CONFUSION ABOUT SUBOXONE?!

[oxyaddict420]

  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!!

[worried878]

thanks...I hope that I can do this without the help of another drug...but believe me, if i find that I can not, I will do anything that I have to do..i have already looked at the list of docs who prescribe that in my area..believe me, i am not planning to fail, but it feels good to have a security net..an option if i need it

[oxyaddict420]

I am glad that some info that you read has made you realize your options and at least now you know the differences.. Thats great.. See for some it might not be an option, but for others it might be literally a LIFE SAVER!!  I am just trying to help people, and when I see people post about not knowing about suboxone or what it is even good for..  i am just trying to share the way it is going to help me PERSOANLLY!

BEST OF LUCK TO YOU WORRIED..

YOU CAN BEAT THIS ADDICTION!

DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO GET AND STAY CLEAN

I AM HERE FOR YOU AND BELIEVE IN YOUR RECOVERY!

[worried878]

I need to know my options just in case I fail and relapse...I dont think I will but damn, I never thought I would be addicted to hydrocodone either!  I think people need the info and may or may not use it..I now understand what sub is...it is like Narcan I think that we give people after an overdose to wake them up from the narcotic, get them breathing and stuff, also to reverse accidental overdoses during procedures...it is on the crash cart at every hospital...I never knew it was habit forming but have never known anyone who took it either, I mean for recreational purposes or pain and I guess that is because you can not get high off of it...If I ever had to< i would choose sub after reading as substituting one narcotic for another makes little sense to me at this point

thanks

[oxyaddict420]

No, that is not all you did. You decided to personally attack my character, and assume you have some idea about who or what I am about based on a few posts you may have read!  I would rather be alive and managing my life and addiction using suboxone and using addiction couseling rather than abusing painkillers and ending up DEAD because of relapsing once again.  you are some punk who has no idea about what he is talking about when he tries to sum up my life and addiction with a negative statement as listed above!

Now you have put in your opinion, NOW PLEASE LEAVE!

I am trying to inform, and support real people with real issues.

[sickcookie]

I did not mean to upset you ,but I am speaking from my own up close and personal experience with sub.

[oxyaddict420]

It is UNINFORMED people like you that make others that are weak to harsh judgment want to leave this site that is actually supposed to help, NOT CRITISIZE!  

The true friends that know me and my story are all that really matters for me as far as this site goes. your weak attempt at critisizing an acutal different attempt at combating this abuse of pills is UNWANTED, AND USELESS!  Please take your negativity somewhere else!