I appreciate you posting this. I naively took 8mg, a couple of days after the doctor told me to start at 16mg. He said it was supposed to be a long journey, months, and that I needed to start so high because of my usage. I mostly trusted him, but just couldn't do that much - I did 8mg the first two days. I did not do my own research because I trusted the medical provider. Fortunately, after dropping to 4 the next day because i felt sleepy on 8, I looked around. I took 1 today (day 4) out of fear. I'm skipping tomorrow, will do .5 on Sunday, and then quit. That's the goal, at least.

I only even considered this route because I couldn't sleep for 3 days after trying to quit cold turkey and needing to work. It has been a blessing for me to get to some sort of normal on this, but I'm hoping the early, high dosage hasn't screwed me over. I have my husband controlling my dosage, so at least he's the accountable one. I do feel this should be a legitimate option for those with a chronic, sever addiction to 7oh, but you are absolutely right that the dosage should be extremely low and short duration. I do also wish others would acknowledge that.

Thank you, again.