Ok im new here, Im also trying to get off percocet i was successful at going down from 100mg -50mg 5 10/235 per day, but then all i could think about was the pills, the only way i did that was repeatedly putting myself to sleep, and just sleeping for 3 days straight, and then it was pretty rough, but i took passionflower extract which I do believe helped me, I take dopa mucana, LTyrosine B6, Bacopa, nux vomitica (for nauseas) and i take L gluatamine for cravings and N Acetyl Cystene for getting rid of the tylenol from my liver plus its supposed to have some benedifts to compulisive behavior and being addicted is a compulsive behiavior the NAC it stops you from biting your nails, I dont know how but reaseach has found it to be helpful with compulsion etc and it also cleans your liver out. I take ginger, I take a lot of vitamins and hollistic remedies, waking up in the morning is the hardest part. Eventhough last month i got to 5 pills, my whole day was consisted around taking a pill every hour for 10 hours i took ten a day, i ddint how to live with 5, and if i got agrivated id take extra and then i ended up at 70mg percocet, im trying to go to down to 6 6/1 now. And it seems i got used to the passion flower and its not working as it did before, so i guess you can grow tollerance to even an herb atleast thats not addictive, I take xanax and clonaxepam whatever kind i can get my hands on because that really helps to get off the damn percocet, i was thinking to check myself in to a hospital due to my problem, but i called and i have been seeing what other people say about how they cant get off suboxone the withdrawal is worse, I live in new york, I would be in a terrible environment. Ive gone to rehab before for this stupid problem, they failed to tell me that i would feel like shit when i got home, and that i wouldnt be able to thing at all, and would be outo f it for a while, so i found a refill to vicodin at the time and then taking my first pill i felt totally normal, at that time i was still able to do things, work, etc, once it got to this point where it went up a lot, its been very hard to deal with it, and that damn mind of mine keeps getting in my way telling me oh you can take a little bit more its ok, i have to fight that part of my brain or everytime im agrviated i thik automatically to take medicine, that is very sick i know that. Thats why im here, because i want to talk to others who have a problem, like mine who understands how hard it is to go through all this, anyway ive been isolated all year in my house which is typical i cant even visit people because i have to worry about whether i have enough pills to make it through the week, it sucks, this is not a way of living, my mom is really disapointed in ne etc. I do have appt for hypnosis im hoping that will work with coping skills and this particular person teaches you how to hypnotize yourself as well and thats something ny mom did in the past she went to a hypnotist when she was having problems but not related to drugs, but other problems, and she also was taught self hypnosis,.... so i think that might help with coping not taking pills when i dont phyiscally need them. So im trying to taper off ive tried before ive only been able to go halfway and then something happens an injurty pain agrviation something happens and it makes me go back up im glad i didnt go back up to the full amount. Thankfully. Because i was prior to this taking as many meds as i want without keeping track and i would be running out of the percocet and need an earlier script or had to make excuses like "oh my pills fell in the sink" or " i left my pills at a friends house far away when i was visiting" one time someone i let stay with me stole my pills, and people are always asking me for them, i hate that. Its like they want to get high off of it, and i am here trying to get off of it, dont they realize that they dont want to end up in my situation, i was originally given this medicine for pain, reasons very bad pain, and it just kept increasing in dose, and it got to a point where i was taking it whenever i felt like it, and once it got to around 10 11 a day, i would bget withdrawal symptoms every morning no matter what, and that still happens to me even though im tapering,.
I know theres a lotof drs and b.s artists, who want to make you think you cant do this on your own, and thats what i thought in the past, but I watched a lot of youtube videos of people talking about how they tapered themselves off of percocet etc or any opiates. Some even show what its like day 1 - day 16 to go cold turkey i dont even know how they upload or make a video while your in that situation. I would be totally a mess. Ill tell my entire list of vitamins and supplements that help me with my witdrawals, but #1 is defintiely Passionflower extract in a liquid form, its really unbelievable. Thats what helped me go down from 10-5. So i cant tell you how helpful that is. If you really want to get off this stufff. I never thought that id be on this stuff for this long a period of time and loose so much of my time to this situation. But i cant think like that. I also tried that poppy seed tea, and it doees mildly work, i did get popy seeds yesterday so its interesting you mention that. I havent needed poppyseed tea though since the passionflower extract, and they have also something called wild oats thats said to really help also with getting off opiatesl Theres a lot of vitamins and supplements that help atleast i noticed that, you still will be in pain but its not that bad. with the vitamins, i know the thomas recipe with the ltyrosine and b6 but i added a lot of vitamins to my own recipe. And they do work, the biggest battle is the mind. Thats what i need hypnosis for, for Gods sake i had a dreeam well nightmare i dont know, that all the pills fell down and i couldnt get them. Thats what i would dream about when i tried to quit cigarettes, i would dream about cigarettes, its hard to go through the day without thinkking all the time about it. I try to distract myself, but its hard, and if someone upsets me i have no coping skills anymore so i dont know how to cope with that without pills. So its terrible situation. If i knew i could go down half like that, and thats only after i read someone went down from 30 pills to 8 and then went slowly down from there, so i said if he could do it i could do it and i did go down hallf but i ended up in between half and the full dose, so im still going tdown now slowly. because that was very painful. If someone told me that this would happen I would have rathered the pain i was in at the time then this kind of pain killers.
