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Hopefully this is the right place to post this.
Almost a month ago I ran out of Suboxone and decided it was time to quit.
Some stats
My detox started out like this. I was down to about 2mg a day of Suboxone when I made the jump (ran out) and I felt fine for the first 5 days, I assume from the high half life is why it took so long for me to start feeling bad.
I went about 3 days of feeling pretty bad but not the usual symptoms, my only symptom was a constant pain in my stomach which made it 3 days of hell, after 3 days I found some Tylenol #3 tablets in the cabinet and thought I found a nice little relief, there was a enough to take as needed to relive the stomache pains I had for 2 days and then I was out of that. I would then go about another 3 days of discomfort but not too bad and then I took a 30mg Oxcycodone, went another 3 days and had another one. Eventually I was at about the 2 weeks mark and doing the calculations on my dosing history and the half life, after about 2 weeks it looked like the suboxone was most likely out of me and at this time I would just have small amounts of Oxycodone in my system by taking a small amount every 2-3 days for another week.
Where I am now, 1 month without any Suboxone, in that month I have bought 3-4 30mg Oxycodone total and 1 15mg tablet. After doing ym 3 day off then taking a 30 cycle, I then took a 15mg tab of Oxycodone, it's been 3 days now since I had it and I feel pretty good, I really have't experienced any W/D so far and according to my calculator the Oxycodone in my system should be around 0.0009566 mg as of right now.
So in my head I am good to go and I think things will only get better and I won't need anymore. However I am experiencing mild symptoms that I never had before...
Instead of not being able to sleep at all, I can sleep daily but only for 3 hours, I can fall asleep for 3 hours on the dot, kinda strange.
Instead of hot/cold sweats like most experience and I have experienced in the past, I do not have hot/cold but I do sweat when I fall asleep for my big 3 hours. I wake up covered in sweat but only sweat anywhere where something is touching my skin, so if I have a blanket over me I am covered in sweat, if I fall asleep without a blanket then I only sweat and soak my pillow where my head and face are in contact with it, it's like only where my skin is touching something is the only sweat area
My stomach does not hurt like it always does when I am detoxing, that is gone, just the sleep problem and this strange sweating issue, along with a real lack of energy, I find it hard to be on the computer at my desk for more then 20 minutes and then I feel like I need to lay down. So I pretty much feel completely normal (what I think is normal anyways) with the exception that I get tired faster now but not tired enough to sleep
This is the first time I have really put an effort towards really quitting and so far I think it is going a lot better then I ever expected, my only symptoms through the whole process were the Insomnia, slight restless legs in the beginning , a constant stomach pain/discomfort feeling and that is it! Like I mentioned half of those symptoms are gone
Almost a month ago I ran out of Suboxone and decided it was time to quit.
Some stats
- Been using Oxycodone for 5 years
- At my Peak usage up to 300mg Oxycodone a day (10 30mg tablets)
- In the past year, no more then 30-60mg in a day
- for the past 6 months been on Suboxone instead
My detox started out like this. I was down to about 2mg a day of Suboxone when I made the jump (ran out) and I felt fine for the first 5 days, I assume from the high half life is why it took so long for me to start feeling bad.
I went about 3 days of feeling pretty bad but not the usual symptoms, my only symptom was a constant pain in my stomach which made it 3 days of hell, after 3 days I found some Tylenol #3 tablets in the cabinet and thought I found a nice little relief, there was a enough to take as needed to relive the stomache pains I had for 2 days and then I was out of that. I would then go about another 3 days of discomfort but not too bad and then I took a 30mg Oxcycodone, went another 3 days and had another one. Eventually I was at about the 2 weeks mark and doing the calculations on my dosing history and the half life, after about 2 weeks it looked like the suboxone was most likely out of me and at this time I would just have small amounts of Oxycodone in my system by taking a small amount every 2-3 days for another week.
Where I am now, 1 month without any Suboxone, in that month I have bought 3-4 30mg Oxycodone total and 1 15mg tablet. After doing ym 3 day off then taking a 30 cycle, I then took a 15mg tab of Oxycodone, it's been 3 days now since I had it and I feel pretty good, I really have't experienced any W/D so far and according to my calculator the Oxycodone in my system should be around 0.0009566 mg as of right now.
So in my head I am good to go and I think things will only get better and I won't need anymore. However I am experiencing mild symptoms that I never had before...
Instead of not being able to sleep at all, I can sleep daily but only for 3 hours, I can fall asleep for 3 hours on the dot, kinda strange.
Instead of hot/cold sweats like most experience and I have experienced in the past, I do not have hot/cold but I do sweat when I fall asleep for my big 3 hours. I wake up covered in sweat but only sweat anywhere where something is touching my skin, so if I have a blanket over me I am covered in sweat, if I fall asleep without a blanket then I only sweat and soak my pillow where my head and face are in contact with it, it's like only where my skin is touching something is the only sweat area
My stomach does not hurt like it always does when I am detoxing, that is gone, just the sleep problem and this strange sweating issue, along with a real lack of energy, I find it hard to be on the computer at my desk for more then 20 minutes and then I feel like I need to lay down. So I pretty much feel completely normal (what I think is normal anyways) with the exception that I get tired faster now but not tired enough to sleep
This is the first time I have really put an effort towards really quitting and so far I think it is going a lot better then I ever expected, my only symptoms through the whole process were the Insomnia, slight restless legs in the beginning , a constant stomach pain/discomfort feeling and that is it! Like I mentioned half of those symptoms are gone
