Tonight was my first dose of suboxone - just checkin' in

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Did my last 30 mg roxy this morning - did 4 mg of suboxone tonight.  The advised time to take the first dose of the suboxone is 12 - 24 hours - - I took it 11 3/4 hours in.  I am such an addict.  And I snorted it after reading alot of other posts (not on this site)  .
I don't have anything too helpful to say nor looking for any big answers.  Really just been reading alot of posts and wanted to "share".  Maybe there is someone going through something similiar.  I am planning a 5/6 day suboxone detox from roxys.  I have been doing about 5 30mg roxys for the last 2 months.  I have a longgggg history with opiates - - when I came back to "medhelp" and looked at my old posts from detoxing from subutex it was almost 3 years ago!  It just goes on and on.  The pills came and went but I got really healthy the last 3 years - really got into running & working out.  But I am a bit of a parier and party/drink and the pills are always in the perifery.  I can't remember how long after the subutex detox I didn't take any pills but it was many many months.  And then I again became a "recreational user" again.  I got a new connection and just ended up doing alot and a few times recently I tried to detox I could only make it 2 or 3 days max.  And then back again.  The withdrawls weren't the worst - - but the achy body, heavy head, unmotivated thing just got me going back & back.  So here I am again.  Hopefully since it has only been 2 months of being back daily on pills I can get away with a low dose 5/6 day suboxone detox.  I certainly know there are much larger issues here - I am just dealing with getting away from needing pills daily right now.  
4mg of suboxone made me feel ALOT better than I expected tonight.

Leah1964 · Answer

I just want to be a cheerleader and a poster child for sobriety!  I am just a child in the sobriety world - 4.5 weeks, but I have to cheer you on and tell you how much better life has been without the drugs.  I have more energy than I have had in years.  I wake up happy and looking forward to the day.  I have hope for my life again.  It's amazing.  I had to change my ways for sure - can't keep doing the same things and expect a different result - that's the defininition of insanity.  Can't keep hanging around the same scene and think you are strong enough to resist the temptation.  Get on supplements, exercise and get the help you need to find your real self.  Your real self is worth it!  Keep posting!  Don't give up! and Get Help!

moonshyne777 · Answer

You gotta get out of the habit of snorting. I know it's an addiction all in itself but really for sub to properly absorb in your system you need to stick it under your tongue. I know it's a habit and thats how I did it but really you need to decide is it simply staving off wds until you can score more oxy or have you had enough of the ******** and are ready to give yourself a second chance at life. Sub can be a great TOOL but needs to be combined with an intensive aftercare program. Also, a short detox *usually* ends with the person relapsing. For myself anyways, I would need to be on sub awhile, maybe a year or more, long enough for me to get out of my addict ways and into aftercare where I can get the help I need and learn some new coping strategies and address the issues that caused me to want to self medicate to begin with.

Subs can and have saved peoples lives. I think it could save your life but you need to want to change your ways. Oxy has robbed you of enough doncha think? Time to take your life back.

http://*************.com/index.php

The link above is for a suboxone forum and you'll find lots of info on sub (not to mention the proper administration technique ;)

Subs can and have saved peoples lives. I think it could save your life but you need to want to change your ways. Oxy has robbed you of enough doncha think? Time to take your life back.

http://*************.com/index.php

The link above is for a suboxone forum and you'll find lots of info on sub (not to mention the proper administration technique ;)

IBKleen · Answer

I talked with you several years back, when you first came on this site and I see nothing has changed. That is so sad.

You need help and the first thing you should be doing is asking for it. This is a good place to start, but I think you need much more than this site. 

