help with heroin detox

[COBHC7]

ive been smokin heroin since the end of 11th grade. I would get clean if i had to travel or whatever, but as the years passed it obviously got worse and harder to stop. All the people i started doing this with are gone or have been arrested except for one. Who is one of my best friends but now i dont really see him. Im in CO seeing my mom, ive been here since the 8th. Ibrought a little bit with me ive been trying to take a couple hits, like 3 or 4 hits, at 10 am 6 pm and 12 before bed. but i ran out and it didnt last as long. I have a couple 8 mg dilaudid that is takin away some of the pain. I have cold sweats and horrible pains in my back and legs. I also have 2 subutex. I cant sleep worth $hit. I really want to get off of it this time. Comin out to CO has pretty much forced me to cut back which ive been telling my self i would do for a while. So yeah, i dont know what ill get from this but what the hell.

Thanks for any response.
im 18 btw

[ashanator__]

hey buddy, i understand COMPLETELY what your going threw. you should talk to your mom about going on suboxone. if you go up to 16-24 mg like i'm on im sure you will be fine. anything is better then having to cop on the streets. i just started this week, because every other treatment plan i been on have failed. and i havent been having cravings at all the suboxone really fills the need..my mom makes me take it in the morning so i wont get high during the day, but it really works at higher doses...and hopefully after a couple months to a year you will be ready to be weened off...i dont suggest you go cold turkey because heroin addiction is not something you can just wake up and not use if your addicted, lol. i was just recently arrested for a bundle posession, and it was a big wake up call. so it was either this treatment plan, or jail for a long time. im close to your age...and started around the same time as you. you should PM me.

stop this horrible habit...im with you on that one.

[LIL_Pebbles]

Hi,

Your young, that in one thing going for you and the other you see you have a issue and want to get clean. I don't know if you have Insure. or if any Hosp. in-patient detox you can go to. The cravings are bad enough, not saying you can not do this, cause you just might be able to. I feel Soboxone would be fantastic if you can get on it, even methadone. I'm 42 years old been doing opiates (pian killers) for going on 3 years str8, I have used the drug as an inhalant by crush and siffing it, my lungs are bad, that os an 84 year old woman,. that is what was told to me when i went for help, they did a variety of tests on me, i can see now as i had sniffed this powder coukld was able to blow out smoke like as if i took a drag on a cigerette, though i don't smoke anything i did damage it can get worst for me and you, as you know it gets worst. I lost two years in my life in my room isalated for that is what i want when i use, no distractions to throw my high off, you must be getting frustrated taking hits here and there, wondering where you gonna get more, the chase the money the fear, the shame. If you could, could you do a cold turkey, now not w/ your mom if she is alone, cause IMO doing this people need to be there with you, my thing is this: I did a taper one that was sucsessful 11-17-12-4th from 25mgs of percocete aday to 7.5 mgs on day three i fliped out, the anxiety and clarity sent me into panic, i thought a Demon was in my room, Ic ould go on, some people can shate through this with only getting flu like issues, but worst...This drug is #1 killer, the most awful drug to be addicted to I seen my family deal it and use it, my mom used to detox Heroin addicts, one was my sisters, two of them...

Soboxone is the best, i aqm trying to get on it, my insure. many doctors will not take it or all dr's 30 miles from me are full, meantime i have to taper, time is not on my side nor any addict, I hope you get the help you need what ever that may be-

[COBHC7]

Thanks for all the replies. My mom already knows shes the one that told me to post on this site. I cant go cold turkey, i just cant take it and the tapering down seems to be working. I dont feel great but its better than just stopping. Ive been off the H for 4 days now. Im on little bits of dilaudid (hydromorphone HCL) cutting down every day. The only thing im really worried about is going home in 3 days because thats where i can easily get it. I think when i get back ill get on the subs since you cant do H because of the naloxone or whatever it is. I do have insurence and there is a place in scottsdale i think that takes it. If i start doing it again i promised my self ill go in. So yeah i think this time ill really stay off it since it has been making my life hell. I taperd off once before when i was up in Canada and it worked getting me off. but i just went back and did some. I guess i need to really move or something.

[northbelle]

yuck..you have my empathy my friend. Heroin was my daily partner for 5 years. It chewed me up and spit me out many times till I lost everything including any morals I amy of thought I had..before I met heroin maybe..after that all bets were off..I even had myself committed to treatment through the courts to get into this treatment center for heroin addicts that turned out to be a real joke..nobody came out of that place any better. It was a old mental hospital way out in the woods and it was total trip..no groups or anything all day..just hung out behind a huge barbed wire fence!!! I ended up going back out and I DID actually move faraway from the town I did so much dirt in..I just could not get away from the lifestyle thing as much as the drug..crazy ..
So you must still have a job huh if you have insurance?? THATS a GOOD thing.Use your insurance to get some kind of help..enlist the help of other addicts n recovery..ask them how they did it...thats what I do today and it works for me!! Hey try the sub if you can.keep us posted and I hope SOOO much that you leave that drug far behind. Its a insatiable monster that you will never win over...at least for me..
keep us posted
love north