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CONFUSION ABOUT SUBOXONE?!
Here is what I can tell you based on why I am going to be on suboxone!
I have been using and abusing(mainly abusing) painkillers for 10 years or so now. So many painkillers have apap(tylenol) and when an addict is abusing 30-40 pills per day, day after day that can be deadly! That is only 1 reason. I also spend tons of money on meds even when I was getting them through a DR script i was spengind over $200.00 per month, but without it is more like 500-600 each month.. Suboxone can be used in different ways for different people, for different reasons, and goals! What you see alot of on here is people using it as a quick acting detox tool, but when they stay on it too long or take too much then they get withdrawl from it, and it seems to be just exchanging one drug to another right?
Well, in my case I have actual pain that is usually my #1 reason for relapsing, then I have others as well and then once I get them I abuse them. With the suboxone you cannot get high, or a buzz from overtaking them. Also if you take other painkillers while on them the naloxone which is the other ingredient in suboxone, will block the painkillers affects. so you wont get a high or a buzz if you taker a 80mg oxycontin when on suboxone.. Plus Many many people have stated that it takes away the cravings for the other painkillers, and lets them get back to day to day life activities that they were not able to partake in due to the abuse of painkillers and the sickness without them.. So if I was to be on this for the rest of my life that would be better than abusing these painkillers and risking my life, and then spending my rent money, bill money and every other cent we have to get high... ALL AROUND THIS IS THE BEST THING FOR ME! AND MANY OTHERS!
When I can get a job and hold it down after getting on suboxone and bringing in money to help my 14yr relationsship then that will be a start.. Then I will also get my many other goals going strong as well, which I CANNOT DO ON PAINKILLERS! So it can do many positive things for me and many others.. Then down the line when things are better and more productive (ALONG WITH MY AFTERCARE, AND ADDICTION COUNSELING) I can worry about tapering down off the sub very slowly, and that will be my ONE AND ONLY LAST DETOX FOR LIFE! Then I will have the tools to be able to stay clean and have more tolls to help identify with the reasons, and triggers as to why I abuse..
This is just what I am using it for, and for many others they just want something for a quick detox off opiates.. That is not what I am speaking of just to be real clear!!
HOPE THIS HELPS!!
I have been using and abusing(mainly abusing) painkillers for 10 years or so now. So many painkillers have apap(tylenol) and when an addict is abusing 30-40 pills per day, day after day that can be deadly! That is only 1 reason. I also spend tons of money on meds even when I was getting them through a DR script i was spengind over $200.00 per month, but without it is more like 500-600 each month.. Suboxone can be used in different ways for different people, for different reasons, and goals! What you see alot of on here is people using it as a quick acting detox tool, but when they stay on it too long or take too much then they get withdrawl from it, and it seems to be just exchanging one drug to another right?
Well, in my case I have actual pain that is usually my #1 reason for relapsing, then I have others as well and then once I get them I abuse them. With the suboxone you cannot get high, or a buzz from overtaking them. Also if you take other painkillers while on them the naloxone which is the other ingredient in suboxone, will block the painkillers affects. so you wont get a high or a buzz if you taker a 80mg oxycontin when on suboxone.. Plus Many many people have stated that it takes away the cravings for the other painkillers, and lets them get back to day to day life activities that they were not able to partake in due to the abuse of painkillers and the sickness without them.. So if I was to be on this for the rest of my life that would be better than abusing these painkillers and risking my life, and then spending my rent money, bill money and every other cent we have to get high... ALL AROUND THIS IS THE BEST THING FOR ME! AND MANY OTHERS!
When I can get a job and hold it down after getting on suboxone and bringing in money to help my 14yr relationsship then that will be a start.. Then I will also get my many other goals going strong as well, which I CANNOT DO ON PAINKILLERS! So it can do many positive things for me and many others.. Then down the line when things are better and more productive (ALONG WITH MY AFTERCARE, AND ADDICTION COUNSELING) I can worry about tapering down off the sub very slowly, and that will be my ONE AND ONLY LAST DETOX FOR LIFE! Then I will have the tools to be able to stay clean and have more tolls to help identify with the reasons, and triggers as to why I abuse..
This is just what I am using it for, and for many others they just want something for a quick detox off opiates.. That is not what I am speaking of just to be real clear!!
HOPE THIS HELPS!!
Wow, thank you so much for that comment.. I read it over and over many times and it just makes me feel so good to know this.. I AM GOING TO DO THIS!!
Hey, I am so proud of you and your goals!! It really sounds like you have taken the time and really thought this through. I know you can do this, you are an awsome person and have a lot of people that care about you. I do not know much about sub. but I know that you sound determined and I know you will succeed!!!! Hang in there!
Love,
Angel.
Love,
Angel.
He there Mary? How are you doing hunny? I am not doing so well.. I have went back to my old habits of abusing the oxycodone.. My parents were my #1 source for oxycodone, and last month they told me that I was cut off and that they were not going to sell pills at all ANYMORE PERIOD TO ANYONE! They did this without warning or heads up or anything// The first of the month came and I had only been taking (weaker, less addictive pain killers) and in even smaller dosages throughout the day.. They called me and said that they were needing the money real bad this month for bills and debts and ****.. So they said that "THIS MONTH WAS THE LAST TIME NO MATTER WHAT" And I spent $345.00 in just a few days on 15 of the 80mg oxycontins, and then a few days later they got their 10.325 percoset and I bought 45 of those... I think I have been taking around 300mg each day give or take a few mg...
I hate this ****, and I am so sick and tired of it all, yet have no self-control over it.. I am using the suboxone date as like a "SAVE MY LIFE DATE" I am so afraid of an OD, or anything that might scew this up for me..
I hate this ****, and I am so sick and tired of it all, yet have no self-control over it.. I am using the suboxone date as like a "SAVE MY LIFE DATE" I am so afraid of an OD, or anything that might scew this up for me..
Oh I meant to ask how you are doing ? A few more weeks til Sub doc, right ? Are you trying to cut down at all ? Be careful, I would so hate for something to happen right before all this comes together for you. I say this because the day before my Sub appt. I took more pills than I normally would . I guess it's just the anxiety of it all. So just take care my friend. Mary
Goodmorning. I think Hop was being his usual funny self. I'm pretty sure he was kidding, but you never know with Hop. lol
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