Why fentanyl withdrawal is so unbearable
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- Опубліковано 3 бер 2024
- Over 2 million Americans have opioid use disorder, according to some estimates. Illicit opioids such as heroin and fentanyl were responsible for over 80,000 U.S. overdose deaths in 2023.
Despite the known risks, these drugs are notoriously hard to stop using - due in large part to how debilitating withdrawal can be.
“People get trapped in this terrible cycle where they don’t feel normal, they can’t function, they feel horribly ill unless they’re finding and using opioids,” explained Sarah Wakeman, medical director for substance use disorder at Mass General Brigham. “People will forgo other basic, primal needs like connection and sex and food just to relieve their withdrawal symptoms. That’s how powerful it is.”
Medications such as methadone and buprenorphine are very effective at treating opioid dependence, but despite sky-high overdose death rate, these treatments are unnecessarily hard to access in the United States, according to experts.
In this video, Wakeman explains how opioids work in the brain and why they cause such nightmarish withdrawal symptoms. She also explains how treating opioid use disorder with approved medications can help people lead normal, productive lives.
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I hate when people say withdrawal is like the flu. Withdrawal brings me to the brink of suicide
Facts I made it 5 days locked in a room an decided to try to get on a methadone program I kno I was gonna relapse its miserable
@@whitemamba0089dam foreal bro ?
@@whitemamba0089u still was feeling bad after not using 5 days ?
@@wievc1942 it is the worst experience I've ever had, like suicidal type of ideas to escape that an I was a light user I could only imagine a full on "junkie" if the devil is real he's in that drug lol
Going through it now. Week 3. Suicide thoughts finally gone. Still an emotional wreck. I’m doing all I can, eating, exercise, win hof, gummies, vitamins, hydration. Still sux.
327 days sober. I’ve had a heart attack, 4 stents, 2 c-sections, multiple surgeries and buried my husband. I’d rather suffer all of that again in one day than to ever go through fentanyl withdrawal again.
2 C Sections? Wow!
@@richevans609 the heart attack in between is really the only thing uncommon lol
@@user-kx7lx4zf4n Just stay sober! It doesn't get better.
It must be hell...
@@allahgod298it is 😪 pray for me
Year number 7 clean. It only gets better year by year. My wife and I were literally homeless, and now we are raising our children and earning over $100,000/ year
You guys are awsome ❤
Day 9 no fentanyl ❤
How are you feeling?
@@sejibaby3453 I'm feeling pretty good, thank you for asking! Noticing the bordum starting to kick in alot more now that my withdrawals are calming down, the whole chaos of that lifestyle keeps you busy and always having something to do/think about. Now I'm just at my aunts waiting for the rehab bed to open up, and no longer have some daily adventure to attain dope that I gotta go on lol. My last couple of family members took my car and kicked me out and that did it for me!
I’m on day 7 but I been a HEAVY iv user fet fkr last 7 years and oxy and h 10 years before that. I’m miserable can barely strength tk write this
Hold on there guys I'm also here trying my best
Day 6 no fent blue pills. Was using 4-5 yrs daily. This was the hardest battle I ever experienced but it did so much for me mentally. I’ve always had a addictive personality so with this new start I’m building myself mentally and physically. We got this 🤝
The withdrawal was torturous. The restless legs for 12 hours made me crazy.
Hell yea I feel you. The sleepless nights are horrible
12 hours damn. Mine lasted like 6 days.
I’m saying. 12 hours? Mine was like that for probably at least 6-7 days. It got better day by day. I can feel it now just thinking about it. I hated the smell that comes out your body and your pee stinks. Feet are sweating and too lazy and hurting to get a shower.
@@mikehunt4797- Even with huge amounts of Diazepam and Temazepam, Zopiclone and I still couldn't sleep properly or relieve my restless legs and that duvet thing where one minute your cold and then you throw your duvet off because your hot and clamy and you keep repeating that process along with the diarrhoea! This was a Heroin /Methadone withdrawal so I can't say if it is any worse than Fentynal as our Heroin ain't tainted with it but what I will say is thus is Methadone is worse to come off than Heroin. 🇬🇧
If you say "it's like the flu" you've never did a cold turkey withdrawal
For me it was pretty much like a flu, but a reallllllllllly bad flu
thats a fact, IDK wtf kind of flu these people be getting....
Dude i know right, ill admit herion withdrawl did kinda feel like a really really bad flu, but fentanyl?!?!?! Whole different level.
