opiates

[B@seballin]

Hi im new to this forum and i have a question about withdrawls. i was taking percocet almost every day like up to 60 mg maybe take a day off but never had with drawls. i stopped takin them monday at noon after a huge 20 10/325 3 day binge. i am withdrawling bad now. its almost 48 hours since my last 2 10s and name the withdrawl symptom and i got it runny nose is the worst. does anyone know how to do a taper. i can easily get percocet or norco. how should i do this whole taper down til my physical symptoms lessen. any advice is greatly appreciated.

 

[wezface]

If your normal dose is say 50mg/day, a good taper schedule would be something like this:
week 1 40mg/day
week 2 30mg/day
week 3 20mg/day
week 4 10mg/day
after this wait as long as you can between doses of 5mg. Honestly though you're not at a level where withdrawals are going to be awful so if it was me doing this I'd get some Benadryl for the runny nose/watery eyes and tough it out for a few days. It's really difficult for an addict to successfully taper without a coach/babysitter and you're kind of just asking for trouble.

 

[MilzyWilzy]

Without the right support, I think you'd find it difficult to taper successfully. The temptation of abusing them would be quite high if you truly aren't ready.

Try and go it alone, you should be on day 3 by now and you're that much closer to w/ding completely.

In this case, I don't think you have much to worry about in terms of a physically and mentally challenging w/d process.

As the PP said, tough it out, take some anti allergy medication for your runny nose and stick with it.

Be strong and you will achieve it.

Good luck.