Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

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• "Happy Cakeday, r/Opiatewithdrawal! Today you're 7" by u/AutoModerator

Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

Your top 10 posts:

• "I flushed everything and I can’t stop crying" by u/michaelsjeans888
• "PO in a week forced withdrawal"
• "Day 5 off the Fent Presses. Just wanted to share my story" by u/Delicious-Payment434
• "46 hours off pressed" by u/Medium-Help-8719
• "Fart or shit?"
• "Finally surrendered" by u/beautifulfuckingmess
• "Well fuck" by u/MerkinSeasonYo
• "I wise man once told me , you don’t look like your on drugs until you aren’t. Man I should have listened . #withdrawal" by u/xcjunkie96
• "She'll be right mate" by u/Appleblossom70
• "Another 2 month relapse came to a close after Christmas din" by u/mrjasonfish

man i found the heroin holy grail

Well, got some good news! So rang this service for Wales where I live. They gave me a number to ring Monday. I rang, not expecting much. They said they'll discuss all referrals on a Tuesdays (today). I got a call TODAY!! Got an appointment on 21st April! I'm not completely sure yet, but I think I'm having the buprenorphine shot. This means even if I take heroin, it won't even effect me!!!! I think the first appointment is just blood tests and to discuss etc?

Anyway...I think by at the latest a month I'll be finally FREE!

Do you remember how long it took from first appointment until they started actual treatment??

Update for anyone interested:

My life is so much better! When I used to wake up, I would be planning my suicide. Now I wake up and do laundry/clean a bit and have actual breakfast lol. Sounds simple, but for me this is ALL I wanted. Normality. I have been spending time with family and celebrating normal things. I've taken up with an old school friend who lives close. My husband is also on Buvidal and out marriage is so much happier and better. Not JUST sex life. But everything! I've sorted my appearance out and I look healthier and my hair/skin is much better. The best bit has been my mental health though. Before I was at breaking point. I wouldn't have lived much longer. That sounds like an exaggeration, but all you who have been there or who are there know it's real. It's nice to be normal and happy again. I of course have off days. And it's not been easy that's for sure. But it's nice to be back.

If I go to the ER due to this fent shit and not being able to induce subs for like 4-5 days are they likely to write me some scripts for comfort meds? I could rly use some benzos, gabapentin, zofran, clonidine ect.. but if they’re just going to give me something there to make me feel better and leave then it’s not going to be worth the bill...

I’ve heard two different things about pwd and I want to know what’s true if I ever find myself in that situation... So if you take a sub and go into pwd what should you do? Take more sub immediately? Wait an hour then take more? Or are you supposed to wait another full 24hrs then try again?

I’m not a doctor but it seems like if the sub rips off the remaining opioids and causes pwd then it would make sense to take more sub to then fill the receptors?

Hope that makes sense I hope someone has input on this. Thanks.

EDIT UPDATE!!!!!

Well, got some good news! So rang this service for Wales where I live. They gave me a number to ring Monday. I rang, not expecting much. They said they'll discuss all referrals on a Tuesdays (today). I got a call TODAY!! Got an appointment on 21st April! I'm not completely sure yet, but I think I'm having the buprenorphine shot. This means even if I take heroin, it won't even effect me!!!! I think the first appointment is just blood tests and to discuss etc?

Anyway...I think by at the latest a month I'll be finally FREE!

Do you remember how long it took from first appointment until they started actual treatment??

Anyone who has any experience with the shot or waiting time..all advice appreciated!

I'm done. Withdrawing again. I keep counting down the hours for money to hit my bank.. praying dealers phone will be on. But I don't WANT to do it! I just NEED to because I'm so fucking sick.

I told my father today. He told me I look terrible. So..I waited for him to come and see me in the snow. And I told him. He was a tiny bit angry but glad I washonest.

Only trouble is I live in the UK and I don't live in England so there's NO help?!? I need advice, resources..HELP! It's Sunday so I'm aware I'll have to wait until the morning. But if anyone has any advice please please help.

I'm desperate. I am thinking of ending it all. UNLESS I get help!

Please someone, anyone..help!

I’m on day one and I’m miserable. How do people do this? I am craving so bad it’s so hard not to hit up my plug and be feeling 10394930 times better. But I really want to be done and I want my life back. I’m scared I’ll do something stupid. I flushed every hint and blocked numbers but I have dudes number memorized and I know he could bring me shit in minutes. Please help I need hope. I’m hot, I’m cold, my legs feel like they’re having growing pains, and I know I won’t be sleeping for days. I don’t know if I can do this but I keep crying because I don’t want to fail.

