WSB15
Bluelighter
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^Anywhere from 2-6 weeks. Some people find it easier than kicking other opiates. Others have a really hard time with it. The people who taper slowly all the way down to 0.25mg, adjusting to each dose seem to have much milder w/d symptoms and seem to have less prolonged anhedonic symptoms and depression.
As for feeling strange on Suboxone...I couldn't agree more. It just makes me feel mentally foggy, somewhat emotionally numb, and just not normal in a way that's very hard to describe. When I was still getting high, taking Suboxone made me feel odd, whereas other opiates would get me high mood-wise but wouldn't seem to have the same effect. And when my tolerance went up, I felt exactly the same as before I started using oxy if I took just enough oxy to not be in withdrawal...no mental fog at all. The feeling from bupe is kind of like being on an SSRI...you can feel good and not in withdrawal but don't feel totally "normal". My hypothesis is that's this effect is due to kappa antagonism, but I really have no idea. I notice I'm just not as aware of my surroundings and the big picture. My memory is fuzzier. There's just a general cognitive fuzziness, a opiated cloudiness. I just have a lingering sense of feeling like something is missing from my consciousness. I don't mean to imply that it has affected me intellectually though. I did well at uni both before and after Suboxone. My GRE scores (after 2.5 years of Sub) were just as good as my SAT scores (before addiction). This strange feeling has decreased each time I lowered the dose, and when I decreased from 0.5mg to 0.25mg and had mild w/d symptoms, I really felt much more clear-headed. I've read a lot of reports of people saying they just feel "clearer" off Suboxone. I'm curious if anybody else has had this experience. I used to take methadone (not in a program) for 2 months and never felt weird like this.
As for feeling strange on Suboxone...I couldn't agree more. It just makes me feel mentally foggy, somewhat emotionally numb, and just not normal in a way that's very hard to describe. When I was still getting high, taking Suboxone made me feel odd, whereas other opiates would get me high mood-wise but wouldn't seem to have the same effect. And when my tolerance went up, I felt exactly the same as before I started using oxy if I took just enough oxy to not be in withdrawal...no mental fog at all. The feeling from bupe is kind of like being on an SSRI...you can feel good and not in withdrawal but don't feel totally "normal". My hypothesis is that's this effect is due to kappa antagonism, but I really have no idea. I notice I'm just not as aware of my surroundings and the big picture. My memory is fuzzier. There's just a general cognitive fuzziness, a opiated cloudiness. I just have a lingering sense of feeling like something is missing from my consciousness. I don't mean to imply that it has affected me intellectually though. I did well at uni both before and after Suboxone. My GRE scores (after 2.5 years of Sub) were just as good as my SAT scores (before addiction). This strange feeling has decreased each time I lowered the dose, and when I decreased from 0.5mg to 0.25mg and had mild w/d symptoms, I really felt much more clear-headed. I've read a lot of reports of people saying they just feel "clearer" off Suboxone. I'm curious if anybody else has had this experience. I used to take methadone (not in a program) for 2 months and never felt weird like this.