This is the first time I have ever really 'outloud' admitted my problem. I've known for sometime that I do have an opiate addiction.
I have to deal with it pretty -*+-&% soon or I don't know physically what will happen.
Let me introduce my self and situation. Then maybe I can get some advise from the forum?
I run a small construction company. For the last few months I have been able to simply make 'appearances' to make sure things are running smoothly. After these appearances I can barely make it a mile away before I almost robotically pop an oxy.
My problem is that I have found a pretty reliable source of 30mg oxycodone. I have a prescription for 750 mg Vicodin/ibuprofen for a legitamate lower back disk hemorrhage. That also qualifies me for a prescription of SOMA. On top of these I have a reliable source of zanax.
My regimine:
Lately:
30 mg oxy at 10 am. 30 more oxy around 1 or 2 pm. 30-45 more oxy at 5ish. At around 6-7 pm i take 2 mg zaxax and then an hour after that usually before i eat (first meal aside from coffee) I take 2 soma's. Then a few hits of weed.
I used to be able to keep the oxys to no more than 15-20 mg/day after work. But always fearing 'running out of perks
I bought a few hundred of them. Prior to getting this 30 mg source I also hourded a bunch of 5's, 750's 10's of percocets.
Problem(if not already obvious)- I need to stop this *&%* BS.
Next problem - I'm happily married with 4 kids and a successful business.
I cannot let anyone know! Not my wife. Not my Doctor. Not my clients. NO ONE!
I need some advise. I told the 30 mg source I won't buy anymore and I have 30 or so left... and a bottle full of assorted mg perks.
I'm afraid of the serious physical affects of going cold turkey. I'm 42.
I also see the BS I'm telling myself every Sunday 'Tomorrow I will start cutting down.'
I know the solution is obvious. But maybe someone can help me with specifics. I need to detox 'quietly'.
I quit alcohol 2 years ago cold turkey. And cigarettes the same ten years ago. I truely want and need to quit. Just as I did alcohol and tobacco.
Help?
I'm probably what you could call a barely 'funtioning' opiate addict. Yes. I said it. And That seems to be the easy part.
The problem is that the opiates are beginning to take away my functionality. I won't take perks at work but that's what I use the Vicodin for. Lately, when I do have to work the full day...I can barely think ..by 4 pm.
I wake up hateing what I'm doing to myself each day. No ...I'm not suicidal or that type.
I'm just very angry its gone this far.
I'm going to cut back the zanax by one pill this week. I'm at 2. ( I used a 1/2 during the few weeks I stopped drinking)
I will cut the SOMA to 1 1/2 at night ( they are actually the only things that make me feel better)
As I think I'm planning to substitute these and a bit of pot for when? I hopefully? Quit?
Any help out there for me? No Doctors. No confessions. No NA.
Am I just being a baby? And should drop the oxy's cold?
Advise?
I have to deal with it pretty -*+-&% soon or I don't know physically what will happen.
Let me introduce my self and situation. Then maybe I can get some advise from the forum?
I run a small construction company. For the last few months I have been able to simply make 'appearances' to make sure things are running smoothly. After these appearances I can barely make it a mile away before I almost robotically pop an oxy.
My problem is that I have found a pretty reliable source of 30mg oxycodone. I have a prescription for 750 mg Vicodin/ibuprofen for a legitamate lower back disk hemorrhage. That also qualifies me for a prescription of SOMA. On top of these I have a reliable source of zanax.
My regimine:
Lately:
30 mg oxy at 10 am. 30 more oxy around 1 or 2 pm. 30-45 more oxy at 5ish. At around 6-7 pm i take 2 mg zaxax and then an hour after that usually before i eat (first meal aside from coffee) I take 2 soma's. Then a few hits of weed.
I used to be able to keep the oxys to no more than 15-20 mg/day after work. But always fearing 'running out of perks
I bought a few hundred of them. Prior to getting this 30 mg source I also hourded a bunch of 5's, 750's 10's of percocets.
Problem(if not already obvious)- I need to stop this *&%* BS.
Next problem - I'm happily married with 4 kids and a successful business.
I cannot let anyone know! Not my wife. Not my Doctor. Not my clients. NO ONE!
I need some advise. I told the 30 mg source I won't buy anymore and I have 30 or so left... and a bottle full of assorted mg perks.
I'm afraid of the serious physical affects of going cold turkey. I'm 42.
I also see the BS I'm telling myself every Sunday 'Tomorrow I will start cutting down.'
I know the solution is obvious. But maybe someone can help me with specifics. I need to detox 'quietly'.
I quit alcohol 2 years ago cold turkey. And cigarettes the same ten years ago. I truely want and need to quit. Just as I did alcohol and tobacco.
Help?
I'm probably what you could call a barely 'funtioning' opiate addict. Yes. I said it. And That seems to be the easy part.
The problem is that the opiates are beginning to take away my functionality. I won't take perks at work but that's what I use the Vicodin for. Lately, when I do have to work the full day...I can barely think ..by 4 pm.
I wake up hateing what I'm doing to myself each day. No ...I'm not suicidal or that type.
I'm just very angry its gone this far.
I'm going to cut back the zanax by one pill this week. I'm at 2. ( I used a 1/2 during the few weeks I stopped drinking)
I will cut the SOMA to 1 1/2 at night ( they are actually the only things that make me feel better)
As I think I'm planning to substitute these and a bit of pot for when? I hopefully? Quit?
Any help out there for me? No Doctors. No confessions. No NA.
Am I just being a baby? And should drop the oxy's cold?
Advise?
