Not your typical addict here seeking non typical opinions. I understand you wouldn't tell a normal person yeah do another drug to get off another drug but I believe sometimes it can help you wind down. If I'm seriously mistaken please explain. I have a lot to lose here. I have a lot I almost lost...a beautiful life that could set me for life, that I abused thinking I didn't deserve. I can't believe I was paying over $400 a day for all those OC's, up to $800 a day average of $500 or so a day. And then another $200 a day in stupid shit to maintain my side-effect of laziness and need to maintain my comforts to maintain my habit--like cab rides, working less to play video games, stop talking to my family, ordering out at ridiculous prices.
I WAS NOT IN MY RIGHT MIND. What child of immigrants from a war-torn country comes here, is a genius in academia and the throws it all out the window and spends all his self-earned money, over $2 MILLION $ in 4 years to just maintain a habit, the things to maintain the things maintain habit, lifestyle around the habit, and the consequences of all these things on my perception of money and my procrastinating of building my own future for myself.
A true shame. But when 70% of your money is on illicit things or maintaining those illicit habits, and it's all cash paid to dealers, well it's hard to care about spending $150 a day on taking needless cabs. Or buying bottles that cost $1800 in clubs which equal 3 days of my percocet habit and I could make again by working for a day or two. And I could jusitfy this self-destruction, by saying "Poor-me I'm just a victim of NYPD's Pill War and could forced into this situation". I'm over it. No more blaming others, just taking responsibility for my actions.
So me and my girl decided to go clean for financial and health reasons. 3 years habit starting at 60mg oxy a day going all the way up to 500mg a day for me (my last days were around 200mg). My girl was doing 120mg a day but she did hers orally. I almost exclusively did mine intranasally and the i bet the effects of that 200mg were really closer to 150mg.
It's been 30 days I got off them thru subs. We both did. Our first day we needed 10-12mg of sub each to get off the worst withdrawals. Over the next couple days I dropped to half--she couldn't do it and went back to OC 30s for about 4 days meanwhile during those 3 days I dropped down to a quarter of an 8mg (so 2mg). When I got down to 2mg my GF felt she let me down so started up again. She is around a week behind my timetable. I recently, I went down to 1mg but couldnt do it (around day 20) and then jumped back up to 2.5mg. Then switched down again to 1.0-1.5mg, and then broke my regimen and started sniffing, for the prior the 10 days prior to my cold turkey, around 1.5-2.0mg.
My girl on the other hand decided to quit off 2mg and she had instant withdrawals that same day. I think it was PAWs from the opiates around day 14 for her (I started earlier and was on day 21). The hardest days were the day 10-23 where the fatigue, random passing out and, headaches were rampant.
Now we're both trying to avoid the PAWs of opiates if possible. I'm personally a skinny 6-00 150lb with a crazy fast metabolism. I could quit cold turkey for up to the first 6 months of my 60mg-90mg of oxy usage whenever I visited family. But when I had an emotional trauma when I got cut off from my doc back then, I had to end the pain using a black market supplier. I've spent MILLIONS of dollars on this drug. And it was killing my friendships, my freedom, and my family connections.
To get back on topic, I'm actually now on day 2 of no subs (off of 2mg insufflated but I was using cocaine to help with the restlessness---I HAD TO WORK afterall) so I think that 2mg wasn't really getting absorbed. Maybe I'm lying to myself but i really believe less than 1mg was getting in me. I would get "high" for after doing .8-1.1mg, it'll hit me 15-20 min later, and continue for 5-7 hours before I'd need another another dose. The first 7ish of those last 10 days I was still feeling dysphoria from what i think were PAWs from the 3 years of 10 to 15x30mg of oxy insuffulated.
But two days ago i decided unintentionally to stop. Why? I felt fine the day after I woke up. Then I pushed it all day. Did a xanax for the slight restlessness and then felt fine in the morning. Then I did some adderall at low dosage to help me move around and now done 1.5mg of xanax to go to sleep. For some reason adderall REALLY helps with the tiredness although it hasnt' beeen too bad in recent days.
I was thinking. Should I try to keep going until I start feeling bad? I'm wondering have I indeed hit that sweet spot of leaving the PAWs of the 3 years of opiate use (which I believe wholeheartedly--i recently stopped feeling so randomly tired and depressed and like a normal human being, fiance and son)?? If I have, which it seems to me so as I haven't done any sub in over 2 days and feel fine....and then i have i tight time-frame to just get off the subs as quickly as possible before I get addicted to that too. Yes subs aren't expensive like OC 30s are. But who cares at this point. I want to be CLEAN HEALTHY AND HAPPY. No more dependencies.
