How Do I Get My Energy Back After Quitting Opioids? 

I started doing drugs since my teenage, got addicted to opioid. Spent my whole life fighting opioid addiction. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Was actually diagnosed with cptsd. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 4 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.

When i see normal people my age that never used drugs im so jealous of their energy and ableness to be awake and energized for 12+ hrs a day everyday

When I came off opiates, it took me three weeks to get my energy level to normal. Then, I had about two months where there was an excess of energy. It took about three months to get a full night's sleep, only getting short naps in the beginning and gradually getting more sleep. After about six months, I was feeling better than ever. To anyone struggling: don't give up the fight. More than likely, you will lapse or even relapse. Just continue the fight. Giving up is a sentence of misery and death. I had several relapses before getting it all right. When you go to bed, tell yourself, "I love me, I am free, and I will stay clean." Do this as you fall asleep. This helps immensely, as your subconscious mind will be programmed with it.

Almost at 60 days. It’s been rough but I’m plowing through…

I am 28 days clean from a $100 a day fentanyl habit. I have detoxed from many different types of opioids over the years. This is by far been the hardest most painful detox I ever been through. I thought I had done permanent damage to my body at day 14 I didn’t even recognize who I was anymore but let me tell you it’s starting to get better every day, I get a little bit closer to feel like my old self again. I know I’m strong enough to stay sober for the rest of my life. If I could make it through those detox symptoms I could do anything.

It's so hard to get about and exercise and it's been 2 months no opiods. I do feel better but I'm not there yet... This Doctor knows exactly what he's talking about though.. pray for me

After quitting don’t take nap during the day when you get tired ! Do something to burn more energy. It could help you sleep at night

4 years clean and I am still amazed I can fall asleep naturally without heroin 💪🏻

Was clean for a yr & I relapsed 15 days ago. I havent used every day & after watching this video it has given me hope. I'm not addicted again.....yet but the cravings are building.. I will be exercising, lifting weights, gardening & no more "oh woe is me". I caused this & I'll sort it with this great advice. Thank you for posting this sir, its exactly what i needed. Spent last 2 days with no energy & feeling sorry for myself. I'm taking this message & running with it. To anyone out there struggling, this is doable... Much love people ❤❤❤

focus all of that anxiety and anger towards forcing yourself to be active. it really works.

Have been clean of opioids for over 4 years, after a 30 year stint on methadone. A long, slow taper (mine took almost 9 months) kept acute withdrawal symptoms to a minimum. You might hit a few decreases that take you longer to stabilize, which slows the taper, but that's normal. For me, the real fun started after the taper with PAWS symptoms that lasted over 1.5 years. I was prepared for a fight and a fight is what I got. And it's tough fighting back when you don't even have the energy to get out of bed. It took some seriously pent up anger to fight back instead of relapsing. Now that I look back at that part of my life, I can't express how grateful I am to have made it through the tough times. Now, I sleep great, workout 4 times a week and have returned to "normal" except for low motivation/energy. Had my testosterone checked, bloodwork all good, even spoke to a psychiatrist. Nobody can figure it out. I can't complain though, I'm still a lot happier (and healthier) than I ever was on methadone. Plus, no more chronic constipation, tooth decay or hating the summer (methadone made me hot and uncomfortable, even when it was 70 degrees out).

Exercise and staying hydrated should never be skipped

Came off Buprenorphine in January and have all the symptoms you described. Thanks for motivating me - I'll walk the two miles to my meeting tonight instead of taking the bus.

What he said is the only thing that really works. Was on heroin for fifteen years but i was very high functioning and worked 60+ hours a week and even bought my first home. Since quitting i dont wanna do anything and hate life because im not living in just existing. Then i started working out and it took me out of my depression fast and now it feels like my mitochondria has trippled and my energy is back.

My energy levels are nearly non existent. I hate it. People though think I’m somehow acting out in a sense. I wish I knew what was going on with myself.

I've been through it years ago. I believe in what this doctor is saying 100%.

