I used vicodin for 7 years I took 40 pills a day (750mg). I know every trick in the book, thumbing threw the yellow pages on a sunday and having a dentist or doc paged, they didnt know who i was and were they really gonna go drive to there office to see if I had a file there? Now a days they are very tricky, they have lab tops at home that link up to there office systems. I would need to pop 5 vicodins in my mouth before my first breath in the morning and then 5 more and 5 more an so on and so on. I had to take them just to feel normal, i wasnt even getting hign ANYMORE! I had around 10 doctors going at once, oh my back hurts, oh this hurts, I even knew a few doctors that new there were a hand full of us out there hooked on them and we would go in his office he would walk in and literally say nothing just write the script out for 90 vic's woith one refill. I even dated a doc who gave them to me! Anyhow 4 years ago I went to my best friends house with 1 vicodin in my hand, i knew that was the day. I was sick and tired of being SICK! Went to the E.R. they basically told me it was not alchohol related and told me to drink plenty of water and sent me home, but with a list of doctors i could call. So I called this one lady doc, saw her that day she interviewd me for 3 hours then gave me a half of suboxone, I felt 100 times better in 20 minutes, she asked me well how do you feel? I said a little better (cause I wanted more) so she gave me antoher half. Well she started me on the highest dose 32mg, which is 4 pills a day. The first week I was throwing up but felt fine. My #1 side effect was sweating all the time!!!! Craving sweets which I NEVER liked sweets and then of course the weight gain :( anyhow I was really scared to get off these even, well about 6 months ago (keep in mind she had only winged me down to 3 pills after 3 &1/2 years of seeing her I was still on 24mg) well I tried to wing myself down WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I went very very slow..I was down to 2 mg a day for about 2 months after my last pill i started counting day 1 fine day 2 fine day 4 fine Im thinking this is great! WRONG.,...day 7 HELL DAY! No sleep, zombie like, walking around in my sleep, thinking i was going to sdit on my bed and fell on my dad's desk and got a bruse the size of texas on my bottom. So i went and told doc what i had done, she got me back up to 3 pills a day 24mg. Now about 2 weeks ago...so this is now 4 years i been taking suboxone I go into see my doc and tell her look i ran out 2 days early i messed up and took to many she exploded and told me she would never see me EVER AGAIN!!! Ok so here I am at 3 pills a day and she cuts me off dry, I felt i could have died! She could have refered me to someone but noooooo. SO what do I do but go online and order ULTRAM cause I use to take those as well as vicodin, I ordered 180 pills for $120. Right off the bat I took like 30 a day thinking i better get doped up cause I dont want to feel no pain from the suboxone, well here we go again day#7 I thought I was going to die! Wanted to crawl out of my skin, chills hot bone and body asches leg twiching yawning all the time. Went threw my insurance and found a place to be seen but it would be like 3 days! That place told me go to the ER, I said i did this years ago and they wont do nothing for me, she said yes they will they are obligated to help you. Well they gave me what I have seen people talk about on here a clodiedine?? patch its for blood presure, but helps woth detoxing as well. That patch was on and in a ,matter of 20 minutes i was sleeping felt so much better. the ER gave me a script for one more patch but said it lasts a week. So I finally went to see my new doc and they asked me did your old doc have you in a ny kind of therapy? I said no not one time! They said thats half your problem! Here were gonna start you on 2 suboxcone a day and get you in one on one intense therapy. The reason I am writing on here is because on day #7 last week i went online and typed in suboxone withdrawls and saw a link that said "my suboxone withdrawl story" and it was on here ...i saw someone say they went threw withdrawls for 8 weeks! I got up out of my chair at work and told my friend take me to the ER i cant do this. The ultram is not even an opioid and thats why i was feeling like hell still. So i knew once i felt better I needed to come on here and share my story. Because this website saved me from doing some pretty stupid things I am sure. Now my scare is people on here stalk about how they are winged off real real real slow but still feel like hell when there off! What am I going to do? I know a co worker who was on methadone for 4 years and got off and is fine but this pill seems likje someone said on here "the devil" when you want off. How is this going to happen? DO I need to take the rest of my life? I want kids in a few years. Im just so scared and never want to withdrawl from this drug EVER again...thank you for reading.
