Quitting low dose 7OH and MGM
Lots of the threads make it sound scary - but I think I’m taking a relatively low dose so will withdrawals still be that bad? I have my entire spine fused and since it’s impossible to get pain meds, it’s been a lifesaver for me. But 7OH became illegal so I switched to mgm and I feel like it doesn’t help as much (I’m probably not taking enough) and it has side effects I don’t like.
I took 7OH for a few months, usually about 20-30mg a day. I’m now taking MIT-A and it has 13mg of mgm-15 per serving that I take.
What’s my best course of action? Should I switch just to mit? Should I go back to 7OH and then taper off from there? I have plenty of meds to help so I don’t think it’ll be too bad - like Valium and Lyrica. But I also have to work so I can’t be feeling like I have the flu every day for weeks.
I have arthritis and nerve pain. And whenever I try to taper off, my regular back pain and arthritis get cranked up to like 100 and that’s been the hardest part. The low-grade fever, runny nose, feeling like shit- I can handle that. It’s the pain that’s hard for me and part of that is because I already had such severe pain to begin with and that’s how I ended up here. So when the withdrawal pain compounded with my regular pain, I can hardly walk or function.
My reason for wanting to be done is that it’s no longer covering my pain and I have zero desire to increase my dosage. So I’d rather be done with it and find something else. Off subject but do any of those chirp tens units actually work? Been thinking about going that route instead of medication.
But please, hopefully it’s not as scary as some of the post make it seem to be. I feel like I’ve been responsible with my dosing.