.
 
I had bought 3 grams in total of 5-mapb and I was injecting it pure IM and would get so high I would
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just fall asleep from all the seratonin and wake up needing to take more and not remembering I fell asleep, towards the end my tolerance got so high that I was smoking 5-mapb from tinfoil just for the slightest amount of seratonin eventually when it ran out in just 1 day, I had THE WORST brain zaps ever, it was so bad that whenever I had brainzaps my entire left side of my body would involentarily shake, and if I ever tried to stand up or do anything my body was so weak it was spasming constatly it was like having parkinsons, I could not walk down the stairs without falling down cause I had parkinsons in my entire body from the withdrawal. also because I would fall asleep my mouth was completely destroyed, blood everywhere, bit and destroyed my entire mouth biting it off while I was sleeping on 5-mapb, on top of that smoking that shit caused chemical burning on my tongue and my mouth looked like pic related. I was in pain consantly could eat or swallow food cause my mouth hurt so much, 100% worst comedown ever, heroin or meth doesn't even compare to the seratonin comedown of 5-mapb. now the withdrawal itself took like almost a month, I had brain zaps for like first week which is the longest withdrawal I have experianced, but then on top of that I would just randomly cry and feel depressed and wasn't quite myself until my seratonin recovered waaaaaay later almost like 2-4 weeks of pure depression. I could not stop crying, like I could just be listening to music and then randomly cry for reason, look out at the clouds in the sky and then randomly cry for no reason it was insane
 
Just curious…

Name of substance(s)? Duration of use? Dose? How bad was the detox?

Ill start

Diazepam 5mg 3x daily + 8mg Buprenorphine 2x daily

Was on the diazepam for 3yrs and had been on the subs for 11 months

Diazepam was 15mg daily and bupe was 16mg daily

I jumped from that dose so no taper and was detoxing from the Buprenorphine for 26 days and the diazepam for 2-3 months.. the first 26 days I didn’t even charge my phone or watch tv, i could barely open a water bottle and literally had to wear a diaper those few weeks… it was literal hell on earth and the worst detox ever ever been through. The combo of the long acting benzo and long acting partial agonist was excruciating. Probably also didn’t help that I wasn’t in good shape at the time (suuuper skinny)… anyways lets hear yours
Mine was 185mg of methadone. I was on it for 4 1/2 years and then one day I got locked up and no more methadone. I was good until day 5 and it hit me. I wasn't normal or comfortable for 60-70 days
 
Stopped clonazapam ct, which I’d had a legal script for over a decade. Insomnia, nightmares, paranoid, thought someone was in my duct work and that Chinese or Russian agents had accessed my house and turned off my internet router then left. I lost time and hallucinated a Christmas village while driving. I gave up on being benzo free after this experience. I’m ok, but watching other long term benzo users lose their memory and their minds. I have personally so far mostly just lost my ambition and general enjoyment of life.
 
Mine was 185mg of methadone. I was on it for 4 1/2 years and then one day I got locked up and no more methadone. I was good until day 5 and it hit me. I wasn't normal or comfortable for 60-70 days
I couldn't imagine stopping without tapering. I tapered from 200mg down to 120mg overnight, then from 120mg to 20mg, 10mg every month or two. Never felt bad at all.

Then I relapsed on heroin and am back up to 50mg and back on H. Need to taper off the H now. It worked the first time, but that's when I was on 200mg of methadone, so it wasn't too difficult.
 
Came off a very heavy carfentanil habit cold turkey In a cell. I briefly thought I was actually going to die of dehydration before I got an excruciatingly painful shot of something for nausea and was able to keep water down. Went about 10 days without sleeping at all, hallucinating full conversations with family and friends who weren't present, and feeling like I had an electric current running through my teeth. It was nightmarish.
 
After WD-ing myself from GHB/ GBL and Kratom.
Both about 3 days/ 5 tough WD. And then it eased down.

What a surprise when Physically addicted to Alcohol.
To see that 3/5 day period stretched to 21 days,
until i started feeling a bit better.
5 weeks to reach some homeostasis.

