Detoxing from Oxycontin

[OxyDout]

Hello Everyone,

Today is my first "real" day of detoxing, I refuse to give up this time, I'm much stronger mentally now then I ever have been before.  I have been taking about 80-120 mg of oxycontin a day for the last year or so.  Today, I took 20 mg, 10 at a time.  I don't plan on taking any more today, and I will continue to do this for the next 2 or 3 days in hope that it will help me through this, what do yo uthink?  Does anyone have any advice.  You can also just write to give me support, I NEED IT.  Thank you all so much for all that you have done, this forum is my best friend right now.  Thanks again,

GWH

[SHOTSY]

Hey, buddy. Well maybe I'm just dense or naive but I didn't totally understand your post. Would you elaborate on it for me. And why are you sounding like your distancing your self? I don't want you to do that. Okay, I still need and want your contact if possible. Stay in touch, Shotsy

[Telby]

Hi, I will keep checking this forum until I go to bed which will not be before 11:00pm.  I am so glad to hear from you, you have really been on my mind.  I definatly am following your progress closley as I have been trying and failing to detox from Oxycontins for the past three months.  I seem to get sicker each time I try and I feel like I am falling apart.  Everything feels really hard, even the simplest things seem difficult.  I want to be off of this **** so bad and put this chapter of my life behind me.  I have been cheering for you because as you know it helps to have someone who really understands how tough these pills are on us and yet how hard it is to get off of them.  I am very proud of you and remember how sick and discouraged you felt a few days ago.  You can get through this night my friend and the next and the next.  If you need to post I will be reading your words and sending you all of the good energy I have.  we can do this and remember it is not you, this is a nasty drug that grabs on fast and hard and fights to stay attached.  Every day you are stronger then it is and soon it will cease to exist. Please be good to yourself and stay on board - you are not alone. love, Telby

[Telby]

My last post before bed.  I do suggest you try not to do this dropping dosage everyday.  I have read that to successfully taper in a way that accomodates your tolerance you should do what you have done and then maintain at a low dosage for a couple of days, then lower again for a couple of days to give your body time to adjust to the change. Then when you do stop you won't have such a huge trauma to your system.  You are doing great, I am only suggesting if you drop tomorrow that you maintain that for a couple of days.  The big thing is to not binge and bring yourself back up again if you can help it.  You are on your way and I am so proud I could bust.  Start thinking of yourself as a hero because that is what you are.  Remember this is a process that you have been in for awhile, the relapse last time was part of that process and has brought you where you are now.  Under no circumstances should you come down on yourself and beat yourself up no matter what, you are not alone and I can see the light ahead of you.  You've made my day. love and sleep well, Telby

[Telby]

Five days clean sounds like a miracle to me.  You do not have to live in pain, I have no such justification.  I got through one whole day today but I think you are my hero with five. Your postings help me very much, my husband is on methadone and we go way back as on and off junkies.  He is doing great, I am at my lowest point.  The monkey defiantly caught me and I'm not some young thing anymore that can shake it off.  Anyway, love hearing from all of you.  Take good care, love Telby

[skipper]

JB:
we must have posted at the same instant! i just want to say that
i for one do not think of you as a hypocrit (spelling). to a cer-
tain extent, perhaps were victums of some circumstance. i think back about the person i used to be and am in utter awe i lived thru
drugs the way i did 'em (all at once!!). i don't know why i was spared when so many of my peers were not!

JB i just want to say thanks to you and everyone else who has been
here in my worst hours.i am truly honered by the company this for-
um has provided me with!

keep an angel on your shoulder
kip

[skipper]

hey people:
well i'm off my detox. i had almost 5 days clean and the pain from
my neck surgery did me in (or should i say undone me?). to be per-
fectly honest i was starting to enjoy a little time off oxy. now
it just feels like everythings gone to ****....

that's all the crying you'll get out of this junky. 20 years ago
i'ld have already mainlined a "little taste of what the good pain
doc sent me home with... it's almost like a bad joke, all this dope
and all i really want is to be pain free and in the arms of my wife
as much as i can!

i don't plan on giving up, but **** where do i go now. this old
junky can't even fast talk himself anymore. i guess i forgot the
value of this forum. i don't know where i'ld lay this **** down
any where else. it's been a while since things were pretty bad like
they are now. please forgive me for turning my back on this forum as much as i have lately!
need all of you
      &
keep an angel on your shoulder
kip