Jill - Chicago
Jill - Chicago
Hi, I read your story and I could relate exactly to everything you have said. Especially when you talked about sweating all the time. I feel like I am going through menopause even though I am only 28 but that is how I feel. One second I am cold and the next second I am hot. And the thing you said about craving sweets. I do love sweets but I definitely notice an increase in consumption. I would have a candy bar or something once every two weeks or a month but on suboxone I was eating some kind of sugar every day!! I have gained a lot of pounds. I had my 2nd daughter almost 5 years ago and I lost all the baby fat within 2 years. Since being on suboxone I have gained all that weight back and more!! It's extremely depressing. The scariest thing in all this is that I haven't had a period in about a year. It stopped about a few months after starting suboxone. Do you know anyone who has experienced that? What was the lady doctor's name that kicked you out of the program? I actually live in Chicago too and go to a lady doctor so I was just curious.
Jill are you still around?...I know a good cheap doctor in Chigago (well in LaGrange) he can help you. I also can help you out to melanieb
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I have been asking this same question for a couple yrs and never got a response.I haven't had a period in 2yrs and it definitely corolated with Fentanyl. I detoxed a couple times and my period came back, soon as I began to use fentanyl and morphine again, no period and blood tests came back Complete ovarian failure! I am on mmt now hoping that my ovaries will start working again. Actually a girl told me it took 2yrs on mmt for her but she did get her period back
Hey everyone!!! I cant seem to remember the email I used when I created that user name of "suboxone withdrawls" so here I am back with a new name. Wowo I wrote that a while ago! And I am just now seeing the replys. That doctors name was Dr. Velasco in Schaumburg IL. I DO NOT recommend her what so ever! I saw here for years and she cut me off because I was short 2 pills! Go figure! Well I am still at the place I told you about last I started there on 20mg and as of today I am on 12mg, they wanted to cut me down 4mg every 2 weeks but I said NO WAY, I have been on this for 5 1/2 years now...please go slow with me. So I said how about 2mg every 2 weeks and they agreed BUT.....let me tell you I am feeling like sh*t! I go to see my doc tomorrow morning 9am, and he is gonna hear it from me because his exact words to me were "Jill when you start to feel any withdrawls tell me and well bump you up a little or give you something to help with the withdrawls" His idea of giving me something is Seraquil, HECK NAH i am not touching that! I took a 25mg pill once and couldnt get up for almost 2 days straight! So well see what he says tomorrow. How are you all doing? And who is that doctor your talking about in LaGrange? I want to see a new doc!
Hello Sufferers! Lol I came across this when searching online for suboxone withdrawls. I too am experiencing some aweful stuff! I feel agitated all the time, one day I cried all day?!! Let me back track, I've had spinal fusions well now 4 and ended up w/ this horrible incurrable disease Arachnoiditis. Basically in short nerve damage. It feels as if my tailbone is a fireball!! I've been off work now 5yrs and have been on EVERYTHING, Morphine, Deloted, fentenyl, Vicodin, Demerol, Percocet, Soma, Valium, Xanex, Ativan, and Methadone. (i'm sure i'm forgetting some) Well after 2yrs of percocet along w/ a cocktail of soma, valium, xanex, & ativan PRN. I was self medicating and my dr's didn't care because they felt helpless. I walked with a cane @ 27yrs old! I ended up on 180mg of methadone a day w/ the cocktail of percocets and muscle relaxers. I was a freaking zombie slept all the time and mood went from high to low like a manic. Mind you I've never been depressed a day in my life until 5yrs ago, was active, and worked 40-50hrs a wk. After being on methadone for 2+yrs I felt it was enough and now had a wonderful new pain dr. He prescribed an inpatient detox to get me off methadone. I got really sick migraines and lost 10lbs in 5days, I was too weak too walk. My dr said he had a new pain med that's not really approved for pain, but is used in US for withdrawls in Canada and Europe for pain. I got off the meth and after I think 3days and taking clonidine. I started the suboxone. At first the pain was very unbearable. I had been going to Pt for 4yrs and had seen NO change. After about a solid mos of my body getting used to Suboxone and (Seroquil to sleep) I started walking w/out a cane!! I now had energy to move around and my pain was way more tolerable maybe a 7 compared to 100! I started training myself and have now been working out since jan. I started on eliptical and pushed myself like crazy, I also purchased Turbo Jam and started doing that! Now 6mos later everything is going good I go and screw up my chemistry again wanting to detox ALL meds from body!
