Withdrawal & Craving MEGA-thread

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i have cravings but I dont know what exactly for. Meth- yeah sometimes when I am feeling really down or upset.

If I am anxious I crave alcohol.

Mostly I crave something that I've always wanted but cant seem to name, I think its just normality, like I used to be before drugs.

I want my old life back, and that is never going to happen. :(
 
I'm barely trying anymore.

I've been keeping it to the weekends, but still using.

At least I don't feel as guilty.
 
I want a fix so bad... things keep getting worse now mom and I are both laid off and seems that things I dont want or need to do to support my family and keep our family home are necessary... i just feel that a fat shot of dope could make my head change at least for 4 hours ugh god im glad I have sworn off dope...
 
This is a great thread! Thanks Madmike. I hope you don't mind that I made a minor edit to the title. In addition to being a mod I am also a grammar Nazi ;)

For me, the psychological cravings are worse than the physical effects of withdrawal. I can deal with the diarrhea and chills, but damn is it hard to sit on your hands. Every time I give in it's because of cravings, not to alleviate w/d symptoms. Then again I'm really good about keep my use down real low so my physical addiction isn't nearly as bad as most of you. My heart really goes out to those of you who are struggling with high dose addictions <3
 
So I know I haven't been clean, but I like to think the fact I don't have a car is keeping me from getting really heavy into it.

However, my parents think I have been clean for six months, and to reward me, when they get a new car sometime in the next month, they are going to sell me their old one for like $100 a month for 5 months.

This could be very, very bad, but I can't tell them what's up and turning it down would be suspicious!
 
This is a great thread! Thanks Madmike. I hope you don't mind that I made a minor edit to the title. In addition to being a mod I am also a grammar Nazi ;)
That is ok and thanks.
I was in a sauna and thought how boring it is to be sober here. Shit. I just have to make it through. I don't have a clue where these cravings are coming from. Do I feel too comfortable or what it is? I wish I had withdrawals, then usually I don't have cravings. Or maybe I am suffering still from PAWS. If there wouldn't be cravings, I could have peace. Hmm, I need to think about this, it seems to be solvable thing.
 
^ Yeah, usually when people w/d they are more motivated to be clean. It's like kind of a high in and of itself. But the PAWS are the worst. Due to boredom or something I guess.

Yeah, this thread is an AWESOME idea. We needed something like that. At least I did. I'll be checking in here regularly.
 
i wanna be sedated. im spending so much on alcohol to avoid using clonazepam, oxycontin all that good shit i have within reach, its a blessing and a curse. i pretty much just wanna be sedated.
 
i wanna be sedated. im spending so much on alcohol to avoid using clonazepam, oxycontin all that good shit i have within reach, its a blessing and a curse. i pretty much just wanna be sedated.
if sedation is what you crave, with alcohol you can get it, but remember that alcohol can cause death too and it has dependency potential much higher than benzos and on par with opioids.
 
i spend 2-3 weeks out of every month w/d'ing and craving opioids. i binge on my pain meds every month when i get them and spend the rest of the month in agony. it seems like a never ending cycle that i can't get out of. this time around i have to wait 6 weeks to get my script. i still have 2 more weeks to go.

before my boyfriend and i lost our jobs from iv'ing dilaudids for about 6 months (after years of heavy everyday use of hydrocodone or oxycodone), life seemed great. that was over 2 years ago. he just got a part-time job 2 weeks ago, but i'm still unemployed.

when i don't have pills i don't even feel like getting dressed. my back and my knees hurt so bad at times it's hard to even stand up. i'm depressed. i can't sleep. when i do sleep, i dream about doing all different kinds of drugs... waking up craving them even more. i don't have physical w/d's too bad anymore, mainly since i started taking large doses of immodium. but the mental anguish is pure hell.

i'm mad at myself for getting addicted in the first place... now i don't know how to stop taking them. you'd think after going without them for 2-3 weeks at a time for going on 2 years now, i'd just stop. but no... i count the days until i can pick up my refill... and the vicious cycle starts all over again.

at least i can get my klonopin on monday... i don't like them recreationally, but they help me sleep.
 
There is nothing in this wordl like heroin cravings...I can't fucking stand them.

Everything else in my life I may crave will subside in an hour or less (not the desire to do it, just that overwhelming fuck I HAVE to do some now feeling...)

Heroin? No no.

