badbarbiedolly
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- Mar 21, 2015
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Hello everyone! I have been on 100mg MMT for about 3 years. I'm at the highest phase at my clinic ( 13 take homes) and am ready to come off. Problem is I live 1 1/2 hours away so 3 hours driving and to taper down they make you come every day. I can't do that or I will be late for work every day and get fired. So my plan is to taper on my own with the 13 bottles I have left. I should mention that I started MMT because my pain dr disappeared overnight (it was all over our local news) and most of his patients ended up at the clinic due to not being able to get in with a new dr. Also once I tried to get an appointment no one would take me due to the methadone. My primary care dr has prescribed me pain meds to help the transition and I have 3 50mcg patches from before. So, my plan is taper 10mg a day until I'm at around 40mg then use the patches and pills to get off the methadone. After I no longer test positive for methadone then go to the new pain dr. I know I will feel terrible during the process but I have support and just want to know if anyone else has tried something similar? This is my first post so I hope I'm in the right thread. I already tapered 10mg this morning. Please help...
Edit*Please do NOT follow my original taper. It failed! After getting to zero for 9 days it crept up on me and it was the worst. I wasn't holding anything down for days & I'm sure my organs were shutting down. I should have been in the hospital. Now I am tapering very slow an doing better. I can't stress how important it is to do a slow taper. Listen to what expirienced BL's say because they know what they're talking about. My Dr's taper plan and my stubbornness almost killed me.
Edit*Please do NOT follow my original taper. It failed! After getting to zero for 9 days it crept up on me and it was the worst. I wasn't holding anything down for days & I'm sure my organs were shutting down. I should have been in the hospital. Now I am tapering very slow an doing better. I can't stress how important it is to do a slow taper. Listen to what expirienced BL's say because they know what they're talking about. My Dr's taper plan and my stubbornness almost killed me.
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