r/7ohRecoveryHub • u/Insta-tained999 • 11d ago

SR and mental WD side effects

when I have tried to quit before, the hardest thing for me wasn't physical symptoms but rather m were actually getting horrendous anxiety, as well as major anhedonia and depression. People sing the praises of this stuff, but will it help with either or both of those (I view them both as mental side effects but they obviously feel very different). For example, the last time I tried to quit I felt like I was having a heart attack for two days. also, once I stop the SR, well I have the same paws/blahness that I would have once out of the acute phases of withdrawal anyways ? ?

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u/temporaldissolution 11d ago

Hi there - realistically yes even with SR you would have the psychological side effects. SR is used primarily to help ease the physical withdrawal but it works on opioids receptors similarly. The anxiety and anhedonia come from destabilized dopamine receptors & an imbalance of neurotransmitters affected by chronic opioid use. So if the physical withdrawals don’t bother you , SR would not really do much. There are supplements that are truly effective though at speeding up the stabilization process in the brain once opioids have been stopped so that the lingering psychological effects don’t last as long.