Hey Larry! you dont know what your talking about when you say the subs are easy to get off of . You should not post something you dont know fully about. I have Experienced both withdrawls more than once and i have friends that experienced the same. Subs are a b***h and the withdrawls can take months. vicodine withdrawls at the worst last a week. they can be a little more of an intense withdrawl at the time but the length of subs is brutal. I have some good ideas about coming off but im not going to post cus im not sure if its the right way to do it. Im on 2mgs a day of the subs. I have been on subs for 2 years and tried many times to wien off. Like i said i have a good idea what to do and she has an idea but doing it a little bit different for what i will try to do. subs are a devils drug. 12 step is a good thing. I go to AA and other groups as well cus i am a sober addict.
Your advise is probably the BEST I have heard. I need help so badly. I am desperate. I tried to go from 2mg. a day, to zero last week. The withdrawal after the third day was horrible. I endured this thinking it might get better, only to find that I was getting sicker by the day. Yesterday I refilled my prescription for suboxone and right away took 4 mg. Today I woke up and went back to the 2mg. I have been on subs for 6 yrs. I am going to follow your instructions because they make sense. I am happy I read your post before I went to visit a friend who offered me vikes to try to get off the subs. Doesn't make much sense though, sense I would then have to w/d from the vikes. I must get off this merry go round. I am going to reduce the 2 mg. to 1 mg. because I was alternating between 2mg. and 1 mg. for about three months. I have the sublingual strips which will be great because you can cut them down to nothing with a lot more success than the pills. If you have any more advice I would so appreciate your help. Thank you for any suggestions you can give me.
Sincerely,
Jeanine
goodluck, im' here mainly because i can't sleep and i'm around 3 weeks or so off subs...its brutal, but you should try to get down even more than 2mgs if you don't wanna suffer ...try getting down to < 1mg at least and than skip days and than quit...everytime holding off till you feel pretty bad thats how i've done it...but like a dummy i go back after a year or so to pain killers ...i'm at a point now i don't even complain about it its sad really....i know i said this before, but if you do any opiates or subs all your do'n is borrowing energy you gotta repay later...try to go driving that helps with the skin crawling ...and its really hard but go for long walks...you'll stagger around a little but it seems to take most of the bad withdrawal away faster....for me i just can't seem to get my energy back and i haven't slept more than 3 hrs in almost 3 weeks...and for some reason i swear im; feeling a years worth of pains all at once ...everything hurts LOL...but alas i took subs for over a year every time