Hello! I am reading these posts and am compelled to contribute.

I am a 42 year old professional, mom to a very active 6 year old boy, and wife.  I was prescribed opiates 22 years ago for severe endometriosis and started using Suboxone  years ago when I became pregnant.

Today is day 23 with no opiates. Nothing. Twenty two years. I have changed my GABA receptors beyond what science can even discern. 

I feel good for the second day in a row. Ten days ago, 15 days ago, I didn't know how I was going to breathe through the next second the withdrawal was so bad. But it's going to be okay. Don't give up. I have read those words hundreds of times and thought they wouldn't apply to me. But my G-d, they DO! 

The light IS there. You will not be stuck in hell forever.