Recover from Addiction at Home-Painkillers

Recovering from opiates

Vitamin B, Calcium, Magnesium, Piracetam, L-Tyrosine, lots of protein and exercise, this is what you need to recover from opiates at home. Aside from lots of willpower, and the decision to quit either cold turkey (NOT recommended, but if you can handle it, go for it), or to taper off, which is the most practical way of quitting.

Cold Turkey Plan

Swap out whatever painkiller you're using for a muscle relaxer (preferably cyclobenzapine) if you want to

have any shot at sleeping, or of stopping the horrifying restless leg syndrome you are about to go through. Take 20 milligrams with each meal, lowering it to 10 milligrams the second week, and finally not using the muscle relaxers as a crutch by the third week. (DO NOT, try to detox from opiates cold turkey without muscle relaxers, it is actually detrimental to your withdrawal in the long run in that you won't be able to sleep or eat as much without them.) Next, starting from day one, start loading up on a hearty B-Vitamin supplement, double up on multi-vitamins, throw in a calcium and a magnesium supplement, and try to do some form of physical activity (will help you to get your endorphins back up.) Also, on day one, add in 5 grams of L-Tyrosine per day, as well as 2400 milligrams of piracetam. It will help your brain recover from the addiction faster, which not only will speed up your physical withdrawal, but also will help tremendously in the long run with your Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome. Just get through the first four weeks of hell, and you will thank yourself for it in the long run. The first week is the worst, after that it is at least somewhat maintainable. I wish you luck.
Estimated recovery time-4 weeks

Tapering off Plan

The much more practical method in my opinion, tapering off refers to slowly lowering the dosage until your withdrawal is painlessly over (sort of.) Take down the dosage by ten percent each week, and try to not take it at all on weekends to further drop your tolerance and speed up the recovery process. Follow the supplement plan laid out in the "cold turkey plan" up above, and take the muscle relaxers on weekend instead of painkillers, this will make the total withdrawal bearable, while vastly speeding up the recovery process.
Estimated recovery time: 45-75 days.




Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome
Estimated recovery time- 90 days-6 months

So, you've made it through the initial withdrawal phase, but you still don't feel 100%, or maybe during the
week you feel yourself getting more anxious or depressed than usual. Fear not, it is not permanent, but it is instead a way for your brain to fully recover itself from the addiction it was put through-pretty amazing actually. Your brain, a few days a week, purposely downregulates the affected receptors, causing the feelings of lethargy, sluggishness, depression, insomnia, etc. allowing it to wreap in more of these receptors, and allow them to re-accumulate to the way they were pre-addiction. On days when you feel terrible, take one gram of l-tyrosine as well as 2.4 grams of piracetam in order to aid this horrid mental feeling. Don't worry, it will pass, and depending on how heavily you were using, it will subside in 3-6 months.

Final Thoughts

No matter how far into opiate addiction you are, just keep positive, and remember that with sobriety, it can only get better. Good luck, you'll need it with the hellish journey you have ahead of you. Feel free to comment with any questions, or email me at stephen.mclaughlin@rocketmail.com, and I will respond with my own experiences, as well as any advice I can give you. Good luck!