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Starving yourself for Opiates; a tapering method.

ksralyv2mch

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In a taper method of getting clean, you usually tend to dose as far apart as possible and/or (imo) only when you start feeling any symptoms of your own private hell coming on. This has always been having a bowel movement (I'll try to keep the language to as non-crude as possible), if I know I can "do something" I figure the opiates are on their way out of my system, is this flawed thinking? I know it's probably still in my system but I'm not "high" anymore...this tends to happen 4-6 hours after my last smoke.

My habit as of now consists of half a gram of BTH every 3 days, smoked. I have only used on this run for (at most) a month straight now (before this I had 3 years clean after an 8 year habit on the needle) so I have that re-addiction thing where if I use more than 3 days, I feel pretty uncomfortable and my tolerance jumps rapidly.

tl;dr
I'm trying to ween myself off because I have a very good job and I can't lose it. Now if I was to say go 2 days without opiates, put myself in a horrid place, then on the 3rd day took like 50-100mg of tramadol when I have work since my body is so starved for opiates, so utterly desperate and crying for them, as in with hunger, will this tiny bit of tramadol help more significantly even after only 2 days of abstinence purely because my body craves it so much?

Curious; thanks in advance.
 
Honestly I don't think so...Going from H to trams and 50-100 mg at that won't help much...You probably need 300-400mg of the trams,but you're risking seizures...Get yourself some gabapentin along with the trams...this will raise your seizure threshold and give you more comfort...I recommend 1200mg gaba,and 200mg trams.
 
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