Just remember the harder you punish your body the longer it takes to heal it. Don’t even expect to feel like normal within the first 30 days you’ll set yourself up for failure. Give yourself three months with zero expectations of feeling good if you come out of it early, consider yourself lucky and take it as a lesson to never use this evil chemical ever again

strengths to all who are quiting drugs🙏🏻 may god bless stay strong

Struggling with the insomnia and low energy hard right now.. probly 30th time ive put my body through this... steadfast will power in every other aspect of life. Gotta take back control of my brain. Anyone reading this, we deserve better and the rich fucks who profit off keeping us hooked only continue to.benefit if we use. God bless. 11 days in

13 days off 24 Tramadol tablets a day went of cold turkey and let me tell you it was the hardest thing I had done in my life … but there is light at the end of the tunnel…. Am getting back my sleep now after 13 days and my energy levels are 3 out of 10 my normal self I can’t work as I did before I can’t play with my kids but I feel like it’s coming back slowly …. Don’t give up for you and your family everyday it will get better

Getting good sleep while detoxing from methadone without sleeping pills is virtually impossible! I know because I'm going thru it right now! I do not wish to take any sleep aids. I've tried home sleep remedies and none worked so far. It's been very tough because I work 12 hour shifts and I started my detox at the beginning of my work week! I didn't sleep at all working 12s . I should have told them what was happening and took a week off work. Anyways it's been living he'll for a month now. I am pushing myself because it's true sitting on the couch is the worst thing you can do! I promise you that once you are mentally ready to stop the methadone it will be a brutal battle but you can get free !!!! Listen to uplifting music, meditate, pray up, and think about all the extra income you will have to invest into yourself! I love everyone that's suffering from addiction! I am so sorry you will eventually have to face this! What goes up must come down!

This video is so important. I took 8 mg Suboxone for 3 years and when i made the decision to tapper and come off. After the 72 hours of😭and a few weeks of the headaches and mood swings exercise absolutely got my head right. I was a runner in my yonger days and there is a phenomenon known as the runners high. If you want your body to refill the receptors its the absolute best and natural way to do it. Great content 👍

currently on a methadone prescription at the moment, my issue started from braking a vertebra on my back/neck area, got onto Tramadol.. ended up taking around 10-12 at a time, causing me to have several overdoses which in turn caused me to have seizures, the seizures caused me to break my nose, smash my toe nails off! i have 3 of the overdoses until it pushed me to want to get off! i am now 17 months into my methadone program.. and coming off this is one of the hardest things I've had to do in life, with my fast metabolism I struggle for a dose to last me a day, so i get a good few hours a day of early withdrawal... not had a day off work from it yet, I have 2 kids so that's my motivation to do better!!

God. Ngl after detoxing methadone for 45 freaking days and my brain breaking from not sleeping for 16 days then 10 days then 7 days. Only 2 weeks later am I starting to sleep but I have to take some krstom before bed otherwise i won't sleep at all and I just couldn't do it anymore. With this amount of sleep deprivation I'm inclined to sleep the days away and rest when I can. Once I'm ready to boot camp my way through the rest ill do that. Methadone detox BROKE my brain and body even. Everything is harder. Even walking. It's like my muscles are dead now. So I'm gonna take a short break to recover before boot camping my way back to being happy. I'm soooo tired.

Thank you for saying that. "Hanging around friends" is just what i needed to hear

Congratulations on the journey 🎉🎉🎉 we are doing great. Sending love n inner power to all my warriors

I knew he was going to mention exercise first.. I've been through opiate withdrawal a hundred times and only once I was forced to get a job within a month of quitting by my parents and it was the only time I bounced back and quickly regained my strength and the depression went away and I didn't start gaining weight.. everything.. I got a physical job doing construction cleanup and felt tip top in a very short time, about ten days.. It's hard to start getting active and you feel every pain in your body I know but, you gotta do it as soon as you're able to walk about. Actually getting out of the house is the best way to do it also but if you cannot then do what you gotta do. Remember any little bit helps and is better than nothing..

