suboxone addiction/withdrawal

here is the best and the fastest way to quit opiate addiction THAT I HAVE FOUND

1. cut your intake in half every 3 days

if you are on one pill in the morning and one at night cut one pill in half and take half in the morning

2 take the other half of a pill 30 minutes before you go to bed

3 do not eat or drink anything with caffeine the caffeine will make your heart beat so hard and fast it will hurt

4 if you have or are on medication for panic attacks it will help with your heart rate



""I AM NOT A DOCTOR"

THIS IS FROM MY EXPERIENCE ONLY DO NOT TAKE THIS MESSAGE IN ANY WAY AS A MEDICAL OPINION

IT IS ONLY MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE " CONSULT YOUR DOCTOR BEFORE CHANGING YOUR MEDICATION "

BUT THIS WAY HAS WORKED FOR ME MANY MANY TIMES

My Ex suffered from opiate addiction after back surgery. She did in fact deal with a lot of pain, so, painkillers were dispensed by her Ortho Doctor. This went on for about 6 months. Soon, she felt enslaved to it. She tried to wean at first and got frustrated to the point of going back to the doc for script after script. Eventually (And behind my back) she started ordering hydrocodone off the internet (This was several years ago back when it was extremely easy)

Eventually, I took her to detox at a hospital where she spent a week. She came out almost a totally new person. She then went to a follow up appointment with a new doctor who then scripted her suboxone. 8-|

She was on this for 2 years and couldn't kick it. She tried halving it, quartering it etc. Then she tried Clonidine patches, which helped somewhat, but made her excessively sleepy and fatigued. What I'm pissed about is the doctor did not do a proper consult telling her this med could be addictive and for prescribing something else addictive on top of her completing a detox program almost immediately afterwards..........

After a cpl of yrs trying to quit, she finally did. I don't recommend people break the law, but honest to God, she used marijuana over a week and a half as a substitute to the suboxone. She is now 5 weeks free of both. Don't know what others will think or say, or even agree with this technique, or if she will remain completely free and clear of either over the long term, but it worked for her. And, given the lesser of 2 evils, the marijuana was a complete accident and a blessing at the same time.

For anyone going through this, I wish you nothing but positive thoughts and may you one day find freedom from that which binds you captive.

i was taking 8mg subb for 3yr,started to drop 0.4 a month after 2yr n finally down to 1.2ml wen iv decided to jump off, im on day 3 n its the agitation i dont like.just taking some codeine phosphate to sort tha ag out.iv felt worse so think myself luky,it took me 10yr to brake the habit n the cycle,in out prison on n off for 12yr,last sentances was4yr then another 3 after tha,been out 4yr now.

well i took up to 6 oxy 80s a day and kicked it cold turky and 2 years later a docter felt suboxone was a good not addictive treatment for headaches and its simply not true but its all based on how long youve taking the subs if its only a week i would step down for about 4 days cut youre dose in half evry day then at 2 mg take that evry other day for 4 days then stop and never take it agin i quit after a year withdrawls last 10 to 15 days they get worse evry day its just crazy and it realy messes with youre head and its because its synthetic youre dody dosent know what or how to get it out of you

yeah ive been on suboxone for a year and am finding out the hard way withdrawls frome last 10 to 20 days and is horible theres no generic wont be for 4 years and its not the answer take anything else its not for anxiety take .25 or .50 mg of xanex if thats youre case go to public healh ceneters they will give you atavan or something like but trust me suboxone will be the worst mistake youlle evver make please for god sake trust me and it is realy exspenive unless you want to spend 500 to 700 a mounth on the wrong drug

Yes everyone would be wise to relax about the Suboxone withdraw topic. Yes It is a miracle drug and yes it's a heck of a lot better to be able to function normally daily then to be a freak for pills everyday. The problem I have coming off the Suboxone is the withdraw and it's important to phycologically be prepared to not have a substance inside of you. It is addictive and is a strong narcodic. There are two main aspects of addiction, one is physical dependancy and the other is mental. Suboxone is wonderfully here for the cemical problem so if you want to be off everything don't be weak and deal with the emotional challenge by having resolve and responsibility for your own personal desire for sobriety.

Good Luck Everyone!