I'm someone who's built for self-control so if in the case of that being assumed, if i do crack and need something on say day 4, would it better to do a small bit of OC15mg each day split around 3 days and then switch to 2 days of .5 mg of sub for 2 days, then 1 day of .025 and then .025 again. In the past I have repeatedly been able to go on vacation and cut my habit from 8-12 OC 30s a day to 1.5-2.5 OCs but then get back in the environment of me and my GF and we bounce our bad behavior off each other. That's come to an end and we're finally on the same page of quitting. But this last part is where we need the most help.
You may be like this kid is full of shit, or trying to self-rationalize doing something stupid, but literally I have 40 OC30s in my drawer and haven't caved in the past 30 days. I'm not one of those people who seek addiction. I just can distance myself from my weaknesses to find the most effective route to relief. I have known true addicts in the past, like heroin addicts, and they will say anything to do more. I'm willing and able to do less. I was an Olympian at Taekwondo and Courage, Discipline and Self-Control are deeply ingrained in my being.
***Trust me if anyone is more dubious and will be more careful about proceeding it will be me. But i could do it if this "long-shot" method I'm suggesting, would actually help given the circumstances???**
Again its hour 50 now of no subs, I'm super high metabolism long distance ex olympic runner (now smoker--gotta stop that one--my car accident and the NY lifestyle got me hooked and I'm thinking right now "do anything to get out of the DOFC hell" and then take care of the rest mentality). I can do 72hrs. I do have xanax to get through the sleepless nights. And weed for relief if needed. My doctor just keeps giving me these 8mg subutex pills and i can't break them any further and psychologically they don't encourage you to lower your dose to say 1/16 or 1/32 of a pill.
And notably keep in mind my girl last week (my day 22, her day 16) tried cold turkey on 2mg of subutex but she does it subliginual all the time. Within 24hrs of stopping she was twitching doing cold sweats and then caved in and had to do 3mg (2mg orally--which took too long to hit so she did her first sniffing of 1mg of it)
My 1.5-2.0mg of sub's been always snorted from day 18 to day 28. , and i'm the type it hits me fast, and around 1.5mg of that is used when i get edgy on the blow. I stopped because I saw the hindrance of the blow and, start doing prescribed adderall instead since coke gives me a neurological twitch and muscle cramps that make me crack and do subs for relief. I'm not worried about any other drug right now except getting off opiates. I'm willing to quit it all when I get off the subs but I'm willing and confident I can play with the devil to get my needs done for the moment.
And BTW my doc let me do the induction on my own terms, saying he was on call and ready to meet me at the emergency room at any time, into the subs as it was more a social reason than my own fault (his own words) I got addicted--they stopped prescribing them to anyone that's "too young" up here in NYC. My GF who has neck problems and debilitating headaches seemed more addicted to her 120mg than i was to 200mg. The reason I'm so detailed here is maybe someone with actual, god-honest advice can help me out. I need to hit my full potential. Just switch off the oxy has re-opened the brilliant part of my mind and I'm already publishing in math journals (a hobby of mine) again after a 3 year hiatus. I've never felt so normal, and happy, and not financially stressed that I don't know but KNOW KNOW I refuse to fall into old ways at all costs.
At the end of the day I made MILLIONS and yet procrastinate and struggle to pay RENT of $1800 a month. Why? Because crazy enough you convince yourself you can just work for it another day and it'll just come to you and you wont spend it recklessly again. IT DOESNT WORK. Let me tell you. I'll be the first shouting from the rooftops.
So. Please any advice is appreciated to help re-orient myself and my life. As I finish this long dirge of my past 3 years, I am at 52hr no subs and it's time for bed. When I wake up it'll be over 60hrs. Please keep in mind my entire story, and my emotional, character, and physical states before making any conclusions. Also don't be turned away by the 2mg insuffulated that I was doing, it really wasn't hitting me right (I have nose problems and most anything I sniff goes down right to my stomach as I had a broken nose surgery a while ago) and it only felt marginally better than doing around .9-1.0mg.
Just to clarify again, I wanna know if you guys agree with my deductions, and what you think I should do...hold it out and then try to get over it or wait until the withdrawals hit and then do a sub or maybe switch back to OC for a couple days MAX and then to .1mg sub every few days. I really believe this is a critical decision making time and need the help of you guys here. Cutting down is an art of discipline, but quitting is an art of strategy and self-evaluation. This whole time, although I'm not considered an addict by friends, I know i have become addicted by repetition because I'm not above human weakness.