I’m in withdrawals from my fetty pressed 30 habit. 7 months of doing this shit everyday. I’m terrified for day 3. This has been miserable. Peeing out my ass every hour even with Imodium. I can feel my kidneys. They ache. I feel like trash, I just wanna sleep. How long is this going to last. I’m supposed to be moving in 2 days and I can’t get up without shitting. I haven’t eaten. How is there anything left inside me? Bright side I’ve only got RLS a little bit. I just wanna use a little bit to stop this pain. Fuck I hate myself rn. I just can’t stop thinking about the pills on my dresser. Almost 50 hours in. If I go to the hospital will they give me comfort meds or just put me on MAT?

I’ve read pretty much every post I thought could provide some answers before I made my own, but I want to make sure I do it the right way.

A little backstory; a couple of years ago I was using straight fent, but I was only smoking it. Went to rehab, got put on suboxone, did that for a while but eventually went back to smoking fent. Fast forward to July this year, I decided to get clean. Went to detox, was only there a couple of days but I had essentially tapered myself off using subs before I went in bc I was terrified to go thru withdrawals.

I was clean from July-December 2020, relapsed and have been an IV user this time around since then. I’m tired of doing the shit, so I want to stop, but to be honest I can’t physically/mentally go thru the course of withdrawals without relapsing. I’m sure that sounds weak, but I know myself and physically I’m sure I could get past it but mentally I’m a weak bitch and know I’d fuck up.

I don’t have access to gabapentin/any other of the meds I’ve seen for suggestions. All I have is subutex, so I want to know how long to wait to take the sub since my last use. How much do I take? Im sure the H has some fent in it (doesn’t all of it pretty much?) so I just want to make sure I wait the right amount of time before taking it so I don’t go into PWD.

I have only done it with suboxone from smoking the stuff, never an IV user of H to subutex so I dunno. When I was smoking fent, I could wait 12-18 hours and take the sub, but IV is different right?

Thanks for your time, any and all info/suggestions very much appreciated

I have been using opiates and heroin on and off for about 10 years but my experience with this fentanyl (and apparently tranq cut) powder that's being sold in the same stamp wax bags that have always been around in the Tri state area (NY,NJ,CT,PA) And I'm sure else where on the east coast.

I have someone really close to me that's hooked on this at the moment and I wanted to ask a question hopefully someone knows this a bit better. I'm pretty familiar with actual heroin and how it's half life works .. how that impacts when and how withdrawal sets in etc etc ...

What I don't quite get is with this Fentadope .. users have to do a shot every few hours to keep from starting to get sick yet their opiate receptors are not clear enough to take bupe even after 36-48+ hours from the last dose of Fentadope ... So the legs are super short but the binding affinity is so high that it takes forever for them to be able to avoid Precipitated WD when taking bupe? Is that right or am I missing something here?

Thanks in advance for any clarity on this guys...

I have had my script stopped today. I'd been given enough (it wasn't enough but there we go) until I begin my treatment with the Drug and Alcohol detox service on the 9th April.

Apparently 3 pee tests have shown up negative now so they clearly think I've been 'diverting' my meds. I wouldn't even give any of my meds away because I need them for chronic pain but most of all because I get sick if I don't take them.

I take Zomorph capsules SR. Has this happened to anyone else? Can this happen? I also take Isosorbide because heart issues and Angina. I am an older lady and feel totally bereft at being thought a liar.

Hey there just needing some advice/ support/ suggestions.. I have been sober for 2.5 years until about 2 weeks ago when I had a slip up and started using h everyday since then. I am currently on day 3 of withdrawal.. I used about a littler over 1 gram over a 2 week period. I haven’t gone through with drawls in a long time so I kinda forgot how long it might take. I’m struggling soo bad with rsl, anxiety and just an overall sense of guilt and shame. Told my family/boyfriend and they are being supportive but I just don’t know how to forgive myself. I am also trying to get off my vyvanse cold turkey. I’ve always been very sensitive from withdrawals. I have gabapentin, klonopin, a few clonodine. Just wondering what I can do? Or how long it might take to get over the initial hump? Any advice is greatly appreciated!

