finally off suboxone

I have been on suboxone for almost 3 years...I just quit actually 7 days ago..I snorted my last 8 mg before work in the bathroom..for the next 4 days it was pure hell...coming into work at 11 am tired as hell and restless cause I couldnt sleep more than 3 or 4 hours a night and my back...oh my god...it killed me..to even bend over a hair killed me..severe pain..and my joints killed me but the worst was the shakes..I was shaking so bad I stood next to the ovens and grills to stay warm. I am now 7 days sober...I have minor withdrawal symptoms still such as diarrhea and still cold at times but I feel so god damn good...I'm naturally happy...I am waking up every morning at 8 or 9 am feeling so refreshed and ready to start my days now that I have serotonin being made again. Before I would go to bed at 4 or 5 am and sleep till 5 or 7 pm and wake up and do 4 mgs to 8 mgs in 1 line. 2 years ago I was reallly bad...I was going thru almost 3 aday then I cut it down to 2 then finally 1 back in 2010...I had trouble keeping a job cause I had to be high just to get through the work week...I would slip out to use the bathroom and blow a big line and be happier then hell. Unfortunatley for such a gain....I experienced some losses...I had to give up contact with some very good friends...best friends..If I wanna live a straight edge life its a sacrifice I have to make...I've lost my grandma back in December..I was so high on suboxone...I could barely cry..only when I wasnt on the day of the viewing I cried like I never have...I also lost my cousin a month before that aswell...I have had alot of heartache these past 3 months..but the light at the end of the tunnel is finally closer instead of further....I was just laid off but relapse isnt gonna happen...its temporary so nothing to be ashamed or depressed about...all you need is a reason to quit...if you can come up with a reason...you can come up with the will power to say no...this drug ruined my life...I had no clue it was that addicting till I realized how much I was spending each week to support my habbit...lets just say $450 every 2 weeks pay didnt last long...This is a second chance for me...and I am gonna do whatever it takes to move forward in life...Ie repatching old friendships...being a better person in general..subs made me a huge as****e to people...the best way to get over subs imo...friends...when I was going through withdrawal they kept me company...kept my mind off it...it felt good to let whatever you were thinking or feeling out and having people listen to you made me feel so much better...but outta the whole withdrawal thing the worst day was day 5...complete depression...I honestly had no intention of talking to anyone or even wanting to be at work...i wanted to go home and be alone away from everyone...but I knew it was just a mental thing and it'll be over with in 24 hours or less...all in all...subs can kiss my ass im free baby

I have been taking suboxone for 1 year and I am so sick of being on something that my body is dependent on. I stopped taking it cold turkey friday and today is Monday night. I feel better than I did yesterday but still no energy or desire to return to my normal life. I took only 8 mg a day but I guess it does not matter how much you take you will have WD. I pray every hour that I will be able to feel normal again without the drug. I keep my self wrapped up in an electric blanket and it seems to help. I have laid here for 3 days staring at the walls. I have a great family that supports me 100% and I'm thankful for that. I will do anything to not be on this drug anymore. I will check myself in a detox state facility if I have to before taking another sub... I take lots of vitamins and magnesium it helps with bone and nerve function. I have a beautiful baby boy and just want to stop with the subs so I can provide a normal life not one were I always have to worry about a f****ing orange pill. If anyOne knows the truth when I will feel better please respond it would be greatly appreciated. Good luck to all of you out there and keep strong. We can all do it, it just takes alot of will power and strength. God bless you all in this horrifying journey.

I have been taking suboxone since september.. i weened to a 2 mg a day and now i am trying to not take any... I feel okay now but worried i may be sick tomorrow.. any suggestions about otc meds to take???

To Kapinos..and anyone coming here to get some assistance or wants to know what to expect:

