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Aug 29, 2017, 09:28 PM
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i was just wondering about medications that can help fight obsessive cravings?
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Aug 29, 2017, 09:41 PM
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Sometimes Wellbutrin is used to help with cravings if you google you will find smoking cessation is a standard use and I also saw stuff about alcohol and meth cravings.
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Aug 29, 2017, 10:18 PM
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Naltrexone can also help with certain cravings. It's on label for alcohol use disorders and narcotic use, I believe. But it also helped me with SH urges for a while.
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Aug 30, 2017, 06:51 AM
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Campral (Acamprosate) is specifically a medication for alcohol cravings, but I've personally known more people who were helped by naltrexone.
Gabapentin is used as well for alcohol and marajuana cravings. and Topomax is used for alcohol cravings as well, but it has some weird drug interactions so you really have to be careful about taking it. I tried Naltrexone, but it did nothing for me. splitimage
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Aug 30, 2017, 08:38 AM
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Aug 30, 2017, 11:43 AM
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Aug 30, 2017, 12:30 PM
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There's a difference in wanting drugs and craving them.Are you saying you are going through withdrawals or just wanting to get high? Since you have said that you only use when you can afford it,which isn't very often,you would not be prescribed Suboxone,Methadone or anything like that.You have also said you use drugs to get rid of the pain,but I don't think it's the type of 'pain' that addicts go through when they are without their drugs.Your situation sounds like a whole different ballgame that should be treated with therapy and maybe psychiatric medication,not maintenance medications that addicts need in order to prevent severe withdrawal. I don't mean to offend you but you asked about medications for obsessive cravings but I am wondering if it's not really that you're mentally and physically craving the actual drugs but instead maybe you have become obsessed with the subject of drugs?Like when you get obsessed with other subjects and then really struggle with whatever it is you become obsessed with?If you re-read your posts you will notice a pattern,you get obsessed with something and then really run with it,sometimes it might be BPD,sometimes dissociation,it's always something.Maybe you are creating your own struggles?Have you been diagnosed with OCD or hypochondria?Have you ever asked if maybe you could have one of them? |
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Aug 30, 2017, 12:43 PM
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i dont want methadone or anything like that
just something that can make the thoughts stop i have emotional pain... not withdrawal symptoms... the desire to get high is just because i want to make the other things go away... its easy fix .. fast... not long lasting.. maybe damaging... but it stops it for a minute i do have problems with obsession... i dont think i have ever been diagnosed with ocd and they have never talked about it... i may be obsessed with drugs because of the way the work... because its the only things i know to turn off the feelings i self medicate... i have constant thoughts running through my head, reminders of drugs, it happens all the time, for no reason.. its not me thinking about it its just coming into my mind... i just want something to turn these feelings off so i dont need any thing else...
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Aug 30, 2017, 12:59 PM
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My therapist has told me that Seroquel helps with obsessive thoughts.
Here's a site for help with obsessive thoughts. 7 Coping Strategies for Overcoming Obsessive Thoughts ? Encino Therapist, Beverly Hills Psychologist |
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Aug 30, 2017, 01:22 PM
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Also, psychiatric meds will help with the need to self medicate once you find ther right combo for you. The problem is you seem to want a quick fix, and there really isn't one. As addicts, we need to lear n how to manage and cope with how we ar e feeling without the quick fix and give the psych meds a chance to work. Drugs and alcohol keep the meds from doing their job. Do you have a pdoc that you are working with?
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Aug 31, 2017, 07:48 AM
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i have an NP or whatever at the clinic, she's nice...
im just trying to work my way back to trusting them my therapist terminated on me..
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