I'm a vegitarian/seafoodatarian lol and cut out all hydronated oils and high fructose corn syrup and eat only fresh fruits and veggies along w/soy. I've been detoxing now is day 4 and the last 3 days have been hell no sleep, feel exhausted to move HURT like hell the pain is almost unbearable. I have diarhea 2+ times a day and my mood is shot! My stomach hurts because of and have hardly any appetite. I was reading the thing about menstral cycle and just thought because I stopped taking my pill after 15yrs that had something to do with it? It's been 3mos now. I've been cutting back for about that long now and was down to 2mg a day then I was instructed to cut back a couple of hrs at a time. ie, 24,26,28,30 n so on, I made it from 72 hrs I oopsd and thought it was 74 the next time and it was 103hrs so my dr said I could stop and once again prescribed clonidine. It doesn't work!!! I started taking goldenseal and an apple 1x day for diarhea, melatonin @ nt to sleep and drinking detox tea w/ no caffeine. I've read different reports it has a VERY LONG half life and 37hrs was one report and 17days was another!!?? I feel so icky and bad and have awful pain, I was told by my dr that it takes 3mos for your brain to re-wire to figure out how much pain I'll have. I read something on cammomile and other herbs to help w/ the pain, can say now they're not helping. It's been 3days since I worked out and honestly am not sure @ this point until I get a lil betta I will. I hope this helps, this has been my ongoing struggle w/ pain and to detox and live "green" naturally. I will too overcome this! 8-|
I'm a vegitarian/seafoodatarian lol and cut out all hydronated oils and high fructose corn syrup and eat only fresh fruits and veggies along w/soy. I've been detoxing now is day 4 and the last 3 days have been hell no sleep, feel exhausted to move HURT like hell the pain is almost unbearable. I have diarhea 2+ times a day and my mood is shot! My stomach hurts because of and have hardly any appetite. I was reading the thing about menstral cycle and just thought because I stopped taking my pill after 15yrs that had something to do with it? It's been 3mos now. I've been cutting back for about that long now and was down to 2mg a day then I was instructed to cut back a couple of hrs at a time. ie, 24,26,28,30 n so on, I made it from 72 hrs I oopsd and thought it was 74 the next time and it was 103hrs so my dr said I could stop and once again prescribed clonidine. It doesn't work!!! I started taking goldenseal and an apple 1x day for diarhea, melatonin @ nt to sleep and drinking detox tea w/ no caffeine. I've read different reports it has a VERY LONG half life and 37hrs was one report and 17days was another!!?? I feel so icky and bad and have awful pain, I was told by my dr that it takes 3mos for your brain to re-wire to figure out how much pain I'll have. I read something on cammomile and other herbs to help w/ the pain, can say now they're not helping. It's been 3days since I worked out and honestly am not sure @ this point until I get a lil betta I will. I hope this helps, this has been my ongoing struggle w/ pain and to detox and live "green" naturally. I will too overcome this! 8-|
Kataka, I hate that you have had to go thru that. I have been going thru a similar situation. Three years ago next month, I injured my neck, and my neurosurgeon diagnosed me with spinal stenosis on top of 4 bulging disk in my cervical spine. but only one warranted surgery, I asked if there were other alternatives, to get the disks back into place and he advised me that there was nothing else but surgery and pain management bc of the stenosis, I took Lortabs for almost two years they eventually did not work for me, and of course I developed a dependency along with the pain, and since I have been thru 3 pain treatment centers and my last dr. had me on methadone and percocets, that is until he went some where else now I am going thru the "detox" process from 11 methadone & 4 percocets a day to 2 suboxone a day and they told me that coming off suboxone will be easier than anything. Well after doing some research I have that they are ALL lairs.. ITS ALL about the almighty dollar. I hate to say that, but it is true. I had a bad feeling about this med and my fears are coming true. I am miserable. the med is not helping very well and I am dealing with depression now,I did speak with my pm Dr. about this, and they just told me to break the tablets in half and take it 1 half four times a day. I am glad to hear that it is not just me. I wish you well. Good luck.
i dont know about you all, but suboxone was the easiest withdrawal EVER.
you need to think back to how bad straight kicking was and compare it to that. be thankful its not that bad.
toughen up, you'll be fine.
you need to think back to how bad straight kicking was and compare it to that. be thankful its not that bad.
toughen up, you'll be fine.
I don't think it's very helpful to come in and say how easy it was for you to finish your withdrawal to suboxone compared to other people. I'm sure that you probably had an easier time with it, but everyone's different. Why would you want to tell people that you had an easy time and then tell people to 'toughen up'? This is a forum to support people, and it's difficult to kick for some people. Try to be a little more understanding.