It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done in the 65 years of my life.
That's heavy 😮
Me too. The hardest thing in my 50 years
Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.
Can you help with the reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. Very hard to get a reliable source here in Australia. Really need!
Yes, dr.sporessss I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
I wish they were readily available in my place.
Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He is 59 & has so many mental health issues plus probable CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac.
He's constantly talking about killing someone.
He's violent. Anyone reading this Familiar w/ BPD know if it is common for an obsession with violence.
Is he on instagram?
Yes he is. dr.sporessss
17 year old kid, i've had my issues with blues/fent/wtv you'll call it since i was 12. i just had a slip up and had a week of life that wasn't real. im so horribly dope sick now and feelings the consequences deeply. for all of you out there fighting this disease know you're not alone, you're loved and you matter. you're going to win. and so am i. humans make mistakes and it doesn't change your worth. keep fighting
Detox buddy...
👊🏾👊🏾🫵🏾✊🏾
I've been where you are, entire time I was 16 and 17 I was doing the same shit, im 18 and I still use sometimes, im homeless now though and currently trying to get out, I feel you dude I'm sorry, we'll get better tho yk? love you dude fr.
Big ol facts don’t let one slip up throw u into full relapse. We all fuck up just pick up where you left off and take it one day at a time. Learn from you’re mistakes so you don’t keep making the wrong decisions expecting different results that’s insanity.
@@danielquintana4963took me almost 20 something years to realize I was doing the same thing over and over again really thinking I was going somewhere. 1 step ahead but 2 backwards
Amazing how many people commenting on this video are going through it from all walks of life. Just shows what a universal struggle addiction is.
❤In the same sense, it's amazing to see how many people have tapped into There strength to overcome the hardest thing that they'll ever overcome addiction and change their life around To See another day
The cold sweats were the worst especially during the winter while having a physically laborious job! Forget about it! But recovery is still possible & life is actually good after! Its a tough fight but possible!
My God I know right! Those 10 hour plus days in the rain really bring you to your knees man lol, especially when your bones feel like icicles
33 days clean today, still going strong ❤️
You went to work while rattling? Wow you are one strong hardcore man as I can even drag myself out of bed. 🇬🇧👍
This is so accurate and great to see! Very well made, as a opioid patient that eventually turned to heroin and then fentanyl over the past 16 years…. And now finally started a methadone treatment program a few months ago…. We need to be talking about this more, especially the societal impact and stigma aspect. It’s already such a big mountain to overcome, the last thing we need is our family and friends treating us like trash, or like we deserve to go through it…simply because we made choices that lead us down this path… which let me tell you, it is a very slippery slope and anyone can find themselves on it in the blink of an eye 🤐🤯. I don’t wish it on my worst enemy, nor would I let anyone go through this struggle for me if I could. No one deserves the feeling of opioid withdrawal symptoms. Unless you’ve gone through it, you don’t truly understand what it’s like, please don’t forget that and try to be compassionate and patient❤.
I'm on methadone for close to a year now! The only thing I can suggest Is get yourself as quickly as you can off of it... Obviously I'm not saying 2 weeks or anything ridiculous like that. But if I knew I would have done my treatment in 6 months all of it instead of coming to a year and still being on it. Considering I went from 60mg down to 18mg now... It is very hard. That's why I'm saying the faster the better as methadone you also get withdrawals from it.. especially when your body gets hooked to it. At the end of the day it's an opiate and people abuse it especially when they haven't tried any drug like that before. But great job! The light gets brighter the more you get closer to recovery. It starts bleak but it is better and better. Also be mindful of "pink cloud turning to gray"! Meaning you will have moments of wanting to use after couple of months! It's normal! Everyone has this. But be strong and don't give in. Start to build your life again around you. Create bonds and relationships where you will not want to use again as you value the things around you. Otherwise your recovery is bleak... If you have nothing to fight for you will give in! But other than that remember you are strong! 90% of people that judge us! Would never ever go through what we went through! Keep strong! And value yourself for who you are! Look In the mirror and see what you have accomplished. As it's an accomplishment! And don't feel regretful, say that I have experienced the thrill and the bad side of this and also I'm alive and well! It's like any relationship in life whether it's a partner or hobby or craft of any kind..it's the same with drugs! It's an relationship that has come to an end! But you can still be friends! No sexual endeavour with her anymore but just talking to eachother. Obviously this is metaphorically speaking. I find it easier that way for me..as the fear of losing something is scary but knowing that she is still there being the drug I'm referring too. It's comforting.
