:$ So after going on suboxone as my fiance & I were expecting a child almost 3 yrs ago I find myself in the same exact perdiciment! When I started taking the medication, it was to initally ease the withdrawl symptoms... NOT Avoid them COMPLETELY. It initally started w/ a friend of mine who also works for a drug treament facility. She advised me then take them as needed start with a 1/2 of the 8mg tablet and if u need more take more. But wait as long as u possibly can until u take ur next dose (until u start to feel withdrawl symptoms). But the good addict I am I couldn't even take that right and ended up visiting a SUBOXONE doctor. Who wouldn't put thru a pre authorization to my ins so I ended up paying just as much for them as I did the drugs. Which 6 months later ended up with me doing a 10 day stay in my local correctional facility/Jail. I detoxed in Jail for ten days from 1- 8mg tab/day. It was hell i hardly slept the entire time &the day I went home I had no intentions of going back on it. but somewhere in the 6 months i was on it my fiancee began to take 1 a day of my script(as i only limited myself to 1/day as well, remembering what my friend had told me). so 2nd day home I was back at a new sub doctor. Yet the 2nd time around i had began with 1/day & quickly was quickly upped to 2/day. Then began the lethargy, the lack of focus, just always tired no matter how much I slept. So bright me upped the dose to see if it would help,but these symptoms only got worse. my fiance @ the time began to get his own script as he was upping his dose for pain reasons. Then the dental work, now we're up to four a day for 1 wk after having teeth removed (now I only have 6 remaing & the rest have been taken out during my suboxone time). NOT something i am proud about! So now we're up to 3-4 8mg tabs/Day each. I get a script for 2 1/2 he gets a script for 3 a day. Now we're both taking more than we get, the inevitable happened... We both ran out and have no alt. source. somewhere in my mind I knew I wanted to quit, as the more I took the worse I felt. trust me I tried to blame everything and anything for the fatigue and depression, but in reality I knew what it was for a while now. (process of elimination) But the other half would doubt my reasons for coming off the sub any time I would talk about it, he always said it's probly not the best idea. Which enabled my disease to allow me to take it up till now. So here i sit 48hrsinto my 34mg/day withdrawl, & I know it will only get worse...