Thank you Dr. Coleman. Your the only one of thousands of videos that have truly made me feel hopeful. I know its possible now. Good luck to all, and see y'all back on the natural side of life ✌️

It’s a battle inside and with your own mind, your brain is lying to you trying to get you to do anything to make it go back to the way it was when you were sniffing bags or blues so it doesn’t have to deal with discomfort. You have to fight your mind and exert control over your own thoughts and actions. Dominate the mind and your body will follow , im 22 days sober today still feeling the effects of my body and mind trying to get back to normal , a little emotional but no cravings , low energy, I lost a lot of weight getting clean tho I was at 155ish and down to 135

I was on metherdone and heroin for over 33years im now over 6 months clean and iv got cronic fateege in my body no energy at all im 48 years old i am trying to push my selff like he sied but its relly herd to pluss im disabeld the tuff man up atytude hes got is not that easy

I've been on opioids prescribed for 8 years for back pain. I quit taken them 3 weeks ago. I started using kratom I have no withdrawals. I quit using opioids because getting prescriptions filled is near impossible nobody carries it it's always on back order

Lord God Almighty above give me the seething energy to tare this parasite from my soul...Please!

If you exercise it speeds up the process of returning to normal. I basically felt like myself again after quitting a 7 month fent habit after about a week and a half. My energy came back with a vengeance.

I dont know why but whenever i stop i get a shit ton of energy and feel incredible for a while and then i get the physical symptoms, feel like absolute garbage for almost a week, and then bounce back again towards the end of about 4-5 days i feel amazing energy and motivation again👀

Great video!! You are spot on…All us addicts/alcoholics need to memorize what this man says here.. Thank you wise sir ❤😊

Never any truer words ever spoken, thank you.

I’m on day three of 40 mg Percocet a day and I’m already starting to feel a little better. Headache is just about gone still a little tired and weak but not near as bad as I was. I have refills but I don’t even think I’m going to refill them, I don’t like this feeling being dependent even though I’m taking them legitimately for a broken back I think I’d rather be in pain than withdrawals.

My pain management doctor , after 2 failed back surgeries & 2 failed spinal cord Stimulator trials , prescribed me Fentanyl & Percocet. I’ve been going to the same Pain management clinic for 11 years. Never asked for more meds or a higher dose in 11 years. I had my 3 month check up last month. Everything was normal except . They never sent my meds to the same pharmacy I’ve used for 11 years. I called 5 days and they just told me your prescriptions are pending and will be sent in. That was weeks ago and I’ve gone into withdrawal so bad I feel like I’m dying. I’ve never gotten high from my meds they just dulled the back & nerve pain and my Arachnoiditis . IDK what to do or how to get through this.

I actually have way more energy without opiods than with them! And my sex drive is back to normal! With opiods, my sex drive was totally gone.

Just got back from Serbia after 8 day detox and naltrexone implant. Sadly 2 weeks and time to get back to work. Makes sense to get myself back in the gym to try making them natural chemicals again.

I came off for almost 2 years. Then had to go back on from an accident. Now im coming off again. Its easier this time because i got a taste of how much better life can be. It took a while but when you get your natural *happiness* (endorphins) back, its like life has come back.

Regular excercise is the best thing, it also helps you sleep later...but trying to do even a minimum of excercise, like getting off the sofa, is really difficult. Oh , he's just said it anyway. It's hard work though, it really is. I am still struggling after being "clean" (medically assisted) for getting on for nearly 3 years ! (I was on Heroin, Méthadone and Benzos for nearly thirty years though !)

I love this video rally helps me I’m starting my detox journey from Heroin right now I’m 1 hour in I’ll update when done but I’m so scared I hope I can do this for my amazing daughter and son

6 months is the mark when you start to feel most like normal or what you can remember normally was

Ive been weaning off of methadone maintenance for over a year slowly & just jumped off at 6mgs. I am still in withdrawal but looking forward to getting my energy back for sure .. been a long road 10 years addiction & 5 on methadone clinic.

Wise words, doctor. I've been abusing opiates for years to cure/mask my depression and an anxiety disorder. Now I'm on OTC codeine and zolpidem and the drugs do really help. Yes, I'm an addict but what you say is true.