Hope all is well! And this won't be a hit-and-run post. Ill keep you updated.
I WAS NOT IN MY RIGHT MIND. What child of immigrants from a war-torn country comes here, is a genius in academia and the throws it all out the window and spends all his self-earned money, over $2 MILLION $ in 4 years to just maintain a habit, the things to maintain the things maintain habit, lifestyle around the habit, and the consequences of all these things on my perception of money and my procrastinating of building my own future for myself.
A true shame. But when 70% of your money is on illicit things or maintaining those illicit habits, and it's all cash paid to dealers, well it's hard to care about spending $150 a day on taking needless cabs. Or buying bottles that cost $1800 in clubs which equal 3 days of my percocet habit and I could make again by working for a day or two. And I could jusitfy this self-destruction, by saying "Poor-me I'm just a victim of NYPD's Pill War and could forced into this situation". I'm over it. No more blaming others, just taking responsibility for my actions.
So me and my girl decided to go clean for financial and health reasons. 3 years habit starting at 60mg oxy a day going all the way up to 500mg a day for me (my last days were around 200mg). My girl was doing 120mg a day but she did hers orally. I almost exclusively did mine intranasally and the i bet the effects of that 200mg were really closer to 150mg.
It's been 30 days I got off them thru subs. We both did. Our first day we needed 10-12mg of sub each to get off the worst withdrawals. Over the next couple days I dropped to half--she couldn't do it and went back to OC 30s for about 4 days meanwhile during those 3 days I dropped down to a quarter of an 8mg (so 2mg). When I got down to 2mg my GF felt she let me down so started up again. She is around a week behind my timetable. I recently, I went down to 1mg but couldnt do it (around day 20) and then jumped back up to 2.5mg. Then switched down again to 1.0-1.5mg, and then broke my regimen and started sniffing, for the prior the 10 days prior to my cold turkey, around 1.5-2.0mg.
My girl on the other hand decided to quit off 2mg and she had instant withdrawals that same day. I think it was PAWs from the opiates around day 14 for her (I started earlier and was on day 21). The hardest days were the day 10-23 where the fatigue, random passing out and, headaches were rampant.
Now we're both trying to avoid the PAWs of opiates if possible. I'm personally a skinny 6-00 150lb with a crazy fast metabolism. I could quit cold turkey for up to the first 6 months of my 60mg-90mg of oxy usage whenever I visited family. But when I had an emotional trauma when I got cut off from my doc back then, I had to end the pain using a black market supplier. I've spent MILLIONS of dollars on this drug. And it was killing my friendships, my freedom, and my family connections.
To get back on topic, I'm actually now on day 2 of no subs (off of 2mg insufflated but I was using cocaine to help with the restlessness---I HAD TO WORK afterall) so I think that 2mg wasn't really getting absorbed. Maybe I'm lying to myself but i really believe less than 1mg was getting in me. I would get "high" for after doing .8-1.1mg, it'll hit me 15-20 min later, and continue for 5-7 hours before I'd need another another dose. The first 7ish of those last 10 days I was still feeling dysphoria from what i think were PAWs from the 3 years of 10 to 15x30mg of oxy insuffulated.
But two days ago i decided unintentionally to stop. Why? I felt fine the day after I woke up. Then I pushed it all day. Did a xanax for the slight restlessness and then felt fine in the morning. Then I did some adderall at low dosage to help me move around and now done 1.5mg of xanax to go to sleep. For some reason adderall REALLY helps with the tiredness although it hasnt' beeen too bad in recent days.
I was thinking. Should I try to keep going until I start feeling bad? I'm wondering have I indeed hit that sweet spot of leaving the PAWs of the 3 years of opiate use (which I believe wholeheartedly--i recently stopped feeling so randomly tired and depressed and like a normal human being, fiance and son)?? If I have, which it seems to me so as I haven't done any sub in over 2 days and feel fine....and then i have i tight time-frame to just get off the subs as quickly as possible before I get addicted to that too. Yes subs aren't expensive like OC 30s are. But who cares at this point. I want to be CLEAN HEALTHY AND HAPPY. No more dependencies.
