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addiction two mild opiates advice needed please

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Please bare with me people i have A D H D and theres no easy way 2 explain this for me so please dont mock me i dont expect it and dont do it anyhow.The issue i have is that ive developed a habit consisting of dihydrocodeine 30 mg tablets. I have of my dr 56 tablets they last me roughly 2 days.The other thing that is intensifying my addiction is that my father recives 100 co/ codamol 30/500 tablets for his spongalitus which has not been bothering him so much for the last 6 months or so.But what i have been doing is asking my father to continue to put in his repeat for his painkillers which he reluctantly gives me. I would like to emphasize my father is not a bad person fortunatly you good people will not have the displeasure of meeting me the commpulsive addictive personality tarnished individual. Anyway i will get through a strip of these a day so thats a hundfred in 10 days and my 56 DHC like ive mentioned all 2 dayz of them i really need help two get to the stage were i can just take my DHC recreationaly once a weekend but my mind is that mangled when im low on them i cant think clearly. So on the info ive given what would be a reasonable withdrawl method dividing the amount i take on the whole with i know there will be discomfort but with the least if possible all advice appreciated thankyou.:(
 
You just have to start tapering down if you don't want to suffer through it. Take a little less every day, as much as you can stand.

However with what you are taking it would be better to just kick. The physical withdrawl will not last all that long. You just have to get your head on straight and decide you don't want to be like that for the rest of your life.

But you are an addict. You will never be able to take it occasionally for fun, it is not who you are. You either have to accept that and decide you want to stop.......or become more of a junkie until you hit rock bottom like most of us have and finally decide your done.

I wish I had your choice......I could avoid all the damage I did to my relationships with everyone and damage I did to myself.

Good luck,
David
 
I wish you the best of luck kocking the habit. I know personally there is very little chance i could go from addicted to rec use of a substance and i think there are countless studies confirming the same fact with others with substances all across the board. It is just incredibly hard to go from heavy dose use to mild to low dose recreational enjoyment.
If you truly have an extremely addictive personality then abstaining from use altogether may be the best choice for you.
You are going to make your own decision but if you were going to follow my advice it would be to quit using and stay quit.
After kicking your habit and then using a rec dose it doesnt take long before youre back in the weeds.
Maybe you should check out some of the Support Threads.
Good luck! Z
 
Yes despite what many "harder" opiate users will tell you, DHC/hydrocodone/sometimes even tramadol can give you terrible w/d symptoms. I would agree with the poster above...use the taper method. When I'm only using hydrocodone and staying off my morphine and I am about to run out of my script, I start breaking them down to fourths(2.5mg's) and over the next week or so my w/d's are not that bad.
 
So do you take them every single day? Or only for the 12 days or so per month you have them? Or am I just understanding you incorrectly.

If you body is used to a certain dose, taking less than that in a day will not satisfy your opiate receptors, thus sending you into withdrawal.

You need to find the bare minimum you can take in a day to keep you un-sick, and stick with that. Then every few weeks lower you dose ever so slightly. This is called TAPERING.

I am afraid that you are an opiate addict. Just like the rest of us, there is no hope in ever going back to just taking opiates occasionally. At least not anytime soon.

I would suggest talking to your doctor, and set up a taper plan or the like.
 
The main mistake most of us have made early on (including myself) is thinking that our opiate addiction is simply our physical dependence on the opiates. This couldn't be further from the truth.

You were an addict before you became physically dependent on the drug and you will be one long after you quit (if you ever do). Our addiction is a disease which drives us to use with an extremely strong compulsion, the physical dependence is just one result of this.

Even if you are to get over the sickness you will still need a lot of outside support and self determination to arrest your addiction. The compulsion to use will never leave you completely so you will never be able to use part time just for fun. The only way out is to quit forever and accept that the opiates are not your friend anymore, but in fact your mortal enemy.


It took me years to realize that the reason I could never stay clean was that I was looking at things all wrong. I was only trying to treat the physical dependence thinking that without that I would be alright.........That mindset is doomed to fail you.


I wish you the best, if you need anything feel free to contact me at [email protected]
 
That's a small habit (not to discount your problem) but just stop using. Feeling what you have to pay back might even help you from going back to taking them.
 
Thanks people im takin on board what youve said and im going 2 do the tappering then abstinence a day at a time. The way i see it if so many people come 2 the same conclusion they cant be wrong .I beat alcholisum so im puttin everything into this who knows 4 the future but 4 now abstinence is the goal im aiming 4 thanks my friends
 
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