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Opioids need advice for quitting percocet

chronictoker

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Hi there, I am not sure if i am posting this in the right place, or if its even allowed, so if a admin wants to move it or delete it that would be fine, but i have been abusing opiates for along time and i am just tired of living this life i have attempted to quit many times just to fail.. i have some valium some loperamide and some vitamins , my addiction was long .. about 6 or 7 years.. I started off with one every couple days.. then one everyday then 2 .. moved upto about 4 percocets a day.. maybe a few more or less depending .. i feel like i have lost control of my life ever since this began, and i just want control back... any help would be greatly appreciated i am currently still using but wish to quit as early as the end of the weekend
 
There are many options to getting off of opiates.. keep in mind though that there is always going to be some pain you have to go through. That's just unavoidable. But if you really want it bad enough, it can be done.

Cold Turkey is obviously the first option.. though a very difficult one for most people. You'd want to taper down to as low a dose as possible before stopping completely. (Tapering down in general is actually a good idea no matter which detox option you choose).

Then there is a detox with suboxone, which might work well in your case, as you would only need a very small dose and you could do a quick 5-7 day taper.

You said you are only taking 4 perc's a day. So at most that is what, 40mg's of oxy? That is a really low dose overall to be on and your withdrawals will not be unbearable. You will be uncomfortable, but you will not be bedridden. If you go too crazy with something like suboxone, you could easily actually end up with a worse addiction than you currently have..

If you could ween down to just 1 or 2 pills a day, your withdrawals will be very very manageable.
 
Maybe he mean the 30 mg IRs...I;ve noticed people often refer to them as percs, obviously a misnomer.
 
^Yeah thats true. People around here call the blue 30s percs so he could mean that. If thats the case getting off 120mg a day is tough. Whatever you choose on how to kick man good luck with it!
 
nono there the lower dose ones the 5 mg oxy 325 tylenol .. but sometimes i get 20 irs or ir 10s.. or even the new generic oxycontin 80s .. but lately ive been taking them to just not feel sick because i do get pretty bad withdrawls when i dont have them still .. i used to dose alot more then i dose now .. but still it worries me, thanks for the advice
 
OK, well in that case you should just clear out 5-7 days where you don't have to do anything and cold turkey it. Prior to that you can try to taper down a bit, get down to 10 or less mg a day and it should be pretty easy. It will suck but you have to realize it will end and after about 3-4 days you will start feeling significantly better until the withdrawals are over. Google the 'Thomas Recipe for opiate withdrawal', but for your size habit I would exclude the benzo.
 
Yea just get down to 5mg a day and then jump off. 20mg a day of oxycodone is not much, but since you've been on it for 4 years your body will have to adjust to functioning without it, hence the withdrawal symptoms. I wouldn't recommend suboxone or anything since that will likely complicate things, being that suboxone is very potent (1mg is actually the same or stronger than the 20mg of oxycodone you take, and most suboxone comes in an 8mg strip) and your habit isn't up there. I wouldn't even use the loperamide since that too can complicate things, but if you insist on using it just take 2-4mg for the first few days, then just 1-2mg of the last few days. It should be over in 5 days so you would only need it for 4 days or so.

Once you get down to 5mg you have the option of skipping days, but if you are feeling too sick on the off days just quit since it's not worth prolonging it if you have to feel that sick before you are fully off of it.

An actual detox facility is not an option since I doubt that you would even be admitted with a habit that small. The methadone that they would give you would have you higher than ever before, so you would leave there worse off than you entered. The same goes for detox facilities that use suboxone, since they usually give you 16mg your first day or so and that would be like 16x your usual dose (with the ceiling effect of suboxone it would stop it at being around 6-8X your normal dose, but still overkill for that habit) so just taper on your own.

If you want the taper to be as short as possible wait until you are really sick and then take 5-10mg and that should be enough to eliminate your symptoms. I disagree with the person saying you shouldn't use the valium. With your small habit you can probably get by just going cold turkey and using the valium for sleep and to help with the anxiety that comes with withdrawal. Just wait until you are fully off of the oxycodone before starting the valium since you don't want to begin to develop a tolerance to it before you really need it.
 
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