Good evening comrades and welcome to your weekly mental health thread. The cheetah is happy to see you. How is everyone doing? Remember that self-care is self-defense. :unity:

    • cosecantphi [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Congrats comrade, that's good to hear!

      I recently got a gabapentin script for insomnia and anxiety. I also didn't expect much, but it's worked well for lingering opioid post acute withdrawal symptoms. It's just too bad it is being considered by more and more doctors as a drug of abuse, I fear these GABA acting drugs won't be very common place for these sorts of uses in the future.

      • Ithorian [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        Have you tried Kratom? It supposed to help a lot with opiate withdraw. Personally I don't have much experience with opioids but it did help me feel a lot better after having to take tramadol for a month. And I know there is fair amount of anecdotal evidence that it helps with much more serious withdraw.

        • cosecantphi [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Thanks for the suggestion. I have not tried Kratom, but I am on Buprenorphine replacement therapy, probably permanently.

          I've read that it is supposed to be very similar to kratom as they are both partial agonist opioids with very low risk of causing respiratory failure. It has been immensely helpful in eliminating most withdrawal symptoms and cravings, but as I said some of them tend to linger such as insomnia and general anxiety.

          I'd definitely prefer to be on kratom and not have to go to a bullshit clinic every month, though! Unfortunately Buprenorphine is such a potent drug compared to kratom that my tolerance would probably make that impossible.