Heroin Cold Turkey - help with Lomotil (diphenoxylate & atropine)?

[Brickquick]

So after being an opiate addict for 2-3 years, mainly heroin the past 6-7 months. I'm going cold turkey tomorrow. Reason being (many, actually) mainly because I started mainlining about a month ago, and I do not want to make the road any longer then I already have. My question is how many generic lomotil should I take to help my WD symptoms? The pill contains 2.5 mg diphenoxylate and 0.025 mg atropine. Also, anything else you guys can think of to help out? I know there's a thread already, but I want to see peoples different ideas. Thanks guys, wish me luck :/

Also wondering what medication or anything really that helps with the chills on 80 degree days.

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[Climhazzard]

Good luck, man. I am on day 6 clean right now (not H, but oxycontin and oxymorphone for 3.5yrs). My peak was about 200mg of oxycontin per day. When I moved to oxymorphone after the OC went to OP, I never went more than 40mg of oxymorphone per day. At the end, I'd have to rail two roxi 30s to start feeling good. The Opana didn't take much though. I know that doesn't help you any, but perhaps you can compare my habit to yours and get some idea?

I have no idea if this will help you, but I can tell you what has helped me. As I've said, I am on day 6. I have somehow managed to completely avoid physical withdrawal (cravings are a real bitch though). No anxiety either. I ended up tapering 20 OP80s over 3 weeks.

On the day that I quit completely, I started taking 2x 100mg B6 with 1x multi-vitamin, 1x potassium gluconate 550mg and 1x package of Emergen-C (1000mg of vitamin C). I also take 2x loperamide HCL (2mg each) in the morning and 2 at night.

Other things I've done is stay completely away from caffeine. I have drank nothing but Gatorade and water over the last 6 days.

I don't have any prescribed sleep-aids or benzos, so I've used Benadryl and Unisom. I normally take around 100mg of Benadryl and 75mg Unisom and some Nyquil (I end up snorting 25mg of the Unisom because I think half my addiction is the snorting). This doesn't even make me remotely drowsy, but I think if I didn't take it then my mind wouldn't let me sleep at all.

I've heard that Kratom works very well for withdrawal, but I've no experience with it. I'm thinking about getting some and trying it out for recreational purposes though.

Again, good luck to you. In all honesty, I think the tapering off the OP80s is what made this the easiest transition. Physically at least. The depression and cravings are the worst for me. I most certainly do not want to quit, but it's too expensive for me to feel anything off of it. Plus my main connect is getting out and I'll only have access to roxis and OP80s at the beginning of each month. Withdrawal is too much of a bitch for me to keep doing it. It's just not worth it.

 

[Where Wolf?]

Realise I'm bumping a dead thread, but even at relatively low doses, loperamide was a great help to me, twice, at the tail end of morphine/hydro/oxy/fent habits: and did help with the chills at higher doses. Good-quality kratom, though not easy to find, also takes the edge off: but an H habit, it may well take high doses to be of any use. The premium Bali, when there's a decent batch, is probably the most effective (helps with depression, and well as withdrawal), but it's best used by way of getting a capsule-making gizmo and some 00 capsules - it tastes like dirt.

Good luck, and hope you haven't relapsed...