Will ambien help or hurt opiate wd's?

[drac120]

I know this will sound stupid to people who have never head them, but TRUST ME opiate withdrawals are downright horrible.


Anyway lasttime I tried cold turkey I took an ungodly amount ( literally talking 200-500mg tried at different times ) Plus the seroquel made me barely able to stand etc, walked to the bathrooms, pissed, then fell over trying to walk back. to Moe or less they made me not sleep, my skin started feeling like it was crawling... literally. Also I became even more restless yet couldn't sleep and some other symptoms I don't remember.


If I take some ambien will I wind up feeling the same way or will it actually know my ass out? As far as my opiate tolerance goes, I get 30 30mg Opana ER a month, usually snort them all within a week if I'm trying to really conserve two weeks.
Then once I run out I start taking 30mg ms-contin which is the sustained release. It does nothing but keep my wd's at bay. When I'm in serious pain I'll take up to 210mg of ms-contin a day.

Does anyone at all have some suggestions?

P.S. I'm on clonidine for high blood pressure anyway, so I take even more doing wd's and it does help..... if not just barely.

 

[Tommyboy]

It couldn't hurt to try the ambien. Just take 10mgs. This should knock you out. For me, one of the worst parts of opiate withdrawal is insomnia. A lot of people take benzos during opiate withdrawal, and ambien is the closest thing there is to a benzo.

Some people experience negative affects from ambien, such as feeling stimulated instead of tired. I have seen this happen to some people that took nyquil, they actually said they felt like they were on speed. I think it has something to do with the body over-correcting itself when trying to regulate everything. Like since you put something in your body to make you tired, it ends up trying to counter this by making you less tired, and overdoes it leading to making you be wide awake.

 

[Nexius]

Um, ambien doesn't work for me at all.

but i dunno for some it might

as long as u don't take a opiate for withdrawl ur not being counter productive

 

[Ixchellian]

I used trazodone for w/d's.... worked like a champ.