help. tapering down now

[jaysonoson]

I have been useing for 5 years and the last 2 years i have been using more and more to get through the day. I have been using opanas and percs. I am tapering now. I have been for 3 days now and i have probaly 1 and a half days left till im out. I dont want to get more couse i know i will get more than i should. I know how the detox is going to feel. I was woundering if theres anything i can do to make it a little easier. I know theres k i can do to make it just go away. I dont wabt to use suboxon or mathadone couse i feel like thats just trading one thing for another. Plus i dont have health insuranse. The part that gets to me the most is my legs feel so bad like i want to cut them off. The anxity. Mostly at night. And i cry at night. I have some trazadone to help with the sleep but yhe sweets and anxity still wakes me up. I want to be sober more than anything. I just always get a few days in and the withdrawls become to much

[jaysonoson]

Yeah i work. I was trying to make it to the weekend couse i cant get time off from work. Its been hard to do this couse of work. I work mon through friday. I can usely make it threw the day a little easier than i can at night. And work is helping me keep destracted.

[NeverAgain127]

Hi honey:   Withdrawal sux.  No two ways about it.  BUT.  You have to get through it, and there IS another side.  It doesn't last forever.  For most folks, the most horrible symptoms subside in a week.  

You could get through a week of a bad stomach flu, right?   Think of it like that.  Do you work?    If you can take a Friday off, and then have Fri, Sat, Sun as your first 3 days, you'll have your best chance, as most folks say the symptoms peak at 72 hrs then get a little better.  

That old saying "its always darkest before the dawn" is 100% true.  Don't give up when you're about to turn a corner.  

You can do this.   Post here often.  Good luck~

[jethro733]

Hey, welcome and glad to hear you want off the pills.  As far as making things a little easier there is the Thomas Recipe which you can find with google, and there's currently a thread discussing it now to look at as well if you're interested.

To be honest a few days is not enough to taper and you might as well flush/take the rest today and be done with it unless you're just getting through till the weekend or something.  You're correct about the meth and sub programs as they're actually much more difficult to come off than what you're already facing.

I know the withdrawals feel like death warmed up, but suffering is the price of chasing pleasure and we all have to pay the piper eventually.  It's in the Thomas Recipe, and it's what really helped me during my detox is lots and lots of hot epsom salt baths if you have access to one for the crawling skin.  the no sleep I found best to just accept it and do something else like watching a movie or something if you can manage it.  I didn't get RLS so much, so I can't offer advice there but others will pop soon who can i'm sure.    

[jaysonoson]

Im just really worried couse im already feeling the symptoms. And i know its going to be bad. Im doing this alone and i just feel it would be a little easier having someone to talk to.