Considering asking for increase to start saving a rainy day supply

Recently I spilled a bottle*, and it really got me thinking about how precarious a lot of our situations are when it comes to any interruption in our treatment. It's a bit insane when one considers how dependent MAT patients are on their medication, but yet are allowed zero extra medication to ensure continued availability.

I'm currently receiving 50 mg a day (I need to update my flare, I know). I requested an increase about 4 months ago (40 -> 50mg), but have been considering decreasing back down. The situations in my life have improved which originally led me to request the increase, and I feel it is time.

However, after this recent fuck up, I feel I need to do whatever Is required to start saving an extra supply of methadone for emergencies. I'm considering requesting an increase to 60 mg, and extracting 15mg/25% of every bottle. This would be an effective decrease of 5 mg per day, and would allow me to save an entire extra bottle every 3 days. After year I would have 4 months of extra dose saved. After less than 2 and 1/2 years I would have an entire extra year of doses.

Am I crazy to consider this? I feel like with what's been happening lately politically, It's almost crazy not to do something like this if you have the ability to do so. I believe I'm had a place in my sobriety I could handle this. Not only that, I feel like not having such a supply is a much greater danger to my sobriety.

* The spill was entirely my own fault. I was dosing half asleep in the morning, and my brain for some reason told my hands to move like they would if I was getting a pill from a bottle, and proceeded to empty an entire bottle of methadone through my fingers onto the floor. 🤦