I can deal with the pain I have far more than I can deal with another drug withdrawal.
Dale
So proud you're my friend, Love and strength,
Hi Ash,
You wrote:
I hope people don't think I just turned 70
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Thanks for your advice. I have a very old Rx for clonazepam. I can take it if I need it, but so far I don't. It's many years old though and I don't know if it gets weaker or stronger with age - do you?
I imagine I could get buprenorphine if I asked my doctor for it and if it isn't an opiate. What exactly is it? Is this off label use? I read a story about someone that recommended loperamin?.. the anti-diahrea medicine that's over the counter. I don't have the runs at all, but it seems to be some kind of opiate if I read correctly.
You know I kind of thought I could stop this without a lot of problems if I cut 5mg every week for 5 weeks. I could be wrong though. Anyway, let me know what you know about dissolving one of these in a liquid so I can precisely control cutting back. I get 10mg pills now and I already break them in half. There's no way I could break those halves into 5 sections.
Thank you.
Today is 80 days for me since I began my journey to getting clean. I am still "opiate" free. I don't feel any withdrawals of any kind. I sleep good at night now and I have decent energy (not as much as I'd like, but it's good).
I still have pain though - I wake up with it every morning and it has been wearing on me. I was taught mindfullness, but it doesn't work for me unless I'm really concentrating on distracting myself from pain - and that's hard to do very long. I won't go back on opiates after the withdrawals I had, but I need to do something about the pain I feel. I tried Lyrica and had a bad reaction it to it (severe burning in my chest area). I had that exact same reaction when I tried gabapentin too (they must be similar drugs).
I wonder - does everyone have daily pain and I just need to "get over" it bothering me? I don't think so, but it does cross my mind that I might be too sensitive to it. I know this post sounds like I'm feeling depressed. I'm really okay - maybe just rougher morning than usual.
"If you have sex, then you smoke afterwards, you're doing it too fast