Posted by hyperfocus on April 5, 2011, at 6:06:59
In reply to sensible help needed with norco, posted by floatingbridge on April 4, 2011, at 13:42:51
The best advice is to go as slowly as you can. I never used opiates but I was taking benzos for a couple of years and getting off them was the worst. When stopping any drug that causes any level of psychic or physical habituation, you're going to have rebound symptoms i.e the symptoms of the thing you're treating are going to be (much) worse. Going slowly helps minimize the rebound and gives your body enough time to normalize itself. One major reason I would give up tapering is that the rebound anxiety was just too severe when I tried to go too quickly. It's even worse for drugs with a short half-like like hydrocodone and Xanax.
You can try find the next clinically significant dose lower than your current dose and start there. If you're on 25mg try 20mg for like a week and then 15mg etc. but this still might be too fast. You may have to decrease 2.5mg every week. You can take the smallest pill and use a very sharp knife to cut it into 4s and use the quarters to make up your dose. Yes this will take a while but it's no use stopping the taper because the symptoms are too bad and then have to start over. After the norco, Xanax should be done the same way.
However you do it it's going to be the pits though. Good luck to you. You always have PB to fall back on,
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