right now i take pers for pain managment, and i have horrible cravings for sweets all the time...anyone else crave sweets with opiates?
Hell yeah, man. I eat way too many sweets and it has started to show. As of this time two years ago I weighed 150 pounds and now I am up to 205 pounds. I am pretty tall so it does not show, though. Methadone makes me crave all types of sweets, preferably ice cream and assorted caramel candies. It sucks. Anyways, just thought I would throw that out there to let you know that it happens to a lot of junkies. -NICU
Yeah...I have started to crave sweets more, but I lose my appetite for actual food, so thank god I am not gaining a bunch of weight because of it.
Yeah, I crave sweets on opiates too. No one's been able to explain this phenomenon AFAIK, but lots of people experience it. Not only am I eating sweets and crap all the time, I'm bloated up and constipated from the opiates, which likely slow metabolism as well. It's a vicious cycle... Conversely, there are lots of folks who lose their appetite completely and drop massive weight on opes (lucky bastards!), so it'd be interesting to know more about the mechanism behind opiates affecting appetite/weight.
ok, i take back my statement about losing my appetite while on opiates. i've been craving and eating a ton of junk food lately.
i do eat alot of sweets while on opiates and at the same time i have 0 appetite for normal food resulting in a huge weight drop..
I've struggled with anorexia for most of my life, and I've struggled with opiate addiction for almost as long. I DO crave sweets when I'm using (especially home made ice cream yum) and it's an ongoing battle for me not to cave to the obsessive food control thing. I've maintained a weight of 102 lbs. for the past five years, but my diet is sucky right now. I try to keep stuff like bananas and grapes in the house (frozen bananas are awesome) because they satisfy the sweet tooth mostly and don't put on the weight. Manfriend used to be a professional chef, so when we do the big grocery shopping at the beginning of every month, for the first two weeks I'll eat really well, especially for dinner. The end of the month I eat like crap - lots of packaged shit and frozen shit. When I have adequate pain relief I run in the morning and go to the gym 4 days a week, but really, the gym has been maybe once a week if that lately because of my pain issues. And summer's coming. AND I spend my summers in a beach-type community. Which means bikinis all summer. Which means I have to stop eating ice cream.
i have learned during my stay at a rehab that sweet such as chocolate mostly actully stimulates the same part of the brain that opiates do maybe that has something to do with it....
I know i am always craving dognuts, icecream, and CEREAL! ill even get up in the middle of the night to get up and eat something sweet. Ill even keep a stash of candy by the bed lol. Im a mess
i sometimes get a weird form of the munchies on any opiate... i also crave candy but i don't eat a shit ton like i do after smoking. it's more of the "savor the flavor" "less is more" type deal i'm weird though, i don't know anyone else who like food on opiates
