please help.13 days today off morphine

[2blue2c]

I took morphine up to 200 mgs a day for 7 years after car accidebt. I cut down to 60 in a time period, of 23 month  and went C/T for the rest. My problem is I was not strong enough to do C/T I took up to 4 perks a day, to help, wrong thing to do right.? even tho i took the perks and tried to be careful because i know it could be chamging from one addiction to the other.it is day 13 off the morphine ms but i feel still a lot of w/d I try to do as long as i can 7 to 8 hours between pills, but when the perks  wear off i start again. Am I just prolonging my w/d? today I an going to cut all the perks too/ I am  so tired the the drugs Can someone help me as to the new thing i am going to try? will i be starting all the W/D all over again i think cause it will start with the nose and still a lot of pain no sleep? will it still be just as severe and as long  its been being off the morphine or does the time i put in count? I wish I could have been as strong as all you, but i copped out  and took a few perks. I have been with u guys and this sight is a God send .you all have been such an encouragement and support. I to will be here to support others, Thank You . God Bless

[Fergman]

Well, if you're tapering off the morphine with the percs, that's a good thing.  That morphine can really be hard to get off of.  The percs will fill in when the withdrawals start, but they only serve to delay the inevitable.  Got to get the opiates out of the system.  They mess with the brain.  I wish I hadn't taken them as long as I did.  I'm not the same person I was.  If you can't do the suboxone, then I'd whittle down the percs to get the little amount as possible.  Sometimes we replace one substance with another, so if you find yourself increasing your abuse of percs then you'll know what is taking place.

[2blue2c]

Thank you  for sharing with me  your wprds support. right now i am getting thru it with a few perks and even with that it is pretty bad. but i am determined that I will be free and get my life back.it has been 12 days I figure i made it to here sec by sec min by min day by day it has to get better one day and I tell my self if i go back it has all been in vain and i will have to do it all over again.scares the hell out of me. so I will keep on going and make all my days good one, thank you again,

[Fergman]

Hey, I was in the same boat as you with the morphine.  I took 3 100 mgs. a day for a long while and oxycodone 30's for break through pain.  I tried cold turkey once and didn't sleep for 13 days as well as being tied to the bathroom if you know what I mean.  It was probably the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.  The 2nd time around, I went to a doctor and got suboxone.  What a miracle drug that was for me.  I took it for 6 weeks and didn't have any trouble getting off of it.  The suboxone eliminated the withdrawals and my cravings for the othere opiates had disappeared.  However, I was also "ready" to quit since my life had become a train wreck.  It's going to be tough for you to cold turkey that stuff.  it has been done, but I h;ape you have a couple of weeks off so t;hat you can get through the withdrawals.  It was sheer terror for me.