back slide

[jimgreg]

do you taper then back slide. I haven't I hope I dont

[jerry4664]

Tapering take mass control I tried it twice and found that if I had pills I would take them in fact my recent round I knew it would be easier if I just took a few per day as the supply ran out but instead I took them all on one day just to get the thing started ... best wishes

[jifmoc]

Hey, jimgreg, you've been through several detoxes so whether you taper or ct isn't the issue. It's staying clean. How are you planning on doing that this time?

[stella_kae]

Tapering actually worked for me, but I'm not super far into my sobriety, I think I'm at about 15 days or so completely off of them. What I did to taper though was first wrote out a plan to schedule out how many I would give myself each day and then lowered it periodically until it was 0. Then I got my pills and separated them into zip lock baggies and wrote the dates on each bag for the length of my taper, and put the amount of pills I was allowing myself in each. This made it so that the pills were separated making them all not in the same place if that makes sense. The one thing I would definitely suggest is that if you do decide to taper, make sure that you understand how many you have each day, and always have at least a half or a quarter for the nighttime, because that is personally when I struggled most. But by the time you are out, you really have to commit; and you still will have withdrawals. Or at least I did, and still do have withdrawals but I think it really did ease the extremity of them! Good luck!!

[jimgreg]

this is my 3rd detox.2 methadone, 1st one 20mgs CT 2nd time 5mgs Ct.. I couldn't tell the diffts..it was hard I made it..I've got till end of april.im half way now 7.5mgs..i take my last 2.5mgs at 8pm..

[msdelight]

Yes, my experience is that once I started a taper, I could never see it through. If I had pills on me they were basically too powerful for me to keep them out of my mouth. I finally just went cold turkey.

[jlannspr]

I could not ever taper, My will just wasn't strong enough. If I had access I took them. Each person is so different though.

You have to want it more than you are afraid of it.