Experiences With Suboxone Withdrawals

I was in a bad accident and went on methadone for pain. It took a year to ween down from 100mg of methadone to 5mg and then left the clinic. I had 7, 8mg suboxones and have never used more than a 2mg piece at a time. Most times taking 1mg to 1/2mg. It's been about a month of taking suboxone. I have 1 more 1/2mg piece for tomorrow and then I'm out and have no insurance or money, so basically have no choice but to stop. I've read that most of you have taken BIG doses and stayed on it a long time. Has anyone done it like I have so I know what to expect???? I quit methadone once, cold turkey, from 160mg that I was on for over a year and that was hell for months and not all withdrawls are in your head,like a lot of people would like you to believe. I would really like to know if i'm in for another nightmare. I'm beginning to think I should've just quit at the 5mg of methadone, rather than trying to block the withdrawls with the low suboxone dose. In it soon!!!! but I'm really hoping, not bad. PLEASE NOT BAD!!!!!

Hey ill try and be quick I was taking 3 8/2s a day my doc said withdrawal wouldn't be that bad I slowly tapered down over the course of three months to about 1and a half to two a day. I took this amount for five months or so because of money and home situations. I knew I needed. To get off the stuff I wish I did more research before I got on or off thestuff!!! The half life of this stuff is 36hrs so your not even full swing till day four. Long and short is that it is more addicting thanppp most opiates! No joke do some real research! I should have not gone cold Turkey but from what I've read it really doesn't mattress the trick I think is to spend less then 2months on the stuff its VERY ADDICTIVE! I'm 3 and a half weeks in plan on very bad withdrawal for two full weeks,after that all you have to deal with is up to a month of Chile a sweats but the worst part at this point is up to a month of NO SLEEP. You will feel better though. This is something you will need a partner for I could not have done It without the encouragement of my loving wife also get a heating blanket! Its a life saver and also MLS player and head phones load muisic will help big time! And crying is great cuz you wont notice the legs. Hope this helps its worth the effort I promise. Hope this is helpfully. A
ND DONT GIVE UP IT WORTH IT TAKE ONE DAY AT A TIME!!!

legally prescribed (i guess that really dont matter, but 4 some reason i thought it important) oxy's for six years(started on 20's & stayed on 20's) when i was overdue to increase mg's i decided i didnt want to invest any more into oxy's bcause i new of the WD's. So i went online and read up on my options to get off oxy. i read about suboxone. scared to try it but i was motivated. I know some of you had to wd b4 starting sub but i didnt and it still worked for some reason. started on 8mg's per day (doc said 16mg but i wanted 2 c if 8 would do, it did) that was 2 and half years ago. i weedled my way down to 2 tiny mg's per day and stayed there for the last 8 mos or so. i took fri off work and didnt take my dose 6:30 am friday. WD'S started bout 2.5 hours in. usuall stuff like being flushed, hot flashes, cold flashes & joints not really hurting but mild aching. minor body aches. I was surprised it wasnt worse the first day! even slept like a baby last night! today was alittle worse, i figured it wasnt going to b as easy as day one. Still managable tho right now ( its 5:30 pm sat the 11th) 59 hours after my last 2 mg dosage on thurs. Ive tried b4 and failed miseralbly but never on just 8 mg's. I think im going to make but wanted to come on here for motivation and remember my goal. All of you have been an inspiration and dont think your posts go unheaded! THanks! i have read ALL of them. I look at it like this... I knew i was abusing oxys to make me higher and now its time to pay up.. nothing in life is free and everytime i felt "good" was a nother penny in the jar that i have to pay back with quarters in the form of withdrawls. one last thing...  these docs know that we will become addicted and not miss one appt to get our medcine. for me that was $35.00 co pay + another 35 bucks for meds every month for 8 long years, wish i had that money back, Good luck all

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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suboxone is no different than the stuff its meant to get you off. it an get you high and withdraw last just as long. i had better luck with methadone. its all evil. good luck to everyone fighting the good fight. stay clean.

First off you need a good taper plan, I started at 24mgs, quickly dropped to 8mgs and over two week periods, or when my body adjust I would reduce the amout by 25%. So 25% of 8 would be 6mgs. I did this until I got to 1mg, then I reduced the amount by 10% for two weeks or until I felt stabalized. I was on suboxone for nearly a year, it was hard to get past 4mgs and .5mgs but I managed to get to .25mgs when I jumped for the second time. No major withdrawals, no flu x100, it was like jumpimg off the curb rather than a 5 story window. You can also do your dosing in half twice a day, that helped me alot. You will need clonodine, klonopin(if u dont have a prob with it already and dont use more than one week, I didnt use it at all), multivitamins, amino acids and pleny of fluid, u may need imodium, I didnt. I jumped at 4mgs once, bad idea, withdrawal hell for over 8 days and had to get back on. Follow my taper plan and I promise its so easy, you can get to .25 or lower with no problems. Also go to suboxonetalk-zone.com, it helps u get the support and advice you may need while jumping or maintaining.

