Hi Ralph,
It's my experience that something like this is ALWAYS easier done working with others. There are the 3 of us ( Ralph, Charlie and Robert ) all at about the exact same place in this right now. We all just got in recently, we are all at similar doses right now. Whoever gets through first can be the guinea pig for the others and we can all support each other. I am at 8mg a day right now. I see the dr next week, Thursday, but I am going to cut back to 6mg I think tomorrow if I am comfortable doing it. If I start getting antsy, I will keep it at 8mg till Thursday of next week. Don't think I will have a big problem at 6mg though now. We will see. So that will give me over a week at 6mg. Then I will hang at between 4 and 6 until I see I can knock another 2mg off. From that point I will slow it down and cut back monthly.
Dave made a good point to me earlier. It takes time for our systems to recover from the damage we have done with the opiates. If we do this very slowly our bodies will have time to recover and we will have an easier time with the whole detox process. Dave said he thought I was ready to start the detox now. Just important to do it very slowly! He really emphasized that. So that is what I am doing. Hope you guys are both with me. Will be interesting to see how we all get through this doing the same thing. Dave said to not lower the dose except maybe monthly. Will be interesting to see how each of us does doing the same thing, unless one of you wants to do something differently ... faster or whatever. Talk later.
R
