the_ketaman
Bluelighter
A while ago I got some advice here for stopping the oxy which I was taking at +- 150mg/day for more than a month, before that I took it 3/4 times a week around the weekend at that does, and not really during the workweek.
Some other context, sometimes I combine it with smoking some methamphetamine while on oxy, and sometimes some cocaine or 3mmc (a designer drug), but not every day! I do not really like cocaine, and meth gets old quite quickly as well, I tried it for the first time some months ago and I was quite disappointed If you hear the scare stories.. (but that was also the case with oxy)
Back to the problem at hand. When stoppying with the oxy's about a months ago, I used suboxone and cocaine for 2 days:
day 1: 4mg suboxone + 1 gram of cocaine - feeling ok but agitated because of the coke
day 2: 2mg suboxone + 1 gram of cocaine - feeling unrest because of the coke
day 3: took nothing - feeling ok
day 4: took nothing - went for a 5km run at 10kmh at the end of the day, at the end of the day I felt like I couldn't even let the dog out anymore, light feeling of tremors.
day 5: took nothing - felt like shit, no energy with cold shivers sometimes, bigger pupils (and felt huge amount of pain in my uppper left leg) 2 hours of sleep max
day 5: took nothing - felt like shit, no energy with sometimes (and still a huge amount of pain in my upper left leg, so bad it wakes me up with ripping muscle pain) 2 hours of sleep max, the doctor said it is pinched sensory nerve in my hip and put me on paracetamol+diclofenac+**oxycodone**. I did not take the oxy
day 6: took nothing - felt a little better, let the dog out, but the pain in my leg was still huge
day 6: took nothing - felt a little better, but the pain was such a discomfort that I decided to take the oxy again. I slowly titrated from 20mg upward to 40-50mg, which was the dose that was now adequate to suppress the problems.
I was on oxy again for more than 10 days, not because of lack of willpower, but because of pain ~_~.
After that I quit again hoping the pain was away (my condition usually lasts 6 weeks, with the first 2 weeks maximum pain).
So then I decided not to try the suboxone but methadone instead, just to see the difference. I tried Lorne??? his taper:
Day 1: 15mg methadone - feeling OK, not high but the pain went away and felt quite normal, 9hrs of sleep
Day 2: 12.5mg methadone - feeling OK, just a bit tired, 7.30 hours of sleep max
Day 3: 10mg methadone - feeling OK, just a bit tired, 6 hours of sleep max
Day 4: 7.5mg methadone - feeling OK, 100 pushups and went for a 5km run, tired but could only sleep 6h, and woke up in the night
Day 5: 5mg methadone - feeling OK, just a bit tired, 100 pushups again, 6 hours of sleep max and woke up again
Day 6: 2.5mg methadone - feeling OK, went for a 100 pushups + 5km run, quite tired still only 6 hours of sleep
Day 7: nothing - feeling OK, pupils normal, 3 times cold shivers but that's all. Quite tired during the day but more energy in the night, I took 2mg lormetazepam to sleep, but again only 6.5 hours max.
Day 8: nothing - feeling OK, woke up and went for a 5.5k run and it felt amazing, after the run I felt SUPER tired.
**This is where I am now**
The pain is still there but it very manageable.
I know that methadone has a very long half-life, If I use the population average about 1 day and use a half life calculator I should have less than 2.5 methadone in my system as of now. Which is about the equal of 5mg oxycodone. I wonder how coming days will be but I have good faith.
The question is: after how much time should my oxycodone tolerance be back to normal (25mg initial dose)? My plan is to not do anything for the coming two weeks. but I am BORED as hell in the weekends.
I have been on methadone and Suboxone both for extended periods of time. And i can only suggest Suboxone. Methadone makes you really stable until it stops working.
Bupe for me is more sustainable, I live a healthier, less miserable life with wayore freedom and ability to live a fairly normal life now.