How often do you go,most clean people get 28 days now since the V+VX.Thats the USA where they're trying to relax the laws after 50 years "motaA every other country in the world,all Europe, Australia,NZ, much of South America have you call a doctor who prescribes 30 days with 2 refills.
@@richardmaier28 I have to go to the methadone clinic 5 days a week 🤯😑! So frustrating and annoying, but I also understand sort of.
@@dominikkaszuba8420 thank you for your words of kindness and support! They are taken seriously and with a warm heart! You’re words have shown me how much I need to find a support group and system that I can rely on and trust to help support me. Thankfully I do have something to fight for… I found out in Dec. that I will be a father in august, a baby girl. The first for me somehow…🙈! I have lived three lives in one and tattood for the better part of 15 years. The fact I haven’t had a kid yet is mind blowing honestly, but is also all the more reason to finally be done playing with fire 🔥…literally 🤯.
Your going to be blown away by this but I’m already at 140mg of methadone and still struggling to stabilize 😶🌫️🥵! Having Strength is an understatement to the extent of what I’ve endured over the past few months, to say I’m clean would be a slap in the face to those who are…but I’m doing very well and have a realistic outlook for the time it’ll take to get my life back. I was doing a couple grams of strait fentanyl powder a day, and down to a few points every few days while I’ve been stabilizing onto the methadone. With having days without using at all. My goal is to be completely done supplementing by the beginning of may and on track for that.
Thank you again for taking the time to say a few words, it warmed my heart reading it and sounded a lot like something I would have said to someone else going through it 🥰.
I used heroin for 20 years, started using at 15y.o. Now in rehab for 12 years. All this is true.
I mean I don't think anyone would lie about being an addict. Congrats tho🎉
i just want my nose and eyes to stop running.
Boy those are the easiest parts of withdrawal lol
@@whitemamba0089lmfaoooo facts , talk to me when you can’t quit movin your legs , can’t find any position that’s even remotely comfortable , or when your shitting urself , I can go on an on, the twitches , the sweats , hot cold . Straight hell
And the worse part is, you know EXACTLY what can instantly cure that horrible feeling 😢🥲
@@XstonedmonkeyzX I’m right now literally dying dope sick
@@jdaman3960 best way is to taper down. And best way to taper is using nasally. Since you can each time, or day use less and less until you're using a very tiny amount. And its easier to see that you're using less in powder form than anyway else... Before breaking, I was able to make a $5 dollar buy, last me 3 days!!!
Day three. So sick 🤢
Keep going!!
Day 1 … keep going… we can do this and live our lives to the fullest … wish me luck … but my resolve is the strongest it’s ever been
🤗🙏🏼
Restless legs were the worst for me no matter how you lay you can’t get comfortable
Restless body! My entire body, my fucking finger tips, my torso is the WORST! I lay there and flap around stretching like a fish out of water! It's bad. To the point where I gotta get up but I can't even find the strength to get up.
@@mindaellis5054 my God... as a person who never did drugs it really sounds like hell. I know it's weird but I am actually physically afraid of drugs, because of the hell they bring. I wish you the strength to pull through this.
@@mindaellis5054 and the mental anxiety is brutal. Trying to sleep is the absolute worst. Ugh.
Absolutely! It’s maddening. If I had access to a firearm during withdrawal I wouldn’t be here now.
@@matthewstuart2054same is Brutal Brutal hellish hell. To be stable is such a beautiful thing. Just to have a normal body. To watch a film or read a book. To Go out for food and be able to eat comfortable and for your skin to feel normal and no hyposensitivity. Hope I can get clean. Starting to think am a lifer.
I started doing drugs since my teenage, got addicted to fentanyl. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Fentanyl addiction actually destroyed my life. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 4 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.
Amen God bless people. Save your health save your mind. Life is better without heroin, fentanyl, alcohol and cigarettes. And you have more money in your pocket. God bless everyone who has rejected the devils intentions to be addicted to alcohol and cigarettes etc which can cause so much damage to health.
