Withdrawel Kit / Open Forum

[DubeMechanic]

Howdy all

Hope you all are doing OK (so far as an addict can be). Ive found a lot of inspiration here, THANK YOU.

I know there are several schools or thought on stopping this crazy cycle of addiction: Cold Turkey and Taper. Also some folks recommend taking other drugs to help out the WD symptoms, others dont.

Well, Im slowely creating a "WD Kit," I have a bucketload of Wellbutrin, about 5 klonopines and a few Ativans and am saving them up for the Big Day. Every week I get a few more and am actually surprised I havent taken them just for the buzz. A month ago I would of eaten them as soon as I got them. Guess I want out of this nightmare BAD.. Im also slowly collecting up the Thomas Recipie stuff.

Im currently on Duragesic 100mg patches and plan on switching to oral morphine, tapering over a couple weeks till Im down to about 25 mg morphine/day, then going CT

My question is this: What dosages of these (klonopine etc) are recommended? The _last_ thing I want is to wind up addicted to something else so I figure 5 or 6 days tops taking the other meds.

When tapering Ive heard that you should take as much as makes you comfortable (...riiiiight...) but I doubt that would work for me. I plan on doing this over a couple weeks at most. I should save the Klonopine till after Ive taken my last morphine? Anyone else gone this route?

Thanks for any help.

DM

[GOD]

Hehe - I mean Catuf

I wish I'd heard from the ChezzMeister, but NOTHING since Thursday. I hope to GOD he's checked into the HOSPITAL...

I don't think he just GAVE UP on this board.....

Congrats of your sober time!

See ya,
Jess

[athena]

Good morning to you also,It really is a beautiful morning here in the smokies.Thanks for getting back to me.I will go to the library and get that book.I have a real facination for ancient anything lol I spend a lot of time reading about ancient Egypt,Greece,palestine.......I would love to be an archeologist,I would go search for Atlantis lol The history channel is my BIGGEST addiction besides reading.I hope you are feeling good this morning.

pixi

[CATUF]

Good Sunday morning:

     I have been trying to post a new question.  But, as of 7:11E, the site thinks it has reached the limit for the day.

     The Odyssey is a book written by Homer in about 800 BC.  It amazes me how little people have changed in 2,800 years.  Even then an anology about loosing all that is good and worthwhile for a false promise struck home.

     Day 7 here and doing well.  Has anyone heard fron Chezz?

CATUF

[puma]

Hello all and thanks for the comments.

Allisa,That movie sounds interesting, I think I'll rent it.

Bmac, it is good to hear you got a good nurse and doc to count on. That should take away sone of the anxiety. When they listed me as SSI, they marked permanent rather than temporary as some injuries may require. I have permanent chronic type illnesses and they do not count alcoholism as one of them. Luckily I am off the booze anyhow. But if I do go back to work, and start to make more money then they would drop the SSI until needed again.

By the way, if you get a direct deposit into your checking account you have no waiting for the mail service for a check. They will schedule you a particular day of the month to count on. They have not let me down yet except I can not get medecare until January, which is two years after the initial acceptance letter. That sux because for now I have no insurance.

Also for you and Dudemachanic, I am a song writer on the side, have one cassette tape out all about typhoons and chasing, already sold out along time ago, and I have a master CD ready for CD replecation all about lifes struggles with alcholism, drugs and so on. I have to save up some money for that though before putting it on the market. I also have many raw songs without the background instrumentation, only the words and basic music theme. Over 30 songs wating to be arranged.

Dudemachanic I love the song (silent running) by the way. You mentioned that in another post.

Have a good day all and I'll be online again sometime tomorrow. I have an early wake up call for tomorrow.

[bmac]

Thanks for the info.I have been on it since 1992 I think.Well
soc.sec.disability anyway.I was turned down twice and went before a jugde and he didn't even ask me one question.I was standing in a body brace and he just looked at my lawyer and
said ,approved.I did get a huge back check,but we all know where
that went.God,if I had all that money back today.
                       thanks again,
                           bmac

[bmac]

Music has been my life for many years.I have been playing since I was 12.I'm the bass player.I noticed both the posts and it's great to find so many musicians/songwriters here.
So,take it easy today and write some songs.
                            bmac