When Will My Heroin Withdrawals Go Away and Am I Overreacting?
Question by Daniel: When will my heroin withdrawals go away and am I overreacting?
I was never a drug user and because of peer pressure, I randomly got into oxycodone… I started smoking and snorting oxycodone pills for about a month until I moved onto doing heroin, and that lasted for about a month. I realized that it was getting out of control and that this wasn’t me, so I quit July 12th, and I have been about 5 days clean now… I went 48 hours and couldn’t handle it, so I went to my brother, and he gave me a strip of suboxone. He told me to only take tiny pieces just to go to sleep, so I did. I took a tiny strip and it felt really good finally being able to sleep after 48 long hours. When I woke up, I felt really good, and went another 24 hours fighting my withdrawals. It has been 5 days and I still can’t manage to fall asleep because I feel the “shake” and “kick” withdrawals… It is literally physically impossible for me to fall asleep, and I feel like I can only fall asleep if I try really hard for 2 hours (I’m impatient) or if I just take a tiny strip of suboxone. I am just curious as to how it can be this bad if I’ve only been doing oxycodone and heroin for a month? My friend and I started doing it around the same time, but he handled the withdrawals really well without the help of suboxone. Instead, he drank and took ketamine the first 3 days and then afterwards he said he felt great and his withdrawals went away… Now he’s clean and now I’m struggling. Is it all in my head? Why can’t I get through this and he can? I just don’t want to get hooked on suboxone and I am a really sensitive person so I overthink all of this. I wish I never got into heroin… I assure everyone that I will 100% never go back, and I don’t believe in relapsing, because I also have a strong mind, I just want someone to tell me that 2 months of drug use is nothing and that I should be able to get through this.
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Answer by euphoric(k)
you need to start doing things that keep your mind off of it also. Yes it will be hard to sleep but it will get better as time goes on as long as you stay away
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