Hello everyone,
I was a oxy and vicoden for two years then moved on to heroin for two and half years and long story short, the law and social services did me the favor of making me get my life back on track. I have been on suboxone for two years now and the doctor is mad because I'm placing him in my bankruptcy, (even though I had no choice) so he isn't getting paid right now, hence one of the two legal reasons a doctor can stop seeing you without getting sued(non payment and not showing for apt 2 reasons) So now as of this past Thursday, he has written me my last prescription which will last until the last day of March.
So ready or not (more ready than not)I here I am working my way off of the subs. When I first started the suboxe, I was on 20 something mg a day, then he had me wean down to 16 a day, and then I chose to move down to 8 because I knew at some point I was going to want to get off of this stuff. I was on 8 for about 5 months, then I chose to move down to 4, that is where I started to feel it. I "did not" get dope sick, just the lazy s you all know those, lol and the tiredness lasted for about two to three weeks.
But after that I was used to the 4 mg a day and I stayed there until now..well this past Thursday when he gave me the news that that was the end of the road,.. my last prescription.
So that very day, I knew it is "ALWAYS" best "IF YOU CAN" to taper "AS LONG AS YOU CAN", this helps with the withdrawals, and how long they will last, so I cut my 8 mg tabs in half and that one in half those in half for a total of 8 pieces which equal 8 (1) mg taps.(Best done by placing one tiny droplet of water on top of the pill and it will spread across the top,let it dry to hardened it, then cut with a razor blade.keeps it from crumbling for equal sizing) And I have been taking (1) MG in the Morning when i wake up and (1) Mg at around 2 pm, no sooner than 8 hrs. ( you may adjust depending on what time you wake up). I have been doing this for one week as of today, and I will be starting my "take a dose, skip a dose", which is what my sisters friend,(whom is a Physicians Assistant), told me too do. So:
Tomorrow (Morning):1 MG and no afternoon dose (Gonna suck)
next day(Morning) skip morning dose (gonna be the worse!) wait till 12 noon and take my 1 MG dose and so on
I will do this for the next 4 weeks, and then he said to skip every other day for one week and then quit. So I am looking at two months or a little over. I want to be done so I can call my doc and say, I quit before the meds ran out!!That my friends, is my GOAL!
Wish me luck. I would love to hear from others who are tapering "right now". I have seen a lot of people from last year, but no new ones :-( I hope to hear from someone soon!
Thanks,
I was a oxy and vicoden for two years then moved on to heroin for two and half years and long story short, the law and social services did me the favor of making me get my life back on track. I have been on suboxone for two years now and the doctor is mad because I'm placing him in my bankruptcy, (even though I had no choice) so he isn't getting paid right now, hence one of the two legal reasons a doctor can stop seeing you without getting sued(non payment and not showing for apt 2 reasons) So now as of this past Thursday, he has written me my last prescription which will last until the last day of March.
So ready or not (more ready than not)I here I am working my way off of the subs. When I first started the suboxe, I was on 20 something mg a day, then he had me wean down to 16 a day, and then I chose to move down to 8 because I knew at some point I was going to want to get off of this stuff. I was on 8 for about 5 months, then I chose to move down to 4, that is where I started to feel it. I "did not" get dope sick, just the lazy s you all know those, lol and the tiredness lasted for about two to three weeks.
But after that I was used to the 4 mg a day and I stayed there until now..well this past Thursday when he gave me the news that that was the end of the road,.. my last prescription.
So that very day, I knew it is "ALWAYS" best "IF YOU CAN" to taper "AS LONG AS YOU CAN", this helps with the withdrawals, and how long they will last, so I cut my 8 mg tabs in half and that one in half those in half for a total of 8 pieces which equal 8 (1) mg taps.(Best done by placing one tiny droplet of water on top of the pill and it will spread across the top,let it dry to hardened it, then cut with a razor blade.keeps it from crumbling for equal sizing) And I have been taking (1) MG in the Morning when i wake up and (1) Mg at around 2 pm, no sooner than 8 hrs. ( you may adjust depending on what time you wake up). I have been doing this for one week as of today, and I will be starting my "take a dose, skip a dose", which is what my sisters friend,(whom is a Physicians Assistant), told me too do. So:
Tomorrow (Morning):1 MG and no afternoon dose (Gonna suck)
next day(Morning) skip morning dose (gonna be the worse!) wait till 12 noon and take my 1 MG dose and so on
I will do this for the next 4 weeks, and then he said to skip every other day for one week and then quit. So I am looking at two months or a little over. I want to be done so I can call my doc and say, I quit before the meds ran out!!That my friends, is my GOAL!
Wish me luck. I would love to hear from others who are tapering "right now". I have seen a lot of people from last year, but no new ones :-( I hope to hear from someone soon!
Thanks,
best of luck to you.you can do it.take back your life.
Thank you! i have been wondering if it will work to taper from strips, so you give me something good to look forward to. wish me luck. i hate theses things and want off. i have 3 strips and going to have to do with those.