suboxone withdrawal: how long is this going to last...I'm mi

Total BS. All the posts here where jumping off sub sounds like a day in the park after a week are people who are:
- in total denial
- still using something
How many posts have you seen where someone is trying to get clean but they knocking back vicodins.

At the end of the day, these posts are great to know when you feel like c**p YOU ARE NOT ALONE and there are some great ways to make the WDs and PAWS somewhat better. The accent on SOMEWHAT. Junkies (and i was and will always be one) are whiners, liars and manipulators. All I can say is that if you have the guts to get through it you are in for the best gift of your life..waking up and not thinking about a rotten pill or strip.

God bless.

I agree 100%. A quick rundown on my story, im a 30 year old male and 4 and a half years on suboxone. Three 8 mg pills a day. 4 and a half years later down to 2 mg strip a day. Said F U C K this and stopped. Tried a few times years earlier with failure by day 4. Had a week off work THANK GOD cause most are gonna need it. Day 1,2 and 3 not bad except anxiety and your mind that youve stopped what youve been on so long. Day 4 through 8 for me was horrible. Couldnt eat drank boost and cvs brand meal replacement shakes. No sleep, it drove me nuts the only cure for me was 50 mg of trazadone and lights out, tried alot of things for sleep but none worked. The worst was feeling like you have 104 degree fever and restless legs. Only thing that gave me temporary relief was super HOT baths and showers and get on your bicycle and try to ride as much as you can which was very hard for me to do as i would wait till night time cuase such bad anxiety, but once done u will feel a little better. On day 8 my first meal man it felt good. By day 11 and 12 physically felt better except bad anxiety clonopins help but I dont eat 1 unless i was ready to wig out, which will happen at least it did for me. Im on day 15 and my typing is for that someone reading IT CAN BE DONE!!!!! Still NO ENERGY or MOTIVATION but subhellzone free baby. Now its the mental part that your body needs something, anything. Taking alot of vitamen C and little cvs brand sublingual B-12 pills that you stick under your tounge just like a sub strip to try to trick your mind. Tried it all whatever helps. You have to eat and drink alot of fluids. Go sit outside in the sun whenever possible. Take aleve for your aches and pains. Enough rambling on but a couple strange things ive encountered. I havent had a dream that i remember for many many years. On day 8 i had a dream also day 11 and on dreams that i remember weird but awesome. Also i used to sweat like a pig while on suboxone now at work, very little if any sweat only the bottom of my feet weird to me as well. Also any support and i mean any helps the body mind and soul. And lots of your favorite music helped me out alot. Good luck and god bless. PS your emotions are gonna come out, let them go, and put pictures on your fridge or something you see every day mom, dad family and they will help your drive that little bit more. Feel free for any questions and sorry for my improper spelling and use of paragraphs!!

Forgot to say go 1 page back to 53 and read coinex's paragraphs GREAT READING! Very motivational, when your having a rough day read it helped me alot.

I am 63 yrs. old and used Opiotes for years due to 5 surgeries. I went into treatment, sheer hell and they put me on Suboxone/Naloxene 8mg/2mg. I vomit 2 to 3 days severly and take 20 to 30 showers. I hate the medication and am taking myself off of it. What is the deal? Vicodan was no problem. I lost 50 pounds. Anyone have similar reactions?

hI I am 63 years old and have been on drugs opiods due to 5 surgeries. I went to treatment 3 years ago and I vomit 2 to 3 days at least once a week. I hate the drug. I lost 50 lbs. and am taking myself off it. Vicodan was a breeze compared to Suboxone 8mg/2mg. It is a nightmare drug. Back in the old days, to withdraw in a Treatment center, I would be given Catapress, phenobarbital....stay a month and felt like a human being!! Why would the medical community think giving another addictive drug help, plus they are 11.OO dollars per sublingual strip and the Dr. wants me to take 2 per day. Then they add Soma 350mg. (which so helps) and I am almost off the Suboxone, still horrible withdrawal, hot, cold, weakness, etc. I wish I would have never seen a Suboxone!! Don"t take this c**p!!