Can you help me with the reliable source 🙏. I'm 56 and have suffered for years with addiction, anxiety and severe ptsd, I got my panic attacks under control myself years ago and they have come back with a vengeance, I'm constantly trying to take full breaths but can't get the full satisfying breath out, it's absolutely crippling me, i live in Germany. I don't know much about these mushrooms. Really need a reliable source!! Can't wait to get them
YES very sure of Dr.benfungi. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
Congrats! I'm really happy for you that your wife decided to help you. I always admire those who beat their addiction. Knowing it's possible to fix your life knowing there's people out there that have done what I thought was impossible gives me hope I will make it through as well. Those who share their experiences don't know how much it helps when you're about to give up, it gives you the strength knowing somone who actully know what it's like to go through this tell you it's possible, it's not the same somone telling you you can do it when they have no idea what it's like, but hearing somone who knows what it's like that helps a lot since you understand it firsthand and made it out gives so much hope. so thanks for sharing.
How do i reach out to him? Is he on Instagram
This person is smart and articulate. And is able to talk about this difficult subject without moralizing. Well done.
Yes, an excellent job.
I am a combat veteran who was on opioids for 5 years due to severe spinal injury and when the doctor said “No more. Deal with it” I went cold turkey. I lived in my bathroom for 3 weeks begging for death. But the absolute torture was severe RLS and emotional instability! And I heard getting off fentanyl is a lot worse. Can’t even imagine anyone wanting to go back to it after they quit once and went thru this hell.
It feels like like the devil dipped his nails in poison and stuck them in every nerve ending at once.
I could never find the words to describe it, you describe it perfectly.
@@naeemtull2026I know, right? It's so poetic 🥲
Day 4 today !!!
how u feeling brother ?
day 1 today
Day 10 ! I hope that you are doing well ❤
Suboxone saved my life ❤
How’s everyone’s recovery doing today?
I am still doing good 🌝
This is SUCH a good video. That animation shown is by far the best visual representation of withdrawal I have ever seen. Dark, dirty, depressing... Excellent work 👏
The restless legs and arms WHILE AWAKE was enough to make me cry. It really fucking sucks
I'm a medical professional. I knew that the withdrawal was fatal. I had no idea how. Thank you for this video. It filled in a lot of knowledge gaps.
I have done every drug in excess in every combination, known to man since I was 15. I went by ambulance to detox with a blood pressure of 86/43. Suboxone is working. My last dose was 04/09 at 11pm. I’m never doing it again. My body would not sleep and I thrashed in agony uncontrollably for days.
Great video she did well, very informative and simpled down for anyone to understand
Thank you for explaining this.
Wish everyone would be as knowledgeable, informed, and as empathetic as this. Being a long time recovering addict myself, I know exactly what full withdrawal looks like, and feels like. Not sleeping for 2 and a half weeks and only passing out from pure exhaustion for maybe 30 min here and there is something I would never want to go through again. That doesn't include the pure agony of how you feel physically, emotionally, and mentally.
The one stigma that bothers me the most is that people that have never been through it say it's a choice to live that way. Nope. It may or not have been a choice when starting the drugs but it certainly wasn't part of the plan for anyone I've come into contact w/ that have the goal of being a full blown junky. Sober from opioids since 2004. Life during those several years before that were a living hell.
I’m 7 days in and i can’t handle it anymore.
I hear you man. I hear you, but you can. You're almost done. ALMOST DONE! Hardest part is ending. Make it one more minute, it's OK to not handle it anymore. Don't think about the past, don't think about the future, your friends, your family... just the next minute. Almost there dude.
Man just drink a lot water bro. I'm here also trying my best man you can do it man don't give up man
I'm 7 days in too man
You're Golden.
Oh hunny.
IM GRATEFUL GOING TO PRISON TO GET THE HELP I NEED IT SAVED MY LIFE AND IM GONA STAY CLEAN AND SOBER WORKING ON 2 YEARS CLEAN
Biker, when I first looked at this video, I was kind of chuckling to myself. There are a lot of guys in prison ‘jonesing’, eventually they get through it. I had never been arrested or in jail, but found myself in a house of correction of the age of 72 due to a false DV charge, I was later exonerated. Congratulations on your victory
🎉
Your positivism is great ! It looks like you understand that is a fight you have to do on your own . So difficult . I wish you all the good luck !
@@woutervanlent5181 YES I APPRECIATE IT.. I SEE SO MANY PEOPLE STUCK ON THIS STUFF STILL AND THEY DON'T HAVE A REASONABLE ANSWER TO GET HELP.. ITS BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT IT.
Thank you for educating us - this was very informative. Withdrawal sounds absolutely nightmarish. I didn’t know about the whole neurotransmitter aspect.
The worst kick ever. Pure hell. Drenched in sweat while freezing. My hair hurts. Can't ever get comfortable for weeks. No sleep.
