 Opiate withdrawal is brutal and is one of the main reasons why people don't quit because they are so Harsh and I am a recovering opiate addict So I'm gonna talk about opiate withdrawal to hopefully give you some solutions as well as increase some awareness about what these drug Addicts are going through so stay tuned. What's up, everybody? This is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution as of today I am coming up on five and a half years sober from drugs as well as alcohol and my primary drug of choice was Prescription opiates so viking in oxy's morphine the list goes on and on if it came in a pill form and I can crush it Snort it swallow it whatever it was I was taking it and It was brutal and hopefully you check out the info card I have a video about my story about how my prescription drug addiction kind of progressed and One thing I want to make very clear is that most heroin addicts out there did not just start out with heroin Most of them started out with prescription painkillers That's one of the reasons why I keep making videos about prescription drug abuse Because this is the gateway towards heroin people don't wake up in the morning and say hmm You know what? I'm gonna try some heroin today Often times it's because of the withdrawal symptoms that people progress to heroin or because their tolerance built up But anyways personally one of the reasons why I couldn't quit opiates was because the withdrawal was so so brutal as I continued to use my tolerance and my dependence was going up so what that means is that I needed more just to feel okay and The withdrawal was happening almost instantly after the drugs were metabolizing in my system. So waking up sick nauseous puking aches pains just all these things it was brutal and Personally and by the way if I didn't put this disclaimer in the beginning here. It is now like just so you know Never ever ever ever ever Try to quit opiates on your own get a medical detox I'm going to make a video about this like probably right after this video So don't quit on your own but anyways personally I did a cold turkey opiate detox One of the most dangerous things that you can do and it was Brutal basically what happened to me was I lied to the doctor about how much I was using so he didn't give me any kind of withdrawal medications and I was curled up in a ball in my bed in sober living for about a week It felt like every bone Joint muscle in my body was just dying on the inside and coming apart I was 27 years old and it felt like I was a 90 year old man. It was brutal and All of the stomach issues I was having and the stomach issues actually lasted for quite a while It was it was just awful and I want to make it clear This is one of the reasons why people use like when when the withdrawal happens like most opiates We want to quit. I wanted to quit for a long time and you wake up in the morning. You said, you know what today I'm gonna quit but once the withdrawal starts hitting you like You can you know use that willpower for a little bit But then the easier way is to just call your dealer and get some more, you know And me being a pill addict like I am very very very fortunate that I never progressed a heroine But like I can honestly understand why people try heroin for the first time because Withdrawal was so brutal like if I couldn't get a hold of pills and somebody had heroin right there I would have been like fine. I'll try it. Whatever, you know, and I would have been hooked like that Especially because it was so much cheaper now The withdrawal symptoms from opiates are both mental and physical Okay, this is important because I'm gonna do some other videos about other drugs and their withdrawal symptoms and opiates alcohol benzos and things like that primarily mental as well as physical some other drugs like cocaine and meth They're mainly psychological. So One of the things is during opiate withdrawal the craving is going nuts Okay, and this is because the body has become accustomed to taking an opiate So it your brain is doing everything in its power to try to get you to use more The reason why withdrawal happens from opiates is because you have been occupying the opiate receptors in your brain And once you stop using they become vacant So all the neurotransmitters in your brain start misfiring and this is what Causes a lot of the aches the pain to the other issues because your brain is sending out these insane signals to the rest of your body and The psychological dependence is one of the most difficult because With medical assistance, and I will make a more dedicated video to this the physical symptoms go away But the cravings are there so a lot of the mental symptoms of withdrawal from opiates You get a lot of anxiety you get a lot of irritability This is by the way one of the ways to tell that somebody has been abusing opiates because when we're coming down like when I was Coming down like before withdrawal fully hit. I was highly irritable like if somebody said the wrong thing to me They better watch out. So we get irritable Anxiety is through the roof the cravings are through the roof we get insomnia We also have a lot of depression that surrounds it too. So there's a lot of different psychological symptoms of withdrawal Now as far as the physical symptoms I'm going to read you a list of the physical symptoms I experienced some of them not all of them, but here are some of the symptoms of opiate withdrawal Pain in the muscles gastrointestinal Gastro wait, let me try this one more time Gastrointestinal and this includes diarrhea vomiting nausea the whole body restlessness and sweating This is a huge one. You can summarize this with flu like symptoms sweating right Hot and cold Flashes and all sorts of stuff. Okay, so by the way, if you're not an opiate addict like just imagine going through this All right, also cramping abdominal pain fast heart rate excessive yawning goosebumps insomnia or tremors So a lot of opiate addicts to like something I didn't really struggle with that I noticed because now that I think about it I did is rest restless leg syndrome and That is basically, you know part of your neurotransmitters going haywire and your leg it kicks It shakes That's why a lot of people when they're going through opiate withdrawal They call it kicking because your leg it sporadically just kicks kicks kicks. All right, so For me it was brutal and by the way if you're a recovering addict and you can relate to what I'm saying here One of the ways that I stay clean is that I never ever ever ever want to forget What withdrawal was like because trust me as addicts in recovery we get this idea like hmm Maybe I could just do you know this one Vicodin or something like that There's only five milligrams or whatever like I know what happens And I never want to go through withdrawal again. If you are not an addict I hope this video has given you some clarity as to what addicts go through when they're withdrawing And yeah, I know there's gonna be some comments like well, yeah, shut it and I've done that to yourself But check out some of my other videos about how addicts become addicts because that is very insensitive and a real lack of empathy For your fellow human beings. I hope I was able to share some awareness about what's going on If you can relate to this if you had symptoms if you never want to go back to opiate withdrawal Go ahead and leave a comment down below share this video with other people so they know what opiate detox is like I want people to understand why people relapse so early on like when they're trying to detox like so Please share this video But anyways, if you liked this video give it a thumbs up and if you're new here and you haven't yet Click the little round subscribe button right below my beautiful face right here because I'm always making videos about addiction Addiction recovery the science behind it as well as stuff to help you with your mental health And check out some of the videos over to the left of me a ton of other videos on this channel Thanks for watching. I'll see you next time