SUBOXONE DETOX OVER... NO ENERGY

How long is this weakness going to last???

Was on ultram for 3 years and then went on suboxone for 2 months. I stopped and now feel so weak and tired I can barely function. I'm glad I'm not the only one feeling like this. It's been 2 weeks and still feel bad. There's not enough caffine In the world to help me right now. Foes anyone have suggestions?

ITS day 13/14 off subutex and i feel back to normal i feel great hope everyone else feels this good soon to

It is good to hear positive stories. I hope that you will be able to help others with your success story.
I'm interested in your diet? Have you had any problem? Did you had to change anything?

After about a week i started eating but not much just small meals here ( it sucked on Thanksgiving I couldn't even touch food) and there but after about a week and half I started taking fish oils and melatonin for sleep Then after 12 days i couldnt stand being tired anymore so i bought vitamin b super complex with i guess made sleeping so much worse. THe worst part was after the 14th day i couldn't sleep i stayed up for a few days but now i don't have any restless leg syndrome gone and my back stopped hurting when i lay down my stomach does still cramp every now but man am i glad that is over wow it was so hard

list-
melatonin
fish oils
ambien (bad idea still couldnt sleep hallucinated and had horrible headache next day)
b vitamin complex (gave me anxiety at night and didnt help with insomnia lol


I am actually on day 23 off sub and i feel like a normal girl and im not taking any medication or vitamins also during this whole thing i lost 10 pounds and i still don't eat that much i guess i got a good thing from this lol i weigh now 137

Hello, I have been on Sub for about 7 months. I have to get off because I lost insurance and no physician will see me without it that can prescribe the sub. I am scared to death of the withdrawl. When I got off vicodin, the detox was horrible. I can't imagine feeling that again. I only have about ten pills left. I am taking about 3/4 tab a day. They are 8mg/2mg tabs. Is that 2mg of suboxone? Please send me advice with what works to get through the detox.
Thanks,
Amy

best advice for everyone trying to detox from suboxone....do it quickly...if you just got on it taper quickly if you have been on it for longer than six months then well do it a bit slower....but pretty much taper down to 1/8a pill a day however youhave to get to that point just make sure when you do stop your only at 1/8 and don't try to stay in bed all day getup go to the gym go to work or where ever you have to keep your mind busy~ you'll feel very tired n shitty for atleast 2 weeks (shitty but better than just detoxing straight off) if you go to the gym everyother day use the sauna and drink LOTS of fluid and get lots of cardio that WILL help with the insomnia i mean run your ass off like 2miles if your not a runner and 3-5 every other day if your a fit person...just remember you CAN do it and it only takes like 14days to start a habit and 37 to stop it...or something like that...another good fact is once you think about using again it only takes 60seconds of thinking of it until its too late so once you get that thought think of something else quick!!!!

The reason why you feel like c**p is because your going through post acute withdrawal which pretty much means that you feel like c**p for a few weeks or maybe even a month or two.

I am going on 3 days now without and it sucks!!! i was on them for about 7 months started taking one 8 mg a day then half for then down to 1/8 is this tiredness really going to last for a couple of weeks? I mean i need to get employment and have had interviews the past three days that i have been without needless to say i probably didnt get any of those jobs!! But i just want to get back to my old self!!

To all, this is a great resource, thank you you for your honesty. I used H for 3+ years and have been off that for 3 weeks and off sub for 2 weeks. I think it can be very helpful but can also become a crutch. I agree with whomever said to get off it quick if you can. It does of course depend on your own physiology, not everyone can do that, I feel incredibly lucky that I was able to b/c I know many who could not & took it for many months. I think getting off the sub is generally similar to whatever opiate, the longer you take it, the longer it will take to get off (@ least w/o discomfort). Truly though, I salute all of you for taking this step, it's huge, hang in there. As I said, today was 2 weeks for me, still a little fatigued with some general anxiety/ discomfort but not overwhelming. I will say that pot helps tremendously w/ sleep & anxiety management, if you are fortunate enough to live in a med/marijuana state, it is worth it to get a referral, even if only for this period.

Anyone have any advice for the restless leg/cramps stuff, a friend is experiencing that as he is going through the same as me but is still on subs. Thanks again to all, everyday will get a little better, keep your chin up.

