To put it bluntly, you have to want to get off of the stuff. I mean you really have to want to. Nothing is going to make the final leg of the race without effect. I was on 170 mg and went to 0 in like 6 months. I was told by my counseler it can't be done, that I would be sick as a dog(I think I was queezy in it's strongest form for months), and that I would be back on opiates in no time. The methadone clinics was the biggest con job with the worst possible side effects. I went there to get off drugs and they quickly jacked me up to 170mg to "stabalize" me and when I asked(2 years later) what was the stratedgy for getting me squared away and they told me I would be on this the rest of my life("maintainence program"), but, atleast I wouldn't be on opiates. So in other words I was trading opiates for synthetic opiates which was invented during WW II when Germany couldn't get opium?? So, who was the drug dealer here??
Getting back to the story, I got kind of wound up over what I was told. I told them that I needed to be squared away in 6 months as I was leaving the country. After a bunch of arguing I was taken to the clinic doctor who asked me if I wanted to do it and I said "yup sir !!". Came down 10 mg per day till the end which had smaller reductions and finally the counseller told me(when I was down to around 2.5/day) I was only teasing myself and to make the move and get it over with, which was true because I would show up with what should have been the whites of my eyes now green from the discomfort and was only prolonging the torture so I said good bye to the place for the last time. I moved to the Philippines and it was probably 6 months before all the effects were history but I finally made it.
Getting away from the area(far--to a place you know nobody) and making a new start is what worked for me. I feel for all trying to get squared away but it can be done and is worth it. Forget about suboxen and move on to a life you can live.