Hey how are you? ❤
@@ChicagoGurl I kicked. I'm back to normal now. Took almost 3 weeks but I'm feeling good hitting the gym, working. That was a hard-core withdrawal but I white knuckled it out.
@@user-yq7yi3dm8m that’s so awesome. Stay strong, 💪 You did it!!!!
With my addictive personality I’m glad I never tried this poison. Must be a nightmare to get off of, my heart goes out to all of those suffering in the throes of addiction and trying to quit. I hope you all get the help you need.
.....im about to start voluntarily in the next several days. Late 40's, and i cant remember being this scared...ever.
Start doing fentanyl voluntarily?
8 Days further now . How are you ? Your comment impressed me . Good luck !
Fear of wds is powerful and is often worse than the actual wds...Best of luck!
Smart, learned, well read, and compassionate.
Geeze. This is the best withdrawal video I have ever seen. Explained so well. I just went through precipitated withdrawal 2 days ago from wanting off and taking subs too soon. My god it was so horrible.
Very well done!
While I was withdrawing, I went seven days, almost without eating or drinking because I couldn’t bear the thought. I would be nauseated thinking of trying to eat or drink anything. It’s so dangerous, please do it professionally. But do it!
I'm a substance abuse nurse and your toilet bowl water reference is great!
What an amazing and compassionate women!
"I was a heroin addict when I was 18 years old. I went through a bunch of rehabs for 5 years, but none worked, so I did the most insane thing I've ever done: I quit cold turkey after yo-yoing in and out of rehabs. It was a kamikaze move back then. I was going to die anyway, so why not go crazy? It was 2 weeks of hell: vomiting, muscle cramps, feeling freezing even though it was blazing hot outside, insomnia, etc. Believe me, it was hell. And what's worse is the withdrawal. For 3 months, all that was in my mind was drugs. The anxiety was almost unbearable. But after 3.6 months, it got better. I started going to the gym, earning some money, and my life was 1000x better. It was like getting out of jail. And that experience of stopping cold turkey gave me PTSD about drugs. Never again do I want to go through that. No way.
Now, I've been sober for 15 years. I go to the gym, work as an Android developer, and work from home, earning a very decent amount of money. Yeah, I rent my dad's home, but it's better than being homeless. Besides, he loves being around his grandkids. 16 years sober. My advice? Don't do what I did. Quitting drugs cold turkey is really hell."
In a few days I will be at one year clean from fentaynl. Quit myself which not the best idea but I got thru it and I can't believe I'm a few days from a year. Worst thing to go thru ever but if your determined just make sure you have a support team to encourage you to keep clean. Make a list of things that you enjoy or things you miss about your life prior to this lifestyle.
I was prescribed this for a few days following a major back surgery. Its ability to pain manage was far beyond what i thought was possible by medication alone.
Shes speaking absolute facts,,,shout out from London
How about just allowing people to have their natural rights to have any and as much of a drug as they want!
Great video, i've learned a lot! The women in this video sounds very eloquent and educated, a pleasant listening experience in my opinion.
Absolutely. Bless this brilliant gem of a human.
Withdrawing in jail is even worse especially when you don’t have subboxon
yep i went cold turkey in uk prison ..and it was a nightmare ..but i got over it ...
For some people with less self discipline it can be effective sometimes.
Wow! What a very well laid out video. Thank you.
Well said lady
I have never felt any sort of euphoria from my prescription patch of fentanyl. I have a serious chronic pain disorder called RSD or CRPS. It s been over ten years. Is the new rapid change an advisable option for me? TY.
If you are referring to quitting cold turkey. NO. If you are curious, give it a try but make sure you have your patches on hand for when it gets to rough and you change your mind. Don't just let the prescription lapse or you that will be the worst decision of your life.
Unimaginable
Hey I'm going through it right now. I don't have anything to balance it out with. It feels like it's tearing my hips apart. Is that normal?
Hang in there you’re almost through the worst part or you are by now it gets better after a week or so
yes, that's is normal
Can someone get clean after years of abuse?
Yep
Day 10 off my methadone script! Iv been in withdrawal so many times over the years I've lost count. Give me the "flu" like feeling all day... The lack of sleep and all the mental symptoms are what use to make be keep going back. I tapered myself this time thank foook
im 5 months off methadone myself, good job!
I was on fentanyl patch + morphine liquid around the clock for about last 3 months of cancer treatment. I had little difficulty withdrawing off the narcotics.
