My two cents. Any info for me would help bc my class doesn't help either I'm on the edge of going to a program for 2 weeks but then I wouldn't be able to ever have anything in my system again like weed bc work would test for the rest of my carreer and that is the only relief now that I get
SOME OF THE FEEDBACK UR GETTING TO UR QUESTION IS NOT TRUE. U can actually orverdose & die by mixing Suboxen w/ other drugs. The person who said that they take suboxen in the a.m. and mehtodone in the night is bullsh..ing u.because it means that he still had meth in him from the previous evening. Its not taking the suboxen in the a.m. then taking meth in the evening thats the problem. it's just that it is a fact that u need to stay off the methodone at least 48 hours and in some cases depending on the dose of meth sometimes even longer before taking suboxen, otherwise I guarantee that u will go into some severe withdrawals. I am speaking from firsthand experience. I've O.D. from mixing pills & suboxen and I've also gone into severe withdrawal for doing suboxen less than 48 hrs after doing methodone for which I've been hospitalized in both cases. Good Luck.
i am with you i have been on oxycodine 30mg for 3 years because of 20 surgeries ive had. ive never taken to get high. I just started my oxy two days ago and today i had pain in my leg and took 2 oxys it didnt get me high it actually didnt do anything. today i woke up and wanted to die but as the day went on i felt a little better. I have another surgery coming up so i dont even know if its a waste of time. but im sick of feeling like im missing out on life cause im always on oxys. my doc had me on 60mg every 3 hours so thats a lot. i guess i will wait n see. he also gave me xanax so i dont think that I'm going to die because ive been taking xanax forever for panic attacks. I think that 87% is a little out there but if you dont here back from me then i guess that will go up to 87.0001% this sucks. I never did this for fun i did this because i was in so much pain now im addicted and all i can do is look for answers because everyone is giving me a different one.
Here is my experience so far. I am 58 years old and have been on OxyContin for over 11 years for chronic pancreatitis caused by a botched gall bladder surgery. I've also been prescribed Fentanyl, Vicodin, and dilaudid. I was taking as much as 800 milligrams a day of the OxyContin. Always prescribed though I took more than prescribed. My doctor finally sent me to a pain doctor to see what she would say. I REALLY want to get off of this stuff though the docs say I will probably always need something for pain. I just get worried when I think about having to have surgery or something cuz how would they ever knock me out? Anyhow, pain doc suggested suboxone and hoped it would have enough pain killer in it to help me. I had a TERRIBLE reaction so I figured I hadn't gone into enough withdrawal although I waited 24 hours. Soooo I tried it again and waited 28 hours. I still had a little of the withdrawal stuff but my lips got super swollen and my asthma kicked in big time. Doc is afraid I'm allergic to it though we might try it again someday but in conjunction with Benadryl. By the way, the first time I took the suboxone my withdrawals were so miserable I took my regular dose of OxyContin about an hour later. It eased the withdrawals completely and I had no ill effects. So now the plan is a LONG, slow taper off of the OxyContin. It has to be long. My body has been used to taking it for years. I've tried tapering before but went way, way too fast and would end up taking even more Oxy just to get it in my system FAST!! Believe me, I empathize with all of you big time. I am so relieved to have found this doctor who is really willing to listen to me and help me. I am now down to 360 milligrams a day but, I have to say, we are going to go a little slower now. Apparently, when you are on huge amounts like I am, it's a little easier to go a little faster at lfirst. Much like it's a lot easier for a 300 pound person to lose 5 or 10 pounds than it is for a 130 pound person to lose the same 5 or 10 pounds. I will try to keep everyone posted. I have been through it all though I've only swallowed the pills, never snorted. Good lick to you all. If you have questions about my suboxone experience or anything else, just ask.
i AM ON THE SUBOXONE PROGRAM, AND HAVE BEEN FOR 5 YRS.. MIRACLE DRUG! I HAD R=TO SEE A NEUROSURGEON ABOUT A MONTH AGO, AND GOT OFF THE SUBOXONE TO HAVE THE PROCEDURE. I DIDNT WAIT TILL THE OXYCODONE WAS OUT OF MY SYSTEM BEFORE STARTING BACK ON MY SUBOXONE AND IT THREW ME INTO THE MOST HORROIBLE RAPID DETOX IV EVER BEEN IN THAT LASTED FOR ABOUT 4-5 DAYS!! I DO NOT RECOMMEND THE MIXTURE AT ALL!! BTW, MY DR PRESCRIBES XANAX TO ME WITH MY SUBOBONE.. AS LPONG AS YOU TAKE AS PRESCRIBEB.. YOUR FINE. BEST OF LUCK :) CARRIE..
