I DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HOLY HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!! I so far have gone 40 hours w.o ANY opiates!! After 22 years of usage and about 3 weeks of tapering down from 180mg of morphine per day.
Days 1....
What I did was go from day 1 using 180mg per day to 60-90mg usually trying to stretch a 60 mg by breaking in half and going for 14-18 hours on that dosage
I did exp some mild sweats-coldspells-nausea (thank you mmj for making this so much easier!!) Had some more mental issues with the desire to pop a pill being the worse part of the week really... WOW never thought I would literally think about taking a pill. Exp some major insomnia mainly the "jimmy legs" those sucks!!
Day2-4 sleeping issues here and there pretty severe again the mental part was the worst for me... I kept eying the bottle of pills also had some intestinal issues but not as bad as I have had in the past
day5-6 very easy at this point to go a good 10 hours without w.d sypmtoms..
day 7 took a 30mg pill at 10:30 pm on 5-6-12 this was my last pill have not had any symptoms yet and hope I dont.
This was the post that did it for me and gioua and cn have backed me every step of the way. He and Cannabineer have been my backbone for this journey.
I had begun researching cannabis for pain control and in 2011 decided it was time. I came here and began looking about. As of June 1 I would have been a pain control patient on Morphine for 22 years. Morphine was handling less of my pain as the years went by because acute pain is mostly somatic while chronic pain changes over time to mostly neuropathic. Morphine doesn't do well for neuropathic pain. So it was time to come off. My PC physician wrote me for Marinol so I was lucky in that I wasn't forced like gioua to come off my all time high. I spent 2 years in a very comfortable taper.
Finally after 2 years of tapering I fell below the therapeutic level of the drug. So on Monday evening at 7 PM I swallowed my last MS Contin (15mg.). I am currently just 51 hours into my detox. It is NOT pleasant but I've been tapering for a couple years (unless you have a titanium spine like gioua you don't cold turkey a 200 mg/day habit). My problems with Morphine were what started me with Cannabis. So now I'm not feeling great but I am determined to stop and best of all sometime in the night the worms left my muscles! Thank god for that. That was the worst symptom.
So please be patient with some of my more silly posts. I like you guys a lot and wouldn't hurt you but my posts may not be exactly right since my usually odd way of thinking is currently MUCH odder. But being here helps pass the time.
.....and gioua, god bless you for helping me follow your footsteps
It's so much easier when there's a path and a friend holding a lantern beside you.
CN I miss you.... it was such a warm and comforting just feeling you about and the emptiness hurts (and yes I'm crying oh this emotional lability).