would xanax help with heroin/oc withdrawl

[JustaChippa]

Xanax will definitely help you get some sleep during opiate withdrawal. The only downside I noticed, and this may just be "me", as I have never seen anyone else mention this, is that Xanax tended to make my nausea worse sometimes. If you use them just to sleep at night, though, that probably won't happen to you.

 

[Colmes]

calm down. please. i know what you mean, i used to do heroin, now i don't, i'm on suboxone and i know where you're coming from too because i TO have a script for klonopin and xanax for medical purposes and have for the last three years of my life. yes, picking up my scripts every month from the pharmacy is MUCH better than going to shady places. i know my medication hasn't been handled by 1,000,000,000,000 hands.

I wasnt angry or excited, the caps was sorta just a sarcastic-sorta thing. But thank you for your post. Bottom line, it sucks being addicted to a drug, but having a legal prescription, verus what the poster I quoted went through for 3 years to get their "medicine", there is no comparisson.

I know opiate w/d is not deadly, but opiate overdose is quite deadly, whereas, benzos (taken alone) cant be overdosed on. And yeah, benzo w/d makes your skin crawl, but i'm sure there are many beneficial medications out there for all sorts of diseases, disorders, you name it, that upon sessation of use, produces some very bad side effects. Also, you shouldnt be worried about dying from benzo w/d. If you have a prescription, you should have enough of the drug, if you take as directed, and, you can also very slowly taper down.

Benzo withdrawl sucks - to say the VERY least.
Opiate withdrawl sucks, Really sucks.

Heroin addiction can steal your life, your money, is Schedual 1- so it can steal your freedom, and ultimately, it can kill you, weather it is the overdose, or dealing with drug dealers in the southside of Chicago, or, camden, NJ, or Detroit, or project streetcorners in Queens, NYC.

Either way, goodluck.

 

[misspharmacyashley]

I wasnt angry or excited, the caps was sorta just a sarcastic-sorta thing. But thank you for your post. Bottom line, it sucks being addicted to a drug, but having a legal prescription, verus what the poster I quoted went through for 3 years to get their "medicine", there is no comparisson.

I know opiate w/d is not deadly, but opiate overdose is quite deadly, whereas, benzos (taken alone) cant be overdosed on. And yeah, benzo w/d makes your skin crawl, but i'm sure there are many beneficial medications out there for all sorts of diseases, disorders, you name it, that upon sessation of use, produces some very bad side effects. Also, you shouldnt be worried about dying from benzo w/d. If you have a prescription, you should have enough of the drug, if you take as directed, and, you can also very slowly taper down.

Benzo withdrawl sucks - to say the VERY least.
Opiate withdrawl sucks, Really sucks.

Heroin addiction can steal your life, your money, is Schedual 1- so it can steal your freedom, and ultimately, it can kill you, weather it is the overdose, or dealing with drug dealers in the southside of Chicago, or, camden, NJ, or Detroit, or project streetcorners in Queens, NYC.

Either way, goodluck.

yes, agreed, i live in texas, though (not that it matters because drug dealers are drug dealers). i was on heroin ("tar") and benzos (among other drugs) from the street for about eleven years, and i knew i was going to die like that so like i said, three years of the
suboxone (24-32mg/day),
klonopin (6mg/day),
promethazine 75-100mg/day),
neurontin 1800mg/day, (xanax 2mg/day),
and wellbutrin 400mg/day,
maintenance, my doctor is FINALLY tapering me off of the benzos.. well the klonopin at least. i've tried to go cold turkey just to feel it, you know kinda "testing the water", and from my personal experience i couldn't even go 24 hours with out feeling like i was going to crawl up a wall.

i had a friend die of a xanax overdose soo... maybe he was an "exception". and i had another die of heroin and xanax overdose (obviously deadly).. plus my husband was dead for 90 seconds after eating a shitload of bars and somas.. but, again it was probably to mixture.

i really hate still being an addict, only it's "okay" because it's my bottle...

anyways, i'm sorry i got off topic, but, in regards to the post, i guess i would have to say that it might depend on the person, the dose, ect, ect. and if you get nauseated maybe try promethazine, or over the counter medication, and benzos will help "take the edge off"

 

[K'd-OUT-in-AZ]

yes, agreed, i live in texas, though (not that it matters because drug dealers are drug dealers). i was on heroin ("tar") and benzos (among other drugs) from the street for about eleven years, and i knew i was going to die like that so like i said, three years of the
suboxone (24-32mg/day),
klonopin (6mg/day),
promethazine 75-100mg/day),
neurontin 1800mg/day, (xanax 2mg/day),
and wellbutrin 400mg/day,
maintenance, my doctor is FINALLY tapering me off of the benzos.. well the klonopin at least. i've tried to go cold turkey just to feel it, you know kinda "testing the water", and from my personal experience i couldn't even go 24 hours with out feeling like i was going to crawl up a wall.

i had a friend die of a xanax overdose soo... maybe he was an "exception". and i had another die of heroin and xanax overdose (obviously deadly).. plus my husband was dead for 90 seconds after eating a shitload of bars and somas.. but, again it was probably to mixture.

i really hate still being an addict, only it's "okay" because it's my bottle...

anyways, i'm sorry i got off topic, but, in regards to the post, i guess i would have to say that it might depend on the person, the dose, ect, ect. and if you get nauseated maybe try promethazine, or over the counter medication, and benzos will help "take the edge off"

misspharmacyashley, we have something sort of in common. For 9 years I was addicted to tar heroin/oxycontin/methadone (but mostly heroin which I started using when I was 15) and knew that I was going to die living that lifestyle if I didn't do something. I decided to go into a Suboxone Maintenance program and just recently got off it after almost 2 years.

