PAWS!?

[LONESOME]

I know the definition but what is it really? like what do you feel and when do you start feeling it? is it WDs? or comes after the WDs?

Sorry it may be a stupid question but I really want to ask been wanting to ask lol.

Thank you,
you all smart peeps lol

[SableZen]

It very well could be slight withdrawal. Not definitively of course (should see a doctor if it alarms in the slightest)... I either had heartburn, anxiety, high blood pressure, or a combination of those things that motivated me to get seen during my withdrawal just to make sure there wasn't something more serious going on... it did go away slowly after the first few days though.

If I had to describe how it felt for me, I would say it was very similiar to the feeling of 'heartache' like after being ruthlessly dumped by a girlfriend in Jr. High School for the jerk quarterback of the football team... but more pronounced and physical feeling. [Yes I know that was very emo... but I was in Jr HS damnit!]

[LONESOME]

Thank you, that makes sense I'm on sub now tapering on 1mg now and I feel something like that so I was wondering is it WDs is really not pain is like I have a knot in my chest that is how I can descrive it is not in my throat is in my chest.

I know weird, so many things happen after lol

[122 Tactical Fighter Group]

Link at bottom right of page - three part read that does a pretty good job of laying it out. PAWS comes after withdrawals (post) - don't have these numbers memorized so bear with me. Can occur sometime from 4-24 months after acute withdrawals.....doesn't have to happen - people and their biological makeup are different. Not as strong as immediate withdrawal, but can occur at awkward times. Could be more research done as we don't know as much as we should about it. I feel that nutrition is important in addressing PAWS - particularly the Amino Acid Protocol. And knowledge is power here - if you are informed it is less likely that you will be blind-sided by an episode of PAWS....best to you.

[SableZen]

For me, when I start to get stressed out my anxiety goes up (can't sleep, feel restless, can't concentrate) or I get depressed from something external - it's always at the back of my mind.

Conversely, sometimes for no reason I can discern, those feelings of anxiety and depression will just hit me out of nowhere and the only thing I can think about to make things better is to go back to taking a pill to make it all better.

I would call anything in the first sentence that sets off that anxiety and depression like that to be my triggers. And I would call everything in the second sentence to just be random PAWS episodes.

Overall the random PAWS episodes have lessened a lot recently for me.

Oh and the PA in PAWS stands for Post Acute withdrawal or in English: 'after detoxing is over'.

[TrayCee]

its after the physical wd's.  Google it