How to Quit Suboxone... Or try to stop Suboxone...

[HIPPIELOVER]

Hi! I have been on Suboxone for approximately 1 year and 3 months for an opiate problem I had. I started out @ 2 8mg orange pills/ day, I am on 1/4 in the morning and 1/4 @ night now. Suboxone makes me seriously feel like a Zombie and I am tired of being out of it all the time. I am in College and can't remember jack and it's from the Subs. I am motivated to quit but it is very hard. I have 9 pills left and am not going back to my Dr.. My Doctor charged me $280 for a drug Urine Test (after insurance paid for most of it), I am so mad about it. Anyhow, I am weening off and will be off subs soon hopefully. Any advice for quitting? I know my Energy level will be down and sleep may be hard. I just really want to stay motivated and knock-it so I can stop feeling like a Zombie and looking like one. I feel like I am mentally challenged when I am on them, it doesn't feel good anymore, it just feels better than "bad." REMEMBER WHEN DRUGS WERE FUN? I sure do. I will let you all know of my progress if you are interested, Thanks for any support! I am here to help if anyone is going through this as well. e-mail me @ ***@**** to say "HI" or "How ya doin" or "I am trying to quit too" or anything! I am bored 21/7. haha Later Gals and Gents, I hope to report back here with success soon, Your Boy: Pj 0lson

[TysonRed]

One suggestion Id make is to try and get at or below 1mg of suboxone before you quit. You said your taking 1/4morning and 1/4 at night so your at 4mgs right now, the lower the dose that you jump off at is for the better. I actually tapered down to a tiny crumb of a 2mg tablet(around .25mgs) before I quit, it was still pretty tough to kick. You may want to look into the health pages and check out the amino acid protocol or the thomas recipe, it could be beneficial to you when you quit. Keep posting your progress, all the more information we can get about others experiences with suboxone just helps us all have a little better understanding. I'll be rooting for you, take care.

[refusingbondage]

I definately agree with TysonRed.  Try to get yourself down to a crumb or sliver.  Also, try to change your dosing to once a day to get yourself out of the am/pm dosing habit.  If you have 9 left you can shave them down and take tiny bits - as little as possible.  Jumping from 4mgs is a lot.  I quit at 1mg and it was no fun - believe me.  You sound very motivated and I am glad you are ready to let go of the subs.  Good for you.  Get a smart game-plan together and stick to it.  Be strong.  You can do this. Ill be rooting for you too.  Good luck.

[HIPPIELOVER]

I Thought 1/4/ day was a low dose, the orange pills are 8mg so 1/8 would be 2mg, i'll get down to that while I have the chance. And Tysonred, I am going to look for that amino acids protocol, what is it for? refusingbondage, thanks for the support, you are my 1st friend on here!

[livinfree]

i too was addicted to subs im telling you you have to get down to taking crumbs on my last days it was just the taste of those pills that got me through an finally when i dident have any more it was very hard but 3 months later i feel better then i ever felt! free from the bondage of those pills an the pain i had in my body that i thought i was taking the pills for was all gone i have never felt better !you can do it!

[BQ77]

1/8 of the pills you're taking will be 1mg.  I have been taking Suboxone for about a month exactly and started tapering a week ago.  Unfortunately from the research I've done (mostly from those on this site that have experienced tapering Suboxone), it's easy in the beginning.  So when I went from 8mg to 6mg, that was easier than what it will be when I go from 2mg to 1mg.  I'm trying the rapid/but slow tapering.  I want to taper to nothing in about a 2 week period, but I'm not jumping too far each taper.  So far so good.  I went from 8mg to 6mg for 2 days.  Then 6mg to 4mg for 3 days.  Yesterday was my first tapering from 4mg to 2mg and honestly for me each taper has been exactly the same overall.  No problems.  I took another 2mg today and plan to do so again tomorrow.  My original plan was to go down to 1mg on Friday and do that for 3 days, but I might cut down to 2 days now, so that on Sunday I can do 1 of 2 things.  Either taper to 0.5mg or even try nothing, so that on Monday, I will go to nothing for sure.  

We are all different, but I'd say put an exact plan in place and stick to it 100%.  You know yourself the most, so do something you know you can do.  My frame of mind is this.....I'm expecting the worst, but hoping for the best.  You never know...you might taper and feel fine.  Just expect to fight through some minor withdrawls that could get annoying, but overall will be tolerable, especially compared to the withdrawls from other opiates.  I'm expecting to have to be tough for about 90 days off Suboxone to be clear and out of the woods, but I'm hoping to be different than most and feel great within a week or so.  There's no doubt you can do it.....mind over matter.  Good luck.

BQ

[starbelly760]

what kind of withdrawal symptoms can i expect to see my boyfriend go through while tapering off the subs.? he's been on them for 5 months now and he is like a zombie most of the time as well. what can i do to help him through this?

