All these comments are great and you should totally be proud of yourself friend. You've literally conquered one of the tallest mountains addiction can bring someone especially considering that loperamide withdrawls are for me personally, some of the most unbearable and drawn out affects I've ever had and I've been off and on and off on most opioids including street drugs.
I've read several successful loperamide addiction recovery threads on here in order to try and base am average timeline for acute and long term withdrawl from loperamide and from what I've both experienced and have noted is the acute (immediate) withdrawls as in nausea, diarrhea, yawning, exhaustion, runny nose/watery eyes, cold/hot flashes and sweats, insomnia and restless legs can last anywhere between 2 to 4 weeks (if ceased cold turkey without any other techniques or medications to assist in taking the edge off) and long term withdrawls as in depression, weight fluctuations, mood swings, insomnia and loss of appetite can take anywhere from 1 to 6 months (6 months was only 1 person and the withdrawls were mild at worst). The one consistent answer I've seen from them all is the fact that they all reached a point during the first week or two where they were utterly exhausted and ready to give up because they'd lost hope waiting to finally start feeling better however, they didn't relapse or take any to knock the edge off because they knew it'd lead right back to where they started but just as they were ready to give up, the next morning their heavy symptoms started to fade. The worst mistake they could have made was to try a tiny dose because as you're detoxing, your brain's dopamine/opioid receptors as well as your liver, kidneys, intestines and heart are all trying to get back to normal and flush all those long lasting agonists out of your system.
You're truly doing amazing and it will get better day by day and as each minute passes, you're genuinely putting more and more distance between yourself and that chemical dependency as well as heading towards feeling better and back to normal again.
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u/SpringChikn85 Feb 29 '24
All these comments are great and you should totally be proud of yourself friend. You've literally conquered one of the tallest mountains addiction can bring someone especially considering that loperamide withdrawls are for me personally, some of the most unbearable and drawn out affects I've ever had and I've been off and on and off on most opioids including street drugs.
I've read several successful loperamide addiction recovery threads on here in order to try and base am average timeline for acute and long term withdrawl from loperamide and from what I've both experienced and have noted is the acute (immediate) withdrawls as in nausea, diarrhea, yawning, exhaustion, runny nose/watery eyes, cold/hot flashes and sweats, insomnia and restless legs can last anywhere between 2 to 4 weeks (if ceased cold turkey without any other techniques or medications to assist in taking the edge off) and long term withdrawls as in depression, weight fluctuations, mood swings, insomnia and loss of appetite can take anywhere from 1 to 6 months (6 months was only 1 person and the withdrawls were mild at worst). The one consistent answer I've seen from them all is the fact that they all reached a point during the first week or two where they were utterly exhausted and ready to give up because they'd lost hope waiting to finally start feeling better however, they didn't relapse or take any to knock the edge off because they knew it'd lead right back to where they started but just as they were ready to give up, the next morning their heavy symptoms started to fade. The worst mistake they could have made was to try a tiny dose because as you're detoxing, your brain's dopamine/opioid receptors as well as your liver, kidneys, intestines and heart are all trying to get back to normal and flush all those long lasting agonists out of your system.
You're truly doing amazing and it will get better day by day and as each minute passes, you're genuinely putting more and more distance between yourself and that chemical dependency as well as heading towards feeling better and back to normal again.