coming off suboxene lowest dose around & still withdrawling!!!! so anxious!!!! help!!!

[Lauren666]

Hi to everyone VicAddict & FLAddict.....reading about you guys r going thru is truly helping me.  I am as far as I know never going to use again, but OMGosh, I'ma week & day off Soboxene.  I took such a small amount every other day.  I'm so proud to be off it, but I am so RESTLESS & ANXIOUS!!!!!!  My husband thinks I'm nuts.  He doesn't understand.  I went to GNC & did the amino acids, multivitamin melatonin thing.  I should've known better, I used to work for a pharmaceutical company, anyway; thank you for blessing me w/that melatonin thing.  I haven't slept more than 2 hrs prior to Melatonin.  I am very CRANKY.  I can't sit still.  I have a job where I sit & have people yell at me all day for 10hrs.  6:15am 2:45pm w/2 hrs OT.  What can I do?!  How long will this last?  PLEEEEZE  any help w/my anxiousness & tremors will help.  LOVE 2 EVERYONE.  Sorry to rant & rave; i just feel like a rabid caged animal.......

[laurel453]

hi, lauren

valerian root really helped me during the first weeks of wds with the anxiety and sleeping problems ( maybe even with those  unpleasant stomach cramps.... ).

anyway, congrats for what you are doing: caring about you :) . best of lucks and keep positive that YOU can do it cause it can be done, ok ?

[VicAddict26]

Congrats on taking the first steps in recovery,, Yes it is hard, I also have been having anxiety and it's a new feeling for me, i'm usually very calm natured,, I just take a deep breath and know that it can be worse,, I think it's a very humbling process for us to have to go through the mental and physical parts of recovery, and very much a learning process. I am assured by the veterans that have stood up to this addiction and won that these feelings are temporary, and that we will learn how to control our emotions over time and that our bodies will heal,, It also helps to know that I did this to myself, and the sadness to know what i've done to my body and brain will stay with me and hopefully keep me on the right path,, i've only begun this journey and life is already better,,, imagine what we'll be saying months and years down the road,,, Best of luck to you and keep posting these stories of misery and happiness are some of the things that give each of us the strength to keep fighting...

Lisa

[mtgoat911]

you are doing much better than you think you are!! first of all you kicked a drug that is not easy to come off of, congradulations!!!
and you are working! i could not work when i went through sub wd.....no way!
just do the best you can right now, and dont use no matter what!!!
i learned a long time ago that people who were not addicts could not understand what i was going through, or why i respond to life the way i do
i gave up on trying to get other people to understand me, so i started going to na meetings and i found a million people who knew what it was like
what relief that was
again congradulations,

[stoney234]

I am also getting off the evil suboxone, and thought i was way out of the woods until I read your post and see there is a ways to go.  That is great you are OFF-please hang in there-you will get to the other side. I am on .5mg now.  Where did you jump off.  Appreciate your help.

[Lauren666]

suboxone 2mg/0.5mg I divided my pills in half.......I tk them every other day R U okay?...thank you so much for responding my legs hurt, I run to the bathroom alot, & I feel like I'm going nuts......do the aminos really help?

[refusingbondage]

Congrats on getting through the week.  We all know how you feel.  Just tough it out.  Seems your doing everything you can to ease the withdrawal.. the only other thing I can recommend is exercise - which helped me a LOT with the anxiousness/panicky issues during sub withdrawal.  Time will heal.  Stay positive and hang on.  It will get better... I did for me and I was a honest to God mess at first..   My partner was somewhat of a skeptic too re withdrawal.. So I had him do some online research of his own, on this site and others and he was shocked.. it helped him see things for what they were and realize I wasnt being a 'baby.'.  There is a page on the 'Health Pages' bottom right of your screen titled "members experiences coming off suboxone'  - - you will find lots of informative stuff and true experiences of suboxone users, from people who have been on it and have come off it.  Bottom line is that you have come far and you are doing great.  Just try to be patient.  Deep breathing when you get panicky - exercise as much and as hard as you possibly can to help with endorphins and be happy your finally breaking free!  

[liscamdave]

Fladdict is not here anymore. What was your sub intake when you stopped?