Suboxone how hard is it to come off of .

[avisg]

I have seen any in the last week considering suboxone .We have many that are still taking it .I think it would really helpful for  many posters trying to research whether it a good chioce for them to hear what people that are now off it have to say .
Did you take it short term or long term? How long if at all did you have WD going off it?.If you had to do it all over would you make the same choice?

[mr.lucky66]

Do you really think sub saved your life? You could have gotten the same "lifesaving effect" from other longer acting accesible narcotic. I glad it helped you but I generally don't believe in drug solutions for drug addiction, but who knows. all the best

[marcatj]

i agree 100%....

[Shelwoy]

Unless the brain and body have had enough time to heal from our opiate abuse- withdrawal from Suboxone will have difficulties.There was a time when I tried to wean to 4mg from 8mg,and I had some physical issues- decided to go back to 8mg for a few months.I tried again at that time, and did not experience any problems at all.Now, I can comfortably take 4mg every other day.
Sometimes, our bodies tell us we are not ready to taper, and as much as we want to be off of Sub, we have to wait.Choosing this type of treatment has ups and downs, and the sad part is, allot of doctors prescribing it don't know **** about it.Then people feel mislead, and say how awful this drug is.It is not the drug- it is the miseducation behind it.

[learning2befree]

what & how much are you withdrawling from

[sunshinedaydream3]

this makes me scared to even use the 2 sub pills i have

sheez

i may just say the heck with it and use the muscle relaxers to sleep and chill out

ahhh this ***** though cuz i GOT to go to school and work this week

[HenryS354]

Hey all,

  I wont get into my history of drug use,as the point is I used IV pharmaceutical opiates. I used a lot for 7 years, went the methadone route, and even underwent Ultra rapid anesthesia assisted detox, and now I am on sub.

Sub saved my life, but it is a real B**** to get off of.  I have been taking sub since March 25th, 2008 inducted at 16 mgs daily.  I am now at 1mg daily and having a hell of a time getting off.  I dont know if the wd's for me are worse than ct or just different.

I have noticed that people coming off sub either have one of two experiences... Pure hell or a cakewalk.

For me my sub wd's consist of Itching, sleeplessness, depression, and a lot of RLS, tremors, and aggitation with a lot of nervousness/jitteryness.  

I do believe that naivity can play a huge role in wd symptoms.

My personal experience the first time I wd from my DOC was unique, but i hear this from others from time to time.  The first time I ct'd I was using somewhere around 1200mcg's of IV fentanyl every 2 hours round the clock.  This went on for roughly 4 months until I got caught diverting drugs from work.  (I was a surgical tech)

At that time I didnt know what wd's were.  The ONLY symptom I got was some dizziness if I stood up too fast, or turned my head real fast.  And that was all.  It wasnt until I started researching and reading all the horror stories and pain that people go through with wd's that I started having symptoms the next time I ct'd or tapered my doc.

For me, sub wd's at this point in my life hit me a little worse than they should.  Im taking some time off from medical school (2 years left) And I wanted to see the world, so I took a job as an international Flight attendant.  Its hard for me to wd and taper as I am gone on extended trips overseas usually 18-26 days in length.  I travel through many different time zones daily so my sleep and internal clock is already messed up.  Somedays I will start my day in Keflavik, Iceland where the temperature is 40 degrees farenheit and get on a plane and fly to Kuwait where the temp is 120 degrees.  I spend many hours in a VERY dry and pressurized enviroment where oxygen intake is limited.  My eating schedule is all out of whack. And the worst part is lets say I have a flight Early Monday Morning at 2am, I fly all morning and all day into the evening (Usually 18 hour trips) get back around Midnight tuesday. I sleep late into the morning tuesday, then Im up all night cause I slept all day.  But the problem is now Wednesday I have to fly again in the early Am.

Its so hard for me to go through wd's because my body is so messed up.  

For the time being Im going to stick to 1mg until I end my fling career which will be soon.  Once I have some stability in my life, then I will attack this taper with full force, and finally get truly clean.

Best of luck to everyone out there, and many thoughts and prayers for the addicts and their families out there that are still suffering.

Henry