Hello anyone,
I'm a 30 year old that has been taking Loritabs for about 2 years. Steady about 1 1/2 years. I'm taking about 7 to 8 daily. They are the green ones. I'm guessing the strongest. I really want to stop taking them. As you can see I'm here on the internet looking for advise, ideas, help. I have read alot of the stories and it all sounds like my life. I'm scared and really don't know where to turn. This all started with taking them for the energy...now I just want my life back. I hate taking them. I no longer get the high like I used to I just take them to function. I want to try to stop coldturkey. I'm not in denial and know that it will be tuff. I have some on me now and it's 11:14 pm now on Monday. I'm so scared. I have two children and they deserve better than this. I'm a great mother, but I know that I could be a better one without these. My husband also takes them and believes that he can just stop and say's he is ready when I am. I know that it will be hard if we don't stop at the same time. We own our own business and currently have no insurance. So we can't afford rehap. I guess I'm just looking for support and advise from anyone. Should I taper off of them or just flush them or what? I'm willing to go through whatever but I'm scared..Please help

Thanks so much

:) Hi Bubblegum: In my opinion you are better to taper down if you can.When you quit get some immodium ad,advil,and tylenol pm for sleep.Drink sport drinks as this will help you from becoming dehydrated as you withdrawl.Your going to go through bad flu like symptoms for 3-5 days.Your not heavily addicted and you also haven't been abusing for long and this is good as the withdrawls won't be as bad.Good luck to you and come back everyday if you need to for support.It can be done but you really have to stick it out.....Dave

Hi there and welcome to the board. I have read lots of posts of people wanting to go the c/t route. I am always wondering why chose to go this route. It is the toughest route to take and has a much less success rate when compared to having some help along the way. I tried to quit c/t prob over a dozen times, but the sickness and w/d’s just won the battle. Since you don’t have insurance a detox is prob out of the question, but calling a physician is not. They can prescribe you things to help with the w/d. I would fully suggest getting on the phone and start calling dr’s in your area. Tell them you are looking for a dr. that can write for subutex. Wish you the best of luck.

Hey mpvt,
Thanks for your support. I prayed last night that I would wake up with the courage that I had last night to quit. I still have it. Last night I looked up the detox receipe and have decided to first prepare my body for the w/d's. This will give me two weeks to prepare mentally and physically. My son's birthday party is friday night and my 31st birthday is next tuesday. I don't want to feel like crap and be trying to put on a happy face. I feel like I could easily relapse to get through party..isn't this sad. I actually spoke the words last night to my husband and said to him..I want to quit and I'm going too. I felt a good feeling inside. I know that I'm not heavily addicted but it's hard just the same. Thank you for the advise..I have really needed someone to talk to. Ill be back..thanks

Hey buckeyetim,
Thanks so much for responding. I guess I decided on c/t because I really don't know much about the SUB..Do you become dependant on this? I haven't really read up on this yet. It has been nice to have people give me advise for the first time and listen. Thanks for you help.

No prob. We are all here for each other. Now about the sub. I can't give this drug enough credit. I'm sure it can become addictive. You should only be on this for a very very short time. I was on it for 7 days. The best thing you can do is pick up the phone and call some dr.s in your area. I know its hard when you are in the state of mind you are in. its embarassing but there are people out there that want to help you.

Hey bubblegum, I'm at about 3 months clean, cold turkey off of a very high amount of opiates. Tapering is a good way to go if you can do it. I couldn't. Like bob said, cold turkey's damn hard, but if you really want to do it you can. Some people need a support system such as NA, me not so much. You sound like you want to get over this, and life is a whole lot better once you do, so congratulations on making this decision.