asbeen
Greenlighter
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- Jan 29, 2009
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I am at the end of a 6mo detox off of 150 mg of methadone. Down to 8mg...It was a breeze until 13mg...I think they're doing it too fast. Anyway I got my private doctor (whose actually really conservative-but knows I've been sober since 2010) to give me clonazepa (klonopin) clonodine and somas. She gave me tramadol at first, but I read it could re-ignite WDs...wasn't worth the chance, but the somas don't really do shit, except make my muscles feel weak like jell-o, not in a good way. The klonopin helped, but I'm just taking 0.5mg, any more puts me to sleep.
But to be totally honest, with all these pills, I think bengay and ibuprofen has been by far the most effective. Epsom salt bath probably helped, but I did it right when my tiny dose was totally wearing off, so I felt worse, but not bc of the bath. Stretching and moving around actually helps too, and if there's any way to try and get your mind off of it, watch tv, read a book, write your life story, whatever you have energy for. I seem to get small spurts of energy around 10am, then want to crash again at 4pm.
I also smoke weed on a daily almost constant basis... I have such a tolerance that it doesn't seem to help, actually it makes my muscles more tense and sore, but maybe I care less....But what does help is going outside on a sunny day and just basking in it....It's the only way to get good vitamin D, proven to boost mood (and serotonin maybe?) Also take a good multi vitamin, I think its the only reason I have any energy at all. B-6 is important for increasing serotonin and dopamine, which the lack of is why you feel so shitty. Your body stops making those feel good chemicals when we give it to them artificially- pretty effective actually, for the body to know it should use its resources in other places- if not totally annoying and horrifically painful.
For those curious, I did IV heroin for 5 years, 2-4 20s a day of black tar, got on methadone in 2009, got off, got back on, kept using occasionally for like the first year, then when the dose finally blocked my receptors and I couldn't get high, I finally quit. I got my Bachelors degree May 2014, graduated with honors, been sober (minus weed and 150mg of methadone) since 2011. I started my 6 month detox Nov 7 2015, have 4 weeks left, although I'm only on 8 mg, and now they're taking me down way too fast, 3mg every 3 days, at that rate I'll be done next week. Of course they won't let you slow down, or stay at say 8mg for a couple more days to let your body catch up. If you stop detoxing they take you back up to your regular dose (150mg for me) and then you have to wait 6 mo to put in a request for another detox...Anyway, it's been awful, just for the last week or so, I'm super worried about when I get to 0....Will I have to go through this for another fucking month? I can't imagine.
But to be totally honest, with all these pills, I think bengay and ibuprofen has been by far the most effective. Epsom salt bath probably helped, but I did it right when my tiny dose was totally wearing off, so I felt worse, but not bc of the bath. Stretching and moving around actually helps too, and if there's any way to try and get your mind off of it, watch tv, read a book, write your life story, whatever you have energy for. I seem to get small spurts of energy around 10am, then want to crash again at 4pm.
I also smoke weed on a daily almost constant basis... I have such a tolerance that it doesn't seem to help, actually it makes my muscles more tense and sore, but maybe I care less....But what does help is going outside on a sunny day and just basking in it....It's the only way to get good vitamin D, proven to boost mood (and serotonin maybe?) Also take a good multi vitamin, I think its the only reason I have any energy at all. B-6 is important for increasing serotonin and dopamine, which the lack of is why you feel so shitty. Your body stops making those feel good chemicals when we give it to them artificially- pretty effective actually, for the body to know it should use its resources in other places- if not totally annoying and horrifically painful.
For those curious, I did IV heroin for 5 years, 2-4 20s a day of black tar, got on methadone in 2009, got off, got back on, kept using occasionally for like the first year, then when the dose finally blocked my receptors and I couldn't get high, I finally quit. I got my Bachelors degree May 2014, graduated with honors, been sober (minus weed and 150mg of methadone) since 2011. I started my 6 month detox Nov 7 2015, have 4 weeks left, although I'm only on 8 mg, and now they're taking me down way too fast, 3mg every 3 days, at that rate I'll be done next week. Of course they won't let you slow down, or stay at say 8mg for a couple more days to let your body catch up. If you stop detoxing they take you back up to your regular dose (150mg for me) and then you have to wait 6 mo to put in a request for another detox...Anyway, it's been awful, just for the last week or so, I'm super worried about when I get to 0....Will I have to go through this for another fucking month? I can't imagine.