Have a question, been here before and went cold turkey, it's a long story, but anyways i am doing 7-8 10 milligram of percs a day, i went cold turkey once and it was complete hell, i do not want to go cold turkey again, any suggestions?? i am in Arizona Thanks
Oh my God...Not the Original Gladiator who moved to Costa Rica? With the girlfriend who lived down the street? The one who swore he would go to NA meetings if he started using again???
Rachel
gladiator,
i think you know the drill, w/d dont last forever so buck up and get it overwith, keep in a posative frame of mind, stay busy as possable. say your prayers. get your over the counter stuff or possably see about a detox dr. or maybe check into sub. there are several options. you have done it before you can do it again. the more posative you are the better off you'll be. stay around and read some stuff on the board, take what you need and leave the rest. just get your mind set for it and go for it. the mind is a very powerful thing. don't let some lil pill have control over it. you are worth recovery buddy, we are all here to support you
terrianne
i think you know the drill, w/d dont last forever so buck up and get it overwith, keep in a posative frame of mind, stay busy as possable. say your prayers. get your over the counter stuff or possably see about a detox dr. or maybe check into sub. there are several options. you have done it before you can do it again. the more posative you are the better off you'll be. stay around and read some stuff on the board, take what you need and leave the rest. just get your mind set for it and go for it. the mind is a very powerful thing. don't let some lil pill have control over it. you are worth recovery buddy, we are all here to support you
terrianne
Yea Rachel it's me, Costa Rica sucked ugh!! anyways i came back and started with my old ways again, so for about 9 months i have been on the percs again, but this time plan to do the NA meetings UGH!! lol but i have to go, it's for my own good, but just trying to find a detox center in Phx area so i don't have to "Suck it up" again and do the cold turkey thing, that was horrible
Well, Gladiator I am very happy to see you. I know you tried Sub before and had a hard time tolerating it. I am glad you are willing to go to NA. There is nothing I can say that you don't already know about the detox. It sucks plain and simple. Your Dr. can give you Clonidine and other detox meds to help. I had Clonidine, Phenobarbital and Chloryll Hydrate which eased the w/d's. Are you still in real estate?
Rachel
I was never really in RE, i was just going to Costa Rica to sell it, a friend of mine was their, but i hated it their, typical 3rd world country. Have you heard about rapid detox and does that work?? the suboxone made me sick as a dog, but i was only doing about 2 percs a day when i went on suboxone and another Dr. told me the suboxone was to strong for only doing 2 percs thats why i got sick, but now that i am doing about 8 pills a day, i dam sure aint goin cold turkey NO FREAKIN WAY lol
Should i try and ween myself down to 2-3 a day, if i remember correctly people in here who were doing 8-10 a day weened down and it helped before rehab.
Glad:
I don't know much about rapid detox except there was a Professional football player that use to be on this board who advocated it. My friend from NA did it also but he was using Heroin, Methadone and Crack...Maybe talk to your Dr. about Sub again? Maybe a lower dosage?
Rachel
BTW, Cowgirl just signed off...she'll be bummed she missed you :-)
Didn't you taper one time before? I was never successful at it but if you have been able to do it before then it is worth a shot...
When your doing 8-10 percs a day "crack" isn't exactly on your mind lol everything is just so numb )-: lol (-:
You are actually taking the equivelant of like sixteen to twenty percs a day.. You should try to wean yourself down like two less every three to four days.. Thats what my old doctor told me to do lol, i wasnt successful, but that was the professional word three years ago.. well post back buh bye...
sorry 14-16 ps a day.. i read it wrong..
Gladiator:
I am going to bed now but wanted to say how happy I am to see you here :-) Keep coming back. Oh and let me know how those NA meetings are going :-0
Rachel
I am going to bed now but wanted to say how happy I am to see you here :-) Keep coming back. Oh and let me know how those NA meetings are going :-0
Rachel
Wow...How are you bud? Nice to see you back although not under these circumstances.
I'm with Rachel..check out those NA meetings. It's a great way for support with the sub.
Welcome back...
Cowgirl
I'm with Rachel..check out those NA meetings. It's a great way for support with the sub.
Welcome back...