Even after a week, I had trouble climbing one flight of stairs before I started using I would climb 21 floors of steps six times for my exercise in the morning. Opioids are brutal the withdrawal is hell.

Well, what can someone do that soon legitimately incredible pain if it’s seven operations, I need it. I still need a hip replacement knee replacement. I took a fall. The other day broke. My collarbone, broke most of the fingers in one hand had two spinal fusions, and I agree and I haven’t had any opioids in a month two months but I think I’ve been to see one doctor in the you’re on the medication and they stop because you know the doctor you’re on the medication and they stop because they are worried about their license. I think I’ve been in withdrawal over a year without not without any stop and I’m exactly, but you said I’m tired. I can’t take it anymore. I don’t know what to do and the answer is will get off pain medication. I can’t have a pain pump because the doctors are afraid to put it in because I have stage four kidney failure. Thank God I have a great kidney physician he doesn’t say no but the doctors were pain. Doctors don’t want to even mess with it in there been some very nice ones of just sitting I’m sorry but you’re screwed. Just come right out and say it what do I do please I’ve been off all old do opioids and I’ve just been put in agony every day and that’s fatiguing as well so I don’t know what it is what you say is a really solid point, but what do I do?

good advice im in hell i ruined my life its so hard if only i could go back a year

I'm beginning to think only time will tell. Exercise is the one thing that makes me worse right now. Appreciate the advice. Almost 60 days off a low dose of suboxone. Maybe next month will be better.

I found the lowest dose of Kratom that relieved WDs. I reduced by 0.1 g per dose per day. I held steady when I got down to 0.5 g/dose. I stayed there for almost a week, until I felt ready to finish. Droped buy 0.05g per dose until 0.1g. I kept taking that tiny dose to cope with PAWs. I know this won't work for everyone but it worked for me. I do not know what I would have done without Kratom. I was addicted to morphine.

I am a recovering addict and its been 2 years since I am in recovery. I was a opioid drug addict and my choice of drug was Brown sugar and Buprenorphine. I started using brown sugar for the first time from March 2016 till July 2017 and in the same month my family sent me to a rehab and I came back to home after a year in August 2018 and till march 2019 but relapsed in April 2019 and used opioids since then till feb 2020 and then I got to know about buprenorphine Nalaxone suboxone which is used to deal with opioids withdrawal and thats what I always wanted because the main reason or fear behind quitting opioids is to face withdrawal phase which is next to very hard and sometimes feel like not possible without medication however thats where I fucked up because before I got to now about buprenorphine, I used to go with the cold turkey way to come back to recovery and it hardly took a week for me to get back to normal state. For those who doesnt know what is cold turkey then let me explain that cold turkey is a way or method to quit using opioids in which the opioid drug user actually suffer withdrawal face without taking any help of medications and just let yourself stay locked in a room and suffer through withdrawals until gradually starts decreasing or reducing naturally and your body starts healing on its own....i know this way is not easy to go with but this way is the best way to quit opioids drugs completely without any dependency of medicine according to me because I gave have personally experienced the same and why I say that using medication to bypass withdrawals is not the best way is because I have also used this medication treatment for quitting opioids drugs without facing withdrawals but later I found that my brain and my body actually started getting addicted using buprenorphine daily and if I avoided it for a single day then the same way of obsession and compulsion developed in me which used to come in past after skipping one day of not using brown sugar and gradually i experienced that i was addicted to buprenorphine the same way i was addicted to brown sugar. Thats why I personally recommed that cold turkey is the best way to quit opioids by actually experiencing those withdrawals so that in your sub concious mind will try to stop you because it will then develop a consequence thinking that in case if you get a negative thought like if you feel like using drugs again, that consequence thought will automatically come and will clash with that negative thought and resist you from getting relapsed and remind you that if you use drug again than you have to go through that painfully, depressed and suffering period of withdrawals again👍

If the answer is “eat well and exercise”….then, that basically translates as “we got nothing, except for just letting time help…maybe.” The only worse thing to see besides “exercise” is if one of the treatments for something is “deep breathing.”….that is a sure sign there is no treatment but they don’t want to be harsh. But….people are different and exercise may work for some, and no harm in trying.

