The Joys of Withdrawal

[davidgillon]

 Woke up feeling a bit off, and not quite certain why.

Pottered around getting gradually worse, "Damn, this is starting to feel flu-like - Oh, hell!"

Goes to count number of butrans patches left in the box - yep, completely forgot to change it on Tuesday, and now I'm in full-blown opiate withdrawal.

New patch is on now, but it'll take several hours to take effect, in the meantime, I'll be over there in the corner, shivering.

*Headdesk*

Comments

[kaberett]

Augh. D:

[davidgillon]

That. And it got worse.

Forgetting your patch is idiocy.

Having a pancreatitis flare-up is unfortunate.

Dealing with a pancreatitis flare-up with no opiates in your body, while also fielding full-on withdrawal is Murphy taking the piss on your life.

I'm okay now bar aching ribs (probably from retching), but 10AM through 1PM were pure hell. I'd actually started putting stuff I'd need in the rucksack in the event I ended up dialling 999 again, but fortunately it wore off eventually, though I spent the afternoon in bed to recover (and reading Men at Arms to take my mind off it).

Hopefully that's not a combination of circumstances I ever have to deal with again!

[redbird]

I hope you're feeling somewhat better by now. That seems to be one of the failure modes of opiate patches, though (I say "seems to be" because it's based on knowing other people who use them, not first-hand experience).

[davidgillon]

Yeah, not the first time I've done it, though the first time I've done it since doubling my dosage at Christmas. I generally get 24-48 hours grace in which to notice the mistake, but this time I didn't catch it.

[jesse_the_k]

Oh ugh. I've had withdrawal from the wimpiest possible narcotic and it was hellish. At least I had a clonazepam to stop the brain weasels from tearing my eyes out form the inside.

Amateur pharmacy, I loves it.

[davidgillon]

Brain weasels were fairly quiescent, back and gastric weasels, however.....

Very glad to be over that!