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Has suboxone helped you??

cire113

cire113

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Im trying to stay clean from opiates and currently on suboxone...

I have mixed feelings about it..

i want to hear what your guys experience with it is..

How long have you been taking it?

Has it helped you?

How long do you plan on taking it?


Right now i take 4mgs a day but still have lots of cravings...
 
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hell yes it helps.

i always think to myself that without sub idk how people ever got off dope.

keep taking it as it builds up in your system youll feel better and not be able to get high.
 
Did you shoot up and take sub at the same time? I know you can still get high if you wait several hours after a dose of suboxone. I am sure suboxone blocks your brain from fully absorbing all that oxy, so some will go to waste.

I was on a habit of 90 to 120 mg of oxy-30mg a day at my peak, and I only had 4mg of sub and 4mg of xanax to deal with my first day of serious W/D. No you're not really supposed to mix those two together, but it got me over the first day of severe withdraw. Suboxone WORKS.


Do you really want to quit? Yes or NO? Sometimes you'll relapse on and off before you slowly say 'yes... I'll quit now'.

It took me a good 4 months to stop thinking about oxy every minute of the day... seriously you think of it every fucking minute or so. The mental aspect of leaving the everyday habit behind sucks, but thats why you need to find something new to do.
 
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I am really glad someone asked this because like you, i am wondering the same thing and am in the same spot right now. I just started to take mine on I think Monday of this week (so 5 days now) and if i am being honest, it has helped me very little so far. But the thing is, I've been trying to do a lot of research on this and it seems that most people say that YES it DOES work, but not right away. Especially not immediately, like the first week or something. Like most drugs, I am thinking it takes time to build up in your system and reach its full potential (Just like how it is for SSRI anti-depressants..they say it takes 2 full weeks for it to REALLY start working.) So how long have YOU been on them anyway? I am starting to panic a little because Suboxone was my big, great plan and answer to my big problem but seeing as its been unsuccessful for the most part so far, I am getting really discouraged and starting to lose hope on the whole thing. But I do want to give it some more time and see where it takes me. So far, most of the 5 days on Subs, i have been still smoking heroin (though a lot less than my usual dose would've been) and not getting high from it for the most part but at least feeling not sick. I CAN say that it is helping somewhat as far as withdrawals, because as anyone who has gone cold turkey will tell you, there's a MAJOR difference. So in that way, it definitely HELPS, but HOW MUCH i am just not so sure of yet. I remain skeptical but because of being out of any other ideas, it's gonna HAVE to work. I was on methadone and that works AMAZINGLY. But having to go to a clinic and have it run your life and still make you feel all high, AND cost just as much, might as well just stay on dope in the first place! So that prompted me to switch over, but its not going so great yet. I just want to have the sickness gone i mean thats WHY i am taking it is it not? So i wonder how long it takes to truly work at its best...because then there's the cravings, a whole other issue- and for me, they've been unbearable since i started Subs! Hopefully someone with more experience with this can tell their success story and give us some hope, right? :/
 
It's been a life saver for me, it gets rid of a ton of chaos in my life and it lifts my mood in a way that is much better than Heroin as far as day to day living goes. It's given me hope, yet it is a double edged sword, since like you said you can take a low dose then go back to your opiate of choice for a day or two then go back to the subs without too much discomfort. However this pattern starts to get old quickly.

I love opiates but sub has helped me realize that life is better without a habit, they make it easier for me to control my rx'd kpin and ritalin habits. All in all subs are a god send, I just wish they would make them easier to get for the average broke as hell no medical insurance junkie. You have to want to get off of opiates or at least maintain on sub though for it to work. So it's helped me tons, tapering isn't too bad either it's just the last couple mgs that get really difficult for me. However if I have to just stay on a low dose for life that's fine with me because an out of control opiate habit is a hard thing to live with, even though I could maintain on certain doses of opiates Heroin is a bitch because it's illegal and I didn't get to subs until I got to Heroin.

To sum it all up YES, but you have to want to get off of the other opiates for subs to work.
 
It has helped me in a way but with lots of suffering too. I have been off subs two weeks and still don't feel good. I did stop using but I made the same mistake , the key to subs working at all ime is too not take with ANY other opiates and I needed to dose subs bid to get that help. I also likes roxi and at my peak was taking 8-10 at a time tid oral. Subs took several days to hold me and was up to 16mg at day 2. Daily for a week and began to taper. Taper was rough about 1 week it and I began to hate subs towards the end , forcing me to stop. Took two months and got to .25mg bid.
 
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suboxone helped me in the beginning, but then i developed a nasty crack habit. then i used suboxone wrongly for a couple years, to lower my tolerance and use. then i just didnt give a fuck and used on top of it all the time. then the shit stopped working for me and made me depressed.

now since 2006, I free of that shit and all opiates. A fucking miracle thanks to 4meopcp and methoxetamine. There is a god bc i was close to killing myself and suboxone just stopped working, even on high doses, a could feel an h shot right over it. and i was tired and didnt want to live like that anymore.

Anyway, i supposed if i hadnt abused it so much, suboxone maybe would have worked.
 
I think the problem is that as a society we want instant results magic bullets that kind of response. Suboxone isnt magic nor a cure it is a good tool but a tool none the less. Ive been on sub for 1.5 years but I have only been completly off heroin for 4 months. Getting clean is a proggression just like getting addicted is a progression.