I’m fighting for my life it feels like only 5 days out from my opioid addiction I’m 27 and I’m taking zubsolv and moving around but eatings a bit hard my stomach blowtorches every time I eat and the pains excruciating my hands still shake hope I don’t go backwards feels like I’m 77 rn😢❤

Thank you for these videos! 😊

Power of the mind is ❤ . I’m need me back to help others, it’s a daily fight as eye Do Want my natural hi energy back , weight up , peace and financial self control again . I’m open to talk about it so this too shall pass 💎💎💎

God bless everyone stay strong💪💪

2 weeks clean from kicking Suboxone cold turkey now I have zero energy I can't do regular tasks and the insomnia is crazy

I want doctor wants to help me they all look at their license so I live the rest of my life like this and then I have the next operation and then the next operation Spinal fusion C2 one if not two hip replacements and a new replacement spend the rest of my life one operation after the other now no one ever replies to these pretty helpless from the sound of it you do great work keep it up you’ll help somebody. I’m sure you help a lot of people goodbye thank you very much.

Thank you doctor I've been having this problem and I'm really surprised to see it on RU-vid cuz it just popped on by itself I've got addicted to hydrocodone and I've been trying really hard to stop taking them and I'm going through pretty much hell but I know that I have to do it and your talk really did help me a lot and I mean a lot can you help me to really understand the situation so much better now I really want to say thank you a lot❤

After years of eating 60-80 norcos/lortabs/lorcets (depends on the doctor what brand) a day it took a good year (forced cold turkey) for me to just stop dreaming about them. Now, well over 12 years later, and I'm not happy. I haven't been able to mimic that great feeling. But I've always been depressed, even as a kid. Been thinkin of getting back on them since they seem to be the only thing that ever made me happy and energetic. Say what you want, opiates make me not want to die (at all). To me they're more of an antidepressant than anything.

Come on how do I get energy after op? Very easy stop using OP.

3 weeks post methadone detox and I feel like I'm in perpetual motion between breathing to calm to stop the jittery but not having any energy to actually do anything! Every task means 10 minutes breathwork 🤦

This makes sense I got so much energy from doing opiates ,I loved it cuz I felt unstoppable,however withdrawal from H n other fetty ish was torcher, I'm going thru a methadone withdrawal after a generation on n off the clinic....H i could use a few times n be good ,fetty i needed every other hour or i be sick

This guy speaks the truth ☮️❤️

Kratom withdrawal horrible after six years ,of taking it,five days I haven't use but I reached out to a doctor

Dear Sir,thanks for your advice,countless withdrawal,polytoxico,I agree 100% of what you say! I subscribed! (Better safe than sorry)😂❤

It's been 23 days off of fentanyl. And perpetually almost to the point of exhaustion. I'm always sleepy. After I wake up, I'm groggy and I'm confused like a statue. It is difficult to find motivation and energy to do anything

Your best bet is to hear from actuall people that have been through it not drs period

I went back on them after 2 weeks of diarrhea, insomnia and massive headaches. It was the non-stop toilet work that got me tho.

The sublacade is finally out of my system. The post acute withdrawal has me feeling terrible for 2 months now.

Thank you Dr.

Been through boot camp, I’d go back permanently rather than feel like this

I decided not drinking More tramadol but it's so hard because i have a lot of anxiety😢😢

Tell us you've never withdrawn without telling us. You cannot sleep let alone even sit comfortably for 2 seconds. If you are withdrawing from opiates, there's zero sleep for a long time. It's a nightmare. I'm pretty sure I have one of the longest records of staying awake not by choice. Over 30 days of zero sleep. Try again "doc"

Hard work I did ot weed eating in July in oklahoma

Damn im on day 5 thinking its almost over. Oh boy

Everyone reading stay strong and don’t give up on this mental warfare I was snorting 10 or more 10mg Vicodins or percs a day I finally bit the bullet and couldn’t take it anymore I took advice from a friend and used suboxone I would only cut a sliver off and dissolve it and snort it I quit after about a week with suboxone because I didnt want to get hooked withdrawal was not as bad using suboxone but I still have a rough time sleeping and have restless legs and horrible bowels and of course lack of energy the only things that I’ve noticed that helps is forcing yourself to workout and sweat that shit out but even after I’m done I slowly fall back to that horrible feeling I felt on top of the world when using but was working just to maintain my habit

Great video!!!!!!!

