Opioids The oxy taper that worked for me!

[John Smith 11]

Hi Everyone,

Let me start off by saying, this is the first time I have experienced withdrawal so perhaps my assessment is wrong, but its been 55 hours since my last pill and I have experienced very little (if any) w/d symptoms. I attribute this mostly to my extensive taper down from 120mg/day. Looking back, it took me WAY too long to complete my taper but given the outcome (little or no withdrawals) my patience has been rewarded. I decided that my ultimate goal was to get below 5mg/day before stopping. I thought that going lower each day would put too much stress on me so I decided to track my progress by week. There were some days I did really well, others not so well but in the end, I was able to steadily decrease my intake overtime while experiencing only minor withdrawal. Below is my final taper calculations. Feel free to PM me with questions, comments or advice as you either enter a taper or prepare for withdrawal. Thanks to all for the support!

On a side note - this was an EXTENSIVE taper. There was no other way for me to do it given my work schedule and additional commitments. I was also a closet user. Point is, I knew going into the taper that my target was 6-8 months down the road...

**Calculated using a .001g scale

1/17-1/23: 121.1 mg/day
1/23-3/13: LOST DATA
3/14-3/20: 53.57mg/day
3/21-3/27: 53.19 mg/day
3/28-4/3: 53.49 mg/day
4/4-4/10: 45.47 mg/day
4/11-4/17: 44.91 mg/day
4/18-4/24: 40.67 mg/day
4/25-5/1: 38.53 mg/day
5/2-5/8: 37.67 mg/day
5/9-5/15: 30.60 mg/day
5/16-5/22: 28.80 mg/day
5/23-5/29: 25.52 mg/day
5/30-6/5: 23.34 mg/day
6/6-6/12: 19.80 mg/day
6/13-6/19: 17.96 mg/day
6/20-6/26: 15.09 mg/day
6/27-7/3: 13.60 mg/day
7/4-7/10: 11.96 mg/day
7/11-7/17: 10.76 mg/day
7/18-7/24: 11.44 mg/day
7/25-7/31: 12.51 mg/day
8/1-8/7: 10.67 mg/day
8/8-8/14: 9.79 mg/day
8/15-8/21: 9.53 mg/day
8/22-8/28: 9.02 mg/day
8/29-9/2: LOST DATA
9/3-9/9: 8.31 mg/day
9/10-9/16: 8.77 mg/day
9/17-9/23: 8.72 mg/day
9/24-9/30:8.43 mg/day
10/1-10/6: LOST DATA
10/7-10/13: 8.27 mg/day
10/14-10/20: 9.77 mg/day
10/21-10/27: 8.57 mg/day
10/28-11/3: 7.41 mg/day
11/4-11/10: 6.39 mg/day
11/11-11/17: 6.08 mg/day
11/18-11/24: 4.89 mg/day
11/25-12/1: 3.30 mg/day

Last pill taken on the morning of 11/30. Yesterday (12/1) is the first totally clean day I have had since April 2010.

Thank you, and good luck to you all.

 

[Fire&Water]

I'm tired of being a quitter...

 

[whatsup73]

Glad to hear you were succesful in tapering off oxy. Back in the day when i was doing ficve or six 80s a day i thought that instead of doing a full 80 if i only did half instead i was trying to cut down. Instead ten minutes later i would do the other half. Didnt work out lol. Just curious did you weigh actual pieces of pills or did you just weigh up powder? I hope you are succesfull in not relapsing and good luck man

 

[John Smith 11]

I was doing 30's. I would calculate the weight of a whole pill (mine were .125G) and divide a given dose by the pill weight, pre powder. I would cut it up into small pieces with a fingernail and then weigh. For instance:

A dose that weighed in at .025 was 20% of the pill (.025/.125=.20). 30mgx .20= 6mg.

My lowest daily dose of just over 3mg per day was .0125 of a pill or 1/10th.

Thanks for the encouragement. Perhaps it can be accredited to my lengthy taper but I have absolutely NO cravings or w/d symptoms at this time.

57 hours and counting...

 

[whatsup73]

Niceway oftapering I will have to try this when I decide to quit. And IMO it could take you years to taper but the point is your trying. So what if it takes a long time? You have encouraged me to start tapering. Good luck in thefuture with the cravings and relapse, dont wanna see you go back down that path. Nobody deserves the feeling of w/ds. Take care buddy and besure to post back when you are about a month clean so I know ya did it!!

 

[sekio]

This is great news and exactly how a taper should be done.

Now go find something else to do than oxy