Cold Turkey 1000mg/pd of 7-Hydroxy? Once Again Asking for Help...
Mods, I know not to take serious medical advice from here. I will only take advice from a professional, but I ask you just let me gather peoples general advice and thoughts on some of the questions I asked. I really appreciate it!
Read my last post, the long one that's from a month ago for more info or whatever if you'd like some more backstory to how I ended up how currently today.
Not going to make this one an essay like the last though, keeping it simple for a change... (relatively 😄)
So far I decided against Suboxone because man... I just want to be free and sober from opiates entirely, no substitutes, no crutches. Free from this vicious 5, almost 6 months it's been on 7-OH. Free from working just to maintain this out of control addiction.
Keeping dose timeline short, it went from chewing a tablet once on the weekend, then twice, then all weekend. Then sometimes during weekdays as well. Then in a blink of an eye it had been 2 months and I am fully reliant on it to eat, sleep, work, shower, speak, etc. To live without going sick every 3-4 hours.
1st month it was 60mg/pd on occasion, 2nd about 200mg/pd everyday, 3rd I was already at a 700-1000mg/pd half-way through march. So it's been some months that I have remained at this dose. Sometimes (let's say once every two weeks) I go really hard an sky-rocket my tolerance by touching 1500mg. Chasing the dragon.
Now to be clear just in case. Currently I take over 1000mg some days, and at around 600-1000 most. I am 20 years old. I am ready to quit cold turkey, soon putting in a 2 week notice to take a week off work.
I tried subs form a rehab and went into reciprocated withdrawal or I just didn't take a high enough dose. Tried two tabs within 1hr 30 and they just made me feel terrible. Freezing cold instantly, sick, panicking, crying, an emotional and physical mess. I want to do this right, I know I should ween first, and I got down to only 300mg a day at one point! That only lasted about 2 weeks sometime in mid-April. I just can't seem to be able to get my dose down anymore, idk what happened.
Choices are to continue failing at weening (or at least try a different method to ween), cold turkey, or try subs again and be addicted and dependent to that instead (worst option imo, from my knowledge it's just as hard to quit if not worse. 98% relapse rate after being on them for a year).
Cold turkey would either be under the supervision of my mom taking care of me through it, or a week in a crappy rehab that takes my insurance. I could go to my PCP and request Clonodine, Gabapentin, etc. to help and hope she knows why those would help, but that's probably not an option since most docs probably don't even know or understand 7-OH.
Relapsing isn't my worry here, my worry lies in when to know something might be seriously wrong and I need to call an ambulance, whether it's from blood pressure, my heart, etc. Not too informed in the issues that arise during opiate withdrawal. What should I expect, when should I worry, and what supplements can I buy to aid me in this walk through hell?
Thanks once again folks, if you know what the withdrawals are like I am so sorry and also pissed you had to or may soon have to go through them. 7-Hydroxymitragynine is a full blown opiate and should be stripped from every smoke shop nation-wide, I mean, no one should have as easy access to this as it is. Is this the wild west where cocaine and opium are sold at 7-11s? 7-OH is akin to that.
I only experienced 2 days of withdrawal around 2.5 months in (with the use of kratom powder to help!), and man that's the reason I haven't quit yet. It is hell, and the worst experience of my life. I don't care if they fire me for needing a week off, I don't want to lose it all man. I'm growing hopeless and it's killing me.
I'm aiming to begin detoxing a couple days before June 1st, once I pay off my car insurance and phone bill for this month I am in the clear and won't lose too much by taking a week off. Please help me, before I lose the little fight I have. Everyone around me is worried sick about me and practically locked up.
Any advice given will be noted and printed out to tape on my wall while I prepare and soon go through it.
P.S. If you read this because your on 7-OH, please read my last post a little or read others withdrawals experience. You can quit, and should as soon as possible. It only gets worse, you spend more and more money, get sick after your last dose quicker and quicker, and the withdrawals will grow worse and worse the longer you're on it. Quit now. Take off work, your job isn't more important than your whole entire life.