I'm also on Klonopin and have been on it since I was 15 as well (11 years) although I am prescribed it and luckily don't need to get it off the streets. I take 4mg/daily. My Suboxone doctor told me to get off the Klonopin by tapering slowly and was very strict that I do it. I had many arguments about completely getting off it because I had been through that before and it was (fill in the blank: describe your own Hell). I also told him that I'd been on it for so long that what would matter? Eventually I lied and told him that I was tapering as he told me to.

My cocktail of medications prescribed by both my Suboxone and psychiatrist doctors during maintenance:
Suboxone (24mg Max/1mg Last Visit)
Klonopin (4mg)
Lyrica (450mg)
Cymbalta (60mg)
Desoxyn (25mg)
Upon release... Soma (one or two 350mg tabs x3 daily as needed/2 week script)
I experienced very mild withdrawals and I don't mind having to admit that I will have to take the Klonopin for the rest of my life.

To answer the quesqtion, if you have only a mild tolerance, or not one at all to benzos than Xanax should really help. It eases nearly all the physical withdrawal symptoms. Doesn't completely alleviate them but greatly eases them. To be more specific; the insomnia, anxiety, shakes/tremors, muscle pain

But the most important thing to remember: Only take it when the withdrawals are at their worse and discontinue taking them when the withdrawals dissipate. Don't take them daily. Heroin withdrawals are nothing compared to Benzodiazepine w/d's and tolerance increases quicker than any other benzodiazepine with Xanax because of its very short half-life.

Good luck!

 

[misspharmacyashley]

misspharmacyashley, we have something sort of in common. For 9 years I was addicted to tar heroin/oxycontin/methadone (but mostly heroin which I started using when I was 15) and knew that I was going to die living that lifestyle if I didn't do something. I decided to go into a Suboxone Maintenance program and just recently got off it after almost 2 years.

I'm also on Klonopin and have been on it since I was 15 as well (11 years) although I am prescribed it and luckily don't need to get it off the streets. I take 4mg/daily. My Suboxone doctor told me to get off the Klonopin by tapering slowly and was very strict that I do it. I had many arguments about completely getting off it because I had been through that before and it was (fill in the blank: describe your own Hell). I also told him that I'd been on it for so long that what would matter? Eventually I lied and told him that I was tapering as he told me to.

My cocktail of medications prescribed by both my Suboxone and psychiatrist doctors during maintenance:
Suboxone (24mg Max/1mg Last Visit)
Klonopin (4mg)
Lyrica (450mg)
Cymbalta (60mg)
Desoxyn (25mg)
Upon release... Soma (one or two 350mg tabs x3 daily as needed/2 week script)
I experienced very mild withdrawals and I don't mind having to admit that I will have to take the Klonopin for the rest of my life.

To answer the quesqtion, if you have only a mild tolerance, or not one at all to benzos than Xanax should really help. It eases nearly all the physical withdrawal symptoms. Doesn't completely alleviate them but greatly eases them. To be more specific; the insomnia, anxiety, shakes/tremors, muscle pain

But the most important thing to remember: Only take it when the withdrawals are at their worse and discontinue taking them when the withdrawals dissipate. Don't take them daily. Heroin withdrawals are nothing compared to Benzodiazepine w/d's and tolerance increases quicker than any other benzodiazepine with Xanax because of its very short half-life.

Good luck!

PM me, i have some questions about getting off all the medication.. i think that's what you said, right? you got off the subs and other medication? ...

 

[whitechocolate32]

good god man, the shit some of you guys take...it's probably more healthy for your body to stay on strait up heroin than all of those pills everyday

 

[K'd-OUT-in-AZ]

good god man, the shit some of you guys take...it's probably more healthy for your body to stay on strait up heroin than all of those pills everyday

I agree that the addiction to my Klonopin is worse than heroin, but its much healthier than the lifestyle that a heroin addiction takes you. Healthier to the body than a heroin addiction? You can't be serious. I weighed 130 pounds at 6 foot tall because I couldn't afford food since I spent everything I had and stole on dope. I was pale with track marks all over my arm, all my teeth had cavities and some were starting to fall out. Stealing from everyone I know, breaking and entering, robbing people at gun point and selling everything that I've got. Other than the Klonopin I only take 3 medications.

misspharmacyashley, I will PM you.

 

[misspharmacyashley]

good god man, the shit some of you guys take...it's probably more healthy for your body to stay on strait up heroin than all of those pills everyday

yeah, i agree, no shit. i feel like i'm in more so over my head now then i was.

 

[ctcebert83]

IMHO, the best regimen when you're in the WDs off opioids is to have a nice supply handy of tramadol and ambien. The tramadol works wonders (at least for me and many others i know) on the physicial side if the WD, while the ambien fights the irritability, anxiety, and insomnia that goes along with WD. I'm out of my "done" until Monday and was lucky enough to have a script for ambien called in and a friend help me out with tramadol.