So my husband has been on FF for almost 2 years now.

*Disclosure: Oh, for those worrying about if I am talking about things that I shouldn't be because my husband may or may not know, he knows 100% I am making this post and supports it.

Anyways, he can count on one hand the number of times he has went over 20 in a day though not all at once. It started off one here, one there, and just has gradually increased. He has had symptoms to the point of being completely unable to walk or stand up. I literally had to help drag him into the house (long story). He now is at most at 10 per day. We are cutting him down though. Financially its costing us and he realizes this and now has issues with guilt, anxiety, depression. He has been diagnosed as having an anxiety disorder and is on medication for that, but it doesn't seem to be working like it used to be. The lowest we have been able to cut him down is to 3. Yes I said "we" because I have to help him by controlling the money aspect of it. He is strictly none while working only after work. Now mind you he works 8-12 hour shifts depending on the workload that is there. There recently was another episode that happened and it happened at work where the ER doctor says he was extremely dehydrated which with how much he drinks water normally he shouldn't have been. He doesn't take any in the morning due to the strict rule he has for himself not to take them at work, more so now since that dehydration episode (another long story), but did have some the night before because that's when he has them is at night after work. He does have to be careful how late he takes them or he's not able to sleep so he has to stop taking them by 6pm. So yes we are talking a lot in a small time frame. Tonight we will have him down to five only. He works Sunday-Thursday.

The more money we have available, the more of problem it can be. If he buys a box, which we thought at first may help as he would have that many for so many days, didn't work like we planned it to. So that's why I control the money now. The last time we cut him down I may have lessen up on the money a little too soon and that's why he relapsed, not sure though. So here we are again. He is using pill kratom to help and that's how he gets through the mornings.

I'm just trying to find out a)what can we expect with withdrawal (he's been down from the higher amounts for about 3 weeks now), b) is there anything that can help with the withdrawal as he is continuing to work with it (yes, the idea of him being hospitalized to help has came up but financially not something that is sustainable at the moment), c) did your anxiety, depression lessen after you stopped the FF and how soon after? Thank you in advance for your help.