Ethanol nr 1 ! [from Ethanol, GHB/ GBL, Kratom]
 
A crazy 7-Hydroxymitragynine binge that ended the day I ran out of bromazolam bars. I’ve had fent, heroin withdrawals, and that was by far the worst.
I’ve heard that can be a rough one and its different for most, fascinating though
 
Came off a very heavy carfentanil habit cold turkey In a cell. I briefly thought I was actually going to die of dehydration before I got an excruciatingly painful shot of something for nausea and was able to keep water down. Went about 10 days without sleeping at all, hallucinating full conversations with family and friends who weren't present, and feeling like I had an electric current running through my teeth. It was nightmarish.
Sounds brutal
 
I couldn't imagine stopping without tapering. I tapered from 200mg down to 120mg overnight, then from 120mg to 20mg, 10mg every month or two. Never felt bad at all.

Then I relapsed on heroin and am back up to 50mg and back on H. Need to taper off the H now. It worked the first time, but that's when I was on 200mg of methadone, so it wasn't too difficult.
I need to start tapering like you instead of just jumping.. seems to help a lot
 
After WD-ing myself from GHB/ GBL and Kratom.
Both about 3 days/ 5 tough WD. And then it eased down.

What a surprise when Physically addicted to Alcohol.
To see that 3/5 day period stretched to 21 days,
until i started feeling a bit better.
5 weeks to reach some homeostasis.

Ethanol nr 1 ! [from Ethanol, GHB/ GBL, Kratom]
So kratom is the easiest out of them all? Dont understand GHB GBL too good yet but im learning, and ethanol is brutal I’ve done a light version of that… bizarre it took so long
 
I need to start tapering like you instead of just jumping.. seems to help a lot
For sure. Methadone helped me stop H, but it was just swapping one drug for another.

Tapering methadone was painless. I did relapse when I got down to 20mg, but it was because I put myself in a situation where I was drinking heavily, ended up alone with time to kill and I was in a location very close to my old plug. So, he got a call. He didn't have H, but had some percs. Hopped on those for a few days and tried to stop ct, but even on such a short binge, the wd's were pretty bad, and by that time my guy had H, so I relapsed on it.

But, yes, tapering is the way to go on methadone for sure. If you let your body get used to the smaller dosage then go down again, the wd's are pretty much non-existent.

Good luck to you.
 
Cold turkey alprazolam, cold turkey alcohol, cold turkey heroin, cold turkey mitragynine pseudoindoxyl.

I can't tell you which was the worst. The first two were the scariest, the latter were the most painful.
 
Alcohol.
I've probably told this story enough that everyone just rolls their eyes now, but a few years back me and my boyfriend were both homeless alcoholics. I knew that going cold turkey from alcohol was really dangerous but I let him convince me anyway as we'd TRIED to like slowly taper down and couldn't. So we saved up to rent a hotel room for a week to just stay in bed and try and relax while withdrawing. I managed to get a few hours sleep in the early hours in the morning of day three and when I woke up he was lying dead on the ground. Apparently, he'd gotten up in the night to use the bathroom and had just had a massive grand mal seizure and passed away.
I've had many horrible experienced with alcohol withdrawal, inc. resulting in permanent injury/disability:
I'd not even quit cold turkey, just decreased how much I was drinking. I was watching TV and then suddenly I was sitting on the living room floor with no idea how I got there from the sofa. Also my mouth REALLY hurt. Just as I was becoming lucid and realizing that I'd a) had a seizure, and b) bitten a significant chuck out of the side of my tongue resulting in the pain and also my face and shirt being covered in blood, my dad came home, saw the state of me and took me to the emergency room.
I'd been there a couple hours when the doctor called my name. I remember getting out my seat and walking across the room, then...nothing for 2 days.
Apparently I'd had another (much worse) seizure then. It went on for over 5 minutes and I didn't breathe during it [not sure if it's normal to stop breathing during grand mal seizures or not] which obviously resulted in hypoxia and I have mild-moderate brain damage from that. They said I definitely would have died if I was extremely lucky to be literally in a hospital when it happened. They gave me two doses of (I can't remember if it was Diazepam or Lorazepam) and I still didn't come out of it, so they had to put me into a medically-induced (barbiturate) coma to stop it.
It was also so violent that I fractured my orbital socket, dislocated my shoulder, cracked a bone in my wrist and broke 6 ribs. I also slipped two discs in my back, which have been gradually getting worse since and have now devolved into two herniated discs which cause severe enough pain to require me to take Morphine every day.
 
