Withdrawal symptoms :(

[nope]

g8ina if I was you I would get myself in touch with your drug and alcohol clinic and make an appointment with a specialist doctor.
However good your GP is he is not trained in detox.
Cold turkey is dangerous it does not matter how old you are.
There is a chance of a major fit or heart failure especially if you are a long term user and you have other health problems.
I am talking from experience. I have gone through 2 home detoxes and been in a detox clinic twice before I was clean.
I still am two and a half years later.
Believe me I have tried it myself and ended up in intensive care.
They will treat you with respect. To them you are just suffering from an illness and all patients are treated as equals.
Good Luck

Actually your right about this. Anyway Gaina if you can do it very very slowly.

DO it at a pace your body is comfortable with. Keep a record and decrease by say 2mg-5mg a week , this way I promise you will be ok.

You will feel rough but you will not end up in hospital. But yeah don't do a cold turkey. Heroin addicts decrease about 1-5mg a week on methadone and its something you can stick with , also with that rate you can also get your day to day chores done.

You need to gently ween your self off it.

Your body produces a natural opioid which is endorphine . It produces this because your body is always in constant pain , anyway at the moment your body has stopped producing this and is replaced by dyhydracodiene . So what needs to happen is you need to start exercise or something that can help your body produce this, also you need to top your body with vitamins which will help you through your turkey.

I too have to start to reduce mine , like I have said before i have done this few times but this time round I need to make it last longer. Need to exercise too.

Good luck mate

, wish me good luck too

[redlight]

Nope you are correct if you are going to do it at home use vitamin supplements also if you start getting cramps take sugar lots of it do not take any drinks that contain caffiene.
They will put extra strain on the heart.
I cant stress enough how dangerous it is for long term users of opiates to go cold turkey.

[g8ina]

Update ...

I was originally on 90mG twice a day, then dropped to 60mG twice a day, then down to the next level wayyyy too fast ... After that upset, I reverted to 60mG twice a day. That lasted for a week or so and was fine.

Now I've managed to drop again to 30mG 3 times a day. I started to feel a touch iffy by 6pm if I didn't take my 3pm pill, but that was a good thing as it told me what my time limits really were.

I'm fairly stable on that does now and plan to drop again in a week or so.

I'm getting there

[Funkstar]

Excellent new mate. Glad to hear you are holding up.

[Clunk]

Glad to hear it

[GoNz0]

if the doc had been worth his salt he would have got you off DHC 1st using the tranq's to keep you out of it enough to make symptoms bearable, if you do find it hard to get off the final dose then it may be worth asking for a months methadone script to help you cope.

at the end of the day the docs helped you become a drug addict, they should be helping a little more to get you straight again !

[g8ina]

Gonzo - yes, I think it may have been better the other way around, but it was me that instigated the withdrawal from Diazepam, not him so I can't apportion any blame there Can't see what Methadone would have done for me though, that's the next step up from DHC isn't it ?

[Zak33]

g8ina, my dear chap, the very fact that you're putting in all this effort and that it's paying off, is testimony to a bloody good character with strong will power.

More power to ya bud

[GoNz0]

Gonzo - yes, I think it may have been better the other way around, but it was me that instigated the withdrawal from Diazepam, not him so I can't apportion any blame there Can't see what Methadone would have done for me though, that's the next step up from DHC isn't it ?

yeh i guess it would be a step up, i assumed wrong

[tiggerai]

G8ina,

Just re-iterating what Unkle Zakky said...

Sounds like you're doing well.. keep it up and we're all right behind you.

But don't actually look back as we're an ugly bunch and it would scare you too much

[Dareos]

and your Stargate addiction is much more worrying imo, start watching Heroes to wean yourself off it!


(gluck btw)

[nope]

I have got to 2 x 60mg a day from 4 x 60mg , going to start decreasing a little more from today.

I am starting work today too which should help my mind being occupied and feel less craving.

Your doing good G8ina .

Its easy if you do it weekly but daily decreasing is like you have a flue , with body aches, stomach cramps , loads of other symptoms too. WIth the weekly basis everything is mild.

Whatever you do do not touch the methadone. It is the next step up from DHC

[g8ina]

Thanks again for all the great support guys

Last night I trapped a nerve in my coccyx (or thereabouts) and am in absolute bleddy agony

I have managed to drop again to 30mg twice a day though

nope - are you using MR - slow release tabs ? If so, you can break the 60mgs ion half, as I have done. Good Luck matey !

[tiggerai]

Wooo nice one guys... sounds like you're getting there!

Having seen first hand the withdrawl symptoms of this horrible drug I hope you're surviving ok.

I hope your coccyx is a bit better later on g8ina - i slept funny so my back is playing up this morning so I'm with you on that one. (not quite as bad, but it's still inconvenience)

[Gunwitch]

Well done matey, i know from experience myself how hard it is to kick a drug habit. Took me months to get off prozac for depression and nearly suffered a nervous breakdown.

Only other additcion i had was alcohol, with many thanks to our illustrious british army. Was an alcoholic for many years and managed to kick it with help from my girlfriend who has been my wife of 7 years and got cleaned up.

Any addiction whether it's drugs, nicotine, alcohol is damn hard to give up once you're reliant on it. To manage to kick said habit requires dedicationa d a force of will that would put a buddhist monk to shame.

Gratulations to everyone for coming through, even if it's unscathed.

[nope]

I felt a wee bit rough after 10 hours , which means I am still not ready for 12 hour gap.

I will try another 1 -2 days with the same dose before I start to decrease any more.