Greetings all,

I also am in the middle of a very serious withdrawal and I’d humbly like to ask for any advice. I have Crohn’s Disease and had my third bowel resection last June in Boston, during a pandemic and protests. (Terrifying) I also have a permanent ileostomy bag from my first surgery for Crohn’s. This surgery came after a year long battle with a stricture in my intestines. My intestines would literally block and seize up and my Fiancé would race me to the ER. Unfortunately, I only got pain meds and IV and few answers and would be sent home after my intestines unblocked.
They would give me shots of Dilaudid through the IV. I was in so much agony from the Crohn’s, the Dilaudid would hit my blood stream and reach my brain in seconds and ring the pleasure bell in my brain for all the land to hear. All pain would disappear. This went on for over a year until I decided to have the surgery. My third. My pain tolerance got so high I had to take Ketamine and had to wear a Fentanyl patches. And I will never try Ketamine again. Talk about an embarrassing freak out. Dicey. 😐😂 I got through the surgery alive and it’s a year later. My PCP Informed me I would not be given any pain med after surgery and that I just had to “get off” the meds by myself. I very swiftly called his office, let him know how misguided and irresponsible he was and politely let him know he was fired. Men like that have no problem prescribing, that’s the easy part. But when it comes helping a patient get off they can’t be bothered and blame the DEA and say they can’t prescribe anymore. Bullshit. Shameful behavior. My Gastroenterologist decided to help me taper and I’ve been tapering since last June.

I left the hospital a year ago on: Fentanyl Patch (One patch every 3 days) 1mg or 2mg Dilaudid Pills (2-3 per day) 5 my Oxycodone pills (10-12 per day)

It’s now almost a year later and I’ve got it down to

3 (5mg) oxycodone pills a day. We are decreasing 10% every 3-4 weeks. And I am stuck where I am. I have just been so sick for so long. I’m not going to go through my symptoms. Everybody here knows what they are and what they do.

I’ve asked my doctor for some extra help. I’m asking for maybe Clonidine or anything else that will help me. I’ve been taking a pounding for the last 2 years and just need a little more help.

I take:

Red Bali Kratom (30 capsules a day) (Also tapering)(Helps a TON) Marijuana Flower (Copious Amounts) Marijuana Edibles Essentia Water Tylenol Talk to a hired PTSD Councilor (twice a month.) Happy Light Juicing 2-4 mile walk every day Yoga almost every day (20) Min Hot Showers Increased masturbation 🤫

I’ve been sick for many years of my life with Crohn’s, a withdrawal on top is extra challenging. My recent surgery will grant me Crohn’s remission for a very long time. I just got married and I love golf and I’m really looking forward to having no drugs in my system. I am getting close to the top of this mountain and I will get there. I’m not so much nervous about getting off the drugs. I’ve already beat opiate dependency twice...that is inevitable. My wife, has been an absolute angel for the last two years. She bought me an Xbox Series X, we got a 77inch OLED tv and a JBL Sound system 🙄So spoiled 😖. But I’ve had a lot of bad cards dealt, I guess I should accept the good ones. However, I am interested in problem solving and softening the landing as much as I can 😬 I’m really beat up ☹️🤕

Any thoughts on what I may add to the attack or take away? 

I recently learned about Loperamide through this sub, very cool. I’m going to add that in. But any thoughts would be much appreciated 😊

And all the love and strength to everyone battling the suck. Nasty business. ❤️🔥✊🏻

I fucked up ladies & gentlemen....I fell back into some old habits and have been doing heroine everyday day for about 3-4 weeks....I have been doing a half gram through iv use and go through about a gram every 3-6days and I have about a half gram left and plan to tapper off it. Also have a good amount of weed stocked away but any other tips and tricks? I’ve heard of kratom but does that stuff really work...I plan on stopping in the next 72 hours and will keep y’all posted along the way...

I am trying to withdraw from methadone, I have been taking it for the past 13 years. I am currently dropping by 1 ml a week. I was stable on 30ml 3 weeks ago and have already got to 27ml. However I am starting to feel the effects of coming off of methadone now. In the past I was on a 100ml dose and dropping down to 30ml was easy but now I'm here I am really starting to feel the withdrawal. I have no option but to get off the methadone and would like to know if theres anything I can ask for other than beprenorphine to help alleviate symptoms. My worry is that if I'm feeling like this at 27ml what's ot going to be like at 20ml and lower etc. Any help and advice would be most appreciated.

I read that Amitryptyline is just as effective as Lorazepam to help addicts sleep while WD. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9543313/

So of course i tried it as I have access to Amitriptyline and Gabapentin. I can confirm I was able to sleep for 8 hours on day 2 cold turkey from 40mg liquid Oxycontin.

I have moderate flu symptoms and all the shakes and coldness but being able to sleep has been a great help for me.

If you have it then use it in moderation. I took half a 50mg tablet so 25mg.

