Thanks for your support Charlie on my posts. This is a tough deal. I don't think you can do a taper with 30 pills. Just my opinion from my experience with this medication so far. That is a crash from what I have read from the others here on the forum. Not saying it is impossible. Just saying I would not call that a taper. That just gives you time to prepare mentally for a cold turkey. You could get your daily dose down to a minimum with that many on hand but will still have a lot in your system with the half life of this medication when you stop.
I was really mad at first after reading about this medication ... just for the fact the dr gave it to me without telling me what it was. Now I have to figure out how to deal with it as I have no choice. I am an addict and was blaming someone else for where I am. Not going to do that anymore. Going to try to do this all the right way as best I can.
Do I understand you correctly that your doctor just said no more meds right out the blue and has left you hung out to dry with no help??? That is BS! Or is he moving??? Seems that doctor is still your best hope.
I would tell the dr that you want to taper off but to give you a chance. He knows others in the medical field and seems it would be the dr's responsibility to refer you to another doctor in his absence if he is moving. They would never do this to someone on
Methadone. If you just can't get another doctor ... flat out none to get hooked up with ... then that doctor would seemingly give you a script for more meds. I always found it tough to dispense my own meds when trying to taper. Other than that you might have to get into a controlled environment like a treatment center. I wish you luck but after all I have read I would hate to have do this cold turkey. Sure we would live through it. Made it through a bad Oxy/Benzo detox ... thought I would die. It couldn't be worse than that. Doesn't mean I want to do it again though. Hope you can work this out with your dr where you don't have to just go through hell. This is not your fault if he is moving.