[nino22]

I just started taking this medication and it makes me feel better but as i read some of these stories, Is it a drug just in place of another? Anyone have an opinion?

[kittykat02]

I'm here with you, I want to quit suboxone too.  I'm thinking about quiting using the thomas recipe, I can't afford it anymore.

[goldenarm]

Ive been eating oxys for 2 yrs and have one hell of ahabit going, im 28 hrs into my detox and at 24 i ate a 1/4 sub then 2 hrs later i ate another 1/4 and im stopping there for the nite. It helped a little My Dr told me to take 3 whole ones a day, NO FING WAY! I wish he would have never given me the oxys for my back  it doesnt even hurt anymore.I tried this last yr and couldnt hang and ate the oxys again after 10 days on subs and i was taking about 1 to 1/2 a day in 1/4s. A few times i took a 1/2.I regret the hell out of not stopping everythign then, but it is what it is now , A long drawn out addiction , a shameful issue for me a i was 8 yrs clean.I knew better.im paying a hell of a price. I know i cant do days 3, 4, 5, 6. I will pick up and im never breaking the law again, a durg deal 15 yrs ago got me in the pen for almost 5 yrs that went bad. Havent been in trouble sicne, it was by far the lowest point in my life and now this.I plan on trying something very similar to what is mentioned for a few weeks on the subs,for me i believe i can do that if i dont let them get to me for long term crutch,it will be hard, but harder and pr;onged pain if not, i know by reakding thse baodrds and feel for all of youp on here,its miserable to withdrawl, Kick whatever you want to call it, i wish it on no one.I would love to hear some short story sub succes stuff and why would amino acids help you kick if you are eating right which of course im not today for sure .?

[juzneedafriend]

Im down to my last suboxone, and have been taking about a quarter sub for the past year. Im sooooooooooo worried because Ive been getting subs from my dealer to get off oxys. It turns out that he had just been locked up a few days ago and wont be out for a year. (I was frantic just 30 minutes ago when I had found out) I plan to cut this last pill into 10 pieces so the withdrawals wont be too horrendous. Note that for me there is absolutely no way to get suboxones anymore. I have cut off all the people that have been using so I wouldnt be tempted to keep using. I dont have anybodys number anymore and I feel very vulnerable. I currently do not have a job, but am a full time college student! I absolutely cannot fail class either!! I really need a friend right now for support which i do not have...If there is someone out there that is in the middle of quitting cold turkey, or is in the same position as me, please respond and help me get through this. Thank you...

[mtgoat911]

hippielover its so awesome you are ready to quit, i can relate so much i dont know where to start, in the beginning sub was a heaven sent, i wrote blogs about it, told everyone i knew that it was the best thing to every happen to me, i thought it was the cure for my problem then i went into zombie mode like you were talking about, i had enough pills to taper but like any good addict as soon as i started tapering i took a weeks worth in 2 days, and repeated that until i had to go cold turkey, the detox was so bad i did the most retarded thing i could do, i went back on methadone, you see i used the sub to get off methadone and the methadone to get off of sub, i didnt realize that to quit drugs i had to quit drugs, so simple really but i just knew they were going to come up with another pill to fix me, basically i remember my methadone detox more so than the sub because i jumped from one to the other and then went ct off the methadone, all i can say about detox is to find help, its too hard to do alone, maybe na or if you can get into detox, all that matters is your ready, most patients i see in treatment will straight up tell you, i am not ready, but their parents are showing up for visitation ready to see improvements, you have made a declaration, "i am ready" thats all you need right now, see if your doctor will set you up a taper plan, if not i have contacts to a few professionals who will help, good luck, keep us posted,

[tray120]

I have a situation  my mom had been on meth for years about a month ago started suboxone ...very expensive if you have no insurance...well I have done my homework and advised her need to ween off this medication as if not will suffer very strong with drawls .....what is the best way to do this ....I had to pay for 21 pills 160.00 as she was let go from work and I was so afraid of her getting sick and possibly turning to other things to aliveviate the pain ...I love my mom and dont want to see her suffer ......please adv the best way to detox from suboxone.....
tray

[suboAthens21]

Hello,i live in greece and i am in a government program because i have some problem with heroine.I am in this program 1 year now.They start me with 18mg subutex evry day and on friday they give us 32mg all together and 18 suboxone in home from sunday.My problem is that when it comes the time to quit this program how i'm going to feel??Im afraid...i dont want to go back to heroine again....
And the worst in this story is that a Greek company fix a medicine with the name PRENOVINE and giv it to us and say that is subutex...
BUT is not...all the guys have lost pounds and i mean alot pounds....and it isnt like subutex...its not so strong...now im in 14 mg pair day  and 28 for 2days but all together in our mouth...
How can  anyone help????i need help pleace...we need help...one guy after the other drings again heroine....
what can we do????