Heres my experience with the whole thing, my story is slightly more silly as to the reasons I was hooked on bupe and whatnot, first of all I developed a year long Tramadol addiction, I use to love that stuff, 3-4 of the 50's and I'd be productive and in a good mood all day long, then I needed 5-6, then 7-8 eventually I had been on it over a year and up to 20 50 mg pills a day, waaay past the seizure threshold though I've never had one, anyways everytime I'd try to stop the tramadol I would have the most unbelievable withdrawal symptoms, I had never had withdrawal before so I thought people were greatly exaggerating it, I thought hey it's probably just like a bad flu and I've been sick before, I can handle it, boy was I wrong, one of the absolute worst symptoms for me was the excruciating leg pain and restless leg syndrome, sleeping was absolutely impossible for me and the lethargy and weakness was second to none, and I was reallly stupid to allow myself to get this deep as I have a 3 year old who I have to constantly take care of, she is quite precocious and active so me being laid out on the couch for a week being sick is really not possible for me, so anyways(sorry for such a long story)
everytime I would go into tramadol withdrawal I would get codeine or vicodin and it would wipe the symptoms right out, but 8 hours later I would be back sick again wheras with the tramadol I was well for a full 12 hours or more. so a buddy of mine told be he had some suboxone tablets, the 2 mg kind, I bought a few off of him and my tolerance being so low was very careful with them I would crush them up and snort tiny bumps at a time and honestly it made me high as HELL and productive as fuck, I absolutely LOVED IT.
Soon I graduated to the 8 mg tabs and they would end up lasting me only about 3 days, I continued on like this for about 5 months on this recreational suboxone binge, I loved sub and it lasted so long. anyways I ran out of my suboxone connection and about 5 days later the sub withdrawals start.
Wow I thought tramadol withdrawals were bad it was like hell frozen over and I literally wanted to stab myself in the leg just to go to the hospital to get relief, I was contemplating robbing a pharmacy ANYTHING just to get this hell over, and the worst part was I found out due to the suboxones extremely long half life the withdrawal would last for a MONTH OR MORE
I had fucked myself so unbelievably, it was horrible, and excruciating, I should've just took the tramadol withdrawals and been done with it in a week or two but NOOO I had to switch to recreational sub and it was the worst mistake of my life,
Also I found that when I bought some norco(hydrocodone) to relieve my symptoms, that wheras I only had to take 15-20 mg before and actually be high, now I had to take 60 mg just to get a buzz and at least 30-40 to not be sick, the suboxone had destroyed my low tolerance
now I have been using opiates on and off for the last 3 months since the suboxone ordeal, and this past week have used oxycodone and the last 2 days oxymorphone every single day, I can only imagine what these withdrawals will be like when I run out again in a couple of days, it's funnny I got on subs to see what it was like when I actually didn't really need them, and liked them. and now it looks like I actually will need them to get over the habit I developed because of them.
Point being: STAY AWAY!
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