Sub stabilized my life before sub if I didnt have money to score hustling was the only option because as you know being sick is never an option. Once sub was in the equation it allowed me to have another option and eventually I just got tired of the bullshit sourounding heroin. That would prolly have happened anyway but my bottom would have been prison or long term rehab instead im in college pursuing a degree. I hope that makes sense in summary suboxone is great but it will not work overnight give it time.
 
I have been on sub for three weeks. I have had eight surgeries in the last 13 years. Well it finally caught up and I found myself very addicted. When it was time to weened off after surgery I remembered the anxiety and kept taking more and more. Starts with 5ml percs up to taking 30 ml. That is sick and I know better. maybe I was feeling sorry for myself. maybe I wanted a break from pain. Just a month to recharge my battery. Well sub is awesome. I was taking 120 to 150 ml a day:( The 1st day I stopped I took a quarter pice 24 hours after my last perc. Two hours later I had to take another quarter. Four hours after that I took another quarter. Day two and three took a quarter in the a.m. and p.m. After that I have been taking just 2ml in the morning. I am in alot of PAIN from my disease. So I have been taking 2 ml in the a.m. and p.m. The pain makes me crave but I refuse to relapse. I am depressed and do not know what to do... Is anyone else dealing w this?????
 
ive been on it for four years. I have had gone thru a pregnancy on it safely ( my daughter was born with absolutely NO w/d symptoms ) I also went thru a C-sec and never got wrangled back into the opiate -abusing cycle. I HAVE found myself abusing other drugs like coke or benzos but only because I have that propensity to seek out a buzz. ( but thats due to poor coping skills in crisis mode and because i just wanted to feel a high )
And thru years of reading on this site and my OWN experience...I DO find that doses under 2mg WILL give a nice euphoria that I can LIVE with if I just take time to notice it and appreciate it for what it is. Ive tried every ROA there is. I take the film form of sub and believe it is way better for ME. IMO, using SUB will subtract the euphoria of the opiate of your choice. HOWEVER, it can ADD a NEW euphoria found thru a sense of freedom from that beast while "alllowing" a slight HINT each day of what it was that got us on the subs to begin with. Its a nice trade off if you ask me.
 
YES!!!!!

bupe has changed my life for the better for many reasons........even though i have relapsed a couple times since i have been on SMT, sub has only been a positive reinforcement......

once you push through the first month or two, life only gets better............
 
The longest i stayed clean was these gems. they are utter genious, kept me feeling normal, not out my head. I could feel emotions like sadnesss, happyness etc. It was brilliant, best thing that ever happened to me because since then. I knew it was doable getting clean,
 
I remember leaving the Suboxone Dr's office, after my first dose... about midway home I literally started crying tears of relief and joy because I realized how much more stable my life would soon become. After a tumultuous heroin addiction, Sub can make an enormous improvement in your quality of life.

A few months later I tapered down fairly painlessly and am now 3.5 weeks clean of all opiates. I don't know where I'd be without it right now, probably still not in University, that's for sure.

Best of luck OP
 
There's the possibility of it allowing you to beat addiction, and there's the possibility of it allowing you to transfer your addiction over from opiates to something else, usually a stimulant or a combination of drugs. It's all about the support groups you have while taking it, and your own personal decisions and mind set while on it. But it is a useful tool, yes. I'm happy to be on it.
 
it most def helped me. i had been pleading with my parents to help me get clean and they were only wanting for me to get off completely, but after a while of relapsing they listened to me and paid for a sub dr. it was the stability i needed so very badly. i was on bupe for like 2 years and i still did some chipping on the side, but it never was as good. eventually the subs started to mess my stomach up and i dropped a LOT of weight. i had no appetite and hated taking the suboxone because i knew once i took it i wouldnt be hungry.

i had a minor setback and started getting high again. i got off the subs for a while to do dope and then it was right back where i was before. so while they do work, they are not magic. I am on metadone now and for me it works better than bupe, but it is a hassle going to the clinic everyday to get my dose, where as i could see my sub dr and get a months worth of pills.
 
I have been using small doses of sub for 7 days + have those days clean from opiates. I am happy w/them now-do not want withdrawals 2 b bad from them. I am planning to taper from my .5x2 daily down to .125x1. This should b good-right?
 
They probably saved my life. I had a horrible heroin/opiate addiction. After overdoses, and a few of my friends died, and one od-ed in the back seat of my car I was truly ready to stop. I had tried before, but they were half-ass attempts. I never had a script, but 2 friends of mine did, who were very kind and sympathetic to my situation. I was able to use them and in 3 weeks I had done it, I beat the physical w/d. However in my opinion that was the easy part. The mental cravings were much worse than I could ever imagine. I could make myself physically sick, and would feel just like w/d's, because my nose was runny and my pupils looked a little big. That lasted months, so I started to meditate and found solace in it. Now, I feel better than I ever have. Now, It's like I have a different view on opiate addiction. I know people, who abuse their subs, and have obliterated some of their veins from injecting subatex, it's really sad.
 
Im my personal opinion I beleive subs are only good for a short tqper... its worked very well for me in th epast....Why would you want to get addicted to another drug?? When your done your done... This is just my 2 cents thanks
 
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