Anyone who is a regular user of opiates knows what it's like when you are trying to come off or just run out of your opiate of choice. My first time coming off opiates I saw just how terrible it can be. Legs and arms jerking, no way to relax, non stop shits. Crying and crying like a baby. And you stay clean for a little while, but one day.. you have a toothache. The dentist gives you a prescription and BOOM you're right back where you started. Spending hundreds of dollars a week. Anyways.. this is my second go round and I've found something that helps. Neurontin. It's a miracle! If it's nighttime and you're trying to go to sleep.. take about 1,200mg and it will seriously help the leg twitching and that coming out of your skin feeling. I can't promise you'll have the same results that I am having, but I've been able to sleep every night. When I first wake up I don't need to take any, buy after a couple hours I take another 600 mg and that holds me until nighttime dose of 1,200mg. It also helps with the mental part because you are still taking pills. If you are like me.. everytime you take one of your pills you count all the rest. I actually do this with the nuerontin and that makes me feel like I'm getting something out of it. They can make you feel a little.. well.. drunk, but they have totally taken all the worse things away. I actually feel like a real person and I haven't cried once! Also, bananas are very helpful. My first time around I didn't know about this and it was horrible. The worse thing I've ever been through. So, hopefully this can help someone going through the same thing. Just becareful with the neurontin. It is not a narcotic and not habit forming, but it can make you woozy, so it would be best not to drive until you know how it will affect you. Also, you don't want to trade one for the other, so you should really only take this through the worse days.. days 1-5 usually.
I can attest to using Gabapentin during withdrawals, I would take 600=800 at wake up then again at arround 2 pm and then again an hour befor bed. Including Gaba with Immodium and Trazedone, does indeed help big time with withdrawals. I wont do it again with out having my toolbox loaded with the right supplies. Good Post!!!!
Yeah, it really sucks that this time I didn't want to stop. I can't understand why something that makes you feel so much better and helps you to be so much more productive is so hard to get. But, money is always an issue and I can't justify spending the money I do on them at this point in my life. So, the gotta go. The first time was the worse thing I've ever experienced. This time around the Neurontin has helped so much it hasn't even felt that bad. I also cannot stress how much bananas will help your legs. Anyways, I just hope someone sees this that is going through the same thing. I would tell you to NOT be afraid to go to a doctor and do your best to get some Neurontin. Either you tell them you are going through withdrawals or you tell them you are having nerve pain, such as a pinched nerve or carpal tunnel. Or even go to the emergency room and tell them you are on vacation and left your medicine at home. They will probably give you a prescription. It is worth it! I'll never go through withdrawals with out it again. I might even try and become a spokes person for Neurontin and sing its praises all over the world to addict young and old!
Well I read every thread concerning withdrawals that i see because what works for someone may not work for others that is the nature of the beast we call OXY Addiction. Withdrawals are no different. By getting all the information I can, gives me an opportunity to find the combinations of things that will aid in withdrawals. Anyone who takes opiates for a long enough duration will experience withdrawals. Some i look at what works for them, then I can try it during my next withdrawal.
Man, withdrawals are a B. But if you have the right things you can minimize them. The best thing I took for WD's was a combo of Immodium, Benzo's, Ibuprofen, and Potassium. As for the legs twitching, it's restless leg syndrome which I unfortunately have without an opiate addiction. It's terrible to go through for me as it happens on a nightly basis. I told my doctor about it, he got me on Requip, then Mirapex, then Sinamet. All of which caused extreme side effects that made me feel poisoned. The only other options after that are narcotics and benzo's which I'm sober from and refuse to take. So I have to pretty much suffer with it every night. If you need to, I would ask your doctor about Sinamet, as it would likely help. It doesn't have as bad of side effects, it makes you drowsy enough to sleep, and it's cheap. It doesn't help me much as I have a severe case of RLS, but someone who is going through opiate WD it would likely help.
Neurontin? Wow, I haven't heard of using that for WD's before, but I'll try it the next time I'm in that situation. Sometimes I overdo it on my pain meds and run out. And if my connections don't come through, I'm screwed until my refill comes in. Now, I take the generic form of Neurontin (Gabapentin) every day for diabetic neuropathy. I take 400mg twice per day. And when I go through WD's I always get restless legs syndrome, but not really that bad. But I have never taken 1200mg all at once, because I haven't heard until now that it was effective for RLS. But next time I'll try taking 1200mg and see what happens. Imodium (Loperamide) also helps me. I take 6 of those per day, which is 12mg of Loperamide. It helps with the diarrhea and some of the other WD symptoms. Also, I take Xanax to help with the anxiety and jittery feelings and a double dose of Aleve for the muscle aches. What I need is something to help with insomnia. The Xanax by itself isn't enough. I mean, I need something to knock me out. When I go through WD's the insomnia is terrible. Sometimes I've gone 3 days before I could sleep.
I take Trazadone for sleep during withdrawals, whens it bad i take 200Mgs, else i usually take 100 MGs, stuff works good.
And I actually have a prescription for Trazadone. It's for sleep, 50mg per night, but I don't take it unless I have to. I've tried 100mg before during WD's and it didn't really help. It just just made me drowzy. Next time I'll try 200mg and see what it does.
The one and only time I managed to quit cold turkey cannabis was the one thing that kept me going without it I know I would have relapsed its just such a shame I ended up thinking I could use again without getting back into the cycle of addiction now I'm on a methadone program and I hate it but on the plus side at least I'm not sticking needles in my arm.
