Bf going through Post Accute Withdrawal Syndrome and having TERRIBLE anxiety.

My bf did opiates (perks and vics) really bad for almost 4 years. He quit 9 weeks ago. At first he felt like he was in hell. He would have terrible aches and pains (probably not too far from how he normally feels, but he was so used to having massive amounts of painkillers in his system), and hot/cold flashes. Now he has horrible anxiety, mood swings, and just a general feeling like everything sucks. Because his brain is still trying to get chemically balanced again, he can't really feel emotions, particularly good ones. The rare moments of happiness he feels often give him a headache, and though he knows he loves me, it doesn't feel the same way it did. It's even affected our sex life... he had a panic attack during it once and like everything else, it's just not as enjoyable as it used to be. Ever since he started doing pills, weed makes him feel like shit and alcohol isn't much better. He's been told not to take benzos because it will just set him back, so stuff like Klonopin and Ativan is out of the question when he does have a panic attack. He had one so bad, he had to walk out of his job, and he's failed two college courses because he just couldn't handle it. I love him so much and want to help him, but I just don't know what to do. He says just being there is a huge help, but I feel so useless sometimes. I just tell him everything will be alright, and usually he says he knows that, but sometimes he's not so sure. Has anyone been through this before? If so, how long did it last and what did you do to deal? We've read that it can last anywhere from 6 months to 2 years. I reeeeally hope it doesn't last that long. Of course I'll stick around if it does, but I just hate seeing him so miserable.

 

I don't know who is giving you advice, sounds like an idiot or an asshole - maybe both, but the standard bringdown for opiate withdraws does in fact include ativan prn for the heebie jeebies - I'm not talking about the public pits with the "general surgeon of beverly hills" - I'm talking about top shelf private care and there is no real medical reason that he should be suffering like that. My patients would think they were being tricked and abused if someone treated them that way, and they would be right.
so "kafka" haha - poor guy! What a load of crap! That a prn benzo has anything to do with "setting one back" on clearing from an opiate dependency! "That don't make no sense" Bad medicine, bad philosophy and kinda cruel ass care if ya ask me...
I also don't get this dependant making crap about "weeks and weeks and weeks" - I get that from my patients who don't wanna quit and have to, but I can't see how our bodies or our drugs have changed so much just recently that it takes any longer than regular, standard clearing of the body and I go off and on plenty and it doesn't take two weeks? but - I have no conflicts and I'm in private care too. Everything I see public, even the "martyrs" who "understand and bleed for us" (ohh gawwwd! save me! hahaha) seems like just a bunch of crap to me. Anyone deserves better than that! I'm a actual, for real "lifer" and "toxicomo" and that bs makes me sick as the jones! Bwahahahahaha Bless his heart! hope it goes better for him!
I'm 30 years in the "knowledge of blood and dust" (medicine) and the care of souls as of last June and I've been a happy addict for 36 years so feel free to pm me if you like and I'll give ya email and phone too. No one should have to go through more withdrawal symptoms than say like a occaisional bout of the heebies and maybe a groan once in awhile. (a lo-dose ativan or a hot bath, respectively)
Best Wishes!

 

kratom.

 

Yeah and even tho I've never done it, plenty of people have said that. We live by a greenhouse that produces it for california and can't get so much as a cutting without buying from the california outlet so just never have got around to it.

 

stand by your man.

 

Hot baths help him a lot, but plenty of rehab workers, medical professionals, and his therapist told him not to take ativan, but perhaps an antidepressant like Paxil. What is kratom?

 

Well I am a retired medical professional that still sees people that need me out here and your patient is miserable, lingering and doesn't look like he's gotten much good care or advice to me?
I am talking about a standard treatment protocol that does not include bullshit drugs like paxil to fuck up his head worse and screw with his brain chemistry taken habitually, I described a simple "in and out" cns depressant with a 6 hour duration taken less than once a day?

Patients who get treated right and by healing standards as opposed to industrial ones, have nothing like the things you are describing. I was just trying to point that out. Don't mean to seem too bristly ~