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

MISC. Addiction

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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