Xanax

[Dan]

I have been on Xanax - 2mgs a day for 9 years.  In July of this year I started coming off this drug.  Today I am down to .5mgs a day.  But my problem is I can't seem to get any lower. I try to reduce (.37mgs a day) but the withdraw is so bad I go back to .5mgs. Any suggestions on how I can continue reducing the dose without the withdraw?

[Frankinscense]

Methadone is available in a liquid. Cherry Flavored. I take the diskette form disolved in water. They are a tiny bit bitter. I mix my liquid with orange juice and and don't taste the bitterness one bit. Methadone is very safe with a low order of toxicity. Probably the best for chronic pain.IMO
DAn..

[Frankinscense]

I come off with pomposity to make a point. This disease of opiate addiction is a killer. Only a few people here realise this. Treatment for this disease is the utmost of IMPORTANTance to save lives. Drastic measures are needed to stop this disease. This is not a game to see if you can forge a script. Anyone can achieve this with a little practice. Treatment early is necessary to save jobs and lives. Do not wait.
Dan..
ps: sorry if I HURT your feelings no name. Mine aren't hurt.

[Shiny]

Dan, I don't mean this to hurt your feelings (but of course it probably will) but you need to stop being such a pompous ass. If you could just cool it a little and think about what you say before you post you wouldn't come off so..... Well sometimes you kind of rub people the wrong way.  Oh **** I'm not wording this the right way at all.... I think I better quit while I'm ahead.

[Frankinscense]

Tom,I get my weekly doses in one ounce plastic bottles that are sealed after they fill them with my dose. The dose that works for me is sixty milligrams. The quicker you can find the dose that works for you the more positive results you will get from the program. LAAM, I have never taken so I cannot comment on it. My clinic does not offer it. Please do not listen to regular Joe's off the street,comments about the programs. These guys are not like you and me and they are usually on MMT because they are required. These people that I am referring to did not voluntarily enter a program and give false and opinionated information that gives opiate antagonist therapies a bad rep. They are usually comparing it to their drug of choice and use methadone for the wrong reasons. I hope I am making myself clear. Anyway, if you look at methadone for whaT IT IS A medicine to correct an imbalance in your body. I think you get the picture. TRY to get liquid methadone if at all possible. Better for dose increases and decreases. The other tom is also comparing methadone to something, I am not sure what. But its obvious to me he does not know the true purpose of MMT. Pain relief and stabilisation of an imbalance. Well Tom #1 please forgive me if I come across like I'm preaching,but I am trying to pass on info that I feel is important.
                                                                
One last statement. Never use methadone to achieve a high. That is why some people say negative things about it. They enter a program to replace a drug that was getting them high and most clinics are very observant. And will not allow dose increases if they see you are buzzed. Be honest with the prescribing doctor  at the clinic. Be prepared to give up hydrocodone. You will only be allowed(thats up to the clinic doctor)to take prescription meds that are narcotics rarely and at prescribed doses. Another thing I forgot to tell you about. You asked me about employment drug tests. Did you worry about that in the past? Methadone shows up as methadone-not an opiate. I know this because when they give random U A 's they always know if I am taking hydrocodone>> opiate positive. An opiate positive can and will cost you $$$ and a removal of take homes. Prescritions on file will save you though. After I started methadone,ALL my chronic pain went out the window. I have to stop typing Duty calls. My best to you. Dan...

[to BJF from Oxy Tom]

Wow - your situation sounds a lot like mine!  I covered myself well too, perfect scrips, well-timed dates, quantities that mirrored "real" RX's in case they were checked up on, etc..  Like you, all this the prosecutor claims is evidence of the business agnle he is trying to push.  

What he has yet to mention is that I got caught because I ADMITTED to my primary Doc of my problem and asked for advice.  If it were a business, why would I admit it and go to Detox??  
The advice I got was to go directly to Detox, which I did within a few hours.  If I had just gone to Detox without calling my Doc, or if I had not told my Doc how I was getting 3 times the amount prescribed, I would probably not have legal problems now.

I was in Detox about 12 hours when they came to arrest me.   Nice Doc, huh?  My wife was a saint.  Within a 24 hour period she learned I needed to go away to Detox which I then went to, a half day later she came home to a house destroyed by the police with a search warrant, had to hire an attorney, bail me out, and drove me right back to the Detox center.  

Anyway - you aren't the first to recommend a 90 day program.  My atty wanted to suggest it to the judge too, but I nixed it.  He didnt argue too much when he gave me another bill, and I explained if I was away for 90 days I would have no money to pay him these extra charges, and I'd probably lose my job too.

I would think of a way to make the time if I only could be sure it would work.  But I'm not convinced it would.  I'd rather try another short 7-10 day deal with this new buphenormine stuff.  Have any of you had personal experience with it?

And what is LAAM you refer to?  I've tried methodone for pain relief before - 2 x 100mg at a time I believe if I remember right - but for some reason didnt stick with it.  Might be an option.  

I did do something today that I read about on this site.  Doc gave me a month's supply of my meds, so I filled them and gave them to my wife.  (..of course I took out 10 pills for myself as a reward for today, but I gave her all the rest and my Oxyfast too!)  She will not give me more than the bottles say, and I'm not getting them anywhere else, so this may be a good interim solution.  I may regret this tomorrow but it seemed like the thing to do.  

Thanks again everyone for writing.  I read this stuff for a long time before posting the other day - I bet there are many, many people reading this that are helped or encouraged because you take time to do this.  

By the way - went to see 102 Dalmations today.  Save your money.  Even the kids were bored with it.

[Shiny]

No you didn't hurt my feelings just made me more of a believer of what a pompous you are.