ViewsAskew wrote:EeFall wrote:So last night I had no sleep again and today I struggled with RLS most of the day - no sleep and very little sitting - this would sound terrible normally but for me it was a walk in the park compared with the last week. The main complaint today was that my feet, especially my right foot is sore. I soaked in jetted tub twice today which actually helped my whole body. I am cautiously optimistic that the insanely bad withdrawals are over, but then I am still weaning off the methadone for another 4 days so I suppose it could get bad once again but I sort of doubt it.
It will be interesting to see what my medication requirements will be after this for me to be WED symptom free.
How did you injure your feet, EeFall? Sounds miserable to be doing all the walking with injured feet.
Methadone is like the benzos - some of us have terrible difficulties stopping it and others stop it with no withdrawal symptoms at all. I've stopped methadone three times now - no issues. Doety, on the other hand, had to use Suboxone to get off it it, then was miserable getting off the suboxone!
I hope this is definitely the other side of the valley.
After I wrote the part about being over the "insanely bad withdrawals" I didn't realize life would sucker punch me for saying it
I didn't sleep at all last night again and the longer the night wore on the worse my symptoms became until I would be trying to lay on the couch because of my sore feet and I was wildly turning all of my extremities in different directions because the restlessness was so bad it had to also be from withdrawals
It is which came first the foot or the pacing? My feet are injured from pacing and dancing for hours on end from the withdrawal symptoms (like RLS restlessness on drugs) and WED itself. My feet are actually bruised from so much walking and dancing
Methadone may have done both to me, nothing and also terrible withdrawals. I think it has to do with the quantity and length of time I have taken it. It does not seem to be messing with me much this time (unless that is what last night was?). The doctor I think assumed the Lyrica would have the least problems withdrawing, then the pramipexole, then the methadone (as it seems to be with the majority of other patients he seemed to imply) but he told me on the phone that it must be the other way around for me that if he would have known he would have taken me off methadone first and Lyrica last.
I was feeling so bad this morning from going through hell night that I took kratom, this will be the last of it that I take until 14 days from now when I will have gone 10 days without anything. It allowed me to lay in bed 2 hours, not sure how much sleep I got but just laying there was like finding the gingerbread house, the big rock candy mountain, and neverland all at the same time. Actually I may never have a reason to take it again if everything works out
I would like to share some just incredible news that popped into the mailbox yesterday! My wife has just returned to work after 9 weeks with her broken leg and now I have 5 weeks without pay for trying to get well. So money has been very tight losing 14 weeks of pay. Yesterday though our mortgage company sent us a check for almost $1400.00 out of the blue! We overpaid on our taxes and interest by that much. If there was ever a time to get a windfall this was the exact time!
