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Bupe Quit taking my subs

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Greenlighter
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So I've been on suboxone maintenance for the past 6 months and I've taken about 16 mg of the strips a day and I feel like I'm too cloudy and not myself. Yesterday I forgot to take my dose and so today I just decided Im going to see how long it takes to go into withdrawal. I haven't felt any symptoms of withdrawal yet when can I expect to?
 
That is a pretty high dose to jump from. Most people get well below 2 mg before they decide to quit altogether. I was taking around 2 mg, and even then I went through a couple weeks of feeling pretty shitty, then a good few months of just not feeling "right". I think people think that just because suboxone doesn't get you (significantly) high, that the withdrawal won't be that bad. It's worse than you think, and it does take like 3-5 days before it kicks in.

It's not impossible, but I'd say if you have the resources, taper down a bit and go from there.
 
ya 16mgs may be too much for some people. i can only handle 12mg a day, more then that i get negative effects, try taking a strip in the morning, and a half at nite..if its too spaced out, take half a strip 3times a day..but 16mg is the reccommended maintenance dose to doctors as they say it occupies 97% of ur opiate rectpors
 
Yeah I just took 8mg I wasn't in withdrawal but the mental part of things got to me. I wasn't dead set on getting off I just got my refill but I was curious. When I started it I was actually feeling pretty loaded from it and I became totally immune like most substances but I have just been feeling really edgy and find myself snapping a lot easier at dumb things and wondered if it was the subs? But thanks
 
thats the suboxone causing the snapping, edgy feeling. its still an opioid. can u ever think of a time when u were high on oxys or dope, or whatever it was, then when it wears off ur real irritable, snappy, edgy? thats cause the opiates effects worn off, same with suboxone, u may not feel a high, but when its duration wears off whether u feel it or not, u also will get edgy irritable, as an opioid it can cause same symptoms after coming off any other opiate.
 
Suboxone withdrawals at that dose start around day 3, and peak at day 5, well more like days 4,5,6 since the peak lasts so long. I was on a ridiculous dose of 32mg/day for 18 months, about 5 years ago when I knew nothing about the drug. I rarely took that dose, but 16mg was common. I ended up going from 16-24mg a day down to nothing in like 2-3 weeks, so not exactly a real taper, and by god those withdrawals were horrible. All that I will say is that on day 3 of zero sleep I was literally banging my head against the wall, punching myself, crying, then poured all my Xanax into my mouth before spitting them out since I knew they wouldn't kill me. So yea, I don't suggest jumping off at that dose.
 
and like i said again, the way these doctors do detox here in my city is ridoclous and i find highly unethical, or maybe maltreatment. ALL BENZO addicts coming in, regardless of what drug, how much mg a day, or how how long taking the drug, or how old these doctors ALL GIVE ONLY PHENOBARBITAL FOR 3 DAYS, and release you detoxed off of benzos...WTF!? phenobarb is long acting i know but there still is a chance of seizure, not to mention the migraine pumping heart stuff muscles, that withdrawl aint cool and they do it that way. if u went to any doctor on an outpatient bases they will taper u and it takes weeks and months. your age, how long taking drug,how much per day .-i think are very important factors when dexoting someone. i am RXED Suboxone 24mgs a day (i take half that) and the doctor said he will taper me off that in 3 days..how WRONG. and expect u to go to long term rehab 6 months going thru acute and then post acute WD (sorry for rambling about my life story , im just pissed when i hear about detox, and how wrong and cruel they're methods are
 
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