Cowgirl
hey cowgirl whats up, now it's gonna be twice as hard, i quit smokin a few days ago, now i have to ween myself down, i think i have the willpower to do atleast that, i started this morning, by now i would have taken 3, and only have taken one, just taking a 1/2 at a time, but i want to get down to 2-3 a day then hit the suboxone and NA meetings, NO WAY IM GOIN COLD TURKEY lol
Come on you big baby...you did it once before, you can do it again. You know it won't kill you! It didn't kill me and no way am I half as tough as you, big guy.
The Sub is a great tool, but that's it, just a tool. It's no good by itself, you have to do the support thing with it. Whether it's NA/AA or whatever, just don't think you take the magic pill and are done. Guess that it's best to do as little as possible for as short a time, as possible.
Really glad you're back.
Cowgirl
The Sub is a great tool, but that's it, just a tool. It's no good by itself, you have to do the support thing with it. Whether it's NA/AA or whatever, just don't think you take the magic pill and are done. Guess that it's best to do as little as possible for as short a time, as possible.
Really glad you're back.
Cowgirl
i remember you .... i used to lurk now i post on the mj board but read here a lot!
i agree with cowgirl, you did the c/t and i remember reading your posts. you can do it again i bet.
but if you got the girlfriend back (did you?) maybe don't tell her this time....whatever you chose.... good luck and welcome back. sorry it's for this reason but glad you knew you could come here and be safe and get support!
-jojo
i agree with cowgirl, you did the c/t and i remember reading your posts. you can do it again i bet.
but if you got the girlfriend back (did you?) maybe don't tell her this time....whatever you chose.... good luck and welcome back. sorry it's for this reason but glad you knew you could come here and be safe and get support!
-jojo
Nice to see an old familiar face/nic. Welcome back Gladiator. I tapered from 20-30 hydrocodone/day to 6/day over the course of 2 weeks. Basically, I just reduced my intake to one dose per day -- started with dose of 8 (for 4 or 5 days), then 7, then 6. They say it takes 4-5 days for your body to adjust to the reduction. Having one dose to look forward to at the end of the day seemed to help my addict mind stay on taper for at least that long. But after I got to 6, I slipped up and took 10 one Friday night. The following morning, I sensed where I was headed, so I flushed the reamaining 22 or so. That's what worked for me -- that, and making sure I only had a finite quantity left. It wasn't a complete taper, but it at least made the c/t easier when I did it. Good luck. Sounds like you've had enough. None
Hey Gladiator2,
Good to see you. There are some rehab docs who do rapid detox. My pain management doc also wanted to do rapid detox with me but by the tme I went back i had already taken myself off Valium, Oxy, and Welbutrin c/t. It was kind of awful. Anyway, he told me he would have hospitalized me, put me to sleep to get me off the drugs then brought me out in a safe way and this would have not taken very long at all and been much safer and less painful. Because I had problems with my bp he was pretty angry with me. If you do rapid detox you will have to research and ask around to find a doc. Not alot do that and I think it is expensive.
Anyway, w/b and good luck,
peace,
pm
Good to see you. There are some rehab docs who do rapid detox. My pain management doc also wanted to do rapid detox with me but by the tme I went back i had already taken myself off Valium, Oxy, and Welbutrin c/t. It was kind of awful. Anyway, he told me he would have hospitalized me, put me to sleep to get me off the drugs then brought me out in a safe way and this would have not taken very long at all and been much safer and less painful. Because I had problems with my bp he was pretty angry with me. If you do rapid detox you will have to research and ask around to find a doc. Not alot do that and I think it is expensive.
Anyway, w/b and good luck,
peace,
pm
pregnantmom Rapid detox is about 10k, if i can spend 10k on pills, i can spend 10k gettin myself off them, im gonna try weening down for 2 weeks first, because at the sametime i am quitting smoking UGH!!! so i'm gonna give myself a few weeks of weening down, and if i can get down to 2 a day, i will do the suboxne treatment to finish it off, the last time i just went cold turkey and it was a nightmare, not doin that again, anyone who thinks their a a toughguy, try goin cold turkey off 100 milligrams of percs a day lol i'm a tough guy, but not when it comes to cold turkey, i cry like a little girl LOL!!!