Alcohol.
I've probably told this story enough that everyone just rolls their eyes now, but a few years back me and my boyfriend were both homeless alcoholics. I knew that going cold turkey from alcohol was really dangerous but I let him convince me anyway as we'd TRIED to like slowly taper down and couldn't. So we saved up to rent a hotel room for a week to just stay in bed and try and relax while withdrawing. I managed to get a few hours sleep in the early hours in the morning of day three and when I woke up he was lying dead on the ground. Apparently, he'd gotten up in the night to use the bathroom and had just had a massive grand mal seizure and passed away.
I've had many horrible experienced with alcohol withdrawal, inc. resulting in permanent injury/disability:
I'd not even quit cold turkey, just decreased how much I was drinking. I was watching TV and then suddenly I was sitting on the living room floor with no idea how I got there from the sofa. Also my mouth REALLY hurt. Just as I was becoming lucid and realizing that I'd a) had a seizure, and b) bitten a significant chuck out of the side of my tongue resulting in the pain and also my face and shirt being covered in blood, my dad came home, saw the state of me and took me to the emergency room.
I'd been there a couple hours when the doctor called my name. I remember getting out my seat and walking across the room, then...nothing for 2 days.
Apparently I'd had another (much worse) seizure then. It went on for over 5 minutes and I didn't breathe during it [not sure if it's normal to stop breathing during grand mal seizures or not] which obviously resulted in hypoxia and I have mild-moderate brain damage from that. They said I definitely would have died if I was extremely lucky to be literally in a hospital when it happened. They gave me two doses of (I can't remember if it was Diazepam or Lorazepam) and I still didn't come out of it, so they had to put me into a medically-induced (barbiturate) coma to stop it.
It was also so violent that I fractured my orbital socket, dislocated my shoulder, cracked a bone in my wrist and broke 6 ribs. I also slipped two discs in my back, which have been gradually getting worse since and have now devolved into two herniated discs which cause severe enough pain to require me to take Morphine every day.
This ⬆️, even in a Hospital they don t actually seem to have a clue how intense.
Strong seizure s are, had em too from stress, 2 year insomnia and drinking evt too.

In the Hospital they failed to stop em [seizure/ Ictal psychose],
with their ini mini benzo doses. Just temp came out.

"Here is your phone call your Mom your OK,
and she can come and get you."

Boom, another seizure.
Suckers don t even practice medicin any more.
In a Hospital crazy but true.

When a few hours ? the out side hired psychiater arrived.
100 mg Diazepam equivalent + Haldol got me out,
only time i was awake on 5 fold dose of Diazepam,
would normally put me under. Now walked to my bed awake,

and glad to be back and alive. fuckers thinking back.
i even swallowed my own vomit, outta respect !
So that no one had to clean my mess, just to discover they
totally fucked up treating me, they wanted to sent me home.
In between seizure s the dimwits.
 
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Methadone 185mg for over 4 years went to jail and had to go cold turkey. Wasn't normal or comfortable for 60-70 days
Had a very similar experience. For first 30 days in jail, I didn't sleep for more than 20min a day. Utterly miserable and the longest-lasting WD I ever experienced.
But for severity, nothing beats alcohol WD. Full-blown delirium tremens is pure Hell.
 
But for severity, nothing beats alcohol WD. Full-blown delirium tremens is pure Hell.
Another hellish aspect of it, at least in my experience, is you feel like you're dying-- because you actually are. The organ pain, your metabolism is all fucked up, arrythmias, skipped beats and chest pain, difficulty breathing, and extreme physical fatigue. It's really quite scary. I laugh about the fact that alcoholism taught me more about my anatomy than school ever did.
 
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