We gotta get out of this place...

[matine]

We gotta get outa this place, if it is the last thing we ever do, we gotta get out of this...lord theres a better life for me and you.

     HAPPY NEW  YEAR

[MonkeysWife]

I couldn't have said it better myself.  I am about 36 hours out from my last dose.  I feel like dying. Even the clonidine isn't helping as much as I had hoped.  I 'm very sick.  Freezing cold but sweating.  I am trying to be stronger than that bottle...I have around 300 vicoprofen just sitting here and I know that if i take some I'll be OK but I can't let myself go down that street.  I just don't know how to get through this.  I'm not as strong as so many people here.  I can't take the shakes and chills and lethargy.  I am supposed to have dinner with family and friends tonight and then have people over tomorrow.  How in the world will I make it?

[matine]

You won't. Don't even try. If you do you will take a pill. Sorry(:
Do not underestamate hot baths. THEY WORK>Look at it this way. You have to be sitting somewhere might as well sit in a hot bath with a good book and some sweet candy to suck on.

[mema3]

Hey girl -

I had two weeks with family (some I truly didn't like!!!!) and I stressed about how I was going to handle them "sober."
Amazingly, as stressed as I was - they were a distraction to me.  Somehow, you just function.  
Keep reminding yourself - each day you take another pill, you are just setting yourself back another day and delaying the inevitable - This process will not be easy.
And there is ALWAYS something else that comes up - a dinner, a school conference, friends coming over - one pill would make it all better.  But it won't.  It will only keep the cruel cycle continue - until you run out of pills and panic what to do!
Mentally, you can do it.  Don't call yourself weak - you've made it 36 hours!
Hydrate - bananas - I'm sure you've seen all the recommended stuff.  
Let us know how it all goes - and keep thinking you are going into 2007 clean!!!!

[matine]

Nice advice if you are already down, but at the 36 hour mark you are just peaking in detox. A bad place  to be. If you said you had the flue then you could skip the dinner, that would give you an extra day. Hour by hour day be day.

[orangefyre]

sweetie, look, i know this has been a ruff time 4 u. u r so very blue 2day is it thje new year, or have u ben thru about as much as u can stand. im worried about u 2day. i just care...

[LDPage0208]

I know how you feel, I've been there and I am headed there now, by Jan. 2 I'll be feeling the full effects, have you tried the detox recipe?  Its in the archives, Thomas Detox.  I am doing it now, as I type. I will be thinking of you....

[TB1964]

Tapering off the only way to go, I've tried cold turkey many times, it always leads to relapse.  

Your body get used to that chemical, keep giving it the chemical.  

Here's what I'm doing (and it's working great).  

Get you a calendar and lay all your daily doses out all over the different days 1-31.   Take your normal dose on the 1st, then, with a razor blade, slowly shave off the ends all the way through day 30.  On day 30, you should have just under 1/4 pill left, on day 31 - take a couple tylenol ex and your body will not recognize the loss of chemical.  

This has been working for me.  I'm down to 1-1/2 per day now using this method.  

This is just my opinion, hope it help somebody out their.

TB