Posted by Kristi on July 22, 2001, at 21:23:24
In reply to Re: Ultram withdrawal! » Elizabeth, posted by MB on July 22, 2001, at 20:16:11
Hi,
Sorry for the question..... just started reading this thread..... are you all talking about Ultram? or has the topic digressed? Just curious what I'm reading about..... thanx
Kristi
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> > > Then one day they took me to the doctor for a checkup (this was inpatient treatment) and he gave me an intramuscular buprenorphine shot and I felt much better...cleared the chills and runny nose right up.
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> > Out of curiosity, how fast did it work? It takes about an hour intranasally, and I've wondered if taking it IM would speed up the process (it definitely would be convenient).
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> When you say that it takes about an hour to work, may I assume you are not keeping a steady state serum level? Are you taking it PRN?
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> I think that I felt better within a few minutes. Some of it could have been psychological (from the needle prick). I'm thinking that it kicked in after about ten minutes and that I felt better for about two and a half hours.
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> > > I have no idea what it would have been like to take if I *hadn't* been withdrawing.
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> > I suspect there are commonalities to depression and dope withdrawal (never experienced the latter). (Of course, depression doesn't cause vomiting, diarrhea, chills, shakes, etc.)
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> The depression from dope withdrawal feels different to me than the depression I feel every day. Comming off of opiates, I feel a really intense feeling of longing...not necessarily for the drug (although craving *is* present), I'm talking about an intense, free-floating, bittersweet nostalgia. Like the heartache of remembering good times, or a departed loved one, to the point of crying. Often, I will remember events that I had forgotten for years and years. Also, there's this feeling that an evil presence is imminent. The evil presence thing is a touchy deal with pdocs, and sharing it with them, I fear, is a good way to get slapped on a neuroleptic if I'm not careful. I took a psychological test once that asked if I had ever seen spirits. I answered "yes" because one time on LSD I thought there were spirits in the room. I didn't even get a chance to discuss why I answered "yes," the pdoc just assumed I was psychotic without even discussing the test. Wham, and I was on Zyprexa.
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> > > > < sniff > Ahh, spring is in the air!
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> > > I hear ya. Thank god for Flonase. I was a wreck until I got a script for that stuff (that *is* the "sniff" you're talking about, isn't it?).
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> > Nope, I was referring to the lovely smell that used to waft through my dorm in college.
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> Ah, yes...the days of the dorm.
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