Author: hatmaker510

Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 10:15 am

I don’t think you need to plan ahead to do this over xmas or summer or any other planned time period. I would suggest you start your taper and just continue it. If it’s slow and steady and you listen to what your body needs – don’t push it too hard – then you shouldn’t have those major issues. You won’t be "jumping" off – it’ll be more like you taper down so low that you’ll actually be "stepping" off. Read up on LadderTipper’s taper thread. Hers was long and drawn out, but she had next to no acute withdrawals. Same as Diary of a Quitter – she did the liquid taper and also had almost zero acute withdrawals. Diary also, I believe, had no issues with PAWS, either. The long drawn out taper should also help reduce PAWS.

What I’m trying to say as don’t think of it as something you’ll do in a week or a month’s time. It’s something you’ll do over a period of months (depending on the person). And if done "right", you won’t feel it so horribly. The idea is to slowly remove the opiate from your brain; so slowly that your brain can hardly tell that it’s being removed.

Sorry if I’m not explaining this well. But I hope this helps. Just remember, the slower you go, the less w/d you should have.