Okay So It Looks Like I'm Doing a Lope Taper - Need Advice

[Lovecraft]

Mods, I posted this in another thread but thought it should go here....

I couldn't stand it anymore. I needed relief. From what I've been reading, this can work for me. The key seems to be to get to the lowest possible stabilizing dose and then wean down from there. I'd appreciate any advice on how this works.

So here's where I'm at now...

I took Percaset for about 2 months, then tried to taper but couldn't get down far enough to avoid feeling pretty bad W/D. Immediately went from Perc to Tramadol for 4 days. Then found out about Lope and stopped the Tramadol and took the Lope for about 3 days before deciding I just wanted to try cold-turkey.

I went cold-turkey for 2.5 days in absolute misery. So I started on the Lope again. The Day 1 was yesterday. I took 10 pills (20mg) in the morning and felt OK for most of the day. In the evening, I started hurting pretty bad again so I took 6 pills (12mg) and felt "just OK" again for the rest of the evening and into the morning. Combined dose for the day = 32mg

Today - Day 2 - I took less of a morning dose then yesterday. So I took 8 pills (16mg) instead of 10 pills and it's mid-day and I feel OK. If I start feeling bad again this evening, I am going to take 4 pills instead of 6 (8 mg) and see if that does me.

And then just keep going down as much as possible each day. From what I have been reading, the key is to get down to a really low dose as fast as possible - at least under 20mg - then start a slower, more gradual taper toward the end, and to not draw it out more than a couple weeks or so total.

I am pretty sure that I'm out of the acute detox phase for the Percs by now since it's day 9 since my last dose of that. So I'm basically just on Lope now and will try to keep going down as much as reasonably possible over the next few days until I reach 1 pill a day. Then I'll jump off from there. From what I've read, this can work.

I probably should've just bit the bullet with the C/Turkey off the Percs but I couldn't. Anyway, this is where I am NOW and looking back makes no sense.

Again, any advice, especially from those who have successfully done this would be MUCH appreciated. I want to be clean soooo bad.

 

[neversickanymore]

Sl ---> bdd

 

[Erikmen]

I thought percs weren´t that strong, really didn´t gave too much thoughts of having problems with that alone..

 

[MrRoot]

I guess that with Lope you mean loperamide?

What kind of withdrawal symptoms you are experiencing? You mentioned only that you were in pain after 2.5 days of absence when you tried cold turkey.

It would be easier to give advice or share own experiences if you would tell what kind of symptoms you have in addition to pain you mentioned earlier.

Do you have diarrhea without loperamide? Are you anxious or lethargic? Do you have pain in a certain locations or hypersensitivy to pain which occurs often after quitting opioids or headaches? Restless legs? Sweating? Flu like symptoms?

There are plenty of WD symptoms and not everyone experiences all of them and the severity of different symptoms vary a lot depending on individuals.