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I’m really liking this group so far and want to share something that was absolutely essential during my first quit. When I was in the thick of the chest crushing, soul snatching anxiety/impending doom/I’m going to die portion of acute withdrawal saw this trick in another sub:

Binaural Beats

Put your AirPods in and head to YouTube. I was like what in the hippy stuff is this? There’s categories like anxiety relief, sleep, dopamine release…there are even playlists available specifically for opioid recovery. During the day, I’d have the volume up loud, nighttime low.

I could actually feel tingles in my brain and I’d freely cry, tears running down my face, openly weeping, almost as if my brain was re-learning how to create emotions again. 7 majorly suppresses our ability to feel, dampening our emotions and for some, this is actually a major reason why they like it…a “natural” form of antidepressant or Benzo. For me, that’s what I hated about 7…it made me feel flat, I was just existing with no joy, sadness, or even anger. I used to need absolute silence to sleep and never miss a night without this music on now.

Give it a try! We need as many tools as possible to beat this. Combine it with box breathing, meditation, yoga or the gym!

I quit 7 back in November after a brief 3 month stint and I guess it was cold turkey? I kept taking my RX meds (low dose Oxy and Gabapentin). My first addiction I’ve ever had and I’ll be 50 next week! Withdrawal was horrible, I had gotten up to about 150mg a day of 7 but I bounced back super fast. No PAWS at all. I stopped mainly because I had a huge surgery happening in February and I needed post op pain meds to work. As we all know, 7 fucks our receptors up.

My BFF started 7 with me and we quit together. She was the first to cave end of January and use 7 again. I stayed off until surgery…I had my old spine fusion extended down to my ass and it’s really the most painful of any surgery. Hospital: max doses of Fentanyl weren’t even touching the pain. I actually called her begging to bring me drugs in the hospital….

Here we are 2.5 months later. About two weeks ago I started feeling that anxiety happen between doses. We thought we were “fine” because we stayed under 100mg a day this time. We’re not fine. We’re physically dependent on this shit again. I’ve been scouring Reddit because I CANNOT go through that withdrawal again, I don’t have it in me. I’m still recovering from surgery and well, just no. As of tomorrow, we’ll be sitting on 6 grams of SR tablets. We are fully aware that we’re bad influences on each other 😂 and there’s also no way I would have succeeded my last quit without her either. Here’s to round 2!!