so. we all know about the joys of opiates... obviously. i recently hit a rough patch, had to kick, sucked. anyway, are all of your stories frosting and custard, or do you guys like to glorify? id like to hear about some of your, darker experiences... if you have had em. how long, maintain, why did you quit?
Quit for about 2 months recently from doing OC daily. What sucks is after 2 months I still didn't feel like I was back to normal, and ended up getting back on the opiate wagon and wish I didn't - the mental really is harder than the physical. Quit because I couldn't afford it and basically was not getting high anymore, and obviously withdrawals are the worst. Don't really like to glorify and try to advise anyone I know taking opiates to be careful of what may ensue.
I"ve been on and off for three years now it started when i was just turning 18. I started taking percs. then eventually got to OC's. I did about 2-3 80s a day for about a year. Then quit cold turkey, got very sick, then my doc. prescribed me valium for the anxiety from withdrawls which only made me realize that mixing the two severely fucks you up. Got back on the wagon after only 3 weeks of being clean, had to quit school and move back in with my parents, they thought I was clean the whole time and I wasn't. Quit again on the first of this year after a 7 month binge of 4 80s a day. I bought 20, 750 dollars worth to ween myself off and lost them on the way to a new years party at a gas station. So I went through severe withdrawls again only this time I was hospitalized twice for severe dehydration which caused me to faint, hit my head, and have seizures. Now I'm back on, have been since May, doing more than I ever have, spending 300 (basically just not to get sick) a day having to go to school, bartend, and slang. It sucks, but thats the life of a junkie... I know because my mom had two brothers who died from Opiates one od'd on heroin, and one nodded off at the wheel and got into a fatal car crash with a tree. Thats some of the darkside, not glorified version of it all. Tried rehab 3X, meetings, and now I'm looking into the possibility of starting suboxone tomorrow, wish me luck!
Here's a story I can relate to. I was up to 20 hydro 10/325's a day. They were realtively easy to score from internet pharmacies. Then they became nearly impossible to get so I ran out. What a miserable experience !! The withdrawls were absolute HELL !! Felt like I had the worst flu of my life !! Definitely the worst case of the runs ever as well. I couldn't even work and couldn't even get out of bed. Then I remembered some cheap ultram that I scored from an overseas internet pharmacy so I took those. They took care of the physical withdrawl symptoms, but it was just substituting one drug for another. I started by taking 8 a day (can't remember the strength ??) and that allowed me to at least function and work, though the euphoria of the hydro wasn't there. After a few weeks, I cut it to 6 a day, then to 4 a day, then to 2, then 1, then even a half of one. The whole process took about 6 months but it worked !!! I haven't touched an opiate in a couple years now and never will. Although, psychologically I still think about them a lot, especially the energy boost they use to give me. Anyways, I hope that helps. Long, slow taper is the key to being semi-miserable rather than feeling like death. Hope this helps someone that is in the same boat as I was. "He not busy being born is busy dying" - Bob Dylan
Good for you man . I've never done an opiate but I've heard a lot about how cold turkey can fuck people over.
i was a junkie for many years. finally my bf died from complications of an abcess and i had to quit so i went on methadone. i was on methadone for 2 years and kicking it is a bitch. and i wanted to say if you you methadone to kick the best way IMO is to only use it for a week to 10 days to cover the w/d and then you can stop it and not get w/d from the methadone.