I suffered for 6 out of 8 years with fentanyl withdrawal every month from changing my patches too early and left one to three days at the end of my script before I could get a refill
I used to do heroin and been on methadone for a few years but fentanyl gives me anxiety. At least what we have here in Baltimore. So I don't like fet. Thank God!!!
We should have alternatives to opiods. I hope science & Pharma catch up with the goal.
I am a recovered opioid dependent person. Withdrawals are like what I imagine being tortured feels like.
no sleep coupled with exhustion and having to go to work and deal with life . ugh fuck!
My dealer gets up in half hour. I'm so sorry for getting hooked sucks!!
1 year sober today #fuckfent
Just gotta tough it out for a few days
Iv had a opiode addiction for 25 years off and on! Clean fora few years then slip up fora few. Just hit a year clean again and feel great🎉🎉
ITS REAL WITHDRAWALS ARE REAL AND TRIGGERS ARE JUST AS REAL YOU NEED BE STRONG TO AND WANT TO GET CLEAN AND STAY CLEAN ITS UP TO YOU TO MAINTAIN IT
You gotta go through the pain in order to get better ❤
@@janycebrown4071 NOW I KNOW WHY PEOPLE SAY THEY'D RATHER DIE THEN GO THROUGH WITHDRAWALS
@@janycebrown4071 THATS IF YOU LIVE THROUGH IT NOW IM HEARING PEOPLE ARE DIEING FROM WITHDRAWALS OR DIE PERIOD SINCE HAS SOME NEW CUT IN IT WHERE IM FROM THAT NARCAN ISN'T WORKING ANYMORE
@@janycebrown4071 NOW I KNOW WHY PEOPLE WERE SCARED TO GO TO PRISON OR REHAB THAT HAS A HABIT WITHIN 12 HOURS OF MY LAST HIT I WAS FROZEN SWEATING AND THROWING UP FOR NEXT FEW DAYS IT GOTTEN WORSE
Realizing I’ve either been on opiates or suboxone for the last decade straight. Trying to get off suboxone I heard about a sublicaid shot of buprenorphine that goes into your stomach once a month might try that.
Its the same shit. The rout of administration is the only difference.
Take the naltrexone depot instead for a change of pace.
I really loved how she explained the concept of survival instincts. That's was very well put. However, as someone who went through the whole suboxone ringer on and off for multiple years without any long term success after getting off (and detoxing off the suboxone for 30 straight days), WHY do doctors not properly explain what an opioid antagonist ACTUALLY is and what it is ACTUALLY doing? Continuing to feed the parts of your brain craving the drug. Literally antagonizing the addiction while also suppressing it. If youkep applying stress and pressure to something as cunning baffling and powerful as addiction, like our human instinct to survive like this video was comparing. My next very serious question as the target of your audience, why do we only talk about the things that are antagonizing and suppressing and yet almost no one knows about vivitrol? They don't know because prescribers don't mention it. You have to be the one to bring it up. But why is that if we are really trying to help people regain their health? It had no physical dependency. It's a once a month injection which provides a massive safety net in times of uncertainty that methadine and suboxone, that are taken daily, do not. It removed the craving for it enough that when I felt like I would have given in the first couple weeks before the vivitrol really started working, I knew I couldn't. Because it was a 1x per month injection. I only had to make the decision 1 day a month. For an addict or alcoholic that daily decision could be the difference between life and death. You also cannot get high off of vivitrol or the daily pill form of vivitrol, neltrexone. I got off fentynal and on Vivitrol and stayed on it for 4 months. I have not gone back since. After about 5 years on opioids/opiates. I have been off for almost 4 months and I don't ever have cravings. I have no desire for them. I'm truly blessed to have gotten away from Percocet, heroin, fentanyl, meth, cocaine, and tons of ecstasy after 16 years of addiction. I maintain with other things that work for me and they are not pills or drugs or anything like that. I connect with like minded people who had a solution that worked for them to offer to me for “fun and for free because someone did it for them,” they say. These questions are not to be attacking or to knock anyone who is staying off the streets by being on these medications. I'm just asking valid questions as someone these medications are targeted for and who has been through them time and time again. I believe the vivitrol worked for me as far as my physical brain goes because I was no longer feeding the addiction while also blocking it from being free to have what it wanted. And I didn't even have intense cravings. I just had to figure out what to do physically with myself instead of sit around anxious until I inevitably went back to the drugs. For me being active helps tremendously. Also magnesium. Please. If you struggle from addiction look uo the benefits of magnesiumand add vitamin D3 once a day to help with depressive symptoms. Essential oils work amazing too for depression and anxiety. Look up which ones are best for your personal needs.