I’ve been taking doctor prescribed opioids for 20 years. As of 3 years ago, I was getting a script for (448) 30 mg oxys per month. Took every one of em every month. Did that for about 8 of those 20 years. My doctor died, I couldn’t find another to take me on as a patient, so I got on Subatex & quit. It was a SHITTY existence for about 45 days. Stayed off them for a year. So anyway, due to legit pain, I found a new pain mgmt doc and have now been taking oxy again for 3 years. I ran out early (for the 1000th time), and I’ve decided to kick again. I went thru 2 days of WD with nothing, but day 3 (yesterday), I took about 1/2 of my normal intake by getting some from a ‘friend’. Now I’m afraid of my WD period starting over to day 1 again. Any experience or advice on this???

Managed to reduce myself to 40mg oxy, I did this to get of 2mg buprenorphine I'd rather a shorter WD, so I maintained 40mg liquid oxy for a few weeks. Now I'm not taking another opiate, I have access to unlimited amounts of 300mg Gabapentin tablets, Amitryptyline, paracetamol, ibuprofen, all the cold and flu remedies and cough sweets. I'm a survivalist so I see this as just another week in the woods with nothing but a knife. Just another week in the woods, let's do this shit.

Hi! Im a 35/f and have been off tramadol for about 7 and a half to 8 years now. I was addicted for nearly 6 years if not 7. I cant remember which. My brain seems very foggy when i try remembering that period of my life. I was taking up to 60 or 70 a day during the last 8-12 months and surprisingly I'm still alive today. Although, i did suffer horrific seizures that almost took my life themselves many times. I suppose that was part of the overdose... not sure.

Anyway. I was able to stop using them with suboxone. I don't really remember how. I do know i was also on adderall and with the suboxone i was able to stop within a month or so but it wasn't easy. I had to mostly because i moved to a diff state and there were none to be found because heroin was the big thing in this place. Now i am still on suboxone and unfortunately meth as well and both iv....

During the times i would be without tramadol and withdrawals would set in i would have this awful non stop feeling of like tingling, bugs, and idk how to describe it... right in the pit of my stomach. Nothing helped and i would be almost ready to tear my skin off it was so bad.

My question is if anyone who has had or known of anyone thats had a tramadol habit had any long term effects after stopping? I still to this day get that feeling but only if i am out of my current drugs of choice. I never had this problem before the tramadol.

I also would get this feeling that i needed to urinate when I was in withdrawal and would try and try but only a drop seemed to come out. It would come every few mins or so and be an overwhelming urge and i would never seem to get relief till i had my meds. Now it happens the same and i was was wanting to find out if anyone had experienced this as well.

I am having such a hard time. Today was my second day attempting the induction of bup strips and I keep going into pw. At 24 hours I tried 4 mg and couldn’t tell anything and tried 8mg and pws hit and I tried taking another 8 to hopefully help but didn’t. Managed to get sleep around 5 am. Well around 3 pm I tried 4 mg almost 3 days into wd and went into pws and was puking and having a really hard time so I decided to score and hope it would at least get me unsick. And now it has done nothing and I am wondering should I try the subs again or am I back at hour one? Please I am really bad right now. The fent was really good I don’t think it was cut with anything so I think I have just blasted my system too much?

Coming off of tramadol after about a year on different opiates, kratom, etc...Tramadol was last after kicking others. Can't find any info on the possible dangers of taking benzos after tramadol. People say don't take tramadol after benzos but the other way around is lacking in info. Thanks.

How much gabapentin should I take while coming off and withdrawing from opiates?

Hello,

I am desperate for help in finding a short term detox facility for my fiance who is trying to get clean from heroin abuse. We have tried detoxing at home dozens of times in many different ways with no success.. his withdrawals are just too bad. We have tried cold turkey, methadone, suboxone, kratom, etc. He is ready to quit, however we are having a hard time finding a facility that is somewhat close (we are willing to travel to nearby states), accepts Medicaid, and allows cell phone use. We both understand why most facilities do not allow cell phones, but he has a great job right now and will only be able to get treatment if he can contact/accept calls from his bosses/employees and make sure they continue to stay on track while he is away. Unfortunately, he will almost definitely lose his job if he just goes dark for a week. Even when we go on short vacations, his phone is always blowing up with work-related matters that he must address. We are in Detroit, Michigan and if anyone has any knowledge of where he might be able to go, we would greatly appreciate it and it would change our lives so much. He has never been to treatment before and I'm afraid he is losing hope that there is help out there for him.

