Is tapering the best

[peaches]

I keep hearing about tapering off the drugs and I am curious. Which is the best. I know this is a back and forth issue but I am curious what people think.

I take about four or five vicodin a day. I realize to some that may not be a lot or maybe it is but I am use to start with just one! I recently decided I am done with this. I usually take one vicodin around 10 am than another one at 1;30 or 2pm than two more at 6. This last week I am doing 1/2 in the morning 1/2 in the afternoon and 1 1/2 at night. Is this better or should it be more drastic? i know there will be wds but that just comes with the territory right? I want to get to just one a day and then....well clean. Any thoughts?

[worried878]

one day clean is do-able...clean forever is a bit of work and u gotta be willling to do the work ..tapering works for some and is eems as u r doing ok at it...have u read the article on tapering and the thomas recipe in the health pages?   gotta write ur taper out day by day and stick to it.....pick a QUIT day...so important..I have helped many taper and quit..those who refuse to pick a QUIT day fail...that is just my experience

[peaches]

What is this Thomas recipe I keep hearing about? Ok so a quit day, I will definetly keep track. its hard though because I just went to a dic and got thirty pills and I am afraid to go aback to a doc and get more so I am trying desperatly to conserve and taper off these or should I just try to get subaxone. what should i taper on?

Thanks for being so nice to me worried878

[jacqui_m]

the tapering method never worked for me. it took quite a while to find the right inspiration and quit cold turkey. good luck.

[peaches]

I meant doc not dic. Not that kinda girl....haha

[worried878]

k...being frank so do not hold this against me   lol...at ur dose..which is small but signficant...i would flush and be done..tapering for a month is pure torture for most....do u have someone to hold ur pills?  i tried that...my friend who is now hooked on trams held mine for me..only cos i worked and was waiting for my 4 day weekend to quit....i cheated anyway...knew how to get them outside of what i handed her,,,such a humiliating experience for me....do not know ur personality but at ur dose which is less than half of mine...i would ct...flushing can be exhilerating...taking control of urself..telling the pills that u r in control

[worried878]

oh...the thomas recipe consists of supps to help ur brain heal as we ave damged our receptors..read up...it is in the health pages to ur right..click on it....u r young in the addiction arena..et out while the getting is good...Thomas who wrote this recipe/not to be negative cos we all here have made it/is now dead due to an overdose/   this forum is wonderful and lots of clean people for a long time...avisg is well over a year and cathy too...eagle, dominosara, refusebondage, mtgoat, giz, r2r, gtm, flmagi, and many others with their own goals and weapons...this is so do-able...but t will be easier for u now than later...this addiction thing does not get better...only worse

[RoscoM]

Ya, Ditto lol
Be strong mentally!
Sooner than later.
Definately plan it, pick a date.
You have to pick the date, not somebody else.
Ross

[flmagi]

Welcome to the forum.  The dose that you are at now  does not warrant going on Suboxone. Please don't go the Sub route, unless a year from now you have tried to quit many, many times and your drug dose is getting life threatening. Frying pan to fire thing. Some people can do the tapper. If you can and that's how you choose to do it....go for it.  I was a cold turkey girl myself (prior to going on Sub).  Cold turkey is the fastest way to getting it done....not the most pleasant way but tapering can be torture and most people don't make it. You really need to have some one hold your pills to do the tapper.
Keep posting and let us know how you're doing. Everyone here will help you thru this.
Magi