How are you going with the tapering? I once read somewhere that Bupe works better the lower the dose. I can't remember where I read it (but it was an academic paper).
I don't know what kind of withdrawals you will get once you taper off the bupe as I that is an opiate I haven't tried. However, clonidine is a very good helper for lessening symptoms such as the goosebumps, the shakes, sweating, flushes and those types of things. Out of everything I have had during withdrawals, clonidine is magic! IME, clonidine and valium would make things livable. But everybody is different.
Maybe organise it so that the two days of work are on the first two days of w/drawal. As usually the 3rd - 5th days are the worst. Is it at all possible that you could get someone to look after the kids due to an unspecified illness? Maybe get yourself put in hospital.....(but then how would you stop them wanting to visit).....hmm.
Maybe you need to bite the bullet and lay it on the line to a friend or family member, so that someone can look after the kids. I mean, by all means try to w/draw without help. But if you can't get through it and continued use is untenable, then you might have to.
Oh well, let us know how you are going. And the best way to use the diazepam or clonidine is to take the edge off it. That's what they do, unless you knock yourself out but you obv can't do that with kids. What age range are the kids, like how young? Just hoping they aren't too young cos that's going to make it hard on your w/drawal.
i dont have much experience with OC withdrawal, but i know that if you take imodium it takes away opiate w/d away. this is because it has an opioid in it that cant cross the brain blood barrier so in turn your cant get high.
Patently false - Loperamide works on the opiate receptors in the gut. This is why you don't get high from it. It takes care of the gastrointestinal side effects of withdrawal but not the rest of it. (There are various types of opiate receptors that each give different effects.)