Let me start by saying Hi. I've read posts on this board for a while now and have a question I need help with. I've been addicted to percocets for over 3 years now, tried to go cold turkey and a few other things but failed many times. I've wanted to quit for some time now but couldn't do it myself. I finally saw a sub doctor this week. I cannot explain how I felt when I left his office. It was like I was given my life back. I know I have a long long way to go but I actually felt like I have a chance this time. I actually felt hopeful for the first time in 3 years. Anyway, I've been taking the sub (16 mg/day) for 3 days now. When I came into work this morning I started looking on the internet just to get some more info on it and am not liking what I saw. There are all these horror stories about how people became addicted to the sub and that their withdrawl was worse then coming off the drugs. I thought that this was really going to help me while I'm doing the therapy, etc. Am I just postponing w/d? I've been reading about people taking it for years. I felt so proud about not taking any percs for 3 days now I feel like I've just replaced them with another drug. Any suggestions???
I have been on sub for about 45 days. Suboxone can cause wiyhdrw if stopped abruptly. You have to focus on this med as atool in saving your life. I came off a tremendous amount of methadone and xanax. I could not get impatient treatment due to the horrible detox i was going to go through. U have a cahnce to be free from drugs and on sub while working on your recovery. Get involved in your recovery. Go to NA/AA meetings. Its a chance to have a clean clear mind while u put your life back together. Suboxone is worthless unless you work a program or get proffessional help (treatment,counciling) Exercise will make you feel great. There are many who get off suboxone successfully bwith a good tapering regement and being honest and upfront with your doctor. Methadone however has the same basis BUT only 6% will stay cean in the first year off methadone. Use what you can. If i were to put 10% into my recovery that i did hustling and using i will probally do great. U have a chance. Good Luck
Brien
Brien
welcome
i have been on sub since july 06 and i too scared myself half to death when i read the same stuff when i googled sub,e.g. you are substituting one drug for another, withdrawals will be impossible things like that.
BUT its possible in some cases people could have trouble with this drug, like brien said sub is only a tool it is not a magic cure all, it has helped so many people to detox comfortably and as for me also that puts one in a positive frame of mind to continue on with the next phase of recovery. i know before i was so miserable when i tried to detox on my own and another time in a facility that does not believe in using sub that i said f*ck it! i am not doing this it is too uncomfortable.
so this time i give sub all the credit in the world as i have worked hard and the next phase is not easy it takes great effort, but the sub like i said has made me very comfortable so now i am willing.
what needs to be done next is NA meetings very very important that one attend, they say 90 in 90 which means 90 meetings the first 90 days of recovery, when i say this is hard, for me it was because i have no support from family who could encourage me on, i walked into meetings all alone and scared to death, i had to say hi i am julie and i am an addict, that is easy for me to say now, and then sharing my story was something that does not come easy for me but for others it does. i do not like to ask for help and that is so important to do.
next is getting a sponsor, that took a great ammount of work on my part as i got sponsors that were not on the same page as me as they were not in agreement about the suboxone, sometimes i think they were angry at me because that tool wasn't available for them when they detoxed. so i get alot of controversey about that.
finally after much prayer i have found someone who i think i can be comfortable with.
next is stepwork, applying the 12 steps of recovery living to your life, that is done with a sponsors help, you will purchase a guidebook at a na meeting to start your stepwork, what this does is helps the addict to stop the stinkin thinkin that made us self medicate. i have just started step one and so looking forward to appying this to my life as i have listened to so many testimonies at meetings where recovering addicts absolutely swear by the steps and na.
i want what they have now.
so try not to get too worked up about it, i have now started my taper off sub after almost 8 mos and yes if i jumped off it too soon i will be miserable but i am gonna taper so slowly maybe over a period of 8 mos that i hope and pray that my brain wont catch on.
then of course last but not least and most importantly is faith in your higher power, i know my higher power which i choose to be God is going to get me thru this. good luck you are on the right path! jewels
i have been on sub since july 06 and i too scared myself half to death when i read the same stuff when i googled sub,e.g. you are substituting one drug for another, withdrawals will be impossible things like that.
BUT its possible in some cases people could have trouble with this drug, like brien said sub is only a tool it is not a magic cure all, it has helped so many people to detox comfortably and as for me also that puts one in a positive frame of mind to continue on with the next phase of recovery. i know before i was so miserable when i tried to detox on my own and another time in a facility that does not believe in using sub that i said f*ck it! i am not doing this it is too uncomfortable.
so this time i give sub all the credit in the world as i have worked hard and the next phase is not easy it takes great effort, but the sub like i said has made me very comfortable so now i am willing.
what needs to be done next is NA meetings very very important that one attend, they say 90 in 90 which means 90 meetings the first 90 days of recovery, when i say this is hard, for me it was because i have no support from family who could encourage me on, i walked into meetings all alone and scared to death, i had to say hi i am julie and i am an addict, that is easy for me to say now, and then sharing my story was something that does not come easy for me but for others it does. i do not like to ask for help and that is so important to do.
next is getting a sponsor, that took a great ammount of work on my part as i got sponsors that were not on the same page as me as they were not in agreement about the suboxone, sometimes i think they were angry at me because that tool wasn't available for them when they detoxed. so i get alot of controversey about that.
finally after much prayer i have found someone who i think i can be comfortable with.
next is stepwork, applying the 12 steps of recovery living to your life, that is done with a sponsors help, you will purchase a guidebook at a na meeting to start your stepwork, what this does is helps the addict to stop the stinkin thinkin that made us self medicate. i have just started step one and so looking forward to appying this to my life as i have listened to so many testimonies at meetings where recovering addicts absolutely swear by the steps and na.
i want what they have now.
so try not to get too worked up about it, i have now started my taper off sub after almost 8 mos and yes if i jumped off it too soon i will be miserable but i am gonna taper so slowly maybe over a period of 8 mos that i hope and pray that my brain wont catch on.
then of course last but not least and most importantly is faith in your higher power, i know my higher power which i choose to be God is going to get me thru this. good luck you are on the right path! jewels
