Suboxone withdrawl...any natural thing I can do to avoid it?

I have been in sub withdrawl several times simply because i overused and ran out. Ive lived through day 3, ive seen the light at day 13 and always went back for more. Sub withdrawl can vary from time to time. There have been times its been hell and others that have been a breeze. Ive been taking 6 8s daily for 3 years and i go through wd from time to time, this is one of those times and i thought id share after reading so many good post. I started out as a heavy opiate user about 20 years ago after a tooth extraction. My choice drug was dilaudid or anything of the sort. Recently i was introduced to suboxone and have been misusing the hell out of it ever since. Ive gone cold turkey numerous times from crazy possibly leathal doses. Today is day 5 or 7 i dont count anymore it has just became a part of life for me, somedays im sick other days im doped up. Ive never in my life delt with a drug that produces such feelings of hoplessness, it literally makes me feel suicidal. In which i would never attempt, but no other drug has givin me such grave feelings and thats the part of sub wd i cant handle. The rest is a cake walk for me since ive done it about 100 times. Fact is there is nothing easy about withdrawls they plain out suck and especially for the first timer who thinks they are dying. I gets easier with each time because you know what to expect, and by that point you have found some things that help. Motrin 800mg, benzos, fluids, exercise, sleeping as much as you can in the first 2 days in preperation for the next week that you toss and turn all night. I turn to alcohol when in withdrawl takes the symptoms right away for me. Im not condoning any of my actions here, drugs will ruin your life... So with that said anyone going through withdrawls right now, its not the end of your life it does get better and faster than you think. Stay clean just long enough to feel you again, then make that choice if you want to use again.

Ahhhh!!! 2 8s relief.. i made it to day 9 and it just kept getting worse. This drug is impossible to get off of, it stays in the system soooo long. Anybody that is trying to kick this sh*t keep going and beat it. It can be done but its not easy at all, 10 times worse than oxy. I hate myself for giving in but i just wanted to feel better. I hate suboxone it has control over my life...

omg just read your post im currenlt bein reduced from my suboxone currently down to a 4 mg then there saying 2mg then 1 and it wil be a piece of cake ill hardly feel a thing uv just scared the sh*t out of me lol as i feel the reduction every time i was hoping for a few tips reading this page but i guess no pain no gain and at least im prepared for the real reality of it so thanks for that and no bull from the doctors i suppose you can expect to get away with no pain if you play with the devil so they say good luck hope ur well soon

I'm on my sixth day of not using. I was sporadic and tapered down only the last week cuz I knew I wasn't getting more. It does get easier each day, but each night is worse. I can't sleep!! At all. In six days, I may have a total of two hours. I've seen posts where people said it was only bad on days 3-5 and others who say it could take up to a year...I pray not. Im pretty sure I'd be ok if I could just sleep!! But it hasn't happened yet, and I can already tell that tonight will be no different. Does anybody have any suggestions as to what I can use to sleep? Preferably something I won't get addicted to. For anybody else going through this, I will be praying for you. This truly is the ultimate test of body and mind. It seems like I'm never going to be able to sleep again in my life. How long does it take before I can comfortably rest my eyes again?? Thanks, Struggler

Ok so today is a week for me .... A few things I would like to get off my chest. First of all suboxone is a joke and my doctor was not completely honest about the drug. Yes it will keep you off pills but honestly its trading one drug for another! What these doctors dont realize is its almost impossible for a working single mother to detox from suboxone because without the right support its nearlt ompossible. Ok i will stop my bitching now. Im a week clean and i have great news and a few good tipsbto get through this. First of all if possible seclude yourself with one family member who is completly dedicated to helping you get clean. You will neex a week to get through the rough stuff. Taper down to 2 mg a day or lower if possible. I drank plenty of gatoraid.. Took a multi vitiamin every morn with 2 advil and the body aches never hit me. My biggest issue is insomnia and restlessness. After the 4th day when i started feeling miserBle my father gave me a 30mg oxy ( i could care less peoples opionion on the oxy Im telling you whAt worked for me) now its day 7 and I think the worst is over and it was never horrible for me. Also i stAyed very active. My dad and me did something new everyday. For the past 2 years my life was controled by methadone and suboxone and now I finally feel free. I hope this could help

I was taking suboxone for chronic pain and for withdrawals from opiates I took this medication for a little over three years , this has been the absolute worse thing that I have ever had to go through this stuff is by far the worst drug ever created I'm sure it's not as bad if you only take for a short period of time , but it took me nearly three months of not taking it all and even weaning down till I was taking nothing this stuff will really mess with your head and your body really bad I still don't feel absolutly normal and now I'm almost 5 months out my advice get off of it and don't go back to it . The only thing that even helped a tiny bit was taking an oxy once a day for a few weeks but it was still very unbearable to go through good luck to everyone taking suboxone!

