Branggen
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Started tapering sometime early 2019 using oral morphine, from max dose of 100 mg methadone and about .25g fentanyl laced heroin daily (equiv to somewhere between 1000-1500 mg oral morphine). This had been going on for 5 or so years
In Jan 2019, for some reason I cannot remember I missed 3 consecutive days of my methadone pickup, canceling the prescription and requiring a dose reduction due to possible tolerance loss, even though I had been dosing at home with saved up methadone and heroin. When I went to get a new script I learned of a new substitution therapy using sustained release oral morphine (SROM), because of my 3 missed days at the pharmacy I was started low in comparison to the 100mg methadone, at 400mg morphine, this wouldn't hold me at all so of course I was taking methadone and or heroin to top up.
I came to the conclusion quickly though that spending money on heroin was a pretty dumb idea when I was getting morphine for free from the pharmacy. I got my morphine dose upped a small bit but over the past 2 weeks I had been working to get my tolerance down to where I would be okay on just the prescribed morphine. I was pretty excited I was getting morphine for free and that helped. I was around 500 mg morphine when I eventually found it in myself to stop buying the street drugs, crack and heroin, and got a job again. I had to take valium during the interview and the first few shifts to get past the anxiety, but after a few shifts I didn't need it anymore and I was feeling really good to be where I was, stable and at half the dose I was just 2 months prior, with a plan to keep on tapering, slowly. 10mg/2 weeks, usually
Fast forward a year to now and I am at 50mg, the taper from 500 to 350 took a month or 2 and from there I did something like 10mg every 2 weeks, which was smooth enough until about 150mg, and has since gotten a bit harder but I haven't really changed the schedule.
The date is now 04/18 and I am at 50mg daily, the last stretch I like to think and I want to try and keep a log of how I am feeling during the days, what I did and how I slept. Usually these days I dont get much sleep, am up by 5am almost every day but once Im up start feeling better, even though I dose in the evening.
Currently corona virus is going on and I am not working, not a problem for me though as I should be getting payed regardless and I always felt that working was the main thing in the way of my taper being sped up, so perhaps I can expedite it now, we shall see.
I know I am going slow but stopping opiates is a big change, and I dont think big changes often happen quickly, my advice for anyone who struggles to stop is to take it slow, remember you need to change your whole life, not just the fact that you take these substances.
In Jan 2019, for some reason I cannot remember I missed 3 consecutive days of my methadone pickup, canceling the prescription and requiring a dose reduction due to possible tolerance loss, even though I had been dosing at home with saved up methadone and heroin. When I went to get a new script I learned of a new substitution therapy using sustained release oral morphine (SROM), because of my 3 missed days at the pharmacy I was started low in comparison to the 100mg methadone, at 400mg morphine, this wouldn't hold me at all so of course I was taking methadone and or heroin to top up.
I came to the conclusion quickly though that spending money on heroin was a pretty dumb idea when I was getting morphine for free from the pharmacy. I got my morphine dose upped a small bit but over the past 2 weeks I had been working to get my tolerance down to where I would be okay on just the prescribed morphine. I was pretty excited I was getting morphine for free and that helped. I was around 500 mg morphine when I eventually found it in myself to stop buying the street drugs, crack and heroin, and got a job again. I had to take valium during the interview and the first few shifts to get past the anxiety, but after a few shifts I didn't need it anymore and I was feeling really good to be where I was, stable and at half the dose I was just 2 months prior, with a plan to keep on tapering, slowly. 10mg/2 weeks, usually
Fast forward a year to now and I am at 50mg, the taper from 500 to 350 took a month or 2 and from there I did something like 10mg every 2 weeks, which was smooth enough until about 150mg, and has since gotten a bit harder but I haven't really changed the schedule.
The date is now 04/18 and I am at 50mg daily, the last stretch I like to think and I want to try and keep a log of how I am feeling during the days, what I did and how I slept. Usually these days I dont get much sleep, am up by 5am almost every day but once Im up start feeling better, even though I dose in the evening.
Currently corona virus is going on and I am not working, not a problem for me though as I should be getting payed regardless and I always felt that working was the main thing in the way of my taper being sped up, so perhaps I can expedite it now, we shall see.
I know I am going slow but stopping opiates is a big change, and I dont think big changes often happen quickly, my advice for anyone who struggles to stop is to take it slow, remember you need to change your whole life, not just the fact that you take these substances.
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