Comments on: Endorphin Deficiency Syndrome (EDS) Do You Have It?

By: Bobby

Bobby — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:28:40 +0000

For anyone reading this, you can also try a supplement called D-Phenylalanine which works pretty well to boost endorphin levels. I’ve tried all kinds of supplements for boosting GABA, Serotonin, Dopamine, etc, but D-Phenylalanine is the one which worked best for my social anxiety, I think you have to take a break from it every now and then to stop building up a tolerance though.

By: Ralph

Ralph — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:45:27 +0000

Hey Adam. That you for this post as a whole. You are doing a great service that some may not understand(since they’re not addicts). 2 months ago I quit a 8 year addiction to Morphine Sulfate. It was by far the hardest thing I had ever done. I’ve had a broken back to dislocated knees and W.D. takes the cake. Well I recently cut my arm prety bad. So what does any addict due? I used that to start using again. (unfortunately for me I have immediate family that gives me these pills) The worst idea ever now looking back. If you want to get clean and you have some1 close giving you these substances then the first thing you need to do is get as far away as possible.. over 100 miles if that’s possible. I have now seperated myself from any1 I even talked to when I was using. I have been using again for about 2 weeks and I can feel myself getting sucked in. So today is the first day of withdrawls for the last time. I want to thank you for the article about EDS. It is like a fog has been lifted and the questions I had about why I use have all now been answered. Thank you and keep it up. (Got a skydiving trip set up to chase a natural high, I get it now)

By: Lg

Lg — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:43:12 +0000

For anyone looking to get clean I suggest getting the vivitral shot .. Ten times better than Subox and a lower relapse percentage !

By: Rory

Rory — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:57:33 +0000

Thanks so much for this information. Like you I have been thinking the same thing and its so unfortunate that to feel ”normal” we must engage in risky behavior or be considered drug seekers addicted to pain killers. When some of us just want the simple sense of well being. To feel alive. As I grew up I was very withdrawn, socially enept I would say. Sick all the time. Tired enough to sleep 16 hours a day. As I have gotten older my pain tolerance has decreased significantly. Everything hurts all the time. I just want to be a good wife and mother and I have found the only way to do this is to pop my pills. I hope someday the research is done for people with this problem. I have told so many drs ” damn right im a drug seeker but im asking for them to feel normal not high” I have suprisingly found many drs who accept this response and give me what I need.
Thanks so much
Rory

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:21:46 +0000

I came across your article by accident and was aghast at the similarities to my life experience. It was practically identical, so I won’t repeat the issues here. The only major difference is that I treated my gastrointestinal problems as well as social problems with alcohol for 25 years until I discovered opiates following a painful abdominal surgical procedure. Now there is no doubt that that my life-long abuse of alcohol had crossed the point of no return into true alcoholism. But once I sobered up and accepted that I couldn’t drink, I had no cravings or problems staying away from alcohol. I have been sober for over 5 years now and continue to attend AA meetings several times a week. The meetings actually do help me grow spiritually, and are helpful to me even if others find 12 step programs hard to stomach.
But my point is that I may not have become alcoholic if I had recognized, and medicine had recognized, that there are those of us who cannot produce the endorphins necessary for us to feel “normal.” In treatment we were taught that only 1 out of 10 people like the effects of opiates, and that this is because they are addicts in the making. I didn’t agree with that at the time and I definitely don’t buy it now.
There was on neurologist/psychologist to whom I was assigned in treatment who mentioned EDS to me in so many words. He also told me that he would deny ever saying anything about it should I happen to mention it and it got back to him. But he told me earnestly that there is such a thing as EDS that has been widely studied and accepted in India for many years.
Simply put, there are some of us who don’t feel normal unless we have some level of opiate attached to the receptors in our brains. I know that I only feel “normal” when I have opiates in my system. And even though I take large amounts at times for my chronic pancreatitis, when the pain stops and I withdraw from the opiates, the feeling of general well being goes away too.
Like others who have posted here, many people, doctors especially, insist that anyone would have a “false” sense of well being on opiates. But I have found that to be untrue. Friends who have taken opiates for dental surgery or for other medical and non-medical purposes have insisted that they don’t like the effect. One friend in particular insisted that I never allow him to take any form of opiate ever again. He felt awful.
So I don’t buy that I’m an addict just because it takes a low level of opiate in my system to feel normal. After 50 years of life I have experienced enough people to know what normal is. And me without opiates or the proper endorphins naturally produced in the brain is not it. Comments to my email welcome. Regards, Greg

By: Renee

Renee — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 01:58:09 +0000

Hi, well I know I had EDS once I started on a treatment for my Fibro, I felt a live!! Come see us at my LDN support site.. read all about the LDN.. see if its a good treatment for you its ENDOPRHINS IN A BOTTLE!! or search LDN on google.. GOD BLESS and good luck..

