please excuse my lack of capitals, my shift button is stuck from juice i spilled on it several days ago 8)
i was a chronic poppy tea user for years and i never got the puking! It surprises me how many people get this symptom and i never experienced it once even though i went through withdrawal countless times while in active addiction. i did experience hot/cold flashes, lethargy, sweating, a sense of doom and/or fear, headaches, insomnia, rls, yawning/stretching, bowel cramps and subsequent diarrhea.
actually thinking about the suffering that i went through helps to remind me how much better i'm doing now that i'm off
the only other substance i've gotten withdrawals from was kratom and they were an absolute cakewalk compared to the long duration of poppy tea withdrawals. they only lasted from 24 - 48 hours and didn't make me a mess like poppy tea withdrawals had a way of doing.
Yep SAME exact thing here.
Not only have I never vomited from tea during use or withdrawal but I can't recall getting much of any stomach cramps at all.
Another thing I can't stand is people actually complaining about the taste of pod tea. My pod tea barely has any taste at all except a slight earthy flavor and sweetness from the sugar. But I see people here claiming that theirs taste so foul it triggers a gag reflex/puking shortly after drinking it.
Maybe because I'm use to kratom being the worst tasting tea ever, but pods in comparison to kratom are a joke. Its just very mild imo.
The only time I'd really get stomach cramps too is if I ate food late at night and woke up in the morning then it would be largely due to the food really and not even the pods.
I do want to note also my first time cold turkeying from pods I got through it extremely fast. And this was after 2 years of use too so its why I assume I have an ultrafast metabolism. The physical wds were intense but also only lasted about 5 days, by day 6 most had subsided. And by day 10 this may sound weird but I felt 100%.
I never got hit with PAWS or anxiety, or 90% of the stuff people talk about the apparently lasts weeks after getting off them. It was very clean and quick, yet still very intense and painful.
But ultimately my point is I don't think its the drug as much as it is #1 the user and #2 their specific lifestyle. Lifestyle includes EVERYTHING like diet, sleep, activity levels, basically anything you do that can variate between person to person.
I've read people claiming their PHYSICAL poppy withdrawals lasted 14 days straight and it makes no sense to me. I was using as much as a person can possible use for a couple years, and like I said after day 5 about 95% of the withdrawals were gone.
So I believe its too dependent on the person using to really generalize about which of the harder opiates is hardest to get of. But obviously we can all assume codiene is a joke to stop. I remember using about 300mg a day for 4 weeks straight, stopping, and only feeling a bit of fatigue. While other people here would use that amount and make a thread crying about it.
It also depends on your frame of reference too. Like the first time you withdraw its bound to be horrific just because you've never experienced it before. Just wayy too many things to consider besides the name of the drug.
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