Same!! After a 150-200mgs a day of OPANA-which if you've heard of is the harshest king of WDs and longest. I was on subs for 7 months total, started tapering at 5 only got down to 4 mg and jumped off...the last week I tapered from 8-4 after the jump...here where I think my story gets different from most. I was only on 12mg and refused to believe the horror stories bc I never ever saw one from someone who wasn't still tapering and had been for at least a year down to nothing....I ask why drag it out? I took a couple mild pain killers and was fine. I had to drop ubrubtly bc the doc found a bone tumor in my right index finger after getting an X-ray for a broken hand. I work with horses so there's not much time to be a wimp, this was I'm the heat of summer so I felt a lot better sweating it out at the barn. I also have a very supportive significant other. He's truly the best he kicked an Opana habit, cold turkey, didn't take a day off from work and acted like nothing was wrong. Except I knew he was hurting, he flailed in his sleep, quite dangerous to sleep next too. My point is he gave me a positive attitude and I didn't feed off the online bs like I did WD from Opana, which I think I would have gotten through without the subs except for all the online horrors of paws. I went through it for 2 weeks and it was hell, but I forced myself to deal with it, though at any point I could have bought something illegally to ease my pain. And having 30 5 mg perks I saved from several ER visits from whatever it is that's making me sick, I have the biopsy for my tumor in 2 days. I took like 6 total a day not enoug to feel anything significant. I survived. I'm on day 4 and I have a super fast metabolism so I felt it the next morning, Opana was do much worse I laughed at it. Next few days it got a lil worse and worse...I was still laughing, buy some comfy warm sweaters chamomile tea at night if you can't sleep but I strongly recommend for those of us not taking subs for the lowest class of narcotics (what the hell were you people thinking. I know first hand that sh*t is totally manageable) take them for your minimal WD symptoms, they'll even out your temp and basically make you feel normal I do suggest u allow them to wear off and feel some pain before redosing. You got to pay the piper and if your not, most likely your taking too much per day and you know where that's going to get you. Look up people, humanity has been through far worse, stop paying the gov't to keep you managed!! Screw that c**p!

@All good people, way to go. One of my clients was a college athlete and still needed pain meds for big injuries. He has been doing well using PGV and Spec B Kratom which keeps his WD under wraps.

If u weaned down correctly ,and I'm talking like a quarter pill a month or two,you shouldn'tFeel any withdawals.maybe a little in ur head ,but if weened right ,u shouldnt have any wds

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Hi! today I'm in 4th day off of Subs, I'm experiencing the same symptoms, can you tell me how long did your symptoms last?

i did it once and it sucked and then i started again after only 5 clean days like an id**t.. i went on here to see how to do it differently. because i qiut cold turkey and OH MY LORD! IT WAS WAY WORSE THAN HERION AND I QUIT THAT COLD TURKEY 14 YRS AGO..I HOPE YOUR DOING GREAT..THANKS

i am weening off of suboxone not because i want to because my insurance cut me off because i had got a prescription for vicoden when i had my wisdom teeth cut out of my head and paid out of pocket so it wouldnt mess up my insurance and my suboxone but now i cant get ahold of the doctor or anyone who can help i am one 3 8 mg strips a day and now cold turkey not something i think i can do im freaking out i dont want to relapse and i start back to my most important semester of nursing school which is clinicals where i have to prove my self to get a job and thats 1 week from now WTF am i going to do!!! Im screwed

HEY MAN THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS...IM ON MY 4TH DAY WD OFF OF PILLS AND SUBOXON... I HAD MY WISDOM TOOTH PULLED SO I JUST BEEN SITTING AROUND TAKING PILLS. SCARED OF TAKING TOO MANY PILLS I WOULD TAKE SUBOXON EVERY OTHER DAY... THEN I STOPPED TAKING SUBOXONE ONE DAY AND BECAME SICK.. I DIDNT REALIZE IT WAS WITHDRAWL UNTIL I LOOKED UP SUBOXONE WITHDRAWL.. I FEEL LIKE I HAVE A BAD COLD BUT MY STOMACH IS THE BIGGEST PROBLEM. IDK WHAT TO THINK ABOUT THESE STORIES...I WILL NOT GO BACK TO IT BECAUSE IM NOT THAT BADLY ADDICTED TO PILLS OR LEAN.. I JUST HAVENT BEEN WORKING OR DOING sh*t... THATS WHY I BEEN ON DRUGS FOR THE PAST MONTH... PLEASE CALL ME AT 313 287 0319

lol...reply back when you're COMPLETELY off of them. Then tell everybody that it's all in our heads.