Every couple months or so since getting clean (little over a year) for about 3 or 4 days I will begin to crave like crazy, constantly thinking about it, will try and distract myself but will literally not be able to hold a conversation with my friends or drive at times.. I can feel the beginning of one coming on, fuck fuck heroin.

If I had a heroin connection I would be getting high tomorrow, thank god for some things I guess... :|
 
I feel fine now. I just exhausted my arms in the gym.
Last night I watched American Gangster and started to think whats the heroin like. I had to snort one 25 mg pill of Seroquel to stop the cravings of needle and bubrenorphine from distracting my mind.
I have a preference to uppers anyways, but I haven't craved for speed in sometime.
Now I listen to hardstyle and hadn't even slightest need to try cocaine. Good, I guess. I still thought that I wished that my Cymbalta dose would be upped to 120 mgs so I'd feel high for couple weeks. It gives a nice stimulated feeling for a while.
 
^^lol me too.

I fell asleep at about 8PM last night which is really good for me....but once the xanax wore off I ended up waking up at about 11AMinWD's once again so I had to take the 4mg of xanax I was planning to take tomorrow. Ive only got 4mg left which worries me.

I spent about an hour crying and crying, I dont think theres anymore tears left. I just feel so sad. I know im going to stay the fuck away from oxy though, my supplier is starting to feel really guilty about letting me buy the oxy's and eventually getting myself addicted over the last year so hopefully theyre going to stop tempting me so much.

Its 3AM now and im just going to wait until 6Am and get my board and go for a surf. I went for a surf last week when I was WD'ing and it made me feel soooo good, I really hope the surfs up. Dunno how safe surfing on xanax is but its gotten to the point where I only feel relief, no sedation so im pretty sure its all good.
 
for anyone here craving opiates, and especially carsons_koolaid, suboxone really does help with the cravings and the pain. I know it's like substituting one addiction for another but it's hard to run out of subs, you get a script for more than u need usually and u always have them on hand. I get a script for 8mg per day and take 1mg and I don't feel the need to take more. It's like 20 times stronger than morphine and small amounts work really well, they just don't get u high thou. I haven't relapsed in 6 months and I think sub is a big part of it. I only take 1mg and have no pain, and pain was a major reason I go into heroin in the first place. Also if u go to a sub doctor to get it, it's all private and no one, not even another doctor, will know u are getting it. It also makes u feel pretty normal so u can work. It's an option to consider if opiate cravings get so hard to handle that they make life difficult.

Sleeping is pretty much my favorite part of the day. i've been feeling really sad the last 2 days that I just can't be the person other people in my life want me to be. I don't have much energy or motivation. I know that if I got some dope I'd feel awesome, clean my house and just be some much more motivated to do stuff and move around. Dope is my stimulant of choice. Drugs do really make me feel better. I'm hoping that it's mainly due to PAWS right now and I'll starting feeling better. But I've been off dope for 6 months and it has gotten somewhat better I guess. I'm getting a YMCA membership, hopefully that helps with energy. My favorite thing to do these days is sitting on BL.
 
Internet addiction causes withdrawal symptoms too. And the craving can get quite bad. Withdrawal symptoms include restlessness and anxiety.
I think if the Internet would now be stripped away from me, I would go crazy.
 
i've figured out that when i have pills i don't get online much... but when i'm w/d'ing and can't sleep i spend hours and hours online on a few sites that i blog in, this being one of them. i think i substitute the internet for drugs, lol. i wake up and check my email to see if i've had any replies, and generally get pretty pissy if i don't.

intherapy82~ how expensive is suboxone? i don't have any insurance and i'm not working, so the cash flow is next to none. how does the process go anyway? do they test you to see what level of opioids you have in your system? how do they determine how much suboxone to give you? do they just take your word that you're a opioid/opiate freak? i've been curious about this for awhile. there's only one doc in my area that specializes in suboxone treatment. they don't put you on some sort of list stopping you from getting pain meds elsewhere? i don't want to be redflagged because i do suffer chronic pain. unfortunately kentucky isnt too keen on giving out pain meds. that's a big reason i go through my script as fast as i do, it's honestly not adequate pain relief and i take enough to get rid of the pain. i do like the euphoria though, i won't lie about that.
 
Haha yeah. i was listening to the ramones when i posted that, xxkcxx and the ketaman.

No cravings here, i caved and i am sedated.. atlest i start working again tomorrow solid. keep my mind occupied.

Good luck with the Xanax ketaman, one day at a time ay man.
 
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