amnesiaseizure
Bluelighter
Hi to everyone here, this is the first time I've really used this forum for help and support from everyone and i think it'll really help to start an ongoing dialogue to help me deal with all the typical issues that arise when detoxing.
My girlfriend and I have made the decision to stop completely our opiate intake and we're down to a fairly low dose. Like everyone who's been here knows it's not the stopping that's tough, it's the staying stopped that's the killer. We're both down to taking around 120mg of DHC morning and then evening so about 240mg each day. Had a last blow out yesterday and thankfully it was a good and satisfying one so it's a perfect beginning to the process.
Neither of us wants to continue with this as our money is getting rinsed to buggery and we want our personalities back (and our very good sex life which has taken a hit).
The idea now is to just stick to the DF's and lower the dose steadily over the next few weeks. We've also got plenty of vallies to help with sleep and anxiety which my g/f suffers from particularly badly when withdrawing - she also works so needs to be able to keep this up.
My main issue when doing this is anxiety, boredom and chronic back pain from scoliosis - had this since birth and nothing the doc has prescribed has ever really helped apart from opiates. Yoga never touched it although Shiatsu makes a real difference.
We're both at the point of really being very committed but I know I need help from others and there are some really sound people on here with great advice and an empathic ear.
If anyone can spare some time to reply or even to chat over MSN that'd be fantastic. PM me if you can do the msn chatting and I'll give you my addy.
I'm not currently in work but actively looking (don't really want to discuss what I'm qualified as but I'll say that I'm running a major risk in mixing with the local users) and as I've spent a long time getting the qualification I don't want to piss it away by getting caught or being exposed. There;s a lot to lose for both of us if we get found by the police.
We were also getting into crack until recently when we saw what a shitty effect it was having on our usually very patient and laid back approach to life and it's not been too hard at all to do that. It's now just the brown which is an issue. I've been to residential rehab before for 9 months and stayed clean from gear for about 4 years. What took me back to using was going through some major cravings every 2 or 3 months that I felt were debilitating. We made th decision together to try it again and try to dispel the romanticism I was experiencing and bring it back to the reality of what it is actually like. For a while it went fine and we were only doing it every couple of weeks or so.
Inevitably it escalated and now we find ourselves over spending and finding keeping up daily committments more and more difficult. My sweetheart partner is really struggling to hold down her job and give it all she's got so we've basically got everything to gain and nothing to really lose by giving it up.
I know this is a long post so hope those who can help have got all the way to the end! Look forward to hearing back....
My girlfriend and I have made the decision to stop completely our opiate intake and we're down to a fairly low dose. Like everyone who's been here knows it's not the stopping that's tough, it's the staying stopped that's the killer. We're both down to taking around 120mg of DHC morning and then evening so about 240mg each day. Had a last blow out yesterday and thankfully it was a good and satisfying one so it's a perfect beginning to the process.
Neither of us wants to continue with this as our money is getting rinsed to buggery and we want our personalities back (and our very good sex life which has taken a hit).
The idea now is to just stick to the DF's and lower the dose steadily over the next few weeks. We've also got plenty of vallies to help with sleep and anxiety which my g/f suffers from particularly badly when withdrawing - she also works so needs to be able to keep this up.
My main issue when doing this is anxiety, boredom and chronic back pain from scoliosis - had this since birth and nothing the doc has prescribed has ever really helped apart from opiates. Yoga never touched it although Shiatsu makes a real difference.
We're both at the point of really being very committed but I know I need help from others and there are some really sound people on here with great advice and an empathic ear.
If anyone can spare some time to reply or even to chat over MSN that'd be fantastic. PM me if you can do the msn chatting and I'll give you my addy.
I'm not currently in work but actively looking (don't really want to discuss what I'm qualified as but I'll say that I'm running a major risk in mixing with the local users) and as I've spent a long time getting the qualification I don't want to piss it away by getting caught or being exposed. There;s a lot to lose for both of us if we get found by the police.
We were also getting into crack until recently when we saw what a shitty effect it was having on our usually very patient and laid back approach to life and it's not been too hard at all to do that. It's now just the brown which is an issue. I've been to residential rehab before for 9 months and stayed clean from gear for about 4 years. What took me back to using was going through some major cravings every 2 or 3 months that I felt were debilitating. We made th decision together to try it again and try to dispel the romanticism I was experiencing and bring it back to the reality of what it is actually like. For a while it went fine and we were only doing it every couple of weeks or so.
Inevitably it escalated and now we find ourselves over spending and finding keeping up daily committments more and more difficult. My sweetheart partner is really struggling to hold down her job and give it all she's got so we've basically got everything to gain and nothing to really lose by giving it up.
I know this is a long post so hope those who can help have got all the way to the end! Look forward to hearing back....
