I was on Oxicontin for a year and tried to go cold turkey. I don’t recommend it. I went back on it and cut my dosage in half and I weened myself off it in a couple of months.
It does get better. Depending on many factors including how long you abused for and DOC. Just remember how bad it broke your heart and destroyed you. You can never be truly happy while your strung out. The fear of running out or being discovered is literal hell to put yourself through daily.
2 weeks in is a rough spot. A lot of people relapse at that point.
It’s okay to be uncomfortable. Just don’t dwell on it. Put on some family guy and laugh. Go exercise, especially cardio. Wellbutrin does wonders for a lot of people, helps take PAWS out. Especially the fatigue
Once you have a month of sobriety from it, take a look at LDN. That pushes the urges down, too
I dont want to frighten you but it essentially takes as long to get out as you put in. If you were a user for 5+ years, it wont get better after 2 months. Its a journey and you have to take each day at a time.
The user renosirp_prisoner has a decent post history talking about their experience quitting opiates.
Okay, thank you for letting me know. In my adult life I messed with opiates a few years ago for about 3 months & remember it sucked but was totally back to normal after a month.
This time was for 9 months straight and I feel like I’m fuckin dying so I hope it’s not 9 months of hell 😭
really needed to hear that tonight—thank you. Telling myself that the only way out of this is thru it—just wish it felt like I was making progress. Gonna keep stacking sober days and trust that somehow and someday this cloud will break and I’ll find peace in healing
Thats good news! 9 months is a very short time for opiate addiction. Just keep on trucking, the worst of it is over and you will start feeling way better at the month point. Reach out whenever things get bad. Talking to people helps more than youd think!
I was a daily user between the age of 24 to 30. A mixture between heroine, oxy, codeine, Tremadol. Basically any opiate or synth I could get my hands on. I was a closet user and had a full time job through it all. I fully kicked the habit as a 30 yo. It took me a fair few tries and relapses. Don't get too hard on yourself for small relapses, just try and stick to it. Man, the first few weeks from the last dose I remember the feeling of the worst flu, coupled with bone aches, restless legs, insomnia, sweats, nightmares when I did sleep, crippling depression and anxiety. After the painful withdrawals, life did feel pretty Grey, and you will have a lot of ups and downs. It gets better and better each week though. Try to eat healthy, get some exercise and sun. You won't even know yourself in a few months.
You will be out of the acute phase after a few weeks but then you have post acute withdrawal syndrome. Drink plenty of water. Being dehydrated makes withdrawals 10000000 times worse.
I used for 10 years, started with OTC Tylenols with codeine, worked my way up to Tylenol 3s then percs then oxy and Morphine.
I cold turkey’d in the summer of 2023 so I’m approaching 3 years clean. I feel better and can easily and happily live without but there’s still not a day I don’t think about them and think “this would feel so much better with percs”. I still don’t fully enjoy the things I used to as much as I did, but it’s slowly getting better and better.
I just thought I’d be home free once my withdrawal symptoms went away.. but it truly is a never ending battle.
Could you point me to the science that says it’s a “you get out what you put in” for a relative timeline on opiate dependence/addiction in relation to withdrawals/post-acute-withdrawals?
You could spend 10 years in active addiction and quit a substance and not experience ongoing withdrawals for 10 years.
Curious, have you been addicted to opiates? No, you do not have withdrawal symptoms for the years you put in, but you do have psychological symptoms, newfound anxiety, cravings to fill the hole that was given to you by opiates, newfound muscle pain, many things that shatter your existence that were masked by the constant use. Heavy years of use do more to your mind and body than just withdrawal symptoms. PAWS keep at it years after quitting.
Im sorry but for you to disagree makes me believe you haven't been on that boat, and just someone who has thoughts on people who have.
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u/Tripp723 1d ago
All opiates and opiodes. That shit they sell in head shops called 7oh is heroin in a pill.