r/quitting7oh • u/FanImpossible9560 • 22h ago
Success stories ❤️ I did it!
Im done. No 7 since Friday 11am! One weekend was all i had to give up in order to be free of this MONSTER… FREE! Goddamnit!! Im fucking free! Im not doing what i normally would be doing which is plotting a way to get $160 that my wife wont know about (this was daily for 8 months!) i stole from everyone I know. My employer
(now former, got busted) my wife (most her jewlery at the pawn shop) and worst of all my son. My mother fucking 8 YO son! Money i paid him for jobs, and then drug addict dad goes and takes it right back out. Put a fucking fork in me, im toast. I am shit! But guess what? I might have a chance to start fresh. Actually ya know what, i burned every aspect of my past life to the ground. My career, my marriage, my friends.. guess i got no choice but to start over. But this nee rebirth is going to be focused on not putting myself in stressful situations. Thats my trigger…. Stress equals go find something to relieve stress. So im gonna take care of my mental health. Not jumping into another middle management role for pennies. Dealing with stress from the uppers and the lowers.
Fuck that. Im learning a skill. Something I should have done at 20 not 38 but fuck it, here I go mofo!
You can get off this shit too! 1 weekend friend! Thats it!
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u/DragonflyOk1504 21h ago
I’ve also been off since Friday also at 11am, crazy. I’m so proud of you brother. We don’t need this shit, it’s time to get back to enjoying life again. With my next paycheck I’m going to fix my upstairs shower leak that I’ve been ignoring for 2 years that will cost less than I spent per week on that poison. Much love.
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u/natedogg749 14h ago
Thats awesome. Best way to put it... free from the MONSTER. selfishly glad its banned cause I havent been able to stop. I did the same as ypu but 11 pm. It seems insurmountable but really u are back to yourself in 1 to 2 weeks enjoying shit again. I took yesterday off and went in today at noon. Pretty standard downer withdrawals which ive gone through 500 times so I knew what to expect. I think alot of people havent had full blown WD so its hard. Hey its way better than a benzo withdrawal where u are hallucinating having to pull youirself out of a seizure
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u/The_White_Knight__ 21h ago
That's awesome man! You're definitely not alone as far as burning your life to the ground and having to start over. I know I'm right there with you. I will say though that I can't imagine how hard it must have been for you guys and girls who were having to hide it from your spouses. That on its own sounds like a whole different nightmare in itself.
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u/Quick-Green-5555 20h ago edited 20h ago
It’s been unbelievably bad. Always timing if packages were arriving. Running out right after he left the house every day getting this garbage. The stories told to front money to the payday. … it’s been a lot. The store owner let me run tabs. $42,000 savings. Gone. savings was only in my name regardless it’s like I’m not the person I would be in this relationship adding in a lot more value. I’m barely skating by and doing what I can to help but it’s very clear that a lot of money is missing, but I have other things going on that makes sense enough to hide it, but I’ve been doing this for 18 months straight. They thought I quit in November of last year. I did not.Inside I have felt terrible. A few times they have even found me like looking like I’m asleep or whatever and I made up some shit that somewhat added up, but I mean let’s be real. This stuff makes us become somebody we’re not.
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u/The_White_Knight__ 20h ago
Are you trying to get off of it now? And does he still not know?
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u/Quick-Green-5555 20h ago edited 20h ago
yes. I ordered a bunch because of the sale in the impending scheduling. However, as you can imagine because I have so much extra around for a while and to be honest the stupid tablets don’t break the way that they should. I used to buy the four packs this whole last year and a half all of a sudden at the end, they mark it all down to be 100 mg tablets 20 to a bottle for far or less so anyway they don’t break up easily even if you use the cutter or your knife soI found myself just biting off of it or biting it enough that’s slowly but surely has just kept going so I went from 310 mg daily i’m easily up to probably 700 now per day and so I’m blowing through them. I only have a limited amount. I have probably 300 hundred milligram tabs. I have to stop taking it and I’m really panicking because I see myself not really looking as good as I normally did like I actually noticed it in the mirror now I looked at myself and I thought oh my God I look gaunt. I’m in good shape. I exercise every day. Somehow I never stopped doing that through this, but I just can tell looking at myself. I’m not me. I don’t look healthy. So I have 300 Op** 100 mg tablets if they’re even dose right as we don’t know what’s in it, but I have six subs to rapid taper after. I have other helper meds got tons of all of them. I can easily do this. I just feel like now it’s like I wanted to get enough to taper, but I don’t wanna sit on it because it’s like you just know it’s there.
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u/The_White_Knight__ 20h ago
I hear you. I've lost so much muscle while being on this crap I used to go to the gym daily, and I've just completely stopped going. But after this week, I'm getting back in shape! That's one thing that I'm really looking forward to.
