You were very lucky. I quit cold turkey from 1mg a day for about 2 years. Im on my day 15 and still dont get good sleep and have certain symptoms lingering around that are starting to get old. I can only hope by the end of the month the rest of my symptoms are gone. I also understand what you mean about the black and white tv to HD. It feels as if Im looking through a whole new set of eyes, even things taste and feel different its crazy! Anyways congrats on 9 days glad your doing well. Best of wishes.
Brent
If you think that was being sick stopping at a low dose, you'd feel like death its self had it ugly hands around your throat if you stopped at a high dose. Believe me I've detoxed about 5 times from H, this was the easiest time.
HI IF you jump off from 12mg of sub your going to be a little bit more then just sick
and for a good 2 to 3 weeks...sub is a powerful narcotic and needs to be tapered off to avoid disaster ................Gnarly
i just dont understand why you bothered to taper down if you got sick anyway. why not just quit at 12mg? you would have still been sick for about a week, and no sleep. whats to point of taking it?
Well I started on 12mg sub and gradually cut down to about 1.2mg, however in hindsight I would have cut all the way down to 0.2 to try and avoid any w/d's. I really choose just to stop because I had a week off work however I'd recommend taking at least two weeks off if possible.
I guess it depends how long you've been using them, i was on them for about 13 months. The withdrawals are similar to H w/d's but not as strong. About 36 hours after stopping you get aches and pains, feelings of sickness, cold shivers, no energy and a serious case of no sleep!!
If you have been taking 10mg or more for any long period I'd advise you to cut down first before stopping completely, its pretty easy cutting down from higher doses to lower, realistically you can cut down by 2 mg every one too two weeks with out to many problems, although your need some will power and hopefully support from friends and family.I think the main problem, at least for me, was when i got to 2mg, trying to cut lower made me feel terrible, all I wanted to do was hide away from people.
If you cut down to a low dose at least 1.2mg your probably have main w/d's for about 4-5 days, after 7-8 days your start sleeping more properly.
I don't think people realize how addictive subs are I certainly didn't
Good luck
were you just as sick as you would have been if you would have quit from 10mg? how many days were you sick?