I'm someone who's built for self-control so if in the case of that being assumed, if i do crack and need something on say day 4, would it better to do a small bit of OC15mg each day split around 3 days and then switch to 2 days of .5 mg of sub for 2 days, then 1 day of .025 and then .025 again. In the past I have repeatedly been able to go on vacation and cut my habit from 8-12 OC 30s a day to 1.5-2.5 OCs but then get back in the environment of me and my GF and we bounce our bad behavior off each other. That's come to an end and we're finally on the same page of quitting. But this last part is where we need the most help.
You may be like this kid is full of shit, or trying to self-rationalize doing something stupid, but literally I have 40 OC30s in my drawer and haven't caved in the past 30 days. I'm not one of those people who seek addiction. I just can distance myself from my weaknesses to find the most effective route to relief. I have known true addicts in the past, like heroin addicts, and they will say anything to do more. I'm willing and able to do less. I was an Olympian at Taekwondo and Courage, Discipline and Self-Control are deeply ingrained in my being.
***Trust me if anyone is more dubious and will be more careful about proceeding it will be me. But i could do it if this "long-shot" method I'm suggesting, would actually help given the circumstances???**
Again its hour 50 now of no subs, I'm super high metabolism long distance ex olympic runner (now smoker--gotta stop that one--my car accident and the NY lifestyle got me hooked and I'm thinking right now "do anything to get out of the DOFC hell" and then take care of the rest mentality). I can do 72hrs. I do have xanax to get through the sleepless nights. And weed for relief if needed. My doctor just keeps giving me these 8mg subutex pills and i can't break them any further and psychologically they don't encourage you to lower your dose to say 1/16 or 1/32 of a pill.
And notably keep in mind my girl last week (my day 22, her day 16) tried cold turkey on 2mg of subutex but she does it subliginual all the time. Within 24hrs of stopping she was twitching doing cold sweats and then caved in and had to do 3mg (2mg orally--which took too long to hit so she did her first sniffing of 1mg of it)
My 1.5-2.0mg of sub's been always snorted from day 18 to day 28. , and i'm the type it hits me fast, and around 1.5mg of that is used when i get edgy on the blow. I stopped because I saw the hindrance of the blow and, start doing prescribed adderall instead since coke gives me a neurological twitch and muscle cramps that make me crack and do subs for relief. I'm not worried about any other drug right now except getting off opiates. I'm willing to quit it all when I get off the subs but I'm willing and confident I can play with the devil to get my needs done for the moment.
And BTW my doc let me do the induction on my own terms, saying he was on call and ready to meet me at the emergency room at any time, into the subs as it was more a social reason than my own fault (his own words) I got addicted--they stopped prescribing them to anyone that's "too young" up here in NYC. My GF who has neck problems and debilitating headaches seemed more addicted to her 120mg than i was to 200mg. The reason I'm so detailed here is maybe someone with actual, god-honest advice can help me out. I need to hit my full potential. Just switch off the oxy has re-opened the brilliant part of my mind and I'm already publishing in math journals (a hobby of mine) again after a 3 year hiatus. I've never felt so normal, and happy, and not financially stressed that I don't know but KNOW KNOW I refuse to fall into old ways at all costs.
At the end of the day I made MILLIONS and yet procrastinate and struggle to pay RENT of $1800 a month. Why? Because crazy enough you convince yourself you can just work for it another day and it'll just come to you and you wont spend it recklessly again. IT DOESNT WORK. Let me tell you. I'll be the first shouting from the rooftops.
So. Please any advice is appreciated to help re-orient myself and my life. As I finish this long dirge of my past 3 years, I am at 52hr no subs and it's time for bed. When I wake up it'll be over 60hrs. Please keep in mind my entire story, and my emotional, character, and physical states before making any conclusions. Also don't be turned away by the 2mg insuffulated that I was doing, it really wasn't hitting me right (I have nose problems and most anything I sniff goes down right to my stomach as I had a broken nose surgery a while ago) and it only felt marginally better than doing around .9-1.0mg.
Just to clarify again, I wanna know if you guys agree with my deductions, and what you think I should do...hold it out and then try to get over it or wait until the withdrawals hit and then do a sub or maybe switch back to OC for a couple days MAX and then to .1mg sub every few days. I really believe this is a critical decision making time and need the help of you guys here. Cutting down is an art of discipline, but quitting is an art of strategy and self-evaluation. This whole time, although I'm not considered an addict by friends, I know i have become addicted by repetition because I'm not above human weakness.
Hope all is well! And this won't be a hit-and-run post. Ill keep you updated.
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