Suboxone or Methadone?

[fretboard]

How does suboxone make you feel as opposed to methadone?  What is the advantage of being on suboxone?  I'm new here and very familiar with methadone, but I know nothing about sub except that you take it less often than methadone.  later

[mr.lucky66]

I'm sorry to hear that. Case and point, don't use gasoline to put out a fire

[fretboard]

As I get my ducks in a row so to speak, I am actually a member of the HepC forum, that's where I know your name from.  No I have no intention on switching to sub.  Why would I switch something difficult to be on something difficult?  If I had to get on something else to keep away from the opiates, I would get back on Trexan.  Really I'm for the most part very ok being on methadone as it does help me with the pain I am in.  It was a bit upsetting to be nixed from the Telaprevir studies b/c of it, that's all.  We'll see what happens.  God Bless    

[SoInLove31106]

No I actually got some suboxones off a friend....I've heard horror stories about methadone I would never consider going on it....Yeah subs are working very well for me...I've taken them in the past and I don't remember them working like this but I was also detoxing with my fiance, i'm detoxing by myself now since he is away and I think it works better for me....

[fretboard]

I think they're both difficult, however that's not the case for you.  At least it seems like you're doing well, so hopefully this is a good thing for you.  Kind of a quick release from whatever your problem was, good luck.  Hopefully you stop whatever you were doing and quit messing around, the feeling H brought me was all I needed to stay in that scene for over 30 yrs.  It was truly upsetting to see youngsters coming into the methadone clinic I used to go to, last time I was on maintenance was like 1997.  I was always thinking, if they only knew what they were getting themselves into.  God Bless.

[mr.lucky66]

I was on that merry go round for years, detoxing all the time, methadone etc. It is upsetting to see kids in the clinics that I started seeing in the late 90's and many were pill addicts. I hate to see people who are hooked on vicodin end up being hooked on sub or methadone. It's happening too much

[fretboard]

Agreed!!  That's exactly how I feel, however we were once young as well.  The cycle of addiction is a cycle in so many ways we could just talk and talk.  Youngsters, unfortunately they will do what they have to do.  My hope is they don't take it as far as I did, that was just plain overkill on my part.  Also, just so ppl who read this know my H addiction started as part Codiene #4's and stuff.  The new codiene is vicodin, oh and Reds, anybody remember the Reds?  later