Hey everyone, I'm sorry that it has taken me soo long to write back to the comments you left me on June 6th, but I have been very busy.  I'm so glad that all of you, Liscamdave, Fishmeal. and FLaddict have all told me all of your stories about using Sub.  I actually have never gone to a doctor about getting off Percs. Actually, my boyfriend and I were both hooked on them for about 2-3 years.  I started to take them after my dad and my brother both died in a couple month period, so I was going through a really tough time and I just started to take them to take the pain away. I would just get so high and become numb so that I wouldn't have to deal with reality.  I realized a couple months later that this was a huge mistake.  But anyway, my boyfriend and I both decided we wanted to stop taking Percs, mostly because of the debt we were getting in, because both of us used ALL the money that we had just to support both of our habits for so many years. So, my boyfriend actually knew a girl who got Subs for quitting heroin, and she had been taking them for a while and was cutting down her dose.  So, she actually sells them to my boyfriend, and me and him take the Sub without a doctors approval.  I know that this is dangerous, but neither my boyfriend or I could not get enough balls to face a doctor because we DO NOT want our family's to find out about this.  Both of us are so embarrassed and ashamed that we let it get this bad.  But here's what happened...the girl gets 8mg Subutex, and (after eating 40-60 pills a day for 2-3 years) the  first day that I stopped eating the Pers, I took one 8mg subutex everyday for 3 days, just because I thought the withdrawal would be really bad.  Then after the first 3 days, I took a half of a 8mg (so  4mg) everyday for the next 14 days.  And then after the first 17 days, I took a half of a 8mg every other day for the last 3 weeks.  I have been clean for about 5 weeks, I didn't keep exact count. Some days I will feel fine and I won't take the Sub for 2 or 3 days, and then I feel like I will need it to get out of bed.  So, then I will take a half of one.  But this past week, I have taken about 12mg or 1 1/2 Subs in the last 6 days.  So, I feel like when I started taking the Sub that I didn't take a high dose at all, and I know that some of the people that I know who get it prescribed to them take three 8mg Sub at once, and I have never taken more than one 8mg Sub in a day, and that was only for the first 3 days.  The only time I can say that I've felt pretty shitty was when I didn't take any Sub in 3 days and that night I had horrible withdrawl.  We didn't have any Sub, because the girl we get them from were all out of them  and I could not sleep and my legs felt soo horible.  And my boyfriend didn't believe me because it had been so long since I had ate any Percs.  And I don't think he realizes the fact that you can withdrawal from Sub.  I am glad you all wrote this and brought it to my attention, because I am going to read him your comments.  So I am really thankful you wrote them.  He takes one 8mg Sub everyday, because he feels a slight "high" off of the pills, and I told him it's because the Sub goes to your opiate receptors, so you are going to feel a little high, but if you do, it should be a sign to lower the amount you are taking.  But anyway, I just wanted to ask you guys if you thought that the amount I am taking is enough that you think I could get "hooked" on the Sub.  I think if anything it is more of a mental addition then a physical, because I know sometimes I feel like I can't get out of bed until I take the Sub.  But I want to know how many mg's were you taking every day of the Sub, and also how many mg's of painkiller were you all taking for how long?  Thank you guys and Please Write Back :)
Love Rachel