Day 28, WWWWWhhhhhhhheeeeewwwww.....What a withdrawal......Feel my energy coming back......1st day feeling 95% normal.....Gabapententin helped getting through the misery.....Gabapententin is a nerve blocker that is used for many things....Stay in there for those of you who are going through this hell and realize you will feel better after about 4 weeks....Christ also was my guide and once I started reading scripture, I started feeling better.....Stick with it and do not relapse on that nasty drug....
Subx. for 8 days & I have complete sympathy with anyone coming off Subx. What a terrible drug. Initially I was taken off several years of MSIR for bladder pain over a 3 day period and put on Subx. 1 1/2 years ago. I've been told Doctors put all their patients on Suboxone so that they don't have to check as to who is taking anything else. Good luck - hang in!!
God bless all of you
LUCK
I have tapered slower and hope and pray that it will work. If I can do this it will be the first time in 10 years that I have been opiate free.
My back is in horrible shape and I fear that the pain will send me back into a pain clinic.
I'm going to keep positive and remember that the substance is controlling me, not that I can control the substance. ..... BUT I WILL
Suboxene was a miracle drug for me...the problem with it is it made the detox so easy I decided to use again because I thought I could for a day or 2 and be fine. Nope! It was like i was addicted all over again, so here i am day 2 on suboxene. I've bought it off the street and detoxed at home before and it is so much easier than opiates. Take it from someone who was doing 300mg of oxycodene per day, no that wasn't a typo i was snorting roxy 30's, 2 in the morning and do some through out my day and would do enough to nod out almost every night. A few years ago if I took 2-3 10 mg percocets than i would have been sick but I built a very strong tolerance, my right arm starting going numb I think because I was taking 8+ mg of xanax or any benzo i could find, my heart wasn't beating enough blood through my body. Basically I was on the verge of not waking up. This happened for about 2-3 months until I joined a treatment center. I'm not sharing war stories but I've been on these sites looking for help and trust me your not alone. If your reading this know it's from someone who has been thru it all with prescription drugs, a pill habit like that snorting them is close to heroin addiction I hear but I have never tried heroin, sometimes i wish i would have bc I would have saved so much money but the truth is as you can tell by the way I use I like to use a lot and would have been shooting up and dead by now I think. SUBOXENE IS A MIRACLE DRUG and you can detox from the other opiates and ween yourself off suboxene with out throwing up and all those other symptoms, The most common I hear is anxiety as a side effect but that beats having the super flu in my book by far, the anxiety increases when I first smoke weed for the day but it goes away and I'll continue to smoke weed throughout the day and the anxiety goes away. Maybe thats why my suboxene withdrawals are easier than others is bc I smoke oil or weed to help with the headaches and depression. Thats the biggest symptom of withdrawals from subs in my case, sweaty palms and a minor headache but I can function. A lot of it has to do with your head and it won't be a walk in the park but trust me, it's a thousand times easier than going cold turkey and throwing up for days which is what I would be doing right now if it weren't for the subs, again I'm on day 2, I plan on watching the superbowl at a friends tonight and it's like I almost have my mind back already. I know the difference this time is going to a recovery center, I know it sounds dumb to some people but the group meeting and talking really helps. Those are the people that truly know how you feel. If your on the phone with a friend/family who hasn't been addicted to opiates they will not understand. I'm doing an out patient program and I am staying committed to what the dr. says. In my case I have to go back in 2 days and I'm going back and asking my dr. to decrease my doses bc he gave me 2 8mg per day, my first day I took a whole one and had to take another half 6-8 hours later, I had stuff to do and a child or I probably wouldn't have taken that. The only problem with Suboxene is it's half-life. In my case if I use subs I take as minimal as possible bc the withdrawals from subs last longer, anything with a longer half-life is going to take longer to detox from so if you do decide to take subs remember that and remember there are dr.s who will prescribe you strips for years possibly when you could have weened your self off of them after 2-3 months max. My goal is 1 week of the 8 mg subs and then I want the 2mg, then I will take the 2mg and start cutting those down into smaller pieces almost to the size of a fingernail clipping over a 2-3 week period and quit completely when I have 2-3 days off to shake to shake it off, I will drink coffee for energy and exercise and eat well but the energy takes a couple months to come all the way back. If your using please quit, try a program, do what ever you have to do, if you have to pay 600 bucks for 2 weeks worth of subs, think about all the money your saving! I see people complain about that and I wonder where they got the money for the drugs before to get addicted bc it's not a cheap habit especially when your spending your life savings like I was doing. TRUST ME there is light at the end of the tunnel. If me sharing this saves one person from this awful disease I would be happy...maybe that person is you. There world works in mysterious ways. f**k being a slave to the pills, calling everyone you know asking for them, waiting in bad areas hoping he comes back with your drugs and didn't rip you off, lying to family. I wish the poppy plant never existed and what gets me is how 90% of it is from Afghanistan and we send troops over there and now there's an explosion of heroin??? A friend of mine was so mad about 9/11 and joined the marines to come back and say all he did was guard poppy fields and something isn't right. I'll get back on here and update my progress everyday for any users or anyone who wants to follow my story. I want to help others the way I was helped. Tough love is important but EVERYONE I've talked to who quit was ready to quit. You have to wan to quit or it's not going to happen period. If your waiting to hit rock bottom listen, there have been people that overdosed and are saved the first thing they want to do is get high, if almost dying and laying in a hospital bed isn't rock bottom what is? The only thing worse is to be dead. So don't wait to hit rock bottom, don't procrastinate just pick up the phone and start making phone calls for help, use the internet as a source to find the numbers and just do it! If your not ready to quit please don't waste your time or any of the taxpayers money for a spot for someone who really does want it, I'm so sick of seeing people go there to get their subs and sell them for dope.
I had been on suboxone for 9 yrs 12-16mg/day until I decided I was finally done. I quit my job and throughout the years accumulated a nice piggy bank. I was prescribe 45 8mg/per month the whole time.
I tapered my self down to 8 mg for about a month then 4 mg for another month and then 2 mg for another month. Finally got myself down to 1 mg for a few more weeks... this part wasn't too difficult. Now I was ready to go cold turkey!
My story is very similar to what you guys posted. Basically took me about 24 days to start feeling normal again. The first 5 days was the toughest and the withdrawl symptoms come in waves. Lack of sleep was my biggest complaint which accompanies very little energy and I was always chilled. Love taking hot showers!! (but took every bit of energy I had to get in the shower sometimes). I lost 20lbs since my appetite was neal.
Finally, I'm writing to you on about day 30. I've got my gym bag ready and I plan on willing myself to the gym tomorrow(Mon). My doctor told me that exercise helps getting the dopamine receptors working better faster.
At the end of the day, I think suboxone saved my life! I don't care what anyone says, getting your brain chemistry back is the key in getting off opiates and its much much easier to get off just straight opiates!
I guess I've been fortunate to not have much anxiety or depression during my withdrawl process.
My advice is just do it! Whats a month out of your life?! In a few years you'll forget how difficult it was~ but my doctor advised me that you have to be very careful at that stage since now your brain has forgotten the difficulty, it may play tricks on you. You might tell yourself, just 1 pain killer won't hurt! My doctor told me that your brain remembers how good you felt on them...
Anyhow, good luck! And Persist and you will Succeed!