I, myself, was addicted to Percocet and Oxycontin for almost 2 years. I voluntarily entered an in-patient treatment program where I proceeded to withdrawl for almost 2 weeks...of what I consider being actual 'Hell' must feel like. I then graduated the program, remained completely abstinent to any type of drugs and pain meds...UNTIL I had to see the dentist for a very bad infection and root canal. He prescribed me Vicodin ES for the pain and because I was in excruciating pain I told myself that I was strong enough to not let myself become addicted after all that I had been through. I was wrong, I only proceeded to find myself in the very same level of addiction that took me 2 years to accomplish almost 4 years prior. At that moment of complete admittance, I entered a Methadone Program. I found myself not being addicted to pills anymore but for the next 6 years of my life I could not function at all without the Methadone. When I was in my final and 6th year of the Methadone program, I met my fiancé. He had been through the same battle that I had been through in his life and he had been switched from the liquid methadone to Suboxone. We had talked very in depth of the two medications, including Pro's, Con's and everything in between. He also let me know about his very first experiences with his Suboxone and how he literally ended up in the Emergency Room and Hospital due to his decision to snort a few Oxy's with some old friends of his. He had been taking Suboxone for 2 years at that point and some old High School friends came into town. He took his morning Suboxone dose but he purposely did NOT take his evening dose thinking that he would be able to maybe "feel" the Oxy affects better this way. He admitted that he was able to feel enough of the effects of the Oxy that evening but also agreed to himself that this was just going to be a 1 time thing. He DID keep that promise to himself. The next morning though, he woke up and proceeded to take his 8mg of Suboxone, sublingually. Within the next 2 hours though, he found himself in the absolute most severe withdrawl imaginable. He barely made it to the hospital because he mustered up enough energy to crawl to his sons room and wake him up. His 9 year old son called 911 and my fiancé proceeded to spend the next 5 days in the hospital. It took the Doctors many many different opiate combinations to get him out of this severe withdrawal. In his chart, which he has and I have read many times, the main ER Dr. on call that morning was quoted making the statement, "I think we have given him more Drugs than Belushi took in his lifetime!"
I have since been transferred from the Methadone that I had been on for 6 years and have spent the past 5 years now on Suboxone. One thing that I can truly admit is that I wish to hell someone would have been honest enough (I am referring to the Dr.'s and nurse's) to tell me that being on either Methadone OR Suboxone is Harder to wean yourself off of than any other opiates out there. I have tried to wean myself off of this medication 5 different times now but have never been successful. I pray that someday I will accomplish this extremely hard feat. I wanted to share my personal story because I know that there are so many people in this world, people whom a lot of us would never in our wildest dreams imagine having addictions like this but the fact remains that drug addiction is very much alive in this world. If I was able to answer any questions, or calm anyone's fears, or help someone make a decision regarding their addiction in any type of positive manner than I have successfully shared my humility and humanness with you! I also would like to say that I hope some day people in this world will stop all of their judgmental ways regarding this very sad but very real problem in our world. Because every one of us has made mistakes in this world, and only some of us have had the good fortune of overcoming those mistakes quickly and painlessly. Others of us, struggle every day with this and if those of who can fling such cruel words from your tongue about a fellow human being were able to believe that most people who struggle with addiction did not PLAN or SET-OUT to become an addict during their lifetime. These things just happen and for some it is harder to beat than for others! Please save any judgmental or negative comments for yourself.
Thank you for taking the time to read this! Good Luck to all who are walking in their addiction and to those who have crawled out from beneath their addictions! :) God Bless and Peace to All! :)
I'm exactly like you as far as useage. Yes I felt very sick when off meds. My use of Sub went like this......I used 8mg for 3 days, 6 mg for 5 days, 4 mg for 5 days, 2 mg for 5 days and 1 mg for a week. Completely clean and extremely minimal withdraw. It was nothing after using Iroxy and OC for @ 100-160MG per day but like you said I was very motivated, going broke and had a great jop in my view that I didn't want to blow. It really wasn't as hard as I thought. I have heard that if you go for the whole cycle---3 months it can be hell to get off Sub. This is more common if you have little will to get off. From what I have seen much of the WD comes from not having will and is often an excuse for those who fall back into addiction. BTW-- I was not using for abuse. I was using becuase of injury and pain management. Maybe why it was easy to get off? Much of the WD is mental after the enitial 7 days for the physical symptoms go away its all in your head after that. For example after I was clean-- one day just out of habit I caugt myself opening a pill botle to take the 30mg IR for no reason. I didn't even know I was doing it....It was the strangest thing...it was just a purely motor habit. I went as for as putting it in my mouth because I had been using for som many years. I had to spit in the sink and stop and think about what just happened. Wow I thought this stuff really has a strong psychological factor. I hope you get better soon. I been clean for a long time and was trying to help a friend get clean when I saw your post. I hope you can find some spirituality regardless of where it's from and yes the best friends can be the worst influence. I wouldn't forget about them but maybe you need a break while you get better. God Bless.
For 2 years I was doing 1mg or 2mg of sub and 2mg of xanax never had any problems at all best feeling in the world and I been on every drug plus to answer everyone on film or pills 8mg a day it takes 48hours I've tested this twice and my withdrawals are less harsh when I take ox or perks 2days after stopping sub I've been on sub for 5 years now if your on it stay on it when off cravings for drugs and alc come back 10 times stronger
Yeah or dry heaving. YOU need to wait 36-48 hours.