Suboxone does not work as well as you think!!! I can tell you first hand that suboxone might not be the greatest thing ever. I'm not trying to rain on your parade or anything but i am addicted to painkillers and have been for the past two years. When i decided to get clean i tried the suboxone and just like everyone else i thought i had the addiction finally beat. I was wrong after taking the suboxone and trying to go without them i went right back into withdraw again (The withdraw was worse then from the painkillers). due to feeling like sh*t i of course jumped right back on the opiate band wagon to avoid any pain. After becoming even more addicted to pain killers i had enough and decided to quit last month cold turkey. I was very determined to quit this time due to feeling like a major failure and loser. It has been the hardest thing i have ever done in my life, unable to tell my parents and family due to the embarrassment i was all alone. I jumped into by taking a weeks vacation from work and lying to my parents that i was calling off sick. It was horrible, by far the worst time in my life but i fought through it have been clean for the past 28 days. i am not healed and i still struggle everyday but it gets easier everyday as well. the withdraw lasted a week and the depression lasted another two but i went back to work and kept busy have been doing good. Everyone has their own roads but if you are serious about quitting get help and do it even if it means cutting out a lot of your friends (like i have done) because if you are around others that are still using it is still very tempting and you could relapse easy. I don't own a cell phone anymore i cut everyone out of my life except two friends that do not have anything to do with drugs. Yea P.s. my one friend who was getting clean on subxone just got cut off by his dr and from what i hear is doing anything he can do to get his hands on them. Research subxone please cause those pills still have some type of a form of codeine in them.

I completely agree with everyone who said there was physical and psychological withdrawal from Suboxone and there is, but I noticed from the posts that those who say there wasn't were either on methadone before it or were on the low-grade Suboxone (2mg/0.5mg). I am on the 8mg/2mg and have been on it for over a year. Any time I miss a dose, it is absolutely awful. I don't know what to do anymore. And like others out there, I have my own family and dependents who are depending on me. I am falling lower and lower into the Suboxone hole. I know all I did is substitute an illegal option for a legal option that doesn't seem to be any better. My doctor seems to be oblivious to this too. When I started to notice the physical withdrawal, I told her about it. She told me, "I believe you believe you are experiencing real physical withdrawal, but science disagrees with you." Until I recently started researching Suboxone addiction did I find others out there with the same experiences as I. I told her about it and she has become distant, cold, and to the point I am afraid she is just going to cut me off of the Suboxone without trying to help me out of the situation I am in now. It has been nice to know others out there have or are battling the same demons I am. Yes, Suboxone saved my life from the addiction I was in and the hell I was going through. But much later would I find out, it created it's own hell. Thank you for posting everyone.

I really need some advice. I don't know what to do. Despite others on here that say Suboxone causes withdrawals, I do withdrawal after a certain amount of time of not taking a dose (8mg/2mg), especially during the night. I wake up cold, sweating, and feeling horrible. At the beginning they started me off on 3 8mg/2mg Suboxone and with Medicaid, they mandate you to go down to 2/day after 6 months. I wish I would've read these posts before I even went to the doctor to get the Suboxone. I didn't adjust well to 2/day and still have problems with withdrawaling after so much time since the last dose. My pills started getting stolen from me, and so my doctor made it so I can only get them once a week, every Monday. I can't get my Monday dose until 9:00 AM, when I usually take it at 6:30 AM, so I can get my little ones ready in time for school and daycare. Every Monday morning, I am too sick and feeling horrible in the morning that I can't get my children ready. My daughter has missed so much school because it is a weekly thing that they are talking about holding her back. I feel so horrible. I really do. I tried to talk to my doctor about it, but she doesn't believe me that Suboxone has withdrawals effects. When I try to discuss such issues with my doctor, she won't respond. I hate being on these pills. I wish I knew at the beginning of seeking treatment the true effects of Suboxone. I need advice from a medical professional, but the person that prescribes me the medicine doesn't believe me and won't talk to me about my concerns. There aren't many doctors around where I live that prescribe it too. I thought about going to my family practitioner and talking to him about it. I just don't know what to do. If anyone can tell me somewhere to ask medical/legal advice, I'd greatly appreciate it. I know I'm probably going to get replies like "you're weak" and "it is your own fault," which I completely agree with those posts, but if anyone can offer advice that will help me and my family, I'd appreciate it more than you know. :'(