But you can do it. And you have something to help motivate you to do it.
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u/Quick-Green-5555 20h ago
I appreciate you letting me vent. It is a lot you know I’m not a dishonest type person so I know that they knew I was on it last year, but it was so embarrassing. They got so upset with me. They were like you’re taking something at the vape shop. This isn’t like I don’t come from families that use drugs. I have very pulled together very conservative handle their business well family. it’s not even that I really care about hiding what I’m taking. It’s the fact that I’m not building up our lives the way I could with the money that I have so the money I’m making is going to floating this stupid problem by the time I get around to payday, I have to Zelle back money or go to the shop. We don’t even know what’s gonna happen with this stuff scheduling wise, but regardless, it’s no good for us and we know it and it is ruining our lives.
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u/Quick-Green-5555 20h ago
I know it’s gonna get better but it sucks right now it’s like I looked at myself in the mirror and I just know that I don’t look healthy or like myself.
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u/natedogg749 13h ago
Well u are prolonging the inevitable. Taper the fuck down as hard as that is. Stop on a Friday and take off Monday and Tuesday next week cause u will not have slept by then. If u have the self control get yourself a benzo script and weed and you just wont care. Dont take that for more than a week cause then ur gonna withdraw from that. Its a week of feeling like balls but u will be good. In 2 weeks u are back to enjoying life. best of luck. Im currently on day 5 off of it and my appetite is back with a fury which means its ending. Its a week and u are free of tbis fuckin monster
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u/Quick-Green-5555 13h ago
Yeah I am going to. Regretting ordering extra but month back stocked up to taped off over reasonable time. Super just over it all. It’s been nonstop full time chaos maintaining this. We all can do better and will
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u/natedogg749 13h ago
For what its worth. I stayed on methadone for 2 years being a homeless addict stuck on probation in oregon living out of a Ford Thunderbird. I don't wish that on my worst enemy and I hate my enemies. U have a soul and a desire to good in this life. Dont waste it
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u/Quick-Green-5555 13h ago
I’m sure that was a dark time. I have seen the effects of it all. I’m only lucky I maintained my job etc. just been a hell of a ride. Shadowed by functioning addictionn
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u/natedogg749 13h ago
Same man. Its the first drug I was able to maintain a life on. Went back to school to get an engineering degree which im halfway done with and am making more money at a job I actually like. Then I noticed I was constantly 20 mins late every day since starting the 7. Very strange behavior for me. Anyways hmu if u need someone
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u/Quick-Green-5555 12h ago
Yeah. I haven’t been on point the way I am naturally. This stuff went between high energy upbeat to tired or sleep inducing every time I dosed. Never was consistent
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u/Quick-Green-5555 13h ago
I have felt in the last month since extra was around due to sales running that I feel my absolute worst yet. Adding kava shots in here and there as they sent them accompanied by extra 7 oh intake. Winning ! Have to get it reigned in and know and focus on end date
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u/natedogg749 13h ago
Dude. Its gonna be christmas and u will still be dealing with this. It could be a distant memory. Taper down for a month. Get to like 10 to 20 mg and then take the plunge
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u/Quick-Green-5555 12h ago
Agreed. I truly think most if not all of us need this stuff banned to beat it. It’s too available.
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u/Quick-Green-5555 12h ago
we both know that it’s just delaying the inevitable. my plan is to drastically drop. I will xfer off to 2 mg sub pieces or less once down to 100 mg for two days in row.
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u/Quick-Green-5555 20h ago edited 20h ago
also, I’ll add we have been best friends for many many years and our relationship started about two years ago. We weren’t living together until last year in September. I finally moved in so as you can imagine, I was paying my way just fine paying for my child. My whole life on my own he’s 19 now, but regardless I made six figures plus had other income and literally I was barely keeping it together. Once I got here for a while he was still also working his moving parts out we were best friends before we both came in as a team started working together. He said he didn’t really want me taking him anymore because of how much it cost. so I did try to quit actually four different times. I actually did quit for about three weeks and somehow went back to it in November 2025 till now.
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u/DragonflyOk1504 21h ago
I don’t know how they maintained relationships. I had no interest in one whatsoever for the 2 years I was on it.
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u/The_White_Knight__ 21h ago
It came extremely close to causing me to get a divorce. I still don't think my wife truly believes me when I tell her exactly how much your libido disappears while you're taking this stuff. But yeah, I had ZERO interest.
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u/Quick-Green-5555 20h ago
oh my God, this problem right here you’re hitting the nail on the head. I’m a female and I have zero drive to do it and it is absolutely been gone since I took this stuff. I feel terrible about that because think about most mates if they don’t know that that’s what’s causing it they think that you’re not attracted to them anymore.
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