It's very different for everyone, but I imagine jumping off from 2mg will be very uncomfortable. I started on 2mg 2 years ago, (looking back I should have just dealt with the initial WD of the percocet I was prescribed, instead of thinking Sub was the easy way out) I weaned down to a quarter of a 2mg pill over the two years. It pisses me off i'm chained to this substance..have no desire to be on it. I jumped off last sunday night at the .50 dose...and the first 3 days were rough but I didn't think they were that bad. I did a lot of research and read about the day 5 nightmare. Everyone was saying on day 5 it's terrible. The first 3 days I was so proud of myself and in such high spirits. Well, thank Suboxone's rediculously long half-life for that. SO better believe day 5 comes along and I feel like I want to do and cry all day. Aches are worse, diarreah and stomach pain :-( I have had to take 2.5mg of percocet (left over from a recent surgery) at night to alleve the horrendous leg pain. Today is day 8....and I want to not have to take the 2.5mg of percocet at night soon. This is really hell, the sub gets in your bones and stores itself in your tissues....hence the long recovery. I am in so much pain in my joints it's out of control. I just keep telling myself it will get better...if it will....I have no clue. I can't even bend over my back is so bad. I have major back problems and I think the sub has been masking the pain. I am on the verge of asking my doc if I can take tramadol to help the joint pains, but that also has addictive qualities so thats another taper in itself. Ugh i'm so annoyed and uncomfortable ..i'll update again soon

seeing if this works before itype a page..

Good for you making the effort to get off Suboxone.  I always read on websites how incredibly hard it is to get off of it.  Not so for me.  I'm no doctor, but I'll make a few suggestions.  First, and MOST important, is to keep your spirits up and keep telling yourself come hell or high water, "I'm gonna get off of this c**p!".  Secondly, taper off of it VERY slowly.  After being addictied to a myriad of opiates (Vicodin, Oxy's, Morphine, etc.)for about six years, I decided it was time to stop.  A friend suggested I try Suboxone with the ultimate goal of getting off of that too.  I can thankfully say, I did it.  It's now been over two years since I've had Suboxone.  Life is grand not having ANY monkey on your back.

In terms of tapering, this is how I did it, and I experienced VERY little withdrawl.  I started ot taking 8 mg. twicw a day (16 mgs. daily).  After 4 days, I made a big drop to 12 mgs. per day.  With that big of a decline, you would think that it would have been very hard.  To my pleasant suprise, it wasn't.  No withdrawls whatoever.  However, after this, I began tapering very slowly.  I would drop 1mg. and keep it at that level for about a week.  By the end of my tapering, I was taking 1/2 of a mg. every other day until I was finally able to stop.   Also, try to lengthen the time between dosages as you taper.   Because I did it so slowly, I had virtually no w/d's, aside for a minor headache for about five days.  I was able to get up, go to work and do all the things "normal" people" do in their everyday lives while tapering.  I hope this provides you with the inspiration to help get you off of Suboxone once and for all.  Wishing you tyhe very best! 

I jumped 5 days ago after tapering to 1 mg. I had a ten year 20 pill a day problem thanks to my pain Dr. I guess I should share responsibility as well. Its pretty rough but very doable. I just woke up one morning and looked down at that tiny piece of pill and got angry. This was keeping me from being totally clean! When you decide to get mad, and I mean really mad, its time to jump! I believe Suboxone a useful drug, but I don't believe it should be used long term. Just a personal opinion. I weaned down from DOC about 60% and hit a brick wall. I started suboxone 8 weeks ago at 12 mg and will soon be free of the pain. I have God in my life who gave me the miracle of curing the physical pain that caused me using in the first place. Being drug free is my gift back.

I've been reading everyone's post on here, it seems to me that everybody is attempting to cold turkey off of far too high of  a dose. I am not completely off suboxone, but I have been taking baby steps. For the last few months, I have been on a quarter of a 2mg pill a day, or .5 mg. I noticed when I go without for a little while I don't tend to get the cold sweats like I used to get. Now there is a reason I have been taking a small amount for the last few months. I have been on suboxone for three years or so now, every time I tapered down my skin broke out like crazy. It was embarrassing to go out in public. I have just graduated from college, so in the past, I had no choice but to go to school with huge pimples on my neck, forehead, surrounding my nose, etc. if I wanted to finish college while attempting to get off this c**p. Has anybody else had this experience? I have read many posts but have not found anybody that seems to relate to my experience. I know the acne is from the taper because as soon as my body adjusts to the lower dose, the acne ceases. So anyway, I wanted to get through the last semester of school without having pimples all over, so I have been taking .5mg a day. Just a couple days ago, I started taking an 8th of a 2mg pill a day, or .25mg. I still feel like c**p while cutting back to this amount, but the symptoms are as minimized as they have ever been. I will soon cut back completely on suboxone. My point being, I think many of you need to cut back to a much smaller dose prior to going cold turkey. I will let you know once I am fully off this stuff and let you know how it compared to my prior experiences of cutting back. 