It takes 10 days of being off all opiates. Due to length of sub ozone half life.

Obviously this is just Me

     I was totally stunned at the intensity of the suboxone withdrawal.  To use suboxone to get off of 6-8 Loritab a day is the height of insanity.  The sub doc was prescribing 3 8mg a day, all I needed was 1 mg.  Actually 1 mg maintained what seemed like normalacy.  But going from 1 mg to 0 mg suboxone was absoutely spectacular.  I`m talking a 45 day 4 level intensity withdrawal.  At the first level it was so bad I feared for my sanity.  Insomina. No energy. Had to muster tremedous will power to get through. Can`t remember how to explain last 3 levels but very difficult.  I`m posting this 3 years later. Have never posted anything but feel responsible to warn people about this diabolical drug.  Best way seems to give Loritab to non addict and have them walk you down over a week or so.  Yes its still a discipline but nothing even close to Suboxone withdrawl.  Just typing this makes today seem like a cake walk.

absolutely, though on methadone, quit cold turkey at 12o, stupid, though i remember my husband pyshically putting me in shower, as i could not do anything, never mind hygiene for weeks, i remember after weeks without sleep, even with pills after i have massive sleep disorder, also i was on oxy's..etc since 14 for health cond;s. YEP I LOVED wanderlust feeling completely, but the price it has paid, not worth it! I am back on methadone after 2 years of sickness, to realize that methadone has indeed changed, unless on ridiculous mgs! I take tranquilizers, benzos, blood pressure, for sweat, thyroid, back scoliosis, thyroid plus i had accident three weeks ago adding insult to injury! since school is over, yes i am a teacher, I want to switch to suboxone, thought u couldn't take any opiate or immediate withdrawal, as on codeine, dr. says not true, hmm< either way, i, they have screwed up my every organforever and i DO NOT want anone, even worst own enemy of withdrawal from meth, because i felt lil smashing head out window or praying to whomever to end it cause i am a coward and care for feelings of others to a fault, families, etc. to do it1 THERE IS NO WAY OUT, all i know is we don't deserve this and karma is a b***h. I KNOW another life I WILL BE A princess whatever...... as this one, as positive i try to make it, still in the end F-ING BS Thank you, POI and NAMASTE1

that is the exact BS of quitting, these dr's are making mass$$$$$ to keep you on and uo as long as they can stan! The lack of sleep is like trying to drive a car without gas, YOU CAN"T!!!!!!!!!! The unmotivation, uncaring depression, and anxiety, looking at four walls in my beautiful houd=se which i deserved to enjoy, went to sh*t! I do not know have employees to manufacturers sleep at night making billions when one is thinkng abt smashing head thru window as it is hell! Karma is a b***h i am stuck on methadone, switching to sub? i hope all of them rot in hell, and they will!!!!!