I have been on SUB for about 1 1/2 months. I had a surgery and was put on duragesic patches a very high dose. Now I have stopped the SUB. IT has been almost 48 hours. What am I headed for. I wanted to only use the SUB to get me off of the Duragesic. I put myself into complete withdrawl and now I am trying to stop. I am in AA and want this sh*t over. It did the job after the first 3 days but now it seems to be a crutch. What do I do?? Anyone?? PLEASE!

Me and my brother have been on the subs for a good 2 years now. My brother had been prescribed OC's for multiple back surgeries 6 years ago. A couple years later I got caught up in them by my own fault and were on them for 2 years before the suboxone. I have never been prescribed them nor my brother so believe it or not I have been paying 5 bucks a sub for 2 years! Though, i started off on them by taking a 1/4 of a 8mg twice a day. I have been insanely busy working with my dad to keep our business running so the whole time i had been scared of getting off them and not being able to get important work done. Its gone on way to long now and i have needed to get off them for a couple months. Im on my 3rd day cold turkey. Last night was about the worst night of my life. I do have a low uncomfort tolerence but my biggest annoyance in my life is not being able to sleep and i didnt get a wink. Today isnt great but its not too bad. I agree with a post before that POT HELPS imensely. Also a heating pad helps the leg and back pain a bit. I cant believe that after all this time im finally getting off these damn things and getting back to my drug free life that i had 5 years ago.

Thanks so much for this. I'm sitting here, having just taken my last piece of Suboxone (Been on 1/3 of an 8 mg pill for about 2 weeks) and feeling tired already, just thinking about it, and reading these posts I'm freaking out. I'm on day one, if you consider it that. I took only one piece today, and that wore off about 2 p.m. I've had days like this before, but tomorrow is what I'm dreading. And this really helped. I was on them for a total of nearly a year...April would make a year. Up and down on the doses. I was never really a 3-a-day kinda person.



I agree that the docs want to keep you coming back. My doctor was giving me 2 1/2 8 mg pills per day when I told her I was only taking a half a day. She cut me down to 2 a day on my prescription. Gee THANKS! But anyway, this was really encouraging, so thanks. I'm glad to know it's not as bad as everybody makes it. I'm thinking of trying the B12 shots -- my sister can give them. I'll let you know if that helps. But so far, all I have to deal is Vistaril, or ever how you spell it, for anxiety and to help you sleep. Here's to quitting!! Yay us!!! ((I HOPE))

Hey all....Im in the same boat. Detoxed 6 times now with Bup (subs) and I have no clue how to keep away from them. Im at about 2 months on subs, 1mg per day now and Im going to quit taking them soon(2 daysleft). I can go 2- 2 1/2 days but then get anxiety real bad and then the aches and pains and INSOMNIA! I have Valerian, Melatonin, and I take Doxepin for Sleep but it doesnt work too well. My Dr says Ambien is kinda a benzo so he wont give it to me. Im gonna give it a go and hope I make it this time. I tried the AA thing before this last relapse (2-3months on Roxys) but believe it or not one of the guys at the AA meeting was the one that enticed me to go NUTS! So like I said...I have no clue. Ill say a prayer for us all:)

Hey all, I battled with heroin for about four years along with stints of mixing it with crack. before that it was vicodin, oxy contin and even further back about ten years now I was a drunk that liked my cocaine. anyways after rehab I left Michigan and shot over to another State to live. anyways I ended up on Suboxone aftrer rehab for two years A. because of still feeling anxious and not sleeping. B. My fiances mothers therapist said it was something that was an absolute must to maintain sobriety. WRONG you are essentially replacing one with the other.... anyways, I havent taken suboxone for a little over a month now and I still feel weird. It sucks but I feel very optimistic. I spent my days 3-7 working 8.5 hours a day at Starbucks and our store is really busy. I hate all of my customers now and co-workers im depressed as hell at work and have chills still along with anxiety. However, at home its totally different. I smoke a little reefer and listen to music, excercise and masturbate or have sex when my man is home :-D wich sex in itself can get you high like dope anyways but way better...cleaner buzz. exspecially if yyou have a giving partner... you just got to get into your zone and try to stay there... do what makes you feel good. and remember what they say "Idol hands are the devils workshop..." also helps to put up words of inspiration. like on my mirror in the bathroom It reads "today is the first day of the rest of your life" also maybe listen to real songs like fleetwood macs golddust woman some drug songs can put things into prespective about how crappy sh*t can be when you are a user....