i'm 22 yrs young an i was on suboxone for two years, i started it to quit 80mg oxycontin which i always snorted, after using suboxone to quit i completely dodged any withdrawls, but i only had a couple from a friend an then stopped using it, after a couple months clean i just wanted to get high so bad, i never did D before an didnt want to try it nor could i afford to snort a $50 pill 3 times a day anymore, so i figured f**k it i'll try an snort suboxone (i never snorted more then 4mg a day), i had never done it before but boy was i surprised on how it made me feel, weaker then oxy but stronger then percocet, anyways i did this for a long time, over a year, an two weeks ago i got a prescription for percocet cuz of a staph infection in my arm which was so painful, i stopped suboxone for 4 days before trying the percocet, i had absolutely no withdrawl i took 25mg of perc an it didnt phase me at all, so day 5 i tried again to use percocet an again nothing, naturally i wanted to go back on suboxone but im having surgery in 2 weeks so i cant, day 6 i couldnt sleep an felt horrible anxiety, feelings of doom, an on day 7 the percocet started to relieve these feelings, but they always came back, im 2 weeks in now an still experiencing these feelings, wondering will it ever stop, i have 3 suboxones on my night stand an id love to relieve this feeling but im scared i'll just prolong this.....my insides are crawing, i always thought people that claim suboxone withdrawl is rough were crazy but it really is horrible, if your gonna use suboxone dont go long term, just use a few to get off your drug of choice an then never go near it again, so no worth it.

im on suboxone. i love it but hate it at the same time. i started at 20mg/day my doctor put me on. but i couldnt afford it anymore, i had no insurance at the time. my script cost $400+ a month plus doctor visit was like $100. ive been on subs for 2+ years now...when i went to detox then a womens recovery house, i was off suboxone cold turkey [not my choice] ....it sucked so bad. you have no idea. i went through withdrawal for MONTHS....i thought i was gonna feel this way forever. ithought withdrawals would last a couple weeks at most. but no....after 3 months, i went back to using cause i couldnt take it anymore. i cant even describe it. it affected my body, my mind, i felt like sh*t. now im back on suboxone and i feel like im definitely going to be on it the rest of my life. even my doctor told me that...anyway, i got state insurance so im waiting for a doctor appt. my copay is only 5 dollars and my scripts are usually 7 dollars. so now i can afford my meds. im also on lamictal, seroquel, and gabapentin. i love suboxone. i really do. BUT i hate being forever chained to it. :[

I started out on methadone almost 5years ago. About a yr an a half ago I switched to Suboxin because methadone was absolutely horrible to be on for me. When I walked into that clinic I had no cavities at all. Now my teeth are rapidly getting bad. I truly believe it is due to methadone & Suboxin. Even though I brush my teeth often and use floss multiple times a day they are still getting worse. My advise to anyone that is either on methadone or Suboxin is this keep your dose as low as possible so that you can get off it quickly because the higher it is the longer it will take to truly be FREE. One of the hardest things you will ever do in life as an addict is over come a drug addiction but rest assure YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

Hi, I read your post and was wondering where you came up with the limit of 45 days for Suboxone Therapy?

i was just reading all these suboxone posts as one film desolves under my toung and i have to say there not a gift from god there the works of the devil just like the oxycottin that got me into this mess.....you can stay on them for as long as you want but me thats it.  i just wish i would have read these before i took another one.  i no the road sucks because i did it before.  its not a sickness its just weakness .
weakness of the mind and body to go back to something to feel comfortable......i dont no about you but i dont want a pill or film to make me feel good anymore,  i dont want the chemicals that i put in my body anymore  all i want is to be free of all this garbage. 
Some one once told me "nothing good comes easy" and that is so true.  not going to be easy its goin to be a little while but how ever long it takes is because how much damage I did to my self.  and i dont want to do anymore.
i hope any one who reads this can have the appifiny i just had.   But dont be a slave any more and dont let some n/a id**t tell u your and addict for life.....theres only choices and thats it.  you can choose to or not to.  and no one makes that decision but yourself

fh hdg g

Wow this thread is really great to read when I feel like I am alone in this bubble of suboxone hell! I have tried a few times to jump and only lasted 10 days till I gave in got some oxy. I have history with anxiety and depression so the wd's are for me times two. I couldn't deal so went back on oxy for a low dose for one month. I read several times to use a low dose narcotic to withdrawal from subs. I felt I had no other choice. I hope by being off subs for a month and then back on at .5mg per day for 4 days to detox from the oxy will be long enough to deal with any anxiety, depression, hopelesness etc. Wish me luck. God bless