Bob Maplethorpe
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- May 21, 2026
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Hello everyone. I have taken opiates on and off most of my life and have always gotten the same reaction. They give me lots of energy, make me talkative, euphoria, basically feel really, really good. Then I detoxed where I took phenobarbital for five days and a week or so after that my doctor tried me on Suboxone. We thought maybe we would try that long-term and I wouldn’t get back on opiates again. The suboxone made me really weird and so I got off of it. I was only on it for two weeks. A couple weeks after that I started taking pain pills again. And they did barely anything. Maybe a little something and then also tired. Pain pills never made me tired. I mean eventually I would nod off but when they first kicked in, I would get energy and euphoria. Some people say it’s but I’ve been off for about six months and still happening and I only took it for two weeks. So that doesn’t make much sense. Though I do think that maybe that’s Suboxone and/or the phenobarbital permanently altered my brain. Some people say it’s tolerance. But why would my tolerance go up after quitting for a month. If anything my tolerance would go down. Now it’s gotten even worse. Where I used to feel a tiny bit of something and get a little tired now when I take an OxyContin or something, I just get VERY tired. It’s like taking a sleeping pill. This is the exact opposite of what it has always done to me. So basically what I love about opiates and the way it made me feel has completely turned to just making me tired and want to go to bed. How could it completely switch on me like that? Has anyone had this experience? Or experience from taking opiates after stopping Suboxone? I can understand if you’ve taken Suboxone for a year or something. But how could this happen if I only took it for two weeks? So it’s either the Suboxone or it just changed on me for no obvious reason. Opiates used to give me energy and euphoria and now they make me really tired. Is this happened to anyone else? Thank you.
