Just hit DAY FOUR clean of OC!

[jvette]

Today marked 96 hours or FOUR DAYS clean off about a six month habit of doing roughly 120-160MG in the beginning and I was doing about 240MG (3 80s) the last 1.5 months before I decided to quit. Some of you have read my prior posts. THANK GOD I decided to do this on vacation. I am in Latin America and the euphoria and relaxation of being in a foreign country on vacation has helped me out so much.

I said in my earlier post for some weird reason I didn't get extremely bad withdrawls. This I do not understand. I  had TERRIBLE RLS that was literally driving me nuts for two days. Since I am not in the USA I was able to easily get some 5MG Valium tablets out here. Just went to a doctor who has her office at the house, paid $40 for a prescription and than $20 for 30 5MG tablets. Those helped my anxiety and RLS A TON!

So my main question here is this. I have a few ambien 5MG tablets too. So for today all I have taken is one 5MG Valium at about 11am. It's not 6:30. If I take another one now, will it be okay to take 5MG of Ambien to ensure that I sleep? I did this last night but with more time between the ambien and valium and it worked perfectly and actually allowed me to sleep like a baby (albeit with some terrible night sweats).

Anyway. I am so happy that I am doing this. Being so dependent on those drugs was terrible. It was literally ALL I would really think about. It was part of my routine. Wake up, shower, shave, brush teeth, SNORT 40MG OC and that was the start of the usual 200-240MG that I would end up having done by about 8 or 9PM. That is such a terrible way to live. Anyway, just after four days I am feeling amazing. This sounds so corny but it's like I feel what life is like again. I'm not numb to everything. I enjoy life and the starting of feeling like I have my mind back.

I hate to end the post like this..I don't see myself relapsing I just am worried that when I get back I will want to go pick up some pills since I barely went through any withdrawls off of doing about 3 80s a day...that just wories me. I am planning on starting NA meetings and I think it will be fine. I know a few cute girls my age in NA who said they'd start taking me with them...I just hope I can do it!

[starfish1963]

I think everyone is different.  
Ambien doesn't work for me, I'm just weird  guess.
I'm happy you didn't go through what most of us did, that is awesome!  WTG!  Enjoy :)

[TrayCee]

8 month is still a relatively short period of time.  240mg is a high dose but just for 6 weeks, yes?

Talk to me when youve been using 8 years.

[jvette]

I think my first sentence made it confusing. I have been using OC for about 8 Months total. I was just saying hte last 1.5 months was when the dose increased to 240MG!

[TrayCee]

congratulations!

The reason for the mild WD's is due to the short amount of time youve been using.  
Thank God you got out when you did or I promise it wouldnt be this easy!