Hi all, been reading on here like mad for the last 10 odd weeks, been looking for a way to get off all opioids for good!
A little about how and why I got on Heroin, it started off after I had a bad bike crash snapping a leg in half and getting put on iv Morphine for 4 weeks and then Oramorph, then was put on 100mg Tramadol and 60mg Zomorph a day for 6 months, then the Doc's stopped my script! no taper down just stopped it and would not give me more or any help!
So I started using Heroin about 2 years ago starting with 0.2-0.4mg a day but slowly moved up to a gram most days if and when I could afford it...
For the last 2 years I have been in my home mainly sleeping only going out to score, I have lost 3 stone I'm now 12 stone never been fat lol but before I had my accident I was running 10k 3 times a week, but I got so week I could hardly walk 500 yards to the shop without collapsing!
So after ending up in hospital in January this year, I have made my mind up to get and stay clean! Tried again with my Dr still no help so I had to contact Drug services Rise! I have had 2 interviews with them but I'm still waiting! so in February I asked the Dr again! and this time they gave me a whopping 120mg of Codeine a day for 2 weeks then 60mg a day for 1 more week! they told me that's all they are allowed to do now... so I ended up relapsing back on Heroin but I soon weaned myself down from a gram to 0.2mg a day with the odd binge, then on the 28 of March I got hold of some Methadone, I started off with 20ml a day got stable for a week then weaned down to just 6ml a day!! had bad diarrhoea RLS only getting an hour or two sleep crying feeling like crap, then I had the last of Methadone on 16 so 4 days ago now, normally I get il 24 hours after last of my Methadone, but on the same day as I stopped it I started Loperamide at just 6mg as all I had, the next day I had 8mg Loperamide on waking up and 6mg 5 hours before bed, yesterday I had 2x 8mg and felt amazing! running around cleaning very clear mind full of energy! today I had 8mg Loperamide on getting up and I feel so well the best I have been in 3 years by far!
Why am I feeling so good on a low dose of Loperamide? buzzing!
I'm planning to start tapering down on Loperamide tomorrow is that too soon?
I'm not constipated but never really have been on Heroin,
I can't stop eating for the last 4 days i'm eating 5 meals a day! always hungry!! and i'm drinking 5lt of water a day too!
PS I'm on Citalopram and val's too been on them both for 8 years, and have gone cold turkey lots of times only last 4 days! one more thing the Meth was giving me heart palpitations, bad chest pain! making me close to passing out! but that is passing now...
Any tips or imput is very welcome
A little about how and why I got on Heroin, it started off after I had a bad bike crash snapping a leg in half and getting put on iv Morphine for 4 weeks and then Oramorph, then was put on 100mg Tramadol and 60mg Zomorph a day for 6 months, then the Doc's stopped my script! no taper down just stopped it and would not give me more or any help!
So I started using Heroin about 2 years ago starting with 0.2-0.4mg a day but slowly moved up to a gram most days if and when I could afford it...
For the last 2 years I have been in my home mainly sleeping only going out to score, I have lost 3 stone I'm now 12 stone never been fat lol but before I had my accident I was running 10k 3 times a week, but I got so week I could hardly walk 500 yards to the shop without collapsing!
So after ending up in hospital in January this year, I have made my mind up to get and stay clean! Tried again with my Dr still no help so I had to contact Drug services Rise! I have had 2 interviews with them but I'm still waiting! so in February I asked the Dr again! and this time they gave me a whopping 120mg of Codeine a day for 2 weeks then 60mg a day for 1 more week! they told me that's all they are allowed to do now... so I ended up relapsing back on Heroin but I soon weaned myself down from a gram to 0.2mg a day with the odd binge, then on the 28 of March I got hold of some Methadone, I started off with 20ml a day got stable for a week then weaned down to just 6ml a day!! had bad diarrhoea RLS only getting an hour or two sleep crying feeling like crap, then I had the last of Methadone on 16 so 4 days ago now, normally I get il 24 hours after last of my Methadone, but on the same day as I stopped it I started Loperamide at just 6mg as all I had, the next day I had 8mg Loperamide on waking up and 6mg 5 hours before bed, yesterday I had 2x 8mg and felt amazing! running around cleaning very clear mind full of energy! today I had 8mg Loperamide on getting up and I feel so well the best I have been in 3 years by far!
Why am I feeling so good on a low dose of Loperamide? buzzing!
I'm planning to start tapering down on Loperamide tomorrow is that too soon?
I'm not constipated but never really have been on Heroin,
I can't stop eating for the last 4 days i'm eating 5 meals a day! always hungry!! and i'm drinking 5lt of water a day too!
PS I'm on Citalopram and val's too been on them both for 8 years, and have gone cold turkey lots of times only last 4 days! one more thing the Meth was giving me heart palpitations, bad chest pain! making me close to passing out! but that is passing now...
Any tips or imput is very welcome