Hey Sharito! Thanks for the reply! How did your sub induction go? I was a nervous wreck! I have been using heroin since I was 19, I'm 29, with 3 years clean twice in between. But this last 'run' started as a pill addiction Mothers Day 2015 when I fell down my deck and blew out 3 lumbar discs. It progressed to heroin this year when my asshole neighbor told me she could get me pills but actually came back with dope. (Obviously still a little resentful of that, but hey, I could've said no)! I don't really have access to a bunch of subs or I would def consider a longer taper, or even maintenance. But I think with the help of my fiance, I'll be able to keep clean after the sub and comfort meds are all gone. I wish you the best of luck! I'm gonna keep this updated as well throughout this process. Do you have a thread that you're updating as well? How are you feeling now that you're a couple days in?
My induction went great. More than great. Once it kicked in, the withdrawals went away, and I felt “normal” for the first time in longer than I can remember, I wanted to cry. A good cry. I’m still in the honeymoon phase, but right now I think subs are the best decision I’ve ever made. I have a thread in BDD, should be on the front page still, where I say something like subs have, at the very most, saved my life. And at the very least, they saved my family. Subs have ensured (for now, as long as I don’t fuck it up) that my 3 beautiful children will keep their daddy full time in their lives, and not have to go through watching their parents split up because daddy was a junkie.
I was a little comcerned about precipitated withdrawals. That’s the reason I started the BDD thread. I actually gave myself plenty of time after the heroin, but I’m a fucking dumbass, and needed to be functional for a Christmas thing, and took some kratom and a moderate dose of lope to get me through the day. Minutes after I took it I started freaking out thinking I ruined my induction and was gonna go straight into PWD. But... when the morning of the appointment came, I was fine. I’ve been through withdrawals enough to know where my body is at, and I knew I was far enough along to dose the subs, so I did so without reservation.
Anyway, glad to hear everything is coming along for you! Keep it up, you’ve got this!