I'm on my 4th day of suboxone withdrawal. Started with 4mg. about 7 months ago. My doc prescribed 8mg but I've been splitting it with my fiance', who hasn't tapered down at all. My doc told me not to taper every time I asked but I did anyway 'cause one day I would take one and get high from it. The last time I went down to about .25mg to .5mg. I'm splitting 8mg tabs so hard to judge. The last time I got so high from 1mg. I actually nodded out at work and through up for like 30 minutes at work! So I started feeling high again, which I now HATE THAT FEELING AND IT MAKES ME FEEL WORTHLESS AND DEPRESSED! Suboxone has been amazing and saved my life but I want to be clean and feel normal in the morning.
Well the w/d hasn't been too bad but the night suck! Last night I slept with a heating pad for the leg pain and some xanax so I'd stay asleep and it mostly worked. I awoke a couple of times really annoyed and in pain. I know I can get through this but how long will this last. I'm freezing all the time and can't really function for the first 3-4 hours of my day. But I can function and have been going to my desk job blasting my heater so ease the leg pain. I think that's the worst part. I've also been taking adderall, about 30mg per day but I need more as it's wareing off more quickly. Then the sneezing and eye watering starts. I'm going to my brothers this weekend and am so scared about the night sweats. I awake drenched every night but freezing cold. My family can't know any of this. I was on Heroin for about 2 years, and hard core for about 1 year, about 1 bundle a day. I don't know if I quit too early, but I'm so scared to take any more suboxone as it will just prolong the inevitable. I'm also starting a second weekend job soon where I'm on my feet all the time, so I can't withdrawal there.
I hope this ends soon, but IT HAS BEEN TOLERABLE! Listening to everyone else helps me a lot too, and makes me realize what I've done to myself and my life. I wish I could talk to my Doc, but he doesn't want me weening off yet and I want my adderall prescription. I hope that's not too bad to be taking, it's the only thing that keeps me going. During withdrawal I can't focus.
Thanks and good luck to everyone else.

You said you've been splitting it with your fiance? Is that why you are withdrawaling because you run out earlier than you can get the prescription filled? How come you are prescribed adderall, if you don't mind me asking? I am wondering because I need some of that because I can't function either because of the side effects of suboxone and I need a job, but I'm afraid I'll withdrawal or be too tired and not go and lose my job. Good luck with the weekend job. I completely understand about Sub withdrawals. How long after you take the suboxone do you withdrawal? I found out that I was taking the Suboxone wrong and when I started taking it correctly, it made a world of difference. I was drinking water with the Suboxone under my tongue. I would swallow the dissolved stuff with water every time part of it would dissolve, so none was being absorbed under my tongue. Anyway, I wish you the best of luck. If you ever need to ask anything, I'm here to answer, but that doesn't mean it will be the right answer. Take care. ;-)

Do some more research my friend. Suboxone is an opiate. Call it a synthetic, dirivitive whatever ya feel like. It has 2 parts: buprenorphine (this gives ya the fix) nalaxone (prevents opiate overdose) Many, many doctors will tell you it is not an opiate. It is a cash cow. Just because it is not a full agonist does not mean the properties are present. Suboxone is classified as a partial agonist. Partial or full - opiate is present. Please do not preach to addicts about withdraw. It is true for some that switching to sub from oxycodine (percocet or oxycontin-perc with no tylenol on LT time release) or hydrocodine (your freind vicodine-also w tylenol) you are avoiding the inevitable full opiate withdraw. The switch for me was also pretty tough w/d wise. However these scenerios my not apply to all addicts for every human body reacts different. Soooo my misinformed friend don't pass off the BS someone told you. It is all science and it is public information.

today is day 5 for me off suboxone..withdrawls are very very very mild.. same symptoms as heroin or oxy..just without the sick feeling.. i rate every symptom a 2/10 .. very easy too do..its easier than a cold. for the people that are saying OMG I WAS IN SO MUCH PAIN..grow up please. its easy and you can all do it.. just think..how fast did last week go by?

if you only take suboxone can you have withdrawals, cuz i kicked heroin 16 days ago and im still experiencing all of them. I dont know if im feeling heroin withdrawals or suboxone withdrawals?

Yes i am a guy and yes it does kill my sex drive but when you stop taking it for a day or 2, all of a sudden my dic* feels amzing like its brand new i bet if he just took it in the morning the next day toward the after noon or evening he probobly would just come his pants by just touching his junk, cuz thats how i feel today i might be all emotional i know this on subs the personality gets boring even though he might not notice it he is not the same he would be alot funnier and more fun off the subs, and he penis would be so sensative you would have fun he probobly would be able to cum like 3 times in a row if he tried, im telling you tell him to not take it for one day and try it out it would blow his mind and yours im sure. Anyway good luck remeber if he takes it in the morning he wont be anygood untill the next day at noon the i dont know how it works it just does that to me i imagine he has to be the same.