Gettingready
A lot of your questions are like how long is a piece of string lol. Sorry....I have just posted my withdrawal experience on Marinas thread but remember everyone is different some find it a breeze. You Should not suffer any WD's when on Sub after the first day. The first day you have to be in a bit of WD discomfort before you start taking it or you would go into pricipitated WD. I started on 4mg and when I took it I was just starting to get the Sweats, yawning and my pupils were dilated.
You asked how long should you take it (I think) are you planning to detox or do you want it to hold you.? I origionaly took it to Detox but I have an underlying pain problem and drifted back to opiates so the Dr dicided to kill two birds with one stone and has prescibed Sub indeffinately. I am on 20mg at the moment. I have no cravings, I am not high, I have bags of energy, sleeping well and best of all no pain. Some long term users gone on 1 or 2mg for the rest of their lifes or at least a few years. I know that will horrify hard line NA people but why be in pain when you can hold yourself with a fairly benign drug. I am trying to be carefull not to give medical advice but just to give my experience always consult your Dr yadi yadi ya! lol
Neon
Gwen
You should be very comfortable on Sub. One thing I dont get, and I here it lot, is prescribing like 2mg 4 times a day. It has a very long half life and some in the UK (who are way ahead with this drug) take 2 days worth in one drop. so if,somewone like you are taking 4x2mg a day they would be taking 16mg every other day. These people do very well on it. Please do not do that though without consulting the Dr I could be a crank. I personaly take 20mg a day in one drop and could work no problem. The thing that worries me is taking Clonadine that can make your Blood pressure take a real nose dive. They do not use it much in the UK for that reason. U are supposed to have your BP measured like twice a day. Hope you dont drive or work in a dangerous envirinment if you ever get dizzy. You could be setting yourself up to be sued.
I suppose if you want a fast taper you have to expect some form of discomfort it is not a miracle drug in that sense. Although, as my Specialist says, what the point of prescibing it if a person gets so desperate and picks up the opiates. On that point be carefull you willl have the Sub in your body a long time due to its half life. If you go out and score you may not be able to feel the effects dont be tempted to keep taking more could OD. Also if (and I pray that you do not) do pick up again remember you tolerance will be in your boots, it is a time when many OD. Oh! I nearly forgot you must be doing NA or having some kind of councelling or when you get sober...nothings changed and most go back to where they started.
I am not on form tonight I think I have caught Danny's flu
so I hope that makes sense.
Neon
You should be very comfortable on Sub. One thing I dont get, and I here it lot, is prescribing like 2mg 4 times a day. It has a very long half life and some in the UK (who are way ahead with this drug) take 2 days worth in one drop. so if,somewone like you are taking 4x2mg a day they would be taking 16mg every other day. These people do very well on it. Please do not do that though without consulting the Dr I could be a crank. I personaly take 20mg a day in one drop and could work no problem. The thing that worries me is taking Clonadine that can make your Blood pressure take a real nose dive. They do not use it much in the UK for that reason. U are supposed to have your BP measured like twice a day. Hope you dont drive or work in a dangerous envirinment if you ever get dizzy. You could be setting yourself up to be sued.
I suppose if you want a fast taper you have to expect some form of discomfort it is not a miracle drug in that sense. Although, as my Specialist says, what the point of prescibing it if a person gets so desperate and picks up the opiates. On that point be carefull you willl have the Sub in your body a long time due to its half life. If you go out and score you may not be able to feel the effects dont be tempted to keep taking more could OD. Also if (and I pray that you do not) do pick up again remember you tolerance will be in your boots, it is a time when many OD. Oh! I nearly forgot you must be doing NA or having some kind of councelling or when you get sober...nothings changed and most go back to where they started.
I am not on form tonight I think I have caught Danny's flu
so I hope that makes sense.Neon
Just wanted to update everyone on my suboxone withdrawals...On day 5 and seems to be getting better by the minute, still have a few cold chills, and some abdominal pains, but just a little advice for those out there who want to be put on suboxone, watch out! i know its a maitnence drug and its better than goin cold turkey(thats why i got put on it), being a heroin addict for 4 years and the suboxone for 1 year, but i would have just gone through the withdrawals from dope , because its pretty much the same detox..sweating,cold chills, etc but thankfully ive come this far and now i can finally say im COMPLETELY drug free. Hopefully this time it will last unlike the other times.... i really want it !! Thanks for the advice "mistyeyes".
ill stay in touch and let everyone know how im doing
Forrest
ill stay in touch and let everyone know how im doing
Forrest
New to this board, but I just wanted to give my Suboxone W/D review. I am going on day 11 of stopping the Sub and I still feel like s--t. Very little relief, but I am not going to take any more. I figure I have made it this far, there has to be some good days coming. I was on Suboxone for about 40 days after being put on Oxy for back surgery for about 14 months. I don't know which is worse coming off the oxy or this Suboxone! It coming up on two weeks and I still feel like I'm freezing, I can't sleep, all the fun stuff. Any thoughts. Thanks in advance.
Duc, did you tell your doc how you feel? Was just wondering what he might have had to say about that.
Yeah John I am wondering that too also did you taper.....How low did you take your dose before you stopped.
Thank you for the replys. I tappered down to about 1mg a day for 4 days. But every time I tappered down I got W/D feelings, so I thought at 1 mg I will just take the weeek or so of W/D's, but not 2 weeks! I am going in tomorrow to the Doc and see what they say. I just wish things would get back to normal, as I sit here under a blanket. I don't want to be on anything moving forward. Thanks again.
