how long are suboxone withdrawels

First of all I think your doctor weaned you off of 8mg too quickly...2 weeks. That is simply insane. I was on 8 mg, stayed on that for one month or so then went to 6, then 4, now I am on 2. I take half of the pill in the morning and half in the evening. Eventually I will break the pill, if at all possible, into 4 pieces and take 1.5mg a day. I have been weaning myself off, with the care of my doctor, at my own convenience. It is never a good idea to come off opiates quickly. But I am hoping that once I get down to 1mg a day I will be able to get off much quicker. I wish you all the luck in the world with getting your RN license back, and hope you do well in your detox. Counseling is a major key and much family support. Change your environment and wait till your life is stable before even attempting to detox.

i thought 2 weeks was a fast wean too. it has been a week since any suboxone, i have taken some codeine, which i think actually makes me feel worse. i am very depressed today, but i'm not begging my doc to put me back on. trying to manage with small clonidine doses. i'm glad i dont have cravings, just want to feel normal. just feel bad for my kid, she is 7 . we had to move (basically I lost everything, home, car, etc.) and we are staying with her paternal grandparents, who love us, but are from guyana, and think differently than I. we are sort of stranded here, I am looking for a job, and luckily she was able to stay at her school. perhaps this will make us all stronger, I truthfully don't know, thanks for the encouragment.

actually you are suppose to stay on Suboxone forever! My DR says when you get down to one a day you should stay on it for the rest of your life as a maintenance because as long as your taken one Suboxone a day you are way less likely to relapse.

I think suboxone is an amazing drug.. It made me feel great.. It has been like 3-4 weeks now with out any, and I am just starting to feel better.. No shi-. The withdrawls are absolutely the worst.. I was not prepared at all..but i think my doc weaned me way too fast... i was depressed, felt like there were bugs under my skin, anxious, did not sleep, everytime i fell asleep, i woke up feeling like i had to move my arms. diarrhea, hungry but can't eat... had to sit down like every 5 minutes...i stuck it out, and i am glad...if i could continue to afford it, i would have stayed on it forever... hope this helps, it is a honest reply..

He is refering to a 24 hour clock. He means 9-5 in US speak.

was hardcore addicted to opiates since i was 18, now 25. pk of choice was OC. Had a hookup for the last year i was using getting 120 80s for 10 dollars apeice (very bad news). got to the point where i was doing 5-6 80s aday and not even getting high even started banging them for a bit. bought about 200 8mg subs not prescribed them about 6 months ago. started off taking 24mgs a day for the first few weeks then every few weeks would taper down gradually. this is my 6th month on subs and i am taking about .5mg a day. the absolute trick to weening down your dosage is this: if you are taking 4mg once every 24hrs, take 2mg every 12hrs for 2 days then 2mg every 13 hrs for 2days then 2mg every 14hrs for 2days etc. etc. until you are at the every 24hr mark. do this each time when ready to reduce dosage. by doing this i felt absolute no negative effects and have been able to get down to taking about a half an mg a day. i want to get to where i am taking tiny crumbs of the pill before i come off i mean take a quarter pill and crush it up into 30 doses by the end. you want to ween off to where you are taking next to none before you stop. i tried to stop a few months ago from 1.5mg daily and felt fine til day 4 where the fun liquid fountain began on the toilet. never threw up ever in my life from WDs though. this is my own method i have devised and it works great. hope this helps everyone. OC and H are the F***in devil incarnate!!!!! took 7 years of my life.

Hello to All...

My story is pretty comparable to all of the rest. I was a functioning 15+year opioid addict, working six days a week, taking oxycontin 120 mg daily plus 6-8 10 mg Vicodin to boot. Dr. wanted me to stay on this cocktail forever due to severe neck injury caused by being rearended at 70+ mph.
The day came in my head when I told myself enough is enough. No amount of these pills could get me out of pain enough or high enough. I just felt dead inside day after day after day after day of taking pills more pills more pills. I LOVED the high...should've seen it coming. It was the perfect answer to all of my life problems..I just didn't have to deal with them, just pop that pill and it was all gone. When and only when you are truly ready in your own heart, not by force of doctors, family, friends, or anyone else, to quit and become sober will recovery work. I came to this decision on my own and sought detox treatment from a different doctor. We discussed my options, methadone vs. suboxone. After carefully evaluating both I decided with the suboxone treatment. After my high dosage of the narcotics, I was started out on 16 mg daily of the sub. I was truly amazed at how well I felt and how well this was going. I used the 16 mg daily for 4 months then decided on my own (yet again) that I didn't want a to rely on a crutch forever and it was now or never. One could easily live on suboxone forever (which my detox dr said would be perfectly okay???!!) Not. I agree with so many posts I have read in here where drs are just trying to 'bait and hook' you for $$$. Its true. Nonetheless, I detoxed off suboxone on my own. Went from 16 mg daily down to 8 mg for 3 days then 4 mg for 5 days then 2 mg for 5 days then jumped off completely. Alone and pill free, it was the hardest week of my life. Being a single mother and trying to come off this was hell. Let me tell you what helped me the most. I went to the health food store and told them the TRUTH. They were extremely helpful and understanding and recommended a natural remedy with St. Johns Wart to restore serotonine levels in your brain. This chemical imbalance is the real reason we all feel so bad. Anyway, started taking the natural mood enhancer on day 2 of withdrawel. They also suggested some herbal detox tea and chamomile for night. Did it. Now, although I am not going to sugar coat anything, I made it. It was hard but after about day 5 I started to feel the effects of the mood enhancer and realized that hey..I was starting to smile again. To any of you out there reading this...you can do it!!! You can make it through this hell and let yourself out of your own self made prison!!! Just remember that there is a life on the other side and it IS better than the daily pill searching, withdrawel over and over, scamming, lying all of it. You will feel like a human again and will be able to look someone in the eyes.....something I couldn't do for over 10 years. Hang in there. My detox off suboxone took about 9-10 days after only 4 months of usage. I did have to use immodium AD and took tylenol p.m. to sleep....seemed to help a little. If anyone would like to email me feel free...I"ll help anyone anyway I can...email is kkbodine AT comcast dot net. Good luck and stay strong.

