He has a point. I detoxed last year while driving to retreave a kid from school in up-state new york. I had the other driver doll out the pills, and I only took one when in real pain. The trip took 3 days round trip and by the time I arrived home I was down to 5mg at night; course there I stayed for a month taking 5 at night, I mean I really looked forward to that 5mg at night, even took them to Madrid and Rome and in Rome I ran out and grew frightened and had someone back in the states fed-x me 20 pills which never arrived or did but by than I had left and when I stepped off the plane at Chicago was GREAT>So great that the person who picked me up had brought a few 5's and I looked at them and laughed. Then I swallowed them. I think I heard a distant laugh and it wasn't me but the pills laughing last.
You make it all sound so easy.... LOL
I just detoxed from Hydros and went Cold Turkey... I don't know if I would have been able to do a taper...but after the last two weeks of sheer hell... maybe that would have been a better idea. I was up to taking 6 - 8 hydros a day. C/T was brutal but I won't belabor it any more it's over. Thanks to some mighty fine folks here they truly helped me over the worse of it.
I learned no matter how small a dose... one does need to taper off Benzos....C/T from that was absolutely horrible. I would never have been able to do that. But I want out of these as well... The Dr. allotted me per day for the first two weeks far more than I thought I'd need to take.. so far so good.
I was Rx'd this stuff for severe arthritis and a pinched nerve, and have been on them for 5 years, and never felt messed up by them until the last six months or so. I imagine they catch up with all of us after a while.
Remember that song by Janis Joplin... One pill will make you larger and one pill will make you small...and the one your mother gives you won't do anything thing at all...Ahhh that's what runing through my mind at the moment.
You sound as though you are very structured ... which is a good thing... I really don't know if going through w/d can be entirely without symptoms... but you sound like you have a good method going. A lot of folks here ask for tapering recommendations... please hang around for a while so you can help.
Take Care
Gip
Well I didnt mean to say no symptoms. You still feel kinda crappy when you go down one pill at a time but it is no where even close to what it would be cold turky. Thats why I suggest staying on the dose cut by one pill for a couple weeks. If you try to taper too fast you will feel like ****!
A couple weeks before my accident I got over withdrawels from Methadone, cold turkey, let me tell you that was so hard. I felt like **** for a whole month. After that I decided to taper if I was ever on pain meds again! Then a week later I get in another car accident and, poof, on em again!
Good luck to everyone, once you find something to distract yourself, a hobby or something, life will be much better. And break all ties with anyone that does them, this is absolutly crutial, I dont care if its your mother you have to get away!
LOL... I know you feel like ****... I did a C/T w/d two days before Xmas.. Ask me how my holiday was...
Thankfully I'm starting to feel better. Still a bit anxious but that too is subsiding. I'm feeling again. I think that was my whole point to start with... I was feeling nothing.
If you could only see the spiral downward as you are in the peak of this stuff, I'm wondering how many of us would be here to start with.
I have to wean off the Xanax..not by choice though.. I had no idea you could not just STOP these little S**tty things ... but that's going better than planned for me. Dr.s plan was 4 .50's/day however I could manage... I've done 2 .50's and seem to be OK... not wonderful.. but maintaining w/o that severe anxious feeling.
Thanks for your in put...folks around here are always asking for weaning schedules...your input is invaluable
Gip
it was Gracie Slick with Jefferson Airplane on the song "White Rabbit" (one pill makes you larger...) - keep up the good work, Gip, you keepin' a lot of people hanging in there - always be blessed... nefesh
Yeaaaaaaaaa I knew it was white rabbit... I thought it was Janis though....
It's been playing through my head all day.
Know what... I used to make the same mistake 20 years ago.. LOL never got that straight...Jefferson Airplane
Talk soon
Gip
I love this idea! I really do. But for me? I hate to wait that long to get off them. But either way, like Gip said a very valuabe post!
Thank yoU!