I will be detoxing from longterm suboxone use and would like to extend an invite for others to join me so that we can help support each other

[suboxoneaddict]

I am about to emabark on a detox I have planned for about a year now. I have been on suboxone now for almost three years and I am finally paying heed to the downside. First, on the good side. Suboxone has helped me to stabilize my life along with AA and therapy. I have gone to school, become a drug counselor(I graduate this friday May 9th) become involved in a loving relationship, drastically improved my relationship with my family and stopped most of the negative behaviors associated with addiction. On the flip side however, suboxone is taking it's toll on me. The last time I was free of all drugs, was July of 05' after a protracted and painful detox from suboxone and methadone, which I had been on prior to the suboxone. I want to be completely sober again. Suboxone has ruined my sleep patterns, my creativity and robbed me of much of my enthusiasm for life. Since I no longer get natural highs, except from sex, I am ready to go through the arduous and drawn out detox that is a suboxone detox. I have been through many short term detoxes using suboxone and buprenex some as early as 95-96. I would like to share what will be my final detox with this community as I am actually going through it. In fact, I would like to invite others to detox with me at the same time. I will be done with school and have finished my last internship as a drug counselor and have set aside about 3 weeks to get through the worst of it. I am planning on using benzos during the first week and would like all the feedback possible. In exchange, I have a wealth of information about so many drugs. I have lived in 5 different countries and have been in more than 25 programs. The longest I have been in recovery is 21 months(current). While I have progressed in my life on suboxone I believe I have reached the point where it's effects are more harmful than helpful. Recovery is all about self-honesty and I know that to fully spread my wings in life, I must get off the suboxone. So, my detox starts on May 26th at which time I hope to be down to 2 mgs or less. Right now I am at 5mgs and I have been as high as 32mgs daily. I found that it is so much easier to taper when you split the dose into three or four administrations. A couple of months ago I got down to about two mgs a day but when it got tough at the end I decided to put the rdetox on hold until after my semester ended. So talk to me, I am originally from the NY/NJ area but have lived in the SF/ east bay area for the last five years.

[chezlizze]

jealous. if only we had your mind control

[littlebit667]

This is am old thread.  Go up to the top of this page...click on the orange ask a question button and cut you paste your question/need.  You will start a new thread that should get you some help.  I don't want you to be missed.

[Lovley]

Please help me iv done oxy roxy and so forth since 2006 and iv been takkng a quarter of suboxin for almost a year. I want to quit but I'm scared of the detox does any one no how long it takes to get over the detox.

[rionrain]

i have been taking suboxone for about two years and was forced to quit taking them without being weened off when the doctor i had been seeing was shut down. it has been five days and i am very uncomfortable and aggetated but ready to get this over. i had no idea that i would detox like this or i would have been a little more careful with it i have taken them in the past for short periods and never had a problem with wds .can tell me how long till the worst is over i cant sleep but i cant get up, i have fever, my stomach hurts and i am so uncomfortable i know they helped me detox from ox.but damnit

[thompson84]

Hey everyone,
     i was going to a methadone clinic for around 3 years taking 50mg doses a day. i was finally fed up with paying those prices and decided to switch to suboxone and detox. I started at 16 miligrams of suboxone and that was plenty to supress my withdraws. Before the methadone, i was snorting 3 to 5 oxycontin 80's a day. My point being, i think 16 mg's of suboxone or maybe 24mg's is enough to take care of most any addiction. some people may be different but do realize that there is alot of mental asspect of addition and if you just keep your mind off of it and stay busy with hobbies, work and such it will be easier. I've been on suboxone for 14 months now and i think i dragged it out too long. I am currently on 1mg a day and to be honest i havent felt much w/d at all. I took pretty big jumps at the begining until i got to about 4mg. I went down 1mg a month. Now i wake up and take my one mg and feel fine. At around 9 or 10p.m i start to feel a little sick. chills up my back, lots of yawning, wattery eyes and a very short temper. but by then, i just take a few mg's of melatonin (over the counter "healthy" sleep aid) and try to sleep. i do feel awful in the mornings. it's so hard to get out of bed, let alone get moving for the day. but once i get my 1mg in me i do feel lots better. next, i'm going to take my 1mg every other day, then every 3 days and so on. I do disagree with taking benzo's for opiate w/d because of the fact that they are just as addictive. I think there is alot of "mental" withdraw that comes about when you clog your system with all kinds of stuff hoping to feel a little bit better. Do it the healthy way. Stay busy!!! i cant stress that enough. exercise alot!! keep your endorphine's up. keep hydrated. you'll burn off that w/d in no time. WE ALL CAN DO THIS! and for those that can't sleep at night, look into that melatonin. it is a great healthy alternative for a sleep aid. Good luck everyone!

[Chris_R_508]

Hi,
  First of all, suboxone, (or subutex,) will not kill you if you are taking it in the way you have described.  There are some people who may have an allergic reaction to it, but that is VERY rare, and it would happen right away.  You are not in any danger of dying from sub.  If you want to come off of it, though, just make absolutely sure that you are in a stble enough place mentally, physically, and life wise, (your outlook can really be everything with things like this, I've found,) and know that the detox will not be pleasant.
  I am in a very similar position.
  I've been taking suboxone for more than two years now.  I've made the decision to come off of it this summer, before the fall semester begins.  I'm currently taking about 4 mg a day, and sloooowwwly dropping.  I've read, (and heard from people I know that have done it,) that it can be a very, very tough detox, depending on the length of time you've been on it, your dose when jumping off, and the way you taper down to it.  I'm just trying to develop my resolve, and tell myself i've been through detoxes many times before, and that it will be worth it.  My life and my perspective, and everything else is so different now than it was when I was using H, I know I'm ready to do this, and circumstances demand  that I must...
  I hope the original author of this post is out there somewhere, clean, happy and doing fine, (whether on or off the sub!) and I wish midodasdas and anyone else that is going to be coming off suboxone good luck and support!  I know it is doable, and if you feel, (as I do,) that the time has come to get off of it, and you feel strong enough to do it, go for it, just don't be scared to admit defeat, and go back on the sub before you relapse.  It is far, FAR better for you than street drugs.