Home Remedies For Opiate Withdrawals

I don't know if you're reading this, but I hope that you have come to a place - as I have so many times before - where you're ready to let go of your addiction and finally live that fantasy of having a normal routine day free of even the thought of getting your next dose. I have been struggling with my addiction to narcotic pain killers for eight, going on nine years. I have jumped on and off the wagon more times than I can remember, however I do know of a few things that helped me through the withdrawls - the physical anguish of quitting. I'M clearly not ready to STAY off the wagon because time and time again I keep going back for one emotional "reason" or another; a problem within myself where I have not hit rock bottom yet and apparently haven't realized the damage I continually do to myself. But that is beside the point of this thread - which asks "How do I lessen the effects of opiate withdrawl. This has always been my trick: First thing that bothers me is the contsant diarrhea that opiate withdrawl causes. I use Imodium, it's my BEST FRIEND for WD, or any other over the counter anti-diarrheal (I'm super "thrifty" so I go with the off brands that have the same active ingredient!). Second thing that effects me is low energy levels. For this I drink a c**p load of coffee or energy drinks ALL THROUGHOUT THE DAY. (Ever notice on TV, or in real life if you have ever been there, how everyone in AA or NA meetings is drinking coffee? There's a reason for that.). If you have a problem with irritability, try going to a vitamin store and asking the employees to help you find a homeopathic "mood lifter". These vitamins are chalk full of herbs and vitamins that help eveviate this irritability, because lets face it, cranky is just not you. Coffee is also a natural mood boster, so these combined are a lovely combination! If you're experiencing pain try acetaminophen. Prescription pain killers are usually mixed with acetaminophen because it hightens the effectivness of the opiate it's mixed with. Ex: Norcos are hydrocodone and acetaminophen. I can't think of any other symptoms right now but respond if you need any other tips or tricks! Hold on to the notion that you are still a good person. You're still the person you were before you got entangled in this mess. The struggle has just blurred and distorted your perception of yourself. No matter what you have done because of these drugs, or FOR these drugs. You are worth the life you work for, all you have to do is try. Give it a shot and make yourself no promises, just try to stay on the right track. I love you, truely, and I feel a connection to you simply through this common demon we are battling. All we have in this world is a choice. So choose. What do you want for yourself?

I have been addicted to opiates for 9 years when i can't get the lorcets or others i will take tramadol cuz it stops my withdrawals but does not have codine so in my opinion it is the same as a lorcets

Hi everyone have not been here for a little while. I'll start by saying if you are in w/d and need help now Kratom Kratom  Kratom!! Get it NOW you can get overnight from an online vendor just  google and look around. It is also carried in some head shops. Once you use it you will understand why this is the  best advice. Imodium helps a bit...I'm following my plan. Today was third visit with dr. My personal life could not be worse. I have never been in a worse place emotionally and in general. I have like awoken from a nightmare only to see been treading water in the same terrible place for years. Allowing myself to be abused by those close to me. Haters. For past five years I have only allowed few in my life. In last six months I see I have no one!!!!! No one. I won't get into it on here, but never felt worse in my life. People envy me please take this......I'm not sure yet what I'm going to do.

Everyone struggling with w/d if you don't use anything it's a short period of feeling like sh*t verse your life......Stay Strong! You can do it!!

I agree it is basically the same thing only w/d dangerous from it because it can cause seizures. I think Kratom works just as good. If you read about it you will see why. Welcome to this thread.

I picked up some more kratom yesterday, it's made for an almost fun couple of days.  Considering I'm on day 5 so far, it has helped.

my boyfriend in the 70s came home from vietnam with a speedball addiction....heroin and speed injected. he also came home with a pound of viet pot, best in the world. he smoked that pot all day every day until he was out of his addiction, then the pot use naturally tapered down. i wish my son could use that method, but he gets tested randomly at work and would lose his job. pot should be recognized legally and medically as a valid addiction withdrawal treatment. so too too bad the medical community won't step up and admit it, they just keep making addicts out of us. shame.

My father came home from Vietnam with a heroin addiction. I'm sure that's how I got such an addictive personality. Pot does help calm and distract me from the withdrawals, but it's not enough alone. I've had to take loperamide and/or kratom to really get relief.

I agree though, marijuana simply needs to be decriminalized everywhere.

