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Bluelighter
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First of all happy new year to everyone, health to you and your families and may everyone who wants to get rid of addiction be successful doing so!
I use heroin less than a year and will enrol soon in a methadone program. In another thread I have been told that based on my current heroin use (less than a year, 3 g a day smoked of relatively weak gear, certainly less than 50% ) my methadone dose to prevent WD is 50mg.
Let's assume I am on 50mg methadone daily on February 1st.
1) Does it then make sense to reduce 5mg every week? So that by approximately April 5 I am on 5mg, and then after one week I jump off. Is it even possible possible to do such a taper where so low doses are used?
2) As I am reducing my dosage, since my taper is rather slow, will WDs always be kept at bay, or as I am approaching a lower and lower dosage, eventually I will start getting WDs even though I am still on methadone?
For example, when I am at 10mg, or at 5mg, will WDs still be kept away, or I will start suffering?
3) Also, with my heroin usage in mind, and using such a tapering plan, how bad will the WDs be after I jump off, and for how long should I expect them to last? At the end of the day, is my plan realistic, or there is a high likelihood I will relapse / not reduce my methadone dosage? Please keep in mind I have almost non-existent emotional support in this life, in fact, I have more people on this forum helping me answering my questions than I have friends in real life who are supporting me in quitting this habit.
I also apologize for bombarding the forum with threads upon threads, I have essentially lost my sleep from the anxiety I am going through trying to figure out a solution to kick my habit and I have nobody in real life to ask until the 7th of this month when I will be back in the Netherlands and I have an appointment with the GP. Thank you so much everybody who answers!
I use heroin less than a year and will enrol soon in a methadone program. In another thread I have been told that based on my current heroin use (less than a year, 3 g a day smoked of relatively weak gear, certainly less than 50% ) my methadone dose to prevent WD is 50mg.
Let's assume I am on 50mg methadone daily on February 1st.
1) Does it then make sense to reduce 5mg every week? So that by approximately April 5 I am on 5mg, and then after one week I jump off. Is it even possible possible to do such a taper where so low doses are used?
2) As I am reducing my dosage, since my taper is rather slow, will WDs always be kept at bay, or as I am approaching a lower and lower dosage, eventually I will start getting WDs even though I am still on methadone?
For example, when I am at 10mg, or at 5mg, will WDs still be kept away, or I will start suffering?
3) Also, with my heroin usage in mind, and using such a tapering plan, how bad will the WDs be after I jump off, and for how long should I expect them to last? At the end of the day, is my plan realistic, or there is a high likelihood I will relapse / not reduce my methadone dosage? Please keep in mind I have almost non-existent emotional support in this life, in fact, I have more people on this forum helping me answering my questions than I have friends in real life who are supporting me in quitting this habit.
I also apologize for bombarding the forum with threads upon threads, I have essentially lost my sleep from the anxiety I am going through trying to figure out a solution to kick my habit and I have nobody in real life to ask until the 7th of this month when I will be back in the Netherlands and I have an appointment with the GP. Thank you so much everybody who answers!