I feel alot like you from reading your post. I researched and researched and I got my plan to detox. I find my info from the internet and peoples experiences like your post. I originally was addicted to oxycodone, then went right into smoking OC's. I didn't get into heroin but all of my friends did. After that I went to a 10 day detox place and was clean for a couple months, then relapsed. I went to an outpatient clinic and was put on suboxone. I stayed on that for 6 months and tried to quit. BIG mistake. Suboxone and Methadone are basically impossible to quit. the half-life on the two are way longer than OC's, percocet, morphine, and vicoden. So after two weeks of profusely sweating and withdrawing I gave up. I gave up because I found out that the symptoms last from 2 months on and I couldn't do it that long so i caved. When I was in treatment I was maybe a notch above having mild withdrawals. I couldn't sleep more than an hour for 4 days, and had a panic attack from lack of sleep but the nurses helped me out of that. Other than that and sweating from my armpits from day 4-7 it wasn't that bad. I felt completely fine by the time i left, so I knew that the withdrawals shouldn't last past 14 days. When I gave up i switched to morphine because I could get it consistently. I knew to quit I had to switch to an opiate with a shorter half life. So, now to my plan. Currently I do 15mg of morphine at a time 2-3 times a day. I planned on doing the morphine for a couple months to make sure I flushed the rest of the suboxone out of my system, but its been about a year now. I got a job and been putting it off, but now i'm making it happen. I plan on switching to oxycodone 15's and cut down to half a 15, then half of that at a time, 2-3 times a day.. I want to do those for a week and a half to 2 weeks or so because they have the shortest half life ouf of all of the opiates, and I know I can quit them because I have before. I'm sure it will be a little rough becuase thats just the trade off, a little worse withdrawal for a shorter withdrawal time. What do you think of my plan?
That was a great post you just typed about what you are planning to do "Guest" lol. Firstly I went to Register but all the Usernames were taken, so I will go back soon and use numbers as well for my Username, but was hoping to catch this person before they left their Computer. I really like your idea. I've spent countless hours on the Internet researching different ideas, so when I quit Suboxone, (I'm tapering right down) but I want to succeed this time. I was using Oxycodone, but I'm beginning to think I was better off trying to go Cold Turkey off Oxy, as people seem to be suggesting that it's harder to come off Suboxone than Oxy. I guess there is no easy way. I also liked the Post from "Wanna Stay Clean" and then your reply popped up :-) Bloody Oxys lol. I curse the day I started them.
If it worked more power to you! I am currently fighting the Methadone demon and it sucks! My husband and I had a 7 year 100+ mg a day Percocet habit. Well right at 3 years ago we decided to go get help. If I would've known that "help" would be like this I wouldn't have went that route. My highest was 60 mgs a day and my lowest was 11. Now I'm at 22 mgs and trying to taper to nothing and the anxiety and panic attacks are unreal. I want to get off of this c**p so bad but I feel like it's going to be a long process. I will keep going though and fight through it for my daughter. I am tired of being a slave to something every day and can't wait to be normal again! I look forward to living a totally free life! Thank you so much for sharing your stories with us! It feels great to see that someone out there know's what we're going through. I love reading all the different stories and experiences to gain knowledge. I'd love to know how you're doing with everything and I wish you the best!!
I was on methadone from an accident eight years long. Tapered down to 10 mg a day. It about killed me to detox. Seizure. Now today I'm clean fifty days. I can't stand up.. I'm screwed. Cold turkey.
Rls. Pain...fire inside my skin still. Detroit we call it the he be je bes. I'm afraid if I don't get better soon I will ego back down the dope road. Methadone. Heroin in a bottle, actually it's forty times worse. You are talking five days...my info says five months to a year...kill me please
So, how long did your post acute withdrawals last? As you know opiate withdrawal last for several weeks sometimes even months...Did you fare well or are you still clean?
I have been taking just a small amount of oxycodone for almost 9 months now everyday..anywhere from 5mg to 30 mg per day. I used to be addicted to lots of other pain meds for 10 years. I got clean November 2014 and May of 2015 I started getting huge kidney stones that had to be surgically removed so came the Percocet back in my life. Im on day 3 of withdrawals Again!! All that progress and here I am again! But I must say the diarrhea, stomach cramps, no appetite and not resting was terrible the first 2 days but today I felt like running my errands and not feeling like I could die! If I can make it for 2 more days I Will Never Do this again!! I knew this would happen but really what choice did I have at the time?
Hi. I was googling mild opiate withdrawal. I got loads of pages saying as long as 2, 3, weeks. I came across your story & im on day 1/2 I think (I was using suboxone 2mg & also citing them in half. Then I had surgery and was given oxy/Tylenol capsule. I decided I did not want to go back on the suboxone .. THIS WAS MY CHANCE! Get off.. forever. Mind you, I haven’t used heroin/oxy for pleasure in 10 years. I was just on & off suboxone & as you know that withdrawal can be a real B! I wonder since I abruptly stopped the sub after surgery then went on the very low dose oxy of one-acetaminophen 5-325 for 10 days (what am I actually withdrawing from?) maybe in reverse but the taper was better than the sub? Gosh your story really moved me. Helped me. Just knowing that I have only 5 days of this .. I also went to treatment when I was 22. They put me on morphine. WORST WITHDRAWL EVER. So this is the way. I appreciate you sharing - thank you