NO!!! Please do not use heroin to get off suboxone!!!!! It is not the answer! Rather, continue with the suboxone as a MAINTANCE program and then SLOWLY taper off. A GOOD doctor will monitor your withdrawals/cravings and prescribe the correct dose. Yes, when you are done with the suboxone you will have withdrawals, but if you tapered well it will be better than risking the heroin relapse.
:'( I am going nuts! After 10 days I'm still having symptoms. Chills, aches, no energy and my hands are sweaty and shaky. I have no choice but to drag myself around but I don't know how much longer I can feel like this! Does anyone know if maybe antidepressants or something would help?
I totally agree!
60mg cymbaltas help me with the pain and mind "Pain" ad panic, and helps the bodys nervous system take control again. It may not work for everyone ad takes a while to build up. Its a slow process over weeks and months for your body to find homeostasis. Triggers are the worst part of recovery. I tried to avoid them at all costs. Eventually you will learn to deal with them without reaching for a pill or needle. I am in the midst of all this and and thanks for everyone's input.
What if a person on long term Suboxone use/maintenance tapers down to even .5 or .25 every day or even every other day and when they jump off, the withdrawals last for months and months? That person cannot function, cannot work, cannot care for their children? Cannot make mortage payments?
Maybe just maybe, if they switched to a weak opiate like hydrocodone or codeine for two months and they were able to function until the Suboxone was fully out of their system ? Then they quit cold turkey, did a quick 4-7 long Suboxone taper, or even just used Loperamide?
Not even fentanyl will "pry loose" Suboxone from the receptor sites in your body.