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I have been half-ass quitting for about a year now. Would go 30 days and then have a few and then something would happen that would get me right back into the regular every day drinking pattern.
The end of May I fell and broke some bones in my knee and shin (Nooooo I was NOT drunk at the time! LOL!) which required 9 days in the hospital and surgery, and from the looks of the recent Xrays they put an entire erector set of the Eiffel Tower in my leg. They prescribed Tramadol when they sent me home. I did not take more than the recommended dose, and kind of tapered off towards the end all on my own, but never-the-less after only 4 weeks I found myself in a nasty opioid WITHDRAWAL, complete with puddles of sweat, chills and what I refer to as the "heebie-jeeblies", which I can only describe as the sensation of having a swarm of bugs buzzing around madly under the skin, making sleep IMPOSSIBLE! Also a few other classic symptoms I will spare you... anyway, that lasted 4 days, but the insomnia is still with me, and its going on TWO WEEKS and I still cannot get more than 1.5 hours of sleep at a time. :upset:
I never had any withdrawal symptoms from alcohol, and rarely woke up with much of a hangover, so I can honestly say I feel MUCH WORSE NOW... and it makes me wish I could just knock back a few rum drinks and get some real sleep. Luckily, I cannot drive yet, and have just been cleared for using crutches, so I KNOW that getting intoxicated would be STUPID, but still... I am feeling very weak and sad. Any advice for getting some sleep would be appreciated. I have tried Melatonin and Unisom, and FORGET Benadryl that stuff makes me so HYPER I feel like jumping right out of my own skin, and would no doubt make the heebie-jeebies even worse.
I have been half-ass quitting for about a year now. Would go 30 days and then have a few and then something would happen that would get me right back into the regular every day drinking pattern.
The end of May I fell and broke some bones in my knee and shin (Nooooo I was NOT drunk at the time! LOL!) which required 9 days in the hospital and surgery, and from the looks of the recent Xrays they put an entire erector set of the Eiffel Tower in my leg. They prescribed Tramadol when they sent me home. I did not take more than the recommended dose, and kind of tapered off towards the end all on my own, but never-the-less after only 4 weeks I found myself in a nasty opioid WITHDRAWAL, complete with puddles of sweat, chills and what I refer to as the "heebie-jeeblies", which I can only describe as the sensation of having a swarm of bugs buzzing around madly under the skin, making sleep IMPOSSIBLE! Also a few other classic symptoms I will spare you... anyway, that lasted 4 days, but the insomnia is still with me, and its going on TWO WEEKS and I still cannot get more than 1.5 hours of sleep at a time. :upset:
I never had any withdrawal symptoms from alcohol, and rarely woke up with much of a hangover, so I can honestly say I feel MUCH WORSE NOW... and it makes me wish I could just knock back a few rum drinks and get some real sleep. Luckily, I cannot drive yet, and have just been cleared for using crutches, so I KNOW that getting intoxicated would be STUPID, but still... I am feeling very weak and sad. Any advice for getting some sleep would be appreciated. I have tried Melatonin and Unisom, and FORGET Benadryl that stuff makes me so HYPER I feel like jumping right out of my own skin, and would no doubt make the heebie-jeebies even worse.
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