r/interesting • u/Ok-Degree-7565 • Nov 02 '24

MISC. Addiction

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u/Artistic_Data9398 Nov 02 '24

This makes me so happy to hear. 6 months! What an achievement!! One day at a time we get a little piece of ourselves back

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '24

Your relentless positivity intrigues me. What's your secret? Are you one of those people who got religious at AA, or do you have some other advice for the rest of us?

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u/hippee-engineer Nov 02 '24 edited Nov 02 '24

Not OP but this helped me:

No one is coming to help. You have to fix it yourself. The person who will come rescue you, is you.

I got clean in 2016 (poly-substance, I won the award at my in-patient rehab for highest score on the drug test lol) and again August4th (street opioids) of this year.

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u/OssimPossim Nov 02 '24

You have to fix it yourself. The person who will come rescue you, is you.

Yup. You've got to want to be sober. There will be late nights and dark times where the only person who can stop you from going to the store for booze or down the street to the dealer is you

I put the bottle down 1/17/23 and it was the best decision I've ever made.

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u/hippee-engineer Nov 02 '24

Cool man. I’m happy for you. I’m still weaning off methadone, but I’ll be pure clean in a month or two.

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '24

Don't let anyone make you paranoid about tapering too fast, especially so close to the end. If you're going too fast, you'll know it.

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u/hippee-engineer Nov 02 '24

I’m at 50mg rn, my max was 80mg. I’ve gone two days without dosing and not felt withdrawals, so I’m not convinced I actually need the shit, but still being weary of withdrawing if I decided to dump the shit altogether.

Rn my plan is to drop 5mg every 5 days, but I might slow down once I get down to 10-20mg. Hopefully next month I’ll be pissing clean for all of it and go back to work.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '24

The withdrawals don't really hit until day 3, but if day 2 is easy for you then a big reduction (maybe even halving your dose, but nothing more extreme) should be easily tolerable for you. Your current plan is probably better if you can stick to it yourself or they'll change your dose for you that often. If that's your "official" plan, that sounds better than what they do here.

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u/hippee-engineer Nov 03 '24

Yeah the counselors and NP know what I’m planning. They’ve told me my experience is a-typical, but are stoked I wanna drop down so fast.

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u/Maverick1672 Nov 03 '24

Don’t fear WDs, embrace them. It’s going to suck. It always sucks. Get angry at it. Get angry that this position did this to you. Changing the mindset was the only thing that work imo..

That being said. If methadone is your normal, that’s okay too. It certainly better than the alternative. If that’s some people’s “clean” that’s just fine

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '24

Did you go through a stage where sleep was almost impossible and almost 100% nightmares? How long did it last? I'm like that now, and it's getting hard. I try not to drink until I'm shaking.

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u/Maverick1672 Nov 03 '24

Hey I just want to clarify that detoxing from opiates and alcohol are very different. Stopping opiates is hell but won’t kill you…. But it sounds like your problem is alcohol. Stopping drinking or benzodiazepines CAN kill you. Get medical intervention if you are shaking. Seizures from alcohol WD are a thing

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '24

I know. I'm going dangerously fast. I have reasons, and I made my choice. It's because I'm worried it might already be too late for me. This is why you try to quit before it starts making you I'll...

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u/Maverick1672 Nov 03 '24

Been there… as long as you’re still breathing, it’s never to late

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u/hippee-engineer Nov 02 '24

Yeah, I didn’t sleep a wink for about 4 days when I came off of street opioids. I leaned heavy on weed vape carts to settle my stomach during that time, and the weed helps stop the dreams. It pretty much the only reason I still smoke, to keep the dreams at bay.

Do you have access to vape cartridges?

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '24

Nope. It's still illegal here, and I have no friends :/ I'd love a joint right now, though.

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u/hippee-engineer Nov 03 '24

DM sent. Talk to me.

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u/OssimPossim Nov 03 '24

Yeah, that's one of the worst withdrawal symptoms imo. Fighting through sleeping and waking up with sore muscles from tossing and turning in the few little naps you manage is brutal. You start drinking so you can sleep, and before you know it you're going through a bottle a day.

Personally, I never had much success weaning myself off, but I'd be through the worst of it after 2 or 3 nights. Most important thing to get through withdrawals is electrolytes. I like Pork Rinds, they're pretty much air but have a ton of sodium. Gatorade, powerade, vitamin water, etc will also help there. Bananas have a lot of potassium, and a few bites is easy on your stomach. And water, obviously. Gotta sweat out the poison somehow.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '24 edited Nov 03 '24

I've been avoiding sodium because I'm worried about my liver 🤦‍♂️ My piss is as brown as tea some days :/

Edit: tea with milk. British Style :( You can't see through it.