Suboxone.

[Expecting718]

Hi Everyone!! My old name used to be SuperAddict. I don't know if any of you remeber me, or if this is a whole new group of people but, I joined this site a looooong time ago. I have been addicted to Vicodin for about 2 years. My life was going NO WHERE! I had no money, I couldn't pay my bills, I was losing all of my friends (not to mention my job and family) it was getting bad. It was time for me to STOP. So, I found a local doctor that prescribed Suboxone. I've been taking Suboxone since October 07. I feel great!! I will tell you honestly thou, that I did start abusing it! When I first took it, for some reason it gave me that high I'd feel when I was taking V. I started taking 8 - 8 mg tablets a day just to get that feeling again! i DID NOT do that all the time. Maybe once a week. I realized that I was only going in the same direction and that's somewhere I don't want to be. I cut down drastically. I'm now back on 1/4 of a tablet soon to only be on half of that.
I keep reading all these stories about how it withdrawals are really bad. A friend of mine was started this program, she NEVER took more than half a tablet. She got off no problem! I am hoping soon I will be that lucky. Taking 1/4 (that's half of an 8 mg tablet -- the recommend does) isn't bad. I don't feel any W/D's.
I am also 34 weeks pregnant!! I'm due July 18th! I am soooo excited and I want to be off BEFORE my baby is born. I want to be off no later than July 1st.
Bottom Line, I feel that Suboxone has worked great for me. Besides me being a dumb A** and abusing it for a period it's been great! I really feel I have my life back!
Thanks for reading. If I can help anyone in anyway, please let me know!! I've been through a lot. I have a lot of advice and great ideas!
God Bless!
xoxo

[Expecting718]

Thanks! I'm not too brave. If I were brave, I would have been done with this a loong time ago. But thank you for saying that!
I was addicted to Vicodin for a looong time. And I started taking Suboxone to help with the WDs. Eventually I was going to ease myself off the S and be on nothing! It's been hard thou. What i've felt, as far as WDs on S, haven't been ANYTHING close to what i felt when I was WDing from Vicodin! That was HORRIBLE! I'm almost done with it all. And I can't wait!
How far along are you? Congrates to you!!! :)

[gojenn8337]

i need to come off them as well! very scary i dont like it and all i keep thinking about is baby. im only 13 weeks so i have a long ways to go! this is my second child! i have been on vicodin since having my daughter in jan of 06 and due to the meds it caused me to have rectal prolaps! google it.. not fun so i had to have a huge surgery c section type to pull all my intestines up and ohh was in the hospital for a good amount of time and am still on meds from surgery. so now i have to have a c section with this baby and it *****.i guess pain meds plug u up so thats how the prolapse thing happend! it was scary

[Expecting718]

WOW!! I am sorry to hear that! So the pain meds gave you that? And you're still taking them? Are you taking them for pain or is it to the point now that you have to take them? If that's the case, I would consider suboxone. Besides my crazy thoughts, I really do swear by it. It honestly saved my life. I don't like reading about all of these stories about them, just BC I think it just depends on the person. A lot of people don' t use it right. And I was told that if I were to try and take vicodin, or something for my pain, it wouldn't even work. Which is true, unfortunately, I've tried that. Then I had to wait a few days to go back on the suboxone BC I didn't want to get ill.
Anyway, I can't believe that happened to you!! Did you have a C section with your first? Did they give you pain meds after?

[cattalina]

Best of luck with the baby and your recovery.  That's alot to go thru all at once, and you are brave for doing it.  Just wanted to comment on how you needed to stop thinking that Sub gets you high...  Suboxone actually tricks the receptors in your brain to thinking that you're putting narcotics into your body.  You should do some research online about the medication and it might help they way you view it.  Again, good luck and god bless!!

[Expecting718]

Thank You! I know it doesn't get you high. But I feel something different when I take it. Sometimes. If I were to take 2 - 2mg at I feel completely different as if I were to only take 1 - 2mg tablet. Does that make sense? It's just a different feeling. A good feeling.
I need to stop thinking that and do what my doc says, or I will never get through this.

Thank you for the comment. And the support! TC.

[Twist1285]

Suboxone has a ceiling effect that keeps you from getting blasted. I have no diea how you were able to get "high" from taking Suboxone, it binds to tightly to your brain, that it will only allow so much of the drug to be absorbed at one time(32 mgs) is a roguh estimate of the max, depending on your body type. I have heard of people getting high on Subutex the pure form of beup, but not suboxone, and the people that are able to get high were only people who did not take pain pills everyday or every month for that matter. I don't know maybe it's because you were taking Vicodin, but I was on Oxi's and I'll tell you that there is no way I could ge high off Suboxone. The first 2 days I was taking 4-5 -6 pills to try to feel better, and I could not even shake the widthdrawl, so how could you get "high"? I'm not saying your lying, I just think maybe some of it was in your head. This is why I am on Subutex now, I was NOT going to take Methadone, but the Suboxone was not working, for some reason the Subutex is a bit stronger. I am going to try to quit soon, I've been on them for 10 months now, and I'm down to about 2 mgs/day. However about just "stopping" Subutex or Suboxone, I was at 4 mgs/day about a year and a half ago, I ran out of pills and I was out of town on business, and as some of you know it's very difficult to find a doctor that can prescribe Subutex or Suboxone, so i said "well whatever I think i can deal with it, I came off of 9 80's a day I.V) well i was wrong. I was very very sick, and ended up finding an 80 somehow. The point is I would NOT recommend just stopping Suboxone you really should speak with a doctor about that first, they have other things they give you when you are ready to stop, benzo's and stuff to keep you calm and not getting panicy, and going out to score some drugs. Best of luck to you, and I did not want this post to sound like i was targeting anyone I guess it was more me being inquisitive.