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Opioids methadone taper 90mg to 3.5 so far

BH34 said:
2mg today took 1mg this morning then will take the other 1mg tonight feel fine so far. Last week was not to bad at 2.5mg onley had one restless night but it was hot that day was 83 out and was in the sun all day at work.
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Hope you can see it through and get down to that 0 mark man. Damn impressive already what you've done though.
 
Thanks I dont know if I can go slower my doctor made this schedule, which is better then the clinc. I definitely plan on seeing it to the end. Yesterday I was tierd but felt ok. 2mg still. I find the more electrolights I drink the better i fell.
 
Hey OP, first of all congrats, really awesome uve made it this far and u seem real strong and dedicated. I have a few Q's if u don't mind...

How did u sleep prior to being addicted to opiates? I get insomnia from w/d as we all do, but I also suffered from insomnia b4 ever messing with opiates... What about u?

Are you a chronic pain patient? U say ur doctor gave u the taper schedule but I thought onlu clinics could dispense methadone in USA for maintenance/detox purposes. And only way to get from a doctor was for pain...b/c if u do have other underlying conditions, maybe that can explain part of the aches and pains ur feelling now?

Have u tried taking anything to potentiate like tagament? I find when tapering 'done potentiaters helped but wasn't sure how it would effect overall taper
 
I slept good prior to opiates but i was still young. I ve been taking naproxen it last 12 hrs so pain isnt bad it is workin great. My doctor knows iam an addict and was on the clinic, I told him I was on 7mg tappering and i felt it at every 1mg drop. I asked can you finish my taper because I can raise my dose and I am afraid Ill stay on the clinic for ever. It took 3weeks but worth the wait.
 
I went down to 1mg friday I slept the best Ive slept since 8mg point feel good today my stomach is a little sour. Thanks for the input both of you stayin strong no disier to use .
 
Half mg day 4 fell good take the .5 mg before bed no real issues at this point will up date in a few days. Thanks for the support.
 
I was checking out some info because I am about to start my taper Friday. I am in another state doing work so I transferred my clinic. I have only been on methadone since December but I never wanted to stay on it for even this long. I am at 40mg and I am being told to do 5mg every 2-3 weeks. I told the councilor I guess I would do 2mg a week, even though I want to get off this stuff faster than that. I don't want to go so fast that I relapse though, but I am very far away from anyone I know to even find some type of opiate. I did get down to 3mg when I first got out here because I was on a financial detox (in San Diego, if you cannot pay they give you a 2 week detox) and I was surprisingly fine for that whole day. I was at 25mg to 3mg (in 2 weeks) and than when I started at this clinic they put me back up to 40mg. I am just thinking that the pain is mostly in my mind and want to try to get off faster more like be done in 2 months. But I am working 12+ hours a day now and I am worried I will not be able to keep working if the withdrawals affects me too much. I am thinking I will go fast the first few weeks and than go slower. I guess I will just have to wait and see.
 
I was able to tell the dosing nurse to hold my dose if need but had to see my councillor to start goin down again . Make sure you listen to ur body . You can do it
 
BH34 said:
Half mg day 4 fell good take the .5 mg before bed no real issues at this point will up date in a few days. Thanks for the support.
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I remember you starting this thread back in april.. its awesome to see that you are almost at the end and that you tapered down so far... im super interested to see how jumping at such a low dose goes for you.. you may see no real symptoms at all!!
 
Hey BH34, what kind of things did you notice about your body at certain points throughout the taper? Sex drive coming back, more/less energy, desire to go out, etc?
 
uno22 said:
Hey BH34, what kind of things did you notice about your body at certain points throughout the taper? Sex drive coming back, more/less energy, desire to go out, etc?
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you will notice all of those things at various points...
 
4 days no methadone. Today is day 5 stoped at .4mg real no symptoms 2 loperdems in morning sleep is good except night 2 had trouble falling asleep. I ve lost 14 lbs sex drive is pretty much back all happened under 5mg for me not sure exactly when. Thank you for the support and the best advice I can give is dont make rash decisions listen to ur body know when to hold ur dose.
 
My experience has showed me there is a less painless way to do a taper SLOW which I did. When I tried to stop a 7mg I was miserable. Thats when I got off the clinic and finished with my doctor half mg at a time , so go slow and as low as you can. I am not saying it will be fun but it really helped me so good luck and thank you will update in a few days
 
17 days no methadone trouble sleeping some nights but been fine so far
 
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