My wife and I have been struggling with an off and on heroin habit for the past few years.
We have always smoked it, and in the past we have been able to quit and stay off for months, but we always relapse eventually. When we quit it was always cold turkey followed by three days of moderate discomfort. After the three days we would feel notably better and only have cravings to deal with.
This time we are in a little bit deeper then before. I say that because we have been using very consistently and for longer then all the other times before. On a few occasions we have been out of luck and missed a day. Once we hit 24 hours we start to feel like crap. We both get bad RLS, restless entire body really, anxiety (I get that real bad), irritability, extreme lack of energy, total gray depression, aches and pains, horrible sleep, and stomach issues.
We are so freaking sick of this. We are so burnt out on stressing every day about getting something, spending all of our money, and watching life just pass us by as all we do anymore is get high or lay around in stressful discomfort waiting to get high.
We have been telling each other we need to quit for a long time but never quite commit. That is until now.
We just acquired four 8/2 suboxone strips and six 10mg methadone pills. So that's 2 subs and three methadones for each of us.
My rough plan is to do our last dose of H Monday morning (smoking) it will probably be just 1/10 of a gram give or take a point. To give an idea of our level of dependency, that amount wont get us high but it will be sufficient to keep us out of withdrawal for about 24 hours.
We will then wait till we start to feel miserable, when we do we will take our first 10mgs of methadone. I pray that'll be enough to kill the withdrawals.
Them we will hold out as long as possible and take another 10mgs.
Then I am thinking 5mgs the next day, and the last 5 the following day.
At this point we will be in day 3 no H, and have nothing left except suboxone.
Next we plan on waiting the sufficient amount of time for the methadone to be out of our system and inducting suboxone when the withdrawals come back. This part will be difficult because we will have to tough it out for, I am thinking 3 days? Before trying suboxone to avoid throwing ourselves into precip...
So the plan is to get through that time, most likely start to feel miserable to the point where we want to cave and get some H, and start the Sub.
I am thinking we will start with 2mgs, wait an hour, take another 2mgs if needed.
Then the same thing the following day, once we start hurting, 2mgs followed by another 2mgs probably before bed.
At this point we will each only have one 8mg strip each.
We will start tapering off the sub at this point. I am thinking we should dose depending on how we feel In the amounts of 2mgs, 1mg, 1mg, 1mg, 1mg, 1/2, 1/2, 1/4, 1/4, 1/4, 1/8, 1/8.....roughly.....
Does that seem like a feasible plan?
Any feedback and/or advice would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you so much for reading, and I look forward to reading and contributing here into the future.
We have always smoked it, and in the past we have been able to quit and stay off for months, but we always relapse eventually. When we quit it was always cold turkey followed by three days of moderate discomfort. After the three days we would feel notably better and only have cravings to deal with.
This time we are in a little bit deeper then before. I say that because we have been using very consistently and for longer then all the other times before. On a few occasions we have been out of luck and missed a day. Once we hit 24 hours we start to feel like crap. We both get bad RLS, restless entire body really, anxiety (I get that real bad), irritability, extreme lack of energy, total gray depression, aches and pains, horrible sleep, and stomach issues.
We are so freaking sick of this. We are so burnt out on stressing every day about getting something, spending all of our money, and watching life just pass us by as all we do anymore is get high or lay around in stressful discomfort waiting to get high.
We have been telling each other we need to quit for a long time but never quite commit. That is until now.
We just acquired four 8/2 suboxone strips and six 10mg methadone pills. So that's 2 subs and three methadones for each of us.
My rough plan is to do our last dose of H Monday morning (smoking) it will probably be just 1/10 of a gram give or take a point. To give an idea of our level of dependency, that amount wont get us high but it will be sufficient to keep us out of withdrawal for about 24 hours.
We will then wait till we start to feel miserable, when we do we will take our first 10mgs of methadone. I pray that'll be enough to kill the withdrawals.
Them we will hold out as long as possible and take another 10mgs.
Then I am thinking 5mgs the next day, and the last 5 the following day.
At this point we will be in day 3 no H, and have nothing left except suboxone.
Next we plan on waiting the sufficient amount of time for the methadone to be out of our system and inducting suboxone when the withdrawals come back. This part will be difficult because we will have to tough it out for, I am thinking 3 days? Before trying suboxone to avoid throwing ourselves into precip...
So the plan is to get through that time, most likely start to feel miserable to the point where we want to cave and get some H, and start the Sub.
I am thinking we will start with 2mgs, wait an hour, take another 2mgs if needed.
Then the same thing the following day, once we start hurting, 2mgs followed by another 2mgs probably before bed.
At this point we will each only have one 8mg strip each.
We will start tapering off the sub at this point. I am thinking we should dose depending on how we feel In the amounts of 2mgs, 1mg, 1mg, 1mg, 1mg, 1/2, 1/2, 1/4, 1/4, 1/4, 1/8, 1/8.....roughly.....
Does that seem like a feasible plan?
Any feedback and/or advice would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you so much for reading, and I look forward to reading and contributing here into the future.