Sub actually gets me a little high, so that is not clean. I'm worried about my taper right now. I've been on 100-120mg of oxy a day, then about a week ago was on 4mg sub, tapered, now I'm at around .5-1mg so far today and I kinda feel shitty but not unbearable. I'm thinking about jumping off tomorrow and seeing how shitty I feel. When you do this shit for 10 years, you just can't jump off in a week but I'm going to see how I feel. I'm worried....can someone give some advice on my taper/situation? Will one week on sub result in a long drawn out withdrawal? Thanks for any help....
I've done it before twice and relapsed after nearly a month the first time and after two weeks during the second time. The first time I got down to .5mg a day but I dropped off after like 3 days of it after being on Suboxone for probably about six-to-eight months without having detoxed for the past two years because of Oxycodone addiction.
The physical pain was very low, although not completely absent and my legs got sore on certain days, though all of the time. It wasn't that hard to sleep either, but I always used either pot, benzos, or OTC sleeping pills to fall asleep... so I can't say how much harder it would have been if I hadn't sued anything for sleep. However, the anxiety was extremely present, sweats and chills were definitely there, and I was yawning and sneezing all the time constantly... and this persisted for about 3 weeks while the anxiety still stuck around until I relapsed.
The second time I only got down to 1mg a day and again, the physical pain was really barely there, if you put your mind on something else then you will barely notice it if at all. But again, the anxiety was terrible along with yawns, sneezes, and sweats; the insomnia wasn't that bad, I fell asleep every day just like the first time I attempted to jump off Suboxone. The chills weren't as bad this time mainly because this was some time in the summer while the first time was in December.
I do think you should stay on .5mg's for at least a few weeks and then try to get down to .25mg's and then try even less than that, don't rush because that was my mistake. Now I'm about to try jumping off for hopefully the last time, I really want to succeed because I really am sick and tired of taking Suboxone. I went down from 6mg a day to 4mg to 2mg to 1.5mg and now I'm trying to slowly and steadily go down to 1mg then .5mg then .25mg then .1mg before jumping off.
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- Thanks again for your help.
that's too much, I'd try 1mg at the very most.