SEVERE SUBOXONE WITHDRAWAL - would like some help..

Abe360

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Hello everyone,

I'm Abe - I have not posted here before however I did post one time on "drugs-forum" and got the ban stick.
I recommended Kratom to a lady suffering from withdrawals and put the companies name who gives out free kratom samples... anyway - I wont be doing that here.

So.. I guess i'll jump in and go straight to the point.

I have bad facet joints in my back due to a car accident that happened five years ago, they are very inflamed and have been going back and fourth for the first two years trying to figure out where the pain was coming from.. that's a whole different story in itself.

My current situation: My wife, and myself are currently on month THREE of Suboxone withdrawal, and it's not getting better.

How did I get to this point? I was taking 8-12 mg suboxone strips a day for 2 years ~ started me off at 2mg a DAY within 6 months I was already at 8mg strips a day.

I failed a drug test for THC popping up as well as methadone (I literally took one fucking methadone pill from someone at work because I didn't have my Suboxone and I was in some bad pain...) The THC thing ..well that's why I was on Suboxone to begin with, they where going to give me Vicodin at first but they changed their mind after seeing THC in my results.. I don't blame them for legally changing the medicine to something they are "legally" allowed to prescribe me.. unfortunately in my case it was Suboxone, but the way it was explained to me was completely wrong.. not only was I told that this is a non addictive form of pain medication, I was told that it is a miracle drug compared to Vicodin via long term use, hence why it's "SO EXPENSIVE".. I pay $350.00 a month for health insurance for my self alone and they wouldn't even cover the Suboxone. I was spending about $500 a month on Suboxone.

It's clear my doc got kick backs from the pharm. company he always had coupons and promotions from them and he would try to shove it down everyones throat as i have personally seen it.

I was being prescribed so much Suboxone that my wife started to take some too for physical pain, eventually she started taking it often like me, maybe for a year straight at about 4-6 mg a day. Half the amount and time I was on it for.

I got a call from my doctors assistant the day of my refill appointment pretty much telling me not to come in and they will no longer fill my script. At that point I didn't care, and I didn't think it was a big deal. Mentally I didn't feel like I was addicted to anything so I figured stopping cold turkey would be no problem.

Four days later me and my wife look like Dennis and Dee from it's always Sunny in Philadelphia when they began withdrawing from crack.. Seriously - my wife was taken to the ER a week after the withdrawals had started and we both thought we where literally going to die..

At that point, we didn't know much about what was going on.. neither did the ER. The ER prescribed her some sort anti depressant but it was such a low dose it only helped the first day and by the second day she was already out of medicine. (THE ER doc only prescribed 10 because he was afraid she might have an addictive personality).

Our symptoms at this point where literally anything you could name: Obviously we both had the chills, our body temperature was constantly changing, felt like the worst fever of our lives, my blood pressure was at Stage 1 hypertension which is higher then usual for me.. At this point the worst part is mental, and then physical. I wake up almost every day having diarrhea, I've had it for 3 months now and it wont go away. I've tried taking Imodium however it really upsets my stomach, and I do not like the way it makes me feel even though it does work when I do take it, but only for that day or so. I tried taking pro biotic pills for my stomach and that hurt my stomach even worse then the Imodium so I quit on that completely. I still cannot sleep, about every couple hours I'm waking up with full sweats and a completely nauseous. It has been a very normal routine for me to wake up around 5-6 am every morning, barf and shit my self all morning, then go to work. I am sick of doctors and at this point would rather walk into a burning building before going to another BS clinic etc..

Honestly at this point I am not proud of what we are doing to make it through our day, my wife feels the same way.. we switch between Kratom, Dilaudid, Vicodin, Tylenol # 4, Tramadol, (not any more but xanax & other bars..) I've also been high 24/7 throughout this whole process, I go crazy if I do not smoke - I have never been this way but I feel like I am addicted to ANYTHING that will alter my mental state. All these things had helped with our withdrawals but I am afraid they are also prolonging it? Either way with or without other drugs/medicine right now I believe we would still be withdrawing hard but maybe not as bad? We both never had taken MDMA - the opportunity came up maybe after a month of withdrawals ,we both felt like crap anyway so we said screw it why not? Well I'm glad we did because literally for that night and the next few days we fealt AMAZING - it's like the MDMA was good for the withdrawals? It was pure MDMA tested - they where little twitter pills i think 1-2 points each?

Are we going about this wrong? I tried talking to a rehab place and their solution was to come in and sit in a bed for up to 90 days.. I don't think so ~ I have a job and a wife I need to support I can't afford to go 3 months without work.. I don't ever want to take Suboxone again, even if it kills me. I've never thought of my self as an "addict" but lately that's all we have been because we physically would be better of doing drugs now then not.. can somebody chime in on this logic?