I hope you get the help you need. It begins with you.

salsinator · Answer

I wasn't offended by your post banana911, but I have more of a feeling for empathy because by snorting the suboxone, you may has well have been doing the oxy.  Suboxone is an opiate - not a blocker - and it helps withdrawal because it binds to the opiate receptors in the brain.  You mention that you are only trying to deal with the oxy problem, but that you are a partier and that you like to drink and pills are prevalent at the parties you go to.  If you are only going to detox from the pills, but continue down the same path without getting any other kind of help, you will continue to spiral down the same road and in a couple of months, we will be reading the same post from you again.  If you really want to be clean, you are going to have to do a whole lot more than just detox from the oxy for a few days.  For your own sake, please get some help.  Keep posting, everyone on here will continue to support you.

wishful1 · Answer

what is roxy?

addicted32 · Answer

I thought suboxone wasn't suppossed to get you buzzed...........  Isn't it a opiod blocker?????  Confused?????

dominosarah · Answer

Please get the help you need.  You are on a collision course.....You dont have to live like this.........sara

gnarly_1 · Answer

HI I take it you scored some sub on the street??? you dont need to snort it your not trying to get high on it are you?? it sounds like you have a lot of history with substance abuse
it dosent have to be this way...If you want to get clean you can do it and there are ways of staying that way also...you said you detoxed off sub 3 yrs ago your addiction has come around full circle your right back where you started..you can end the madness if you want to...and where here to help you...aftercare is a necessity to long term sobriety theirs alot more to addiction then the pills and alcohol there just symptoms ..with aftercare you will learn the skills and tools of living a sober lifestyle ...it beets having to relapse and come back to detox again...the sub may eaz your withdrawals sum but your still going to feel it when your out of sub..you will need help to get past the cravings and the depression that comes with any detoxing no mater how you do it ..do yourself a favor and check out an N/A meeting or hook up with a conslor to work thew some of the issues that keep you in active addiction ..good luck to you and God bless......Gnarly

avisg · Answer

abritt is right,its not about whether it offends us but if you really want to get clean that nots the way to go about it .you are contuing to feed your addiction are you get off the pills because you want to or did you run out

avisg · Answer

i just looked up other  posts apparently if people want to get a buzz of it they snort it ..if you really want to do this and get clean i would do it the right way .This can not be a fun way to live .

abritt121222 · Answer

no you didnt offend anyone at all we are just trying to help and just saying if you really want to quit you are gonna have to really want to quit and do it the right way becuase if you are going to use suboxone the wrong way than that is just showing you are letting the addicted part of you win the battle because suboxone is still an opiate and if not taken the right way can just turn into just as big or bigger of a problem than your DOC was and everyone of us on here would hate for that to happen and you end up just trading one addiction for another

ABritt

banana911 · Answer

i totally know i am not doing anything right.  i tried in my post to preface it by admitting i have much bigger issues and i'm a partier & i am just dealing with roxys/pills at the moment.  so i don't want to offend people who are seeking  true sobriety - - i'm just "sharring" - - I'm just lonely at my computer & wanted to share.  I snorted it because some posts said it was more immediate and I wanted to try - - no other good reason than that...
hope i don't offend the your sobriety & the medhelp form - - i have used this form for alot of much needed help in the past & met & shared with a ton a great honest people......

abritt121222 · Answer

Dang we were thinking the same exact thing haha

abritt121222 · Answer

not trying to be an a## or anything but why did you snort it? kinda sounds like you are still chasing some kind of high because there is no need to snort suboxone and im sure what you read on other sites is that suboxone will get you high if you snort it because i have seen that while searching suboxone on google and truth is you are not going to get high from snorting it or feel any different at all that is just an addicted mind trying to find a way to use a drug made to help addicts in the wrong way once agian im not trying to be an a## but it sounds to me like you are still chasing a high if you are still snorting pills you gotta really want to be clean if its gonna work for ya and if you are gonna use meds to help you should take them the way they are meant to be taken(sublingualy with suboxone) but its good to hear you feel better on the positive note and i hope your 6 day detox works for you and you are able to get clean and stay that way without having to go thru to bad of withdrawals

Good Luck and Godspeed

ABritt

avisg · Answer

if you want to get clean why would you snort the sub .if you really want to do this and have long term rocovery you really need to start taking it as directed .what aftercare are you going to get .