Back to Suboxene and back w/ sideaffects What to do!im scared??

[DrewBoy7]

I had to go back to Suboxone today cause my insurance will only give me 11 Subutex a month! My side affect came back within 3 hours of taking my first dose this morning! I dont know what to do! My only next option is 10 mgs of methadone 3 times a day! Just like my Sub's! What am I to do! Im so scared and confused! I cant do these side affects and cant get Subutex witch has been great! I started to taper off the Subutex and was doing fine! Will I be okay to start the methadone and taper off that in a month or so? Anyone help im really having a hard time? Thanks Insurance!!!!!!!!!!

[Ella789]

  That really does s@*^  !  I wish you could have stayed with what was working for you too.   These insurance companies don't care tho!  Everyone I have read abt. with the methadone says don't start it ,  while others say that if you do,  then try to get off of it as soon as possible.  I think it stays in your system a long time even after quiting, so the sooner the better.   I hope that someday soon you will tapper down to a very low amt. and jump when the script is out.   It can be done,  others here have done it.  All I know is that opiates are most horrible drugs in the world,  they help for awhile, but were not meant for the long haul.  I have been clean from opiates 4 months tomorrow,  I have no desire to go back !!!  I do still crave, not so intensly as before but it still pisses me off!
Best wishes on whatever you decide to do,  please read all you can about it and go with what you feel you must do.


Ella

[ProdigalGirl]

Can u stetch out the 11 a month the insurance gave u? When I did the first round of sub I was @ 32 mgs and kept a surplus. Now that I as others on here have needed texs and learned that  less is more, Can you lower ur dose? Just a thought? What dose has ur insurance approved u at?


ProdigalGirl

[DrewBoy7]

My sub doctor has me on 8mgs 3 times ady! I only do * in the morning,4mgs noon time sometimes skip it and 4mgs @ night! I no longer have any subutex so its back to the suboxone! All day yesterday headaches allover again ang it still working into today! I cant tell you how much tylanol have have taking it does nothing! My stomach is killing cant eat without wanting to throw up! I get so dizzy! I HATE it! I had no sideaffects w/ the subutex but thats no longer an option! My insurance will only give me 11 a month no matter what the dose is F*C% the insurance I'm so mad! If i wanted to pay for it w/ no insurance it $256.18 for only 11 pills thts just redickulas! So I have my next app. on Thirsday and I hope something will go right! Thanks DrewBoy7

[DrewBoy7]

Thank you for your input! I know the insurance could care less!If you read my post to ProdigalGirl i have mentioned my dose and what the suboxone does to me it *****!  If I do end up getting on the methadone I will try to taper off as fast as pssible! Its only been 2 weeks on the subs and I started tapering off w/out even trying! Its what my mind and body wants! To be normal as soon ASAP! Thanks for ur words everyoune here really help! DrewBoy7

[worried878]

sub has a very long half life...hav asked what ur aftercare plan is..it is almost impossible to feel symptoms of wd after 2 weeks on sub and only 3 hrs after dosing..after the first few days sub is really only needed once daily for any physicla stuff..after a month or so it is really only needed every other day...addicts feel the need to take sumpin tho//everytime a sad or bad feeling hits them....it is not physical wds u r expereincing drew....u r having super high mental wds and sub is not gonna help that..nor witll methadone..not unless u r working the program drew....i c u post over and over and u r so afraid..i am assuming u r afraid of wd but there is no way u r in physical wd at this point unless u had a tremedndous heroin habit//and even then it is doubtful...fear can paralyze u drew...u need to take a step back and re-evaluate...i heva never seen u post ur drug of choice or dose..course i am not on here 24/7///were u like on humongous doses of IV heroin?  or IV oxy like 300 mgs or more a day and snorting? and r u attending meetings or counseling?

[DrewBoy7]

My addiction started about 2-1/2 years ago w/ percocete and was doing about 30-50 mgs a day till it went to 60-70 and it was not working so I went to Oxcycotion! Started at 10-20mgs a day to 40-50 to almost 100mgs! Mixing the 30-40mgs of perc"s! thats when I new there was a problem! My scripts were gone in 2 days and out on the streets paying a dollar a mg! So when your doing 60-100 mgs my $ was going like hot cakes! Lieing all the time pawning stuff off to get high! I HAD ENOUGH and went to the suboxone clinic! going on my week 3 tomarrow! I fell great! But suboxone gives me side affects BAD! Migrans 24-7! My stomach and taste can not handle it so I went to subutex! AWESOME! No side affects @ all but insurance will only give me 11 a mounth w/ I take 2-3 a day! Thats why my doc wants me to do the Methadone! If you read my other post to you I explain alot there too! I havent gone to any meeting yet which Im sappose to but I want to see a counseler instead! I want 1 on 1 istead of groups! Find out whats going to be next 2marrow! Wish me luck!!! Thanks so much! DrewBoy7