suboxone withdrawl

bakowski · Newbie Joined: 12 Apr 2005 Posts: 24

Hello! I have been on suboxone for revealing side effects of opioid withdrawal, but what whitdrawal effects can I experience when getting off suboxone? Thx!

rosanne · Silver Member Joined: 29 Dec 2001 Posts: 268

Hello! All of this stuff will your doctor tell you, the one who prescribed you suboxone and who was leading you through your treatment. Doctors usually try you don’t experience any withdrawal symptoms. They slowly taper the suboxone dose, so that you don’t have to go through hell. In case you experience any of the uncomfortable symptoms or cravings, the doc will change your dose. Congratulations on coming this far! And good luck in the future!

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I stopped taking suboxone cold turkey 2 weeks ago and am still have withdrawals. Definitely worse than opiate withdrawal. If you take suboxone make sure you wean yourself off over at least 1 month. It has such a long half life that you won't feel the withdrawals for maybe even a week after last dose but when you start the withdrawal it is torture. Insomnia, restlessness, lethargy, anxiety. You totally can't function. I took it for 1 year at the highest dose(28 mg). I thought I could handle the wd's because I had several times with opiates. But it doesn't only last a couple days like opiate wd's. Good Luck.

nicoleyope · Newbie Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 1

hey all!! i have been dealing with the back and forth torture of getting of dope then getting clean with suboxone.... on and off for several months. when i first decided to get clean it was back in september of 07 .... i had a 5 bag a day habbit. i got off it by findin a doctor who prescribed me 56 fuckin subs, needless to say i got addicted to them( honestly trading one addiction for another) ..... but i finally got my shit together ..... i haven't used dope for about a month and am now off of suboxones 5 days from a half milligram habbit. i started out by takin 16 mgs a day and tapered myself sloWLY!!! honestly if anyone is out there thinking about going on suboxones.... give it ALOT OF THOUGHT.... you yourself have to be ready to admit to yourself that you will be ok.... and if your on dope get enough subox to just get through the detox from dope.... then go completly off.... ITS A FUCKIN HELL CYCLE! i hope i helped someone... i wish someone had told me i would have detox from suboxone:( KEEP WIT IT ALL

expartier · Newbie Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 2

I was a heavy heroin user for many years. My bf and I could do about a brick in two days easy. I started suboxone and I dont think the withdrawls from suboxone are anything close to what I experienced when I was getting off herion (which is why I was on it for 3 years)
Once you get onto the suboxone, take your time with it. If you are with a dr that is rushing you to get off, switch dr's. Suboxone is better than being on the herion and safter!
Get adjusted and then when you're ready wein down little by little. After a while you'll be back to your boring self, LOL jk
Youll be fine, best of luck!

keyser · Newbie Joined: 13 May 2008 Posts: 1

Having had a 6-10 day a bag a habit of heroin p/day and prior to that building the addiction with various opiates like #120 10/500 Lortab monthly prescription and filling in the gaps with whatever I could find, then being put on 20 mg. methadone p.o. for chronic pain, then switching to 12mg. Dilaudid p.o. daily, but I shot the Dilaudid and abused it terribly telling doctors I wanted Dilaudid instead because I knew they were injectable-i.v. push-i went back to heroin 6-10 bags p/day. I took the suboxone for about a 3 week period beginning on 24 mg. p/day then going down to 4 mg/p/day for 5 days-then i had no cravings and was able to function pretty normally-even with the depression that opiates creates after having been on them for a 6 month period(the opiates in general that is)I was OK-I have even detoxed on a 30 pill 8 mg. supply successfully without withdrawl symptoms. The P.AW.S.(post acute withdrawl syndrome)stunk, but it passed after about a month and it was worth going on the suboxone, paying the doctor bill and for the pills in cash. I say that giving suboxone is wortha try. Safer ,legally and healthwise as well. Wait until you are pretty sick-at least 24 hours to initiate the treatment of suboxone or it will make you sicker. after you are "dope sick" the suboxone will work. after the 5 days or so of what thewithdrawll from the opiates would take-the suboxone will get you through it pain free! I guarantee it! I have 4 8mg. pills left and I will take 4 mg. only every other day then maybe 2mg. and 2mg. again. See what your body needs specifically(and you will know)and follow what your body tells you. I hope this helps you! I'll tell you how I did this time. I'm sure I'll be fine. -Sincerely, C.K. p.s.-i highly recommend taking your whole suboxone dose at once when waking n the mornng-trust me your body feels the dose better all at once and it makes it far easier!

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Wow i thought i was the onlyone going thru hell. Thanks awhole bunch!!!

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