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

[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]

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    

[mr.lucky66]

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

[worried878]

Mr Lucky has taken alot of flack about his views on sub...he really has...but very often he is right...just maybe blunt  LOL   r u a capricorn mr lucky?  LOL   anyway....on this forum suboxone is much preferred over methadone ...i have seen some 60 mg a day hydro users go on sub and are still on sub...i have seen it abused, seen it snorted, seen it stopped for a day or so, so the person can use...i have also read some horrid posts on methadone wids that would make ur skin crawl...slow taper recommended from each...i have seen a few success stories with each...most of our subbers are still subbing so we cant really tell yet what the outcome will be...triedeverymed got off sub without too much trouble...pm her....penelope kicked meth.oth the back door..pm her   the best way is on ur own with a taper or CT...but when this can not be done people turn to sub or meth...people start sub and they are "so happy" on the drug...others feel awful from the get go...tis a chance u take,,,try on ur own with tapering or CT...then study these aftercare narcs...stonger than what ur body and receptors know ...your brain will throw u a party feeding them these heavy duty narcs...this is an exerpt from an addicts story i found online:  
"so now u r not cutting me back...u r feeding me PRIME A stuff."..couse i am happy... I am so happy...please dont take my aftercare narc away/my legal narc...it feeds me...my dopamine, seratonin and noepinephrine are fed and happy...take them away and the depression will hit and take me for a downward tailspin..  the longer u feed me the slower u better take that PRIME A narcotic away from me...my brain just loves this stuff over those hydros u took...wow....why did u ever take hydros...i love this stuff!

[mr.lucky66]

I was on methadone (on and off) for years and years. I also have HVC and they have a great forum for hep c here. I see a trend where people go from methadone to sub and stay on sub for long times. I don't like this as I'm seeing people having big problems from long term sub. Always a new drug come along that is supposed to be safer than the old drug. Heroin for mophine. Methadone for Heroin. And now sub for methadone and even vicodin. I like what the last poster said about only staying on it for 5 days. all the best

[fretboard]

Well I'm glad it works for you, did you take that over a methadone maintenance detox?  I've also been on Trexan before and that worked very well, but I haven't slammed for alot of years.  I don't even know if they still call it slammin' anymore and that's not something I worry about.  When I wrote that word "vulnerable", it wasn't in the sense that I would use.  I meant that I didn't feel the same energy wise, and that worried me.  God Bless