7years on subutex i need help

[dizzyshell]

hello i'm dizzy form uk i'm 26 .

i've been a slave to subutex now for 7years .I'm currently on 18ng aday split in 2 doses day and night .
I have tired reducing and i got to 2mg aday 3years ago but i've bi-polar disorder and i was sectioned in hospital and my clinic doctor advised me to go back on 18mg aday(why i dont know).

Is there anyone out there who has been on subs a long time and has any advise or even experiance on how the best way is too get off subs.I'm really scared about reducing and withdraws my health is bad i suffer with anxisty depression mania the lot .
How bad is subs withdrawals and how long do they last and what dose is best to jump off ????
my clinic offer me a home detox where they come out everyday to my home and feed me meds like valium ,and other benzos and a drug called lofexidene(cant spell it) this drug apprently helps with the withdraws .

please anyone who knows anything about subs withdrawals and tappers plese help me
thankyou so much love dizzy xxxx

[gnarly_1]

well im lucky i only take risperdal and celexa some trazadone for sleep and zanex
for axzity, havent don the sub b/4 but i know what its like to go thew withdrawals
right now its been a ruff day of axzity and no sleep for me i was going to adjust down
to 3mg or methadone  but im not sleeping now so i think i need to slow it down near the end here....so  instead of every 72hr to 5 days im going to go to 7 days to give my body
time to adjust.....i dont want to throw myself into a manic episode so slow will have to work for now su@@s but i guess ive waited 8 mo whats one more month going to mater
annway glad i can give ya some insight and your not alone ill help you all i can just ether write it in forum or send me a message ....good luck with you taper im shure you will be successful...Gnarly

[dizzyshell]

Thankyou so much for your advise i appericate you taking the time to post back.

Yeah having bi-polar is difficult as you know because we 're not just addicts like some we've 2 disorders to get by with.I got to 2mg before and i didnt feel great obviosuly  but i got by , then i lost it a few  other things added to my breakdown  but it was a big set back.

I've also been an herion addict and i've been on methadone twice once when i was 16 and last year i was only on methadone for 3weeks then i swopped back to subs it was my clinics fault because i was sectioned they put me on 24mg of subs and when i got out of hospital 8weeks later i was struggling and my clinic put me on 60mls of methadone again i dont know why , but without their knowledge i swopped back to subs i had spares so i was ok.That was march 09 and ive been on 24mg i got to 18mg now so im on 18mgs at monent im dosing 2x aday its hard because of the anxisty im like a pressure cooker waiting to blow.

if you dont mind me asking are you on subs still??and what meds help you with your bi-polar i just had my valium took off me because my phscytrist said im on too many drugs im on temazepam 2antidpressents subutex ,valuim its bad im on loads .

thanks again dizzy shell from brum
xx

[gnarly_1]

hi dizzy i to am bi/polar and my vise is 6yrs of methadone both sub and done are a real bi##h to get off of....but as for your manic episode ....my dr dosent think getting off
methadone will send me into a mania ....im concerned it will due to the symptoms of withdrawal being so similar in many ways but i think that dr was just blowing smoke in your a## .....getting off anny narco has to be beter for you then livivng on it so i would
suggest you do a slow taper and like me STOP the taper and STAY AT the dose
your at till the symptoms of mania subside ..iv been tapering for 8 mo and have had to stop for that reason for several times but it has always past,.. good luck and im sure someone will post a doable taper for ya just check back in a few hrs