I have a boyfriend who is brutal about my heroine use and withdraw...I know I got myself here and he wants me to quit which I realize I need to and want to but he expects me to cook, clean and go to work while trying to detox on my own cold turkey can anyone please explain to him that physically and psychologically that is not possible he has even threatened to kick me out because I owe him $1,100 for rent , electric, food and cigs. This is the first time I haven't had his money by the 1st in a long time and the bills are paid so it's not like were in trouble or anything he says I am just being lazy and looking for attention. We've been together two years and it blows me away he is being so cold can anyone please explain the withdraws please. For thos who say opiate withdraw isn't that bad has never done them so please shut the F*** up because people like my man read that and then get even worse.

BYE!! DELETING ACCOUNT. GOOD LUCK EVERYONE. PEACE

Hey Purpilll ,
how r u?

You're still here, Georgia?! How are you?? I really wanted to come back with good news, but, after 15 years of methadone and 5 plus years (yes, dating back to when I was 13) I can't sleep. People... if you've been on methadone too long it IS NOT worth it to get off of it. I wish I could describe the ways in which my life has been trashed since March 12th, but here I can't. Anyone who is reading this, please don't get on methadone. It was the biggest mistake I've ever made other than getting off of it 15 years later. Sorry... it's almost 4:30 AM and I have nothing better to do than warn others. I seriously miss sleep...... now I just drink WAY too much. Best of luck, people,..and stay away from the 'done unless you're ready to be a lifer. Just sayin'.

Hey Baby, good to hear from you! I am, it has been awhile, as i have been busy moving to FL. But am settled in now. Sorry to hear the methadone is so hard to kick. So far I have been doing good, have been able to manage the pain and not mess up.

Purrpill, i hope you are doing okay. Sorry I have been away so long, have been on the road and then burried with trying to settle in. How are the treatments going?

This is my first post. I've been quitting for the past few months. Quitting consists of suboxone most days, then perc 30s or perc 15s on days where I can't get suboxone. Without insurance it cost $21 per tablet or strip and on the street I get them for $7-15 dollars each. But the decision to go on suboxone comes after blowing all of my savings on pills. Like some on here I just started taking pills recreationally. My dad was prescribed vicodin after back surgery and he'd give us pills randomly if we were upset or in pain, or whatever. But that led to us (my brother, sister and I) getting pills from other places and doing them behind each other's backs. My brother died last year of unknown causes, but it was pills in one form or another. He was 20, strong, athletic. Healty 20 year olds don't just drop dead. After he died I averaged 10-30 perc 30s a day. You would think that his sudden death would wake me up, but it was easier to cope with a loss so close to my heart by medicating. My parents are worse than me. My dad makes $1300-1500 a week as a welder, a historic certified welder, a master welder and has no money at the end of the week. He is prescribed 180 perc 10s and my mom is prescribed 90 perc tens a month, and they spend everything they have on more. They don't even have a phone at the moment. It's crazy what this addiction can do. I graduated from an Ivy League Colllege, Magna Cum Laude. I was prepped to go to Law School at another Ivy League school. Instead I took a year off and stayed home with my familly and made one bad choice after another. Luckily I'm not destitute but I have no savings. I have more than a handful of dealers who fronted me because I had money and then all of the sudden- had no money to pay them back.

I've been battling this sh*t for almost 2 years. Quitting for 2 years. I judst don't know how to do it when pills are everywhere around me.

I've used Tramadol in the past to taper myself from much stronger opiates, such as suboxone. However you're right, Tramadol withdrawl is still hell. I was taking so many that I began having grand mal seizures for the first time in 8 years. Instead of taking so many (20-40 per day) I began replacing some of the Ultram with Tylenol 3. I may start day 1 with 10 Ultram and 1 Tylenol 3, then the next day, 8 ultram and 2 Tylenol 3, and so on... I did this as crazy as it sounds, ON ACCIDENT! After about 2 weeks of taking ever smaller and smaller doses of both, I noticed that once I ran out, I literally had NO withdrawl symptoms! I didn't take another pain pill for weeks, and it didn't bother me, except for of course, the pain in my back that never seems to go away. Sadly, I must admit I had to go back on opiates for true pain control, I don't care about a buzz, the buzz is being able to function like a normal human being! I wish there were some miracle drug, or surgery, that could help with the daily pain I have as a result of breaking my back 6 years ago...