Opiate "Hangover"

[Dionysus]

Occasionally after a night of very heavy opiate usage, I wake up the next morning with what can only be described as a hangover. A very bad headache, occasional nausea and more or less an inability to do more than close my eyes and wait it out. The upside is that if I dosed heavy enough to get it, I usually also get an afterglow once the headache goes away. I have never been addicted physically before, and given my usage I highly doubt it is withdraws. It could be dehydration, but it doesn't feel like that is the only cause.

Has anyone else encountered this before? What may cause it? How may you remedy it?

[shotse]

it is withdrawals

[BrainSurgeon]

The headache is dehydration and the nausea is mild withdrawals. Any muscle aches?

[shotse]

YOU ARE MOST LIKELY GOING TO DIE....woah cap locks, eh whatever.

[Dionysus]

Originally Posted by BrainSurgeon

The headache is dehydration and the nausea is mild withdrawals. Any muscle aches?

Like I said, I don't think it would be withdrawals considering I get over it within about 8 hours. Not usually muscle aches as much as fatigue. Dehydration seems likely but after going through some threads on a few other forums the general consensus seemed to be that it was more complex than that. Could it be something to do with excessive vasoconstriction?

[adhesive tape]

Originally Posted by Dionysus

Like I said, I don't think it would be withdrawals considering I get over it within about 8 hours. Not usually muscle aches as much as fatigue. Dehydration seems likely but after going through some threads on a few other forums the general consensus seemed to be that it was more complex than that. Could it be something to do with excessive vasoconstriction?

Moar like excessive anal-constriction you faggot. Amirite

[psychomanthis]

I get that sometimes too, i doubt dehydration is the cause as i just drink the amount i normally do whenever i'm on opiates. I think it has to do with that fact that pain is surpressed when you're that high so it is possible you lay in an awkward or uncomfortable position with your neck without noticing it, then when you wake up most of the opiate is out of your system again and you start feeling the pain.

I think it could also be caused by the respiratory depression resulting from heavy opiate use. When you haven't breathed properly the entire night it's no surprise that you can wake up with a headache.

The nausea is probably due to some of the stuff still being in your system.

[litefire]

Originally Posted by psychomanthis

I get that sometimes too, i doubt dehydration is the cause as i just drink the amount i normally do whenever i'm on opiates.

For me it always has been dehydration. I rarely get this from using heroin, I almost always got this 'hangover' when I ate oxy like candy though. You say that it probably isn't dehydration due to the fact that you drink as much when you use than when you don't.. try drinking more. Most opioids in my experience dehydrate me much faster than I would sober, but I'm usually too high to care/notice. I get other side effects (headache, joint pain) when I don't drink enough water all the time anyways, so i'm probably a bit hypersensitive to this in the first place.

To OP:
Next time you dose, take some Diphenhydramine and if you start feeling nauseous, lay down and sip on cold water. That usually helps me. Do your best to drink as much water as is comfortable, although I know it's hard once you get the inevitable heroin piss problems.

Oh, and unless you've been using for quite a while you aren't going to be feeling "mild withdrawals" from one or two doses. It takes about 6-7 days of constant use (for me at least) to experience MILD withdrawals.

[Asheville]

Yeah, I've gotten these. Only on high doses, and almost all the time after snorting Oxycodone IR. I believe the term for this is an Opiate Rebound Headache. The ones I get may be related to the actual snorting, perhaps a sort of sinus reaction. For me, they usually occur the morning after a heavy night of Oxy snorting. It takes the form of the worst headache I can imagine. Unbearable pain, like getting fucked in the brain with a hot poker covered in sulfuric acid. Also, uncontrollable vomiting, and if I try to "hydrate" myself by drinking water, the vomiting begins again. Awful shit indeed, and the only reason I don't snort Roxies anymore.

[turboneger]

you're all fake and gay
-experienced opitatioid use

[psychomanthis]

Originally Posted by turboneger

you're all fake and gay
-experienced opitatioid use

So what would you say it takes to be an experienced opiate user in your eyes? Addiction? If so, i've been there. Let me tell you those fent withdrawels can get pretty nasty.

[privacycunt]

Originally Posted by litefire

Oh, and unless you've been using for quite a while you aren't going to be feeling "mild withdrawals" from one or two doses. It takes about 6-7 days of constant use (for me at least) to experience MILD withdrawals.

this is is bs, i can attest from after only using opiates for say 1 week in a row being the longest in the past 2 years i get muscle aches after just one night of heroin use and also over sleeping.

[litefire]

Originally Posted by privacycunt

this is is bs, i can attest from after only using opiates for say 1 week in a row being the longest in the past 2 years i get muscle aches after just one night of heroin use and also over sleeping.

Well my statement was geared towards OP, in that he's never been addicted before, and has a pretty small tolerance. Once you've had withdrawals you're always going to be closer to them than before.

[jator]

It's not w/d, doing large amounts of opiates makes less tolerant users nauseous. It's just the drugs running their course.

[crazymike]

I think it is a mild overdose, i.e. you took just a -little- too much. Then there is when one takes a -bit more- too much, and is puking and almost immobilized on the couch, bed, whatever, with a roaring headache. Then there is when one takes a -lot- too much, and dies.

[i poop in your cereal]

Could be a cut. I notice different side effects from different batches. Some will make me quite nauseous while using even if I'm not that high, and another might feel extremely clean with no nausea at all but then give me an 8-12 hour period of actual fever and puking the next morning, and this is not WD. It kinda scaresm me a bit actually.

[privacycunt]

Originally Posted by litefire

Well my statement was geared towards OP, in that he's never been addicted before, and has a pretty small tolerance. Once you've had withdrawals you're always going to be closer to them than before.

doing opiates for one week makes one addicted? i always take breaks