Hi, I'm 29 years old and was on suboxone for a while, scary. We'll, I'm on day 17 and feeling better then I did between days 5-12. The scariest part of my day is bedtime. The restless legs keep me up all night, cramping, kicking, just unbelievably uncomfortable. My physician gave me kolonopin to help with sleep and my legs, yet I fall asleep for 2-3 hours and then tossing and turning non-stop every hour on the hour. I'm praying this ends, I just want ME back. Any encouragevent for the upcoming days?

Encouragement I have my friend. My little story is at the top. Im now on day 25 and let me tell you DAMN it feels good. You will have decent days and bad days but eack week a dramatic differece. For me its getting over the anxiety now and still energy levels suck but HUGE difference a week will make. I still kick and stretch my legs but now only at night and a WHOLE lot less than 1 week ago. It will get better I also was prescribed Klonopins they help for anxiety and calmness but for me not so much the sleeping. Sleep is very important to the healing process. I highly reccomend you call your physician and get Trazadone. I break 100 mg pill in half and from about day 10 to now has allowed me to sleep a solid 6 hours every night. To all the people that say dont take meds tough it out listen we are here to get off suboxone and any thing that will help you sleep through the s h i t t y LONG lasting sub withdrawals is a god send. Let us know how it goes and let me say with confidence excuse my language BUT F U C K all the depressing, scary horror stories we all read about suboxone withdrawal about how youll never be the same. For the first time in 12 years i have no opiate anything in my body and now I FEEL feelings, feel my back hurt, have dreams, dont have to wake up every morning and take suboxone and let me tell everybody IT FEELS GOOD TO FEEL. On day 17 I was almost ready to say the hell with it but now day 25 and what a difference. 1 day at a time and I dont know about anybody else but NA meetings will help if needed, lots of support to get through a tough time. God bless and congrats.

Hi Jill B. Ive read a ton of info on suboxone withdrawals the past 6 months or so and your story is unique. Everybodys different, I dont know what kind of surgeries you halve had but throwing up severly and losing 50 pounds doesnt sound like suboxone but you never know. Good luck with getting off it and hope it helps with your issues.

Wow... thank you. Sorry for my temporary phone spelling problems. I stopped the kolonopin after 2 days. I feel i have a lot of support and control. I've never had issues with meds and after subs used for pain management was the WORST idea but I had no idea the actual long term affects. My husband tried to kill himself weeks ago, which in turn made me realize how unhappy I've been and how unhealthy. So here I am, almost day 17 and im in it to win it. I agree, some meds may help, but I'm trying to do it all vitamins and working out. Why would people get to skip withdrawal and not understand the circumstances. I think subs are the worst medication on the market. I hope no one has this struggle. Thank you, each day I count, pray, love, and am thankful to know I want to be happy.

Great to see the success stories on here. Those are so important to hear on these forums.  For me, drugs were about numbing myself. No real physical pain but I lived in an abusive marriage and self-medicated.  I gradually ramped up 15 years of benzo use only to progress to opiates and finally subs for 4 years.

There's a delicate balance between using benzos to get through painful withdrawal and getting sucked back into addiction. The absolutely HARDEST thing I've had to learn to do in my (almost) 18 months clean is live life on life's terms. I would pop a pill or ten and intentionally numb all emotions to make it through the day. It wasn't so much about getting high for me.  I struggle, now and again, to deal with everyday stress and the pain of being human. It's adjustment.

My point is - do what you can to get off the subs but remember that a drug is a drug is a drug. Don't substitute one for another.  Good luck to you all.

Wow... thank you. Sorry for my temporary phone spelling problems. I stopped the kolonopin after 2 days. I feel i have a lot of support and control. I've never had issues with meds and after subs used for pain management was the WORST idea but I had no idea the actual long term affects. My husband tried to kill himself weeks ago, which in turn made me realize how unhappy I've been and how unhealthy. So here I am, day 17 and im in it to win it. I agree, some meds may help, but I'm trying to do it all vitamins and working out. Why would people get to skip withdrawal and not understand the circumstances. I think subs are the worst medication on the market. I hope no one has this struggle. Thank you, each day I count, pray, love, and am thankful to know I want to be happy.

