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1021643 tn?1265573848

Need help to tapering down my benzo and methadone.

Hello....I really want to stop with methadone and benzodiazepines. I have tried to tapering down the methadone 150 mg and then I take more diazepam, nitrazepam Xanor (Xanax) flunitrazepam, Oxazepam.... all I can buy at the black marked in Oslo. I also get diazepam, nitrazepam from my doctor, and want to taper down the benzo before the methadone. I believe that is best? I have tried to tapering down my methadone and benz, but need to start serious with my problem. Now I am better because I stop treatment from hep.C that really does my ill. I think maybe I should stop with the benzo, and then the methadone? please answer, I am serious.
Also I think maybe I will go to the USA to try the accelerated detox?
But have to first save the money to this detox if people think that is a good way to detox all this drugs. I believe that I anyway need to taper down my doses?
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228936 tn?1249094248
You need to do one at a time. Do you get methadone from a clinic or rx and how long have you been taking it? I have the same questions about your benzo use too. There are good outpatient detoxes here in the USA but I don't think any reponsible detox doc would want you to do both at the same time. Maybe the methadone first unless the benzo addiction hasn't been going on for too long. Benzo and methadone are also used together by people on methadone clinics here. more soon, all the best
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711224 tn?1344771687
Thank you Dav! One day at a time :)
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711224 tn?1344771687
Hi chemister :)

You built up your tolerance that's why you don't "feel" anything anymore only when you don't take them, you feel the wd's. Talk to your dr about a tapering plan, never go thru it yourself w/o dr's supervision. The secret for a successful tapering plan is time and patience. Took me a while before I got that! lol It's kinda tricky coz when you start feeling comfortable with your dosage, you have to go down again and again. I did allow me 3 decent nights sleep and comfortable days before tapering down. Keep a record of the days you taper off ~there's a great tracker for that on here~ it's a good reminder and it keeps you from stalling, very good for the motivation too!
I'm 300 days clean today and I can say that I'm starting to feel very good for about 2 months now. That's where the patience is required. We use and abuse meds or other drugs for months if not for years ~I did for 9 years~ and we all expect to be normal again after a few weeks or even months. Nope it doesn't work that way, it take time. Allow yourself the time to heal and for your mind and body to function without dope, it takes a while, be patient but perseverant.
Best of luck to you, and if you need advice or support, don't hesitate.
sophie
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1283286 tn?1312911966
Congratulations on the 300 days!  :)

David
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1021643 tn?1265573848
Hei Sophie, after you stop with the Sobril (oxazepam), how long time used your mind and body to feel like before you start with the tab?

The 1/2 year I stop I never find my self....
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1021643 tn?1265573848
Thanks, it’s a good advice. My doctor gives me what a need so I don’t go to the black marked with all kind off drugs. I have decided to stop with the benzo first, and little of the methadone. I will start with 10 mg diazepam 2 times a day, and 140 mg methadone.and 1-2 nitrazepam at the night. I just stop to bay 10 mg diazepam from. East-Europe, when I bought 100 and 100 beside the 100 5 mg diazepam from my doctor. I will stop to buy from another people, ant taper down from them my doctor gives me.
I stop with benzo about 1-2 years ago, but the 1/2 year clean, I never find myself. I have to give me better time this time. I don’t feel anything from the benzo, only when I don’t take them (immune).
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711224 tn?1344771687
Hi Chemister :)
I can't help you with the methadone but I can give you some advice with the benzos. You seem to take a lot of them and pretty much all kinds.
What I suggest you to do is to go see the dr that prescribes some of them to you, come clean to her/ him, explain the situation like it is. You and him/her will establish a tapering plan and go from there.
Benzos are pretty mean to quit, you cannot go CT on them, too many risks of seizure but you can do it and life is so much better without them.
In the mean time educate yourself, here's the link to a site which is the reference in benzos: http://www.benzo.org.uk/.
You have it all in there.

Best of luck to you. sophie.
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Are you still at 150 a day of the methadone?I have never been that high of doseage,would be on the nod full time.Now I am down to 9 a day,and the only way for me,is pure determiation to get clean.Taper will work if it is slow.There is no easy way.
Hope you find the strength to get away from methadone.Good luck.                     kc
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