I’m going to finally try to get off Oxycodone. I have a doctors appointment with someone who specializes in addiction but I couldn’t get in until the end of next month, I’m going to keep looking around to see if I can get in any sooner. Any advice? I’m really not looking forward to feeling like death for a week. I have kratom capsules which helps a lot but not completely unfortunately. I’m going to start either tomorrow or Saturday.

The worst for me is the runny nose, cold / hot flashes, restless legs, sweating... how can I help alleviate the worst of it? Kratom helps a lot but I’ve already been so backed up recently from the Oxycodone itself and kratom will definitely not help. I have senna so I gotta start taking a small dose everyday to get things moving normally again. I’m honestly kind of terrified of withdrawals, so support / advice is needed + very appreciated. I’m really nervous and not looking forward to this. I’ve gotten up to taking over 200mg a day and like 150mg at a time, my tolerance has gone up so much in the last month I know I’m really gonna have a hard time getting through this. The other day I took my dose around 5pm and fell asleep super early and slept in until noon and I was already in withdrawals. Ugh. It was awful. I’m scared and sad I let it get to this point. I wanna get clean and healthy... the cravings are so hard and the withdrawals have gotten really nasty recently in between doses. Help :(

So I’ve struggled with opiates for many years on and off. Been on suboxone and Vivitrol in the past. About 2 months ago while on Vivitrol I stumbled on some old suboxone and took it to get high for about 1.5 weeks and tapered down to 1mg with minimum withdrawal-just that lethargic feeling. Due to my job I couldn’t bare not having the energy so I went hunting for blues. Instead I found street powder fetty and used that for about 10 days. I only bought a half gram and it lasted 10 days so obviously my tolerance wasn’t too bad. But now I’m 21 hrs into withdrawal and i am definitely starting to feel the withdrawals setting in. Any tips or suggestions on how bad this withdrawal is gonna be would be helpful. This is my first experience with fetty so I’m a little scared. I have two sub strips but I’m told I have to wait 4 days to take, I have clonidine and some Xanax snd zofran.

Please help with what you would do in my situation! Thank you. This was a huge wake up call snd I just want to get clean again

Day 9...

9 days off oxy. Have been using again since maybe July or August of 2020 after about 4months of clean time. My dose the last month or so was getting around 4-8 real 30mg oxy a day. The physical WD this time hasn’t been as bad as others for some reason (minus the bone chills I still have)

I used Kratom for the first 3 or so days (not a high dose) have sucked it up With clonidine gabapentin soma and some benzos and some ketamine infusions (at a clinic)

Since using the benzos multiple days in a row for sleep I know I need to stop that and just accept that I won’t sleep for a while. I’ve been here before eventually it comes back, eventually

My plan is to get back on vivitrol

Right now my physical issue really is just chills- which fucking suck. Yes clonidine and gaba help but now that I’m day 9 I need to taper off those meds too. The gaba I’m a little worried about b/c I was taking it in lower doses for about two months in conjunction with oxy. But really only like 2-500mg a day max. During detox that went from 6-900mg. I know some ppl say no WDs from gaba but some ppl do. Also currently dealing with a torn disc and sciatica pain (gaba scripted for this) which is also why I went hard with oxy lately to help with actual pain ans tolerance just shot thru the roof for me

Anyways could use some encouragement to keep truckin over here. My life depends on it first, then secondly I’m doing it for my parents spouse and puppy. All whom I love more than I tell them as they’ve been with me though multiple attempts. I have terrible guilt sometimes in regards to my spouse as before she got with me she never had to deal with addiction. It really fucks me up thinking about how unfair this has been over the last few years.

Can taking subs after kratom cause precip wd’s??

I was taking rp 10s for about a week or two. No idea if they were real or if they were fake sometimes or all the time 🤷 I never did the rps before but I heard they were stronger then the regular perc 20s I get. Thinking they were pressed bc I would nod after taking 2. I started going into withdrawal so I bought more. Did NOT think I would go into withdrawal bc I wasn't taking them for very long.

So does the withdrawal start over since i bought more? I was on day 3 when I reupped. I'm back in withdrawal bc I just wanna get this over with and chill on the pills for a while.

I've been taking advice... I take kratom but I'm not sure how much to take. I've been getting in and out of the bath, I've been watching silly movies, I've been eating healthy snacks. I don't have weed or subs, but I have been taking cyclobenzaprine to help w sleep and it works.

Any other advice? I'm on day 2.5.

2 days in withdrawing.. your stomach is bubbling. Between pooping rabbit turds and straight stomach acid, you feel your stomach bubble and 🤔 shit or fart? May the odds be ever in your favor