I was a 10 year Vicodin addict who had tried a few times to quit, unsuccessfully. Then I heard of a new drug called Sub. After reading the drug manufacturers hype about this being a miraculous cure for my V and other opiate addictions, boy I'm on board! Where do I go to get some!!! On my first visit, to what is called, a "Pain Clinic" I was prescribed a dose of 12 mg per day. This lasted for a few years and I realized I was now addicted to Sub instead of V and it's time I to taper the Sub down. During my next scheduled visit (every 60 days) to the clinic I asked the doc, and he agreed, to taper me to 4mg which I have been on for 3- 4 years (who's counting)? I am now on day 5 of my withdrawal off of my 4mg per day dose using the doc prescribed drugs to withdraw. It's pure Hell!. Much worse than the V withdrawals I had experienced in the past. It's almost like cold turkey, but the doc prescribed these 2 meds to get me off subs so it must be right? Right? Wrong! Many of us Sub users already realize, or you soon will, there really isn't a withdrawal plan in place for getting off this poison (Sub). Not from the drug companies or the docs. These prescribing Docs are winging it! Hell, there are more pop ups on these forum sites from companies claiming to have the miracle cure for getting off Sub. I would be willing to bet many, if not all these withdrawal companies are not even doctors. Again, making $$ off us fellow addicts!  I keep asking myself over and over, WHY did the pain doc, knowing that the withdrawals on Sub are many times harder to withdraw from than the reason I went in there in the first place (Vicodin) prescribe me Sub in the first place. My Doc could have just as easily given me the same drugs he has prescribed me to quit Sub now (Clonidine and Pentazocine-Naloxone) 10 years ago on my first visit instead of prescribing Sub. But no!  Instead he prolonged my addiction and increased my withdrawals 10 fold. Not all of you, because maybe sub was the best choice for you, but certainly some others of us addicts have been had. Duped by the docs we trusted that originally prescribed and continued to prescribe us Sub knowing the possible downsides. And i'm even more upset at the company making Sub, this dangerous substitute for other opiates. I don't know any of you personally, but did your doc tell you that the withdrawals from Sub will far out weigh the opiate addiction you went to see him for originally? In my case my doc did not explain that at part at all! Do I sound angry? Obviously I am. First and foremost at myself for falling for such a crock (Sub embellishment) and also because the Pain Docs and the manufacturer of Sub know we are addicts and they realize how vulnerable we are (hell, we're addicts) and we will take anything they suggest. This is our doctor, we should be able to trust him, so why would they give us something that's not good for us, right?  Many of know know this answer, continued office visits, drug companies making billions, etc) Big $$$ out weighing our best interests! So who's really at fault here? I believe it should be shared, between the addicts (us) and even more so, the drug companies manufacturing this poison and the Docs prescribing it knowing the heavy consequences. If you know anyone on opiates, please warn them that Sub may not be right for them, and may not be the Golden Parachute they are expecting. Further my suggestion, and I'm not a doctor, read many Sub forums like this one and discuss in depth with your doctor what your have read in these forums before you leap into Sub. It seems it would be much easier (Sorry, nothing about addition is easy) to request withdrawal off of the drug you are on, and be done with it instead of prolonging the inevitable with Sub! My views written here are solely my own opinion and in no way, shape or fashion am I telling anyone else what to do with such a dangerous subject. I wish you all the best!

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Angry at myself!

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I am not the posting to forums type of person. In fact this is my first post in 64 years. And, I apologize for an spelling or grammatical errors. I' not a writer. I would be willing to bet that my views here will never be posted. Hell, most of the forums I have visited are sponsored by Sub The very poison we are all suffering through. Now how ironic is that ($$$$$$$$$$$ talk)!!! "Good Luck to all.

To all who care to read. I feel the correct info deserves 2 be spoke. Seriously, edit this sh*t. To all my fellow x junkies..current addicts, an parents of those who are praying for some for of answers 2 there questions.. For starts, YOU WILL NEVER GET AN HONEST ANSWER FROM A DR.wtf do they care, if we got healthy treatment that would mean no need for it after successful time.. it's sad the US has began to be a nation of errors n problems to make or brake our current status with where life is for the other side of life.. us normal people who have to work, function,raise our kids, work dead end jobs to wake up n say let's get it n do it productively. Well, I have been on Suboxone for going on 5 years now. It saved my life, well I saved me it helped through the aches. I'm on 2.5 a day with now an additional 70mg of effexor xr . Which is bringing me to write all this. Subs work as a treatment once your body regulates the dose and ur body begins to introduce it as a normal thing.. expected wait time... 5 weeks plus. Remember the time I'm speKing of is for someone who was a heavy user, but I wasn't able to mentally handle my past or decisions I had made from the 15yrs of abuse. But it.did help.. so to only use it for 3 take 5 days then stop n practice sobriety was outta the question. Affer 6months of subs I began counseling n it's when a change began. Ya there is help but to learn to 're structure dejavu moments u will face in the future, no one is there to help educate us on, we waisted the time getting high, now the time is there to make a change but sometimes it feels to distant to accomplish.. please remember hang in there.... we learn to live with it.. it's easier than thinking of the life we will never have without it.. I think some people don't realize yes we get sober but the rebuild, no 1 but u knows what steps u need to start with. All I can suggest is find someone u can ask. Someone u trust to help u through this... don't end up like me, bc when I should have been wiened down on my dose, I lost my insurance and had to start all over again in order to have the safe completion my state requires to have it removed off your social security number.. yes. We are labeled n it follows us where ever we go.. but see now, the past 3 weeks. I have been sleeping 16hrs a day. I have almost doubled my dose of subs 2 keep from feeling dope sick. Why am I.....it scared me how we read these post looking for help or answers or even just feedback but there is no completion. I no it's negative thoughts, but how the he'll do u make a choice that u can't even live with yet being on these meds are killing me.. I hope one day the world wakes up to what it's looking b4 it's all gone. I know my struggle is daily, n if anyone else has any experiences of effexor an any advise how to safely decrease my dose to get off it without any serious side effects... would gladly help.. thank u..
 

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