Beginning sub

[Menlo650]

Good morning everyone, I finally took the step in getting off Norco. I was taking 15 a day for 20 years. I wanted my life back. I am now on Suboxin. I took a whole 8 mg the first day and felt great. However, the second day it did not make me feel right at all! This morning I took only a quarter of the tab and I am doing ok. However, I have a Benzo addiction as well. Is it ok to take them both? In addition, my intention is only get through the normal withdrawl period I would of undergone from the Norco 10mg. So how long do I need to be on Suboxin? Please advise, thank you

[HappyDays2Come]

Hi Menlo and welcome!! If I were you I would just quit the pain pills and not touch the sub. Like everyone has said it's a much stronger drug to come off of with worse W/Ds. If you stop now the withdrawals will be bad for about 3 days and after that it gets much easier. You're going to have to go through the W/Ds sooner or later so you might as well go through them now and let them be easier for you :-). Good luck and I hope to see you posting on here more!

[vicki595]

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[abritt121222]

Your atone haha auto spell angers me is supposed to say your tolerance

[abritt121222]

The reason u are not feeling right is most likely be ause your atone range to opiates is not high enough to take much suboxone. Suboxone is far far stronger than hydrocodone and I personally would be against putting someone that's on hydrocodone on suboxone at all because is so much stronger and the ceiling effect does not work because the tolerance to opiates is not high enough. Not to be mean or an *** or anything but switching from hydrocodone to suboxone is just switching to a more powerful opiate which is going the wrong way. Suboxone is 40x stronger than morph one just so u can kinda get an idea of how strong it really is while I believe hydrocodone is 2/3 the stronger than morphine so where around that at least. Suboxone can be a great med but can also be vry bad and I see it more and more and more that unfortunately a lot of doctors are doing it for the money and do not know enough about the med before they prescribe it like candy. Well feel free to msg me if yu have any questions and I will help ya any way I can. I'm sure this is prob not at all what you want to hear but I'm not gonna sit here no lie to anyone.

Good Luck and Godspeed
ABritt

[vicki595]

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[ImDONENoMore]

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