I agree its one of the worst medications on the market and most people that are on it should have never been prescribed it from the begining. Ive detoxed off alot of opiates and in 10 days your feeling great. Besides methadone which is why i got on suboxone is very difficult to kick. Now REAL doctors realize you should take it for a week to kick your old habit then STOP taking it, not be prescribed for 4 and a half years like myself and jojomoneymaker. And I agree 100 percent a drug is a drug but for me its whatever it takes to get sub free. Life on lifes terms and one day at a time and the serenity prayer works for me as im trying to apply it more and more in my daily life. Also I just want to be happy as well and a couple more days i will have a month suboxone free. Lets keep posting and helping each other get through as well as anybody that reads these posts as they help alot for anybody struggling and trying to stay positive.

Today is DAY 19, can you believe it? And I actually slept last night. I am feeling so much better, yet I don't want to jinx myself. My anxiety is still pretty bad, but that is only because of the situation with my family and becoming me again... all at the same time. My husband sure enough has NO idea how to get help or support. He thinks after he tried to.... commit.... the unthinkable.... its all financial issues. WTF? Right now, I found an amazing clinical pyschologist who specializes in the events that I have recently encountered. And I have to say, with the therapy sessions, working out, eating, vitamins, trying to keep my mind busy... today felt like a milestone. Only 11 more days until its day 30 and that feels right around the corner. I am truly an activist for anti-suboxone. Did you know doctors are not onlt perscribing it for naroctic addictions, but pain management, depressions, and much more. Its like everyone is getting on subs lately. But, with no idea that you have no emotion, no sex drive, no feeling, and just makes you "happy" or so you think. It gets into your bone marrow, that's why the withdrawals are so lengthy. I feel I have made it this far, nothing can stop me now. AND I won't let it. Yet. with all that said, I don't think I can express the support (more like feeling someone out there knows/ is going what I'm going through or at least understands), but the encouragement and replies that you have made to me... truly have helped me. This site is helping each day. And that would be the best advise to anyone, don't think about how long you will feel like this, just take each day by day and feeling that comes with that. Thank you!!!!!

P.S. What is the serenity prayer?

Hello my name is Jeremy. I used to write on this website every day.  I took my last dose of suboxone on April 9 and it now seems like a distant memory.  I'm now 7 months off of it and feel better than ever.  U can go back around page 44 or so and read my story. I posted how I tapered off and how I felt each day after getting off that garbage.  It's doable people.  Don't listen to the c**p about u will be depressed forever

First off your replies and encouragement help me tremendously and others that are chiming in. Day 19 is a milestone for what we have achieved. I dont quite know how much you have read on sub withdrawal and all the different stories and forums most negative but not all, but your words are music to my ears and anybody else that wants there life back. When you said no emotion, no sex drive, and no feelings you hit the nail right on the head. I kinda quit counting days this past week and am on day 29 today. What ive realized is just how much I was numb to ALOT of things for many years. Im only 30 and better late than never right. Its weird the whole emotion, feelings but in a good way. My mom passed 1 year ago and its almost like I feel she passed all over again when i started feeling again, sounds weird but true. Im sorry to hear about your husband as this whole thing is causing my relationship ALOT of heartache. She tries a little to understand but has no idea as she has never had problems with addiction or pain. The more I get it in my head my girlfriend, boss etc will not understand no matter how much they read or how much they think they understand the fact is they never will, the better off I am. It made it that much harder for me not to have all the support I want from the people closest to me, which is why these posts are SO important for me. I was scared to leave my house the first 20 days or so cause my anxiety was so bad. Its getting better each day but most days I still have no enegy or motivation to do anything but just try to make it through the day and to my bed at night to have another successful day sub free. I take alot of vitamens now and drink and eat pretty healthy and telling myself its working. Im getting a juicer for fruits and vegetables and hope it helps. How is your energy, is it different each day? We made it to far to turn back now no matter what at least thats what I know. There is alot I want to say but thats enough rambling on from me for now. The serenity prayer is god or your higher power, grant me the serenity to ACCEPT the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I CAN, and the WISDOM to know the difference. Sounds kinda cheesy but am looking forward to more of your inspiration, with many failed attemps I know I cant do this alone!