i am getting off suboxon as we speak. i have done it before. and it is hell. the worst part is that you don't start to feel better for a least a month. i have been on it for one year. i am scared sh*tless to withdraw again but i don't really have a choice. it is too expensive for me to pay for. i don't have insurance. so anyway, wish me luck everybody.

Hey did you make it? Reply and I'll grab the stuff they gave me that helped and I'll list it here. Did it twice. Much better with recipe.

Paul

Listen you should Not be going through withdrawls at all, Ive ben taking suboxone for 3 years 2 tabs of 8mg-2mg a day basically 16 mg when planning on tapering off suboxone nomatter what dose it takes 6 to 8 months to taper down slowly to the point to where you feel no withdrawl symtoms at all! I dnt no what state you live in but here in california we have to have specialists that perscribe soboxone that way they no wat there doing ive herd so many people saying that there docs tapered them in a week those docs r crocs man, the best way to taper is cutting it down and spread it out to where ur dwn to taking even a quarter pill of 2 mill a day and even do that for a month or two my doc says its going to take me a year if i wana do it safe and grandually, so if your getting tapered in a week or weeks or even months you should check with a diffrent doc.

You should get your facts straight- suboxone and subutex are actually opiate antagonists (agonists are receivers or receptors of a drug). . Antogonists are designed to block a drug. Suboxone and subutex were designed for opiate abusers because they block the opiate receptors in the brain so the user cannot abuse or use an opiate without having adverse effects- mainly withdrawal, which is why it must be dissolved under the tongue or the user will not get the desired effect of the drug.



Furthermore, suboxone and subutex withdrawal is not easy. Especially if the user has been on the drug for a long period of time. Even tapering down to 2mg a day will leave the user with side effects when they stop- which include headache, diarhea, vomitting, insomnea, sweating, irritability, all similar to opiate withdrawal- and usually occur within 2 days of stopping as the drugs has a 1/2 life of 24 hours. It is not easy to discontinue this medication, as with Methadone- it is a replacement for the drug that was being abused. The only advantage with these 2 medications is that they are more effective in the system than opiates (do not have to be continually increased to achieve the desired effect, so there is less likely a chance of abuse). And in most cases the patient can achieve the desired relief, from pain or otherwise, from in fact less and less of the medication rather than more.

It has been ten days i didn't start feeling withdawls until the 7th day, this is day ten as i am writting on 05/23/09 day 8/9 were bad but i still went to work, it sucked but I got threw it. I am of work today and sunday. i hope monday at work will be better. One good thing this is the first day I have been up this late in 4 days. i would come home from work at 3:30 in bed by 5:00 pm and up at 6am ready to die last night i went to bed at 6pm and got up at 1:30 pm took a shower and started feeling better in baby steps. i was buy suboxne off the street and i weened myself off by buying 4 8mg pills and breaking them up into 22 pieces i took one per day. I have to say withdawls from the codines, thats what i call them i took up to 15 10 mg per day. i am 50 yr old and hooked on and off since i was in my 20's i went 10 years clean, then i screwed up and have been fighting ever since. I could only hope this is the last time, but i won't know that until the day i die. You might not want to read this next part, but I read last week that the brian will never stop telling you that you need codines, that sucks
I feel that I have a lot to give others before i die and i won't get that chace if i don't stay strong. I WILL BEAT THIS MOTHER f****r DOWN! AND SO WILL ALL OF YOU. YOU HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE!

ive been off of suboxone for 3 days after almost 3 years starting to feel alot better but i still feel some irritability and insomnea

Oh my God. I am seriously so scared. I have been on Suboxone almost a year now. I had a horrible Methadone problem. Was on about 100 miligrams of Methadone a day for over three years. The Suboxone saved my life. When I started I was taking 32 miligrams a day, now I am done to 12 a day. It is working great for me. However, today I was just curious how bad the withdrawels from Suboxone really are, as I have heard they are not that bad but wanted to see what other people said. I am so scared now. It's not like I am being required to get off Suboxone anytime soon, but just the thought that eventually I am going to have to deal with those same horrible feelings I used to is almost an unbearable thought! My life has gotton so much better since I started this medicine. It saved my life. But now I feel like all I did was just replace my addiction with another, even though being on Suboxone does not carry along with it all the addict lifestyle behaviors...but still.. I am so so so so scared now. I feel lost. I don't know what to do. I don't want to feel sick again. I thought I was never going to have to feel the way I did from Methadone withdrawel again. I guess I was wrong.

I have been experiencing withdrawl from Suboxone for the past 4 days and have never felt so awful in my life. The body aches and insomnia are unbearable. Does anyone know of anything that can help with these symptoms? I just need some relief!