I hope this can open room for consideration and for me and anyone reading it to continue to be aware and question what we are told and not told and what other options we have available. Vivitrol is very hard on the liver so check with your doctor of course as I am not one.
I was pissing dirty for fent over 40 days after i stopped using. Took almost 6 months for the gastrointestinal and stomach issues to subside. The illicit fentanyl def has much different pharmacokinetic properties than pharmaceutical-grade fent
how did you quit? I'm trying to help my daughter. She's deeply addicted to fent and meth (which she uses for energy to collect cans to recycle for money for the fent and meth). She's a very HEAVY user. She thinks there's no use in trying because it's too painful and won't work. I'm trying to find people who have done it and can show it's possible.
Makes perfect sense.
So is Benzo withdrawal agony am nearly recovered now still hurts bad in legs
I quit methadone cold turkey and that sucked about as bad as it can suck. Ten days no sleep before going to hospital.
4 years on pills now 6 years on fent. Help me guys plz i wanna quit. Besides rehabs and clinics, what’s the best way to beat it at home. Plz help me. 😢 it ain’t fun no more it’s just to be normal.
I was on 40 mg oxycodone everyday for chronic pain for almost 10 years and I cut my dosage to 20 mg in the morning last saturday.
When I started to feel bad when it is time for my next normal dose I took about 3-6 grams of green bean kratom to stop withdrawals and help with energy so I can tend to my garden and take care of my animals.
I did that for a week, I wanted to go down to 10 mg today but it was too fast so I took 5 mg half of a tablet and that's all I'm going to take of my oxycodone for today and I'm going to stay on that for a week and just use kratom for breakthrough pain and or withdrawals.
My plans for next Saturday is to drop down to the 10 mg of oxycodone and just use the kratom as needed so I can be completely off of everything and a couple more weeks.
I'm taking lots of vitamin D3 in the correct ratio is with vitamin K2 to try to get my inflammation down and have included a diet change.
I'm also sitting outside grounding trying to get pain and inflammation out of my body which is why I've been on opiates 4 years. I'm trying to heal what's wrong. I've had surgery injections etc I just I'm working hard on healing myself so I don't need to pay meds anymore.
Muscle using Veronica roller balls you can buy from Walmart and they are helping takes a couple days much like using a grounding mat when I sleep Wendy's in framing rats in the mornings how to reduce pain and inflammation.
Methadone withdrawal is the worst, and I have done them all.
Ugh. Most horrid 21 days of my life
@@Mike_HuntizWet Mine was getting worse at 21 days. Like waves of intense withdrawal. 5 years off of all opiates. I'm done.
@@Mike_HuntizWet 21 days? lucky you im 5 months off methadone and STILL have lingering symptoms. PAWS sucks.
@@pigeonsil240sx Oh make no mistake. I couldn’t take anymore than 21 days. I’m sure it would have lasted longer
Can someone explain why 10 minutes of withdrawal seems like 10 years? Why does time stand still?
Time is relative, you must not be having any fun.
Cuz pain and agony is real! If nothing else is at least Pain is real
Your deep subconscious and primal brain take over and are screaming for a fix.. so it slows time under the surface.. it’s kinda like trying to think of a actor and you can’t remember their name but 2 days later it pops in your head. I think honestly that is the worst part of withdrawal is a min. Seems like a month
Wow - She's Smart, gorgeous AND SAVING LIVES ❤
I hate when people like her talk like she no wot it like! Be a stone cold junkie for years ie getting arrested locked in a police station for days. With 0 meds ! Look at doe’s because she goes on a few course she a expert 🥶😩😩😩😩
I feel like u don’t understand her fully
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But "medication" [read: TRILLION DOLLAR chemical pushers] can help.
I think we need to define what we mean by success in treating drug addiction. I think both sides want to see people go back to leading normal, productive lives, just how do we get there? I believe that if just want to keep people alive, then safe injection sites and legalize drug use will work, but it doesn't stop the dependence. The "tough love" approach can work if it is accompanied to surpervised withdrawal and whatever other methods help to make sure the person doesn't die from their withdrawal, but at the end of the day if they want to truly kick the habit they will have to go cold turkey at some point. The alternative can be seen as more compassionate, but is it really? You are just delaying the inevitable and the person is still continuing to poison themselves every day, continuing the addiction and continuing to feed the drug market. Yes they are alive, but you haven't really solved anything.
