anxiety from opiate withdrawal = help

So just hang in there, they suck and are uncomfortable but usually the worst of the withdrawals peak at 72 hours... You can get immodium and some type of sleep aid, but most of the time especially if you go cold turkey, you will have some withdrawals.. It depends on how long you took opiates to know how long you'll feel bad  but after it passed you will feel a real sense of accomplishment... Just make sure you have a reasonable work environment so if you cant take it you can leave, but keeping your mind occupied is a good thing and drink plenty of water because when the diarrhea hits you will need fluids... I hope you can do it.. Im now 10 days out and still have some moments of stress but they are getting fewer and further between.. GOOD LUCK to you...

when I quit opiates, i went on the methadone maintainence program, about a year and a half ago.  I had been using opiates over 10 years everyday.  So to quit a habit like that, is sure to bring some anxiety, obviously.  What I found is that the more sober time I got under my belt, the more my anxiety got worse.  It got to the point that I couldnt go out of the house to do my daily activities, without having some sort of panic/anxiety attack.  This even got worse when I had something stressful happen, or something stressful I had to deal with, because I was so used to dealing with stuff, and just plain functioning by using opiates.  So basically I didnt know how to function or deal with things without getting high, and this caused a ton of anxiety. PLus the fact that I am injured and out of work living with chronic pain, and living on workers comp, adds to the anxiety sometimes.  So I had to see a psychiatrist to explain all this, fortunately he is part of my treatment program at my rehab center for my injury.  So he put me on Klonopin, and it has changed my life.  I no  longer deal with anxiety and am able to deal with things.  But thats just me, it depends on how much you used, and your life in general.  

I was on hydrocodone for over three years dealing with severe pain. I got to the point where I was afraid to use and also afraid not to use because of the anxiety and panic attacks. Through a withdrawl regimine I was able to go from 18 a day to zero inside of a month. Some of the fears I developed during my using years now keep me on cimbalta . I WILL stay on this forever if the chance of another panic attack is possible. The worst part of the panic attacks are the "Depersonalization part". I never herd of this until an overheard  conversation between two Drs. I knew then that I wasn't just insane, but suffering from a ligit mental illness. I never want to experience that again. Being sober is a gift from God after that hellish prison I came to be entrenched in.

Yes your mind goes into overdrive for some reason and seems like 90% of it is thinking of negative depressing thoughts and so much so you will start uncontrolable sadness and crying.

Then you will be cold one minute and then all of a sudden feel hot and flushing and sweating the next minute.

Your stomach will turn and ache to as it goes into overdrive to as it has no more opiates to slow it down so you will go from pooping hard doo doo,s every other day to sitting on the toilet several times a day w/the runs, this is where immodium is a must as it will slow you digestive stomach down to where it was when you were doing opiates so be sure to drink plenty of water, this is also a MUST!!

I was on very high doses of morphine every day for 8 years.i took at least 300 mg's every couple of hours and I never had a RX for it, I was an abuser!!! i finally quit cold turkey about 10 months ago i didnt use again until recently and thats because of a lot of added stress to my every day life. i am only 24 years old and i have never felt this depressed or an anxiety attack until i first tried to quit these drugs. when i tried to quit i got so depressed i started getting suicidal thoughts (something i never came close to thinking about before) and then i attempted suicide, first time i took 24 Nortriptyline 500's and my friend found me and took me to the emergency room and left me there, second time was on 22 Ambien 10's and my dad was the one to find me on my kitchen floor choking on my own vomit my sugar dropped to 39 and was still falling i put my self into early diabetes. thats when i knew i had to make a change in life and quick or i was going to kill myself so i moved three states away from the drugs that caused me to do this to my self, but still the saying is very true no matter where you go there you are i have been clean for 10 months and a couple of weeks ago i found out that my mom has cancer and she does not want kemo therapy any more she would rather die from this then live like that. so here i am using again i have some very severe mental problems on top of it and i know it i still haven't been able to come out of this and i think the main reason is that i didn't want any kind of drugs any more not even a benzo i was done with the party life. what i guess im trying to say is if those drugs are going to help you get through this then by all means take them because they do help with the whole withdrawal process and the anxiety that come with it you don't want to do this alone like i did i just wish i knew about this web site when i first started to quit because the people on this site know what they are talking about on this topic and it really helps me to know that im not the only one trying to fight this battle so last night i did an online assessment for treatment and i want to thank you all because i think you all really saved my life just by sharing your stories and experience with us i feel like now is the beginning of the end and its like a huge weight off my shoulders

thank you all very much

hey zep, i agree 100% with u.  Methadone saved my life!  it gets a bad rap because people are uneducated about it, pure and simple.   and they base their thoughts on it because of people who use it for what it IS NOT FOR.  like the guy who will go get his 200 mg dose, then go home and take 5 2mg pins on top of it, then after he sleeps that off, he will do an 8 ball to his head.   And also about relapsing like u said, if u do want to take something it doesnt do anything at all, so u dont waste any money, and stay clean.  people should do a little research before they start running their mouth. 

Could last for several days, to weeks, but every day should be better than the last. You have to really take it one hour at a time, and then day to day. If anxiety med's helped, you should shurely talk to your Dr about there continued use.