Posted by rgb on January 13, 2008, at 15:08:33
In reply to Re: post acute withdrawal, posted by oxymoron on January 5, 2008, at 23:12:28
I used to keep my use of the "weak" opioids to about a week, then I mostly stopped and took very little for several years.
But now there's somewhat of a scary novelty in that I've been taking tramadol for 2 weeks (I know many people don't like it, but I do). Stopped 2 days ago.
Luckily there is no physical wd, but my mind... lethargic, trapped, nothing's interesting, everything I read casts the world in this bleak light -- this mental state is the opposite of the warm, bright energy and sociability on tram'.
I suspect that this two-week-use might have been enabled partly by SSRI-induced apathy (note: SSRI+tramadol can be dangerous due to serotonin toxicity; I got lucky). To be fair, this is only partly a mental "withdrawal" and partly just a return to baseline :/ I really want to believe that baseline will get better.
Took a bit of ambien now and it helps. But I sure as hell don't need a (pseudo-)benzodiazepine dependency next.
If I already get all this gloom from a bit of tramadol, I can only imagine what you are going through, oxymoron -- *hugs*
Please don't start thinking that you have irreversibly damaged your brain; chances are that growing unhappiness made you take the oxy in the first place and that it was intensified by the withdrawal and has some momentum now, dunno
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