Nutrition, herbs, physical exercise, and having people to talk to. It is the worst thing to ever go through. Opiate withdrawals are awful. If you have made it past 3 weeks, and still feel like poop, try your best not to go back. For me day 15 seem like the 50% feeling better Mark.

I almost think when I finally got covid last year I went 3 days with nothing and didn't even realize it.Soon as I got well I took more.Why is this????

You have the simple clear vision of things not seen in others. keep it up please. I have noticed in my patients a few that I've treated with addiction disease, that went in remission saying they feel empty. I have never heard this from anyone else. Then I was thinking about endorphins highest levels being in women delivering babies and I thought if we didn't have our own endorphins we probably wouldn't have babies or all the other activities we need to continue our species so maybe the endorphins are a lot more powerful reinforcers designed to maintain humankind.😅Plus they are a lot more important than we give them credit for and when you don't have them you're just wither on the Vine. so without your own chemical reinforcers you would no longer participate in making sure mankind continued. I only think like this after I've had two donuts which is the case today

This is day 58 after stopping suboxone and still getting diarrhea every morning. I'm taking probiotics and nothing helps.

15 yrs on prescribed oppies and tired of reaching for them. Can I quit? Can I survive the process? I think it's time to move forward, pain or not. My doc says I'm in real pain, why stop? But something inside says "get off this medication". I get relief. I take as prescribed. But still.... I hate reaching 4 times a day!!!!! Any comments are welcomed!

I've been quit opiods for years now and i can't find anyway to get my energy back at all i struggle daily with this issue

100mg down to 40mg and i jumped off 7 days ago I can't sleep, don't have any energy. Like I've slept 4hrs since is there something temporary to take for sleep? Benadryl don't phase me. Afraid of loosing the plot.

Thanks Dr

On day 7 I feel fine now went though fucking hell and now I’m fine so I’m happy hahaha I’m never going back the pain I endured minute by Minute 4 strait days of no sleep tossing turning every minute dry heaving for hours cuz my stomach is cramped couldn’t eat shit but soup couldn’t shit I’m never fucking going back to that shit again I got no energy rn but I feel normal again no more aches and pains just queasy stomach but ya I endured that shit so I don’t have to ever again

I was doing oxy 30s from the age of 13 to 15 and smoked heroin until I reached 20, eventually got on methadone in 2020. I took my last dose in February of this year which was 20mg down from 200 but im currently dealing with this as well I have absolutely no energy. Im only 25 and have 4th stage liver disease from my drug abuse so im in severe pain contantly and limited to what I can do physically. What should I do in this situation taking my condition into consideration as physcial activity hurts me severely???

Thanks doc your videos are helping me a lot coming off Suboxone

Has to do with what you think or believe how you get your drugs think of it as a mind game

DL-PA and 5-thp helps

So fake it until you make it …. So hard when you’re 64 …. TY 😊

Thank you Doctor ❤❤

Over a hundred days now everythings back to normal but still get cold chills randomly. Does anyone else get this?

Why won’t anyone answer “ what kind of Kratom ? Red , green ?? “ lol are the comments being taken off lol weird

If you're sober, no suboxone. Take a micro micro dose before bed. It'll help rewire. Seriously.

Couldn’t a doctor prescribe an amphetimene to combat the weakness and tiredness ?

Thanks so much!

Has anyone had abnormal movements of their toes or any kind of tremors coming off of suboxone? I also have a severe tinnitus with any exertion physically.