I was on suboxone for 2 1/2 years. Used H for 5 before that. After 2 1/2 years got dropped from dr. with one pill left so had the brilliant idea of starting methadone. Was on 180mg of methadone for 1 year, began shooting up my take homes, and decided $14 a day is way to much and decided to detox for good. Went to an outpatient and was given suboxone. I had heard about precipitated(sp?) withdrawals but was told if i waited 5 days (even though I was at 180mg and had not weined at all) that I should be fine. Well I wasnt. I cant even begin to tell you the violent death withdrawal it gave me. I will say this to describe it, if i hadnt called my dr and had xanax bars and clonidine called in, I would not have made it through the night without killing myself, and I have never thought about suicide once before in my life. After that was done (3 days...) I began the suboxone taper. 32mg-2mg in 4 weeks. No idea how I did that, something just clicked in my head in the middle of all this(good timing right) that I was doing this no matter what. After I got to 2mg I was supposed to wait another 4 weeks to level off before detox but one day i woke up and said thats it I'm doing this, Ive totally forgot what life sober is like I atleast have to try it before I knock it for good. I was ready to have myself back, the old me. That was february 4 of this year, 54 days ago. So i detoxed off suboxone. Im not going to lie, just like everyone else here has said, it SUCKS. There's no way around it, it sucks. I started on a thursday and told myself just get to next thursday and see how you feel before giving up. Days 4-5 are definately the worst. Its about a 7-8 day period total(for the accute), with a 4-5 day period of absolute hell. I didnt sleep a wink for 5 days, didnt eat for 4, extreme leg cramps, insomnia, panic attacks, runny nose, nausea, diarrhea, extreme depression, and sneezing (Im still sneezing an insane amount still, I never understood why). There were so many times (a day) where I was on the brink of relapsing to the suboxone, but for some reason I didnt. If you can get clonidine from your dr(which most dr now are giving it for detox) it helps TREMENDOUSLY. Also before detox I was a total slob health wise. I ate garbage food, drank alot of soda, and rarely worked out. While in detox I decide well if Im gonna do this Im gonna go all out. I quit eating c**p food, havent drank a soda since(the stuff is really terrible for you) and started working out religously during detox. All you wanna do when your up is get back in bed and when your in bed all you wanna do is do something. I had to FORCE myself to go to the gym, or even go for a run. While you're actually excersising, it sucks, but after every work out, i would feel a little better for a while. So here's my "list of things that worked"

1)clonidine
2)excersise
3)long, HOT showers
4)Multi vitamins
5)lots and lots and lots of gatorade (or water)
6)Staying busy. Go to work, it will be horrible, but it will pass the time
7)Pick a day a week to ten days from your start day and make yourself get there no matter what before considering taking more suboxone or anything else. There were so many times where I wanted to just take more suboxone (I had a full bottle left) but I kept saying no not till thursday not till thursday it wont kill you.
8) meetings meetings meetings meetings meetings meetings meetings, and oh yeah, meetings.
9) bananas for the leg cramps(not sure if it worked, or it was in my head)
10)Last but not least, PRAY, pray like you have never prayed before, pray to whatever god you want to, just anything to give you hope someone or something bigger than you has got your back

None of that stuff is the silver bullet by any means. None of it will make you feel completely better, but it does help, a little. But anyone that has ever had withdrawals from opiates will say a little better is better than nothing.


I am on day 54 now, totally clean and sober, and am just finally getting back to normal. It sounds cliche, but if I can do it, anyone of you can do it, you just have to try. Once I got to about day 10 and the accute withdrawal stopped, I stopped entertaining the idea of using. For whatever reason going through that has made me not want to use. I have so many emotions, it feels so good to be able to feel again. Maybe I will actually be one of that lest than 10% that sticks out recovery. My emotions have been like a high school cheerleader, my sleep has been non existant, and my energy has been everywhere, but I am now almost leveled off, and I have to say, IT FEELS AMAZING.