I am not exactly sure how much time has passed since this post started but I too typed in "Suboxone Withdrawl" and came up with this post. The reason I typed it in was because I have been hearing horror stories about Suboxone Withdrawl and wanted to do some research. Now I am scared to death. I was put on Suboxone a year ago for methadone/opiate addicition. I had 18 years of sobriety from everything and then my husband died from cancer last year and threw me over the edge and I relapsed hard!! Anyway, the docs at the tx center I went to told me that there was this new drug to help opiate addicts and that they recommended I take it. Being the addict and wanting the easiest way out, of course I said ok. Since then, I have been on 32 mgs per day. I started feeling somewhat stable for the first time in a long time and thought everything was great. Then, I started considering going off and cut my dose in half to 16 mgs per day and within a week, I felt like c**p!! I upped myself back up 8 mgs to 24 mgs per day but now I am terrified about the inevitable...detoxing off of Suboxone. When I went on it, the doctors said it would be easy to go off and that I shouldn't worry about how long I stayed on it but I am finding out that they knew very little about the actual effects Suboxone has on us. Can you stay on Suboxone indefinately? What if I were to need surgery some day? What then? I already take clonodine for hot flashes (which they said was Menopause but now I am thinking it is the Suboxone) so I don't think that is going to help me much. I need some correct information about this drug and more than that, I need some hope that my life isn't going to fall apart again when I try to go off this stuff. Somebody help!! :'(
im sorry but i think you are full of it. thinking back now i would give anything to "straight kick it". I have been on suboxone for a year and i am weened down to 2 mgs a day and the 1st day wasnt so bad but by the 3rd i was in so much hell i wished i would just die. trust me i have tried everything and this is even worth than methadone. all these other people are 100% right. it is HELL. maybe you should try it before you come on here talking like that.
SUBOXONE IS DEF BY FAR THE EASIEST TO COME OFF OF PPL!!! I agree with the other guest here. Thinking back, which I've been on Suboxone 3 years now, anything else was ALOT worse. Sub is not easy but different in it's own way. It's less intense nut DRAAGGEEDD out compared. Tuff it out, every1 can overcome this. I thought it a life long thing, which for some it may be, but myself, I "KNOW" I beat this. Without a doubt. Good Luck Every1!!! :-D
these people who are saying that suboxone is easy to come off of have no idea what they are talking about. I was on them for 2 years after many many years of the same old story that youve all heard from others. Suboxone withdrawal is far from easy. I wanted to die. I am not speaking anything but litterally, I did somehow manage to be off of them now for 6 months and like the addict that i am, am considering going back to them instead of the alternative, which is doing desperate things like a junkie and at the same time destroying my liver. good luck to all who suffer from this plague called addiction, I've done so many things over the years that I judge noone anymore for what they find themselves doing
Hi everyone. I am really worried about what is going to happen in the next few weeks. I developed an addiction to oc's and pain killers a while ago after a really bad motorcycle accident that I died in. Anyways, I knew a few people that were in sub treatment so I kicked the pain pills on my own by buying subs on the street and taking a strict dose of 12-14mgs a day. I dont have insurance or the money to go to a sub doctor. I had the money once but every doctor I called wasnt excepting new patients. Anyways, I have quit subs a few times without tapering off them and only made it 5 days. I decided to quit again yesterday and I know what I am going to be facing for the next few weeks. The thing is that I have read so many stories on here but I only found one person who is like me and they were not taking 12-14mgs a day and then just stopped. Does anybody know of anyone who has been able to quit these things by just stopping while taking a dose like this? I dont have any other options I would do anything to go to a doctor and use the treatment the way it is intendend. I want this so bad but I have put it off for so long because my girlfriend or family has no idea that I even take these. Also I live with my gf the last time I tried to quit these I just decided to quit smoking as well so that I had a reason for going through the withdrawals. I really am going to be so siiiiiiiickkkkk soon and I know this I hope I make it. If anybody even knows one person who was able to do this without tappering and just cold-turkey please let me know.
Ohh and does anything really help with this? Some people have said that these may help chocolate, ibprofen, aleve, Immodium, does anyonoe know if this is true
Ohh and does anything really help with this? Some people have said that these may help chocolate, ibprofen, aleve, Immodium, does anyonoe know if this is true
I have been addicted to suboxone for about 3 years now and i am looking for real advice on how to get off of them without becoming addicted to something eles or feeling like i am going to die from the withdrawls. I have tried to get off before numerous times but the agonizing pain i went through just wasnt worth it, please help!!!!!!!!