I read your post, and was wondering if the taper worked out for you ? I'm trying to do the same thing, I'm down to 1mg I'm going to try .5mg and hopefully I won't feel so bad. I can't stand the way I feel, like the subs turned on me and I feel a little high on them which I DON'T want ! How are you doing now? are you still tapering or were you able to stop? I would love to here from you...
I agree with you that getting off the subs is harder than getting off the opiates. I've been trying to get off for a while now. I'm down to 1 mg a day. I can't stand the way I feel. Sometimes I can't think straight. I just want to be normal again...
I think these subs do more damage than anything.Doctors just quit, and for other Doctors it is nothing but a cash cow. The government limits some doctors as to how many patients they can have, and they have to take a 7 hour class to get a sub doc.Meanwhile these same Dr.s can prescribe powerful narcotics. I think it is so much easier just to get off reg. opiates.Bottom line I think it's harder to get off subs than anything.
I've been on subs for 3 years ), every day. Not high doses. Roughly 2mg/day. I've now tapered to .5 mg/day (or longer if I can stand it). Next week I'm tapering down to .25 mg/day or longer if I can stand it. If I do that for another week, then switch to .25 every day or so, waiting longer and longer in between doses, if over an extended period of time (a month or so) do you think i will still feel wds if I taper ever so gradually? I know every time I lower my dosage or go for longer without it I'm going to feel some wds. But if i wd a little at a time will that prevent the full blown withdrawals at the end? After a few months of skipping .25 doses every other day or so how bad could it be? Idk if that's an option for you but that's what I'm doing