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This may be a dumb question but I'm new to getting clean.  If I wait 24 hours or so between pills will I ween down and detox a little easier when I shut them off completely?
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Quit for them.
I am too late.  I love my wife and kids too, but she's filed for divorce and is actively trying to prevent me from seeing the boys.  Hell for me started already.  Withdrawals from tapering off is nothing.  Withdrawals from eventually quitting altogether is nothing.  Losing your kids to this s*** is hell on earth.

Love to all brothers and sisters.
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That's the plan tracee!   I love my wife and kids!!!!!!!
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198154 tn?1337787265
if you can go 24 hours you might as well just stop.
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Hi there, I went from 120 Oxy one day to 70 the next.  And stayed there for almost a whole week. That is what my dr told me.  Now I am down to 50.  My heart is racing and I sleep worse but I'm staying at 50!  When all quiets down, heart stops racing, etc., I'll go down again.  To 40 or maybe even 30! I can't wait!  And than, one day...  
But let's take one step at a time...  
It is not easy.  Especially that my life is a mess and every day I stay cleaner, I see it better...  Well I will not put it back together until I clean up, right?  So one step at a time, one step at a time...  Tomorrow this Jesuit Monk promised to take me to his AA meeting, gave me some literature, looks promising...

Stay strong everyone!  And thanks for being there!
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I've actually snorted it so the time release is non effective!  At least I think it will work.  I went to the ms cause to me it's week!
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Thats a great start! I believe that the morphine sulfate has a longer half life which means it stay in your system longer so you may not feel WD's as fast as you would with the Oxy, but I may be wrong, maybe someone could answer that better. The more days you get in at or over 24 hours between doses, the better for sure, but as Freedom said, you cant avoid the WD's totally. I had very little physical symptoms other than yawning, sneezing and no sleep for a few days, the rest was just mental and cravings.
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I've had about 65mgs of morphine sulfate in the last 55 hours down from about 100mg of oxycodone a day.  Is this a good start?
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1095579 tn?1269470549
You can do it. And it will be soooo worth it. Freedom007 Is right. Jump in and fight the Good fight.
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1110177 tn?1268461548
yep...go as many 24 hour periods as you can...it helps alot.  BUT, you can never avoid the w/d symptoms completely...those you just need to JUMP IN and FIGHT.

We are here for when you decide you have had enough!!
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Everyone is different, but in my own experiences, doing that helped me alot. I pushed myself to wait the 24 hours then took a few. Each day I took one less. I basicly went from 200 mg a day of norco down to 20 a day in a week, then I just went CT from there. I made sure and take them each afternoon so I could get some sleep. I still had a few bad days but no where near as bad as it could have been. I had my wife to help me with the pills so I couldnt cheat.

Good luck.
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