Stay away from any and all Opiates and Opioids or at least take them minimally if needed for surgery etc. It will ruin you if you take them for any extended amount of time.
I've seen so many people, good decent people, go down this path and sadly didn't make it.
The worst thing that you go through is NOT the withdrawal. That won't kill you. You'll want to die but you won't.
What gets people is PAWS (Post-acute withdrawal syndrome). What happens is that all the drugs are out of your system and you've detoxed. But you still feel shitty. You can't sleep, have restless leg syndrome, no energy, depression, skin crawling for weeks and even months and generaly hate life. You wonder, will you ever feel normal again. This is when people relapse.
So someone thinks after "2 or 3 months " that this sucks and why are they even clean to begin with. So that take something like they normally do yet they have a virgin clean system and then BAMM, they OD.
It literally takes over a year for the brain to get back to normal. The longer someone is on this shit the longer it takes for the brain to heal itself.
In layman's terms, this is what happens.
We have opiate receptors in our brain since we make our own natural pain killers called endorphins. Think of these receptors as locks and the endorphins as the keys to these locks.
When you take pain killers they fill these locks and you feel great. But because of the abundance of opiates that are flooding the body the brain makes MORE opiate receptors that want to be filled. The results are tolerance and having to take more and more PK's to get the same results.
So when you do stop you're left with thousand and thousands of extra opiate receptors and also a suppressed endorphin "factory" that has shut down because you were already getting more than enough opiates via the pills.
That results in 2 things that are going on. More opiate receptors and no natural production of endorphins and that's what cause PAWS.
The brain has to go through shutting down all these extra receptors while increasing it's natural production of endorphins. It's really a horrible feeling and takes forever. And like someone said, even after a year and you take something that a normal person would get relief from, it doesn't do one thing to you. You might as well be eating an M&M.
Some people can take these things and be perfectly OK. Others not so much. But if you have to take PK's to lift then my suggestion is don't lift. Do something else because it will catch you and when it does that's all she wrote.