Considering that a heavy opioid user consumes enough drugs that if a normal person took what they did it would be fatal.
Is fentanyl withdrawal worse than a heroin or methadone withdrawal?
Seems to be much easier, counterintuitively...
You’d think the body would adapt to being hungry. But no, it never quits.
5 days cold turkey off of fentanyl. Had some in my hand folded in foil with straw and lighter clutching it in my clammy hand. Still didn’t use. You have to be committed. A lot of people told me there’s no way you can do it cold turkey I quit Roxie’s 30s at 10 a day smoked on foil cold turkey and stopped a 3 year fentanyl addiction cold turkey ass well. You have to want it and not take the easy way out for a temporary relief to suffer all over again!!!
cold turkey better than use mthadone or subox bcoz we need to take methadone after that
I don't believe you
@@MrG-xm1upI believe that you don't believe the op.
Day 8 for me after 14 years straight, I just want to sleep
If you can exercise do so as strenuously as you can. Try and jog or run for 20 minutes or more. This will help your brain and body to Kickstart making natural endorphin again quicker, and will make you feel better faster and sleep better faster too.
How about we start teaching the youth to not do drugs at all, lest they end up in that hell
Why don't I read anything in the comments about those who introduce people to drugs? No outrage or anger.
Usually friends and family is the vector. It spreads via these social networks.
Day 5 today
Don't fuck up now bro! Don't let that 5 days of horror be for nothing.
Accurate... I hate it
Dude, nothing is worse than waking up on day 2 of withdrawals and you feel like dying. The RLS, 💩 on yourself, throwing up every hour. Your mouth waters badly before you throw up and you just have to wait till it happens. You’re hot and cold at the same time. Luckily I had no vehicle at the time and was too broke and sick to go get anything so I toughened it out and only smoked THC. Thank god in sober
This happens in CHS with thc as well.
You sure? I've quit weed multiple time over the years. The withdraws were NOT remotely similar.
@@logicapepeople have died from CHS, through electrolyte imbalances and dehydration. They can’t hold water down and don’t seek to get an IV in time. This is with CHS only and not weed withdrawal.
Does SnoopLion know about this chs?
I've heard methadone is worse than heroin to get off of tho...
Tramadol withdrawal is hell enough, i couldn’t imagine Fentanyl withdrawal
I use a combination of tramadol and paracetamol for pain relief and I perfectly can manage without it when my back doesn't hurt. I only take it when my back hurts or for headache.
I wouldn't look past tramadol withdrawal as being easier than some of the scarier opioids out there. Tramadol has unique pharmacology from what I've been told it acts sort of like an antidepressant along with a pain reliever. So you're experiencing opioid withdrawal and in some cases antidepressant discontinuation syndrome too. Doesn't sound very fun.
Tramadol withdrawal is 500x times worse than fentanyl trust me I know.
I was on vacation in Mexico a few months ago, I went in a drugstore to buy sunscreen and was offered Tramadol, it was on special the lady said, two boxes for the price of one. I said no thanks and walked out, but found it very disturbing to be offered this dangerous drug. My only drug is alcohol, not the best, but I can use only once or twice a week.
It's nothing like the flu. You are severely sick physically and mentally. I was just doing enough not to be sick. Even with so little it's still very harsh in withdrawal. I had hard time with the rapid heart rate
Bring back Percocet.
Currently 9 months clean! Sobriety is possible. I was a HEAVY fentanyl and IV meth user... Thought I'd die that way... But God had other plans.
This video convinced me to keep using. If quitting can kill you, I WON'T QUIT!
Lol 😑 it’s just the facts man shit sucks suboxone does work tho
@@athena878 Fuck that. Fent hits just right. 🤤
Methadone sure didn't📢📢
@@9etherchanneling6 Methadone and suboxone are shit compared to fent.
Only if your dehydrated right!!
I relapsed a few weeks ago I think fentanaly was in the crap I did ... had trouble sleeping ever since , had terribly high stress levels an just was terrible - never again no more drugs for thos guy nope not even weed he'll no
4 years
As a dxm i addict i thought i had it bad. Yikes
You have no idea, and I wish for you to never do
Dxm? From NyQuil bottles?
@@nicolasolton never. That stuff has acetaminophen in it. Thatll kill you. Robocough from amazon and Delsym from the stores. If there is any extra medication besides the dextromethorphan in the bottle you're chugging it can be really harmful.
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