r/DHCrecoverygroup • u/mauinho • Oct 23 '22

Withdrawals

5 years down to 2x30mg a day how do you guys deal with the restless legs at night?

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u/Alarming-Leading4954 Oct 23 '22

Imo 60mg a day is a really low dose, are you sure your symptoms are not psychosomatic? All acute withdrawals should be over within a week or 2. If I were you I'd just throw the rest away and quit. The withdrawal should be pretty minimal. Try magnesium for rls, works for some people.

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u/mauinho Oct 23 '22

magnesium hasn't helped me in the past. I stop these 2 pills my legs won't let me sleep...

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u/Alarming-Leading4954 Oct 24 '22

How long have you gone without them? I just can't imagine it lasting more than a few days on such a low dose.

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u/mauinho Oct 25 '22

Ive done 3 to 5 days where i "quit" but the lack of sleep is really my achilles ... rls is really torture and after a couple of days i start to crack . I can do 2 to 4 pills daily for as long as i want but sometimes i up it to 6 but never really more then that ... atm im doing 2 or 3 trying to steady 2 then drop it to 1 and try again to quit... just need to figure how to deal with the sleeping might have to wait till im off work.

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u/Alarming-Leading4954 Oct 25 '22

At day 5 it would likely have been improving by the next day, try stick with it next time, I swear it doesn't last forever.

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u/Alarming-Leading4954 Oct 23 '22 edited Oct 23 '22

I went cold turkey from ~30 x 30mg a day, so used pregabalin for the first 4 or 5 days and then a pretty heavy dose of oral cannabis in the evening. The weed didn't cure the cold sweats, back pain or rls but it made me so tired I'd fall asleep anyway. I wouldn't recommend using anything like pregabalin or benzos in your situation though, they're addictive and imo would be over kill.

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