By: steve

steve — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:55:12 +0000

After having problems with alcohol addiction and abstaining for years my brain became hooked on salt and I would binge on salty, spicy food. The addiction got worse when trying to give it up. I gave up smoking, caffeine, drugs and booze etc but the salt thing is the last habit to kick. I definitely think there is something to EDS but I am hoping that after supplementation (dlpa) and healthy eating/exercise, my brain will eventually learn to make its own endorphins at the required levels.
Has anyone managed to overcome eds and sustain a lifestyle that does not require opiates, drugs or supplements?
I managed to overcome alcoholism and major depression with the help of l-glutamine, sjw, supplements and healthy eating.
I am no longer depressed and haven’t drank or smoked in years however my bed/ed is taking over and would appreciate any info.

Cheers

Ste

By: Ivan Ivanovich

Ivan Ivanovich — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 02:07:43 +0000

With EDS are you able to have orgasms? I have many of the symptoms of EDS, with the addition of lack of orgasm. All other sexual function is normal, except that. I would be interested to know if this is a symptom of EDS or more a dopamine issue.

By: WanTan Silo

WanTan Silo — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 01:09:16 +0000

“BTW, in case you were wondering why it’s been over a year since I last updated ProhibitionKills.com , now that I’m on LDN and off all the opiates, I may be in better shape physically- but my creative writing skills have virtually evaporated. (Without their opiate habits, could Edgar Allen Poe, Howard Hughes & Kurt Cobain have exuded all that creative brilliance? I wonder.)”

It’s interesting that you mention this as I notice some changes in my personality while on opiates. While taking opiates, I like music less, choosing mostly to listen to talk radio in the car. I am less emotional. I think those two are related since “feeling” music is related to what extremes of emotion someone can experience. I still like music, it’s just that I’m not all-consumed with it like I was when I was younger and off opiates. I can tell when I am starting to “come down”: I turn the radio to some music and start “getting into it”. I always found that interesting.

By: WanTan Silo

WanTan Silo — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 21:56:25 +0000

When I first took opiates it was like I had just won the lottery. NO other drug EVER made me feel normal like that. Like the way I was supposed to feel.

I have had this theory for quite some time. I thought that I could be wrong because, up until a few years ago, there was literally no information on the internet about the potential of there being a disorder such as this. My situation is similar to yours with some differences.

The ONLY drug or types of drugs I like are opiates. But I take it one step further. The only opiates that I prefer are the long-lasting kind that give less of a “effed-up-passing-in-and-out-of-consciousness” high. In fact, I don’t like being really “high”. Even when I could get as much methadone as I needed, I still regulated my intake. I knew I was different from my other opiate addict friends because they would take all that they had within a few days and get super-high and then run out. I would “naturally” space mine out. Also, when they went through withdrawals they just wanted to stay inside and sleep all day. I couldn’t sleep at all and wanted to constantly keep moving (I would walk 5 miles a day while going through withdrawals).

I didn’t know that I could be confident and talkative (I am not very talkative or sociable AT ALL) until I discovered opiates. My constant “allergies/colds” went away completely and I get a stuffy nose just once a year while taking opiates (when I was a kid I had a congestion about 3/4 of the year).

Also, I’ve noticed that extreme physical activity makes me feel FANTASTIC for about 24 hours afterwards, especially when I don’t take opiates.

There are many other reasons why I think I have an endorphin deficiency (I even found one doctor that has this same theory!) but I don’t have time to list them all right now. Please, if anyone wants to talk, email me (in order to trick spiders/crawlers: in order to get my email address, just use every other letter):

fiaftohiojmhtkakndnqpf <— gmail account.

For example:

biulthtkhoefamd translates to butthead