If it was just physical pain it would be okay, but it sure does test you especially when your wife is withdrawing right next to you! (If anything it has made us closer but it makes everything really hard!)

Oh btw the severe part of the withdrawal lasted 2-3 weeks after quitting ~ I would say on a pain scale of 10 that the pain was like.. 10
Now I would say we are at level "7-8"..
 
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Hey abe and welcome to Bl.

I have some really strong info for you and will post it in the next day or two unless one of the amazing people I work beside does first.

Im sorry you guys are struggling. You guys wish you were withdrawling from crack as its phisical withdrawl is nothing compaired to opiates.. in fact most people do not exspierience much of a phisical withdrawal at all.


In short, unfortunately you are going about this in manner thats promoting and extending your missory.

When we look at opiate detox we need to remove all opiates from our system and then work through the time it takes for our system to reset.

The folly in your aproach is that your putting to much individual significance to the different opiates. Your not withdrawaling from suboxone your withdrawling from opiates. The reason you guys are still in withdrawl is that your still taking opiates with the kratom T4, Dilaudid, etc.

To break free and out of your missory you will need to perminantly suspend your intake of all opiates.

You will then finally find the end of the tunnel.

There are some really good medications that actually work on opiate withdrawal. . They dont make a rose garden outa this struggle, but they certanly help a great deal. They are not opiates so they will not keep you in the indefinite missory you guys are in ♡

Tomorow I will also post my suggestions as well as links to other people's. I would do it tonight, but im on my phone.

You guys can take heart as when you aproach this correctly you should finally be done with acutes in a week or two. Then work through any paws you have and most people are through that in under eight months.

Then the other angle you will want to develop a plan to address once the phisical dependece has been worked through is any addiction that may need to be addressed.

Smile.. you guys have been through the ringer, but if you alter your aproach you be free in no time.
 
Hey Abe,

I didnt figure out how long you actually were withdrawing before you started popping other opiates. The thing with buprenorphine is, it is very long acting and build up in your system making the withdrawal possibly very long because its a kind of taper on its own when you have taken it over extended periods. Still talking about weeks, not 3 months but thats most likely because you been taking other opioids again kind of resetting the progress and making it even longer. Obviously you were somehow completely screwed on the suboxone, its not even supposed to be used for pain, its a maintenance drug for addicts and your doses were maintenance doses too. Buprenorphine can be used to treat pain in much lower doses.

It seems that you cannot tolerate the symptoms for the duration they are going to be there, dont worry, there are excellent medications for that. Best of these are clonidine and gabapentin/pregabalin which will treat your symptoms well without resetting your progress because they do not affect directly to opioid receptors. These are the best comfort meds you can get hands down. If youre also suffering from severe insomnia even after these then a benzo and/or melatonin at night is also suggested. Other good meds that help you sleep and the mental side of things is mirtazapine or trazodone, they help you sleep immediately but the anti-depressant effects take some weeks at least to manifest (if they are going to). These will get you through the worst and then you should start doing some sort of exercise immediately when you are able because it is the best medicine of all, your getting your endogenous morphine there and build your internal opioid system again, the benefits of this are easily felt from the start.


If you still cant take it and accept that you are going to prolong this thing, then use only kratom because its kind of weak but still stimulates the opioid receptors. But I doubt you even need it once you get on clonidine/gabapentin because they truly kick ass in withdrawal, youd be amazed. You just got to stopping popping all kind of pills, youre just messing yourself up more.
 
i would like to know the duration of the other meds you are taking ! i have been off subs for only a week just taking kartom and i felt almost 0 WD i now take 5-10 grams 3x a day and it helps my pain and mental state big time ! if you still get the runs everyday you must be in the acute stages of WD !
 
Neversickanymore,
Thanks for your reply, I’m surprised how caring you and everyone who’s replied has been! I have never truly believed what we are doing is the wrong approach, of course I know how crazy it may sound. In writing everything you are saying makes sense, however thinking about dropping all pain medication right now sounds a bit rough considering that I got put on this crap for a reason and still suffer from the same physical pain I was in originally. From research I have learned to believe that Suboxone withdrawal can last months to a couple years? At first I thought no way, we will be over this in a week... Two weeks... 1 month 2 months… yeah... Still not over!!!
I personally believe given the circumstances we are doing well, together we can do anything and we both feel the same way however this is a big bummer / kick in the teeth! Without my wife I don’t know how deep into a rut I’d be in. Really life could be worse ~ we actually just found out our friend is going to die from cancer and it certainly puts EVERYTHING in perspective – we are the lucky ones..

This whole ordeal It really has bought us closer ~ I think in some cases it should have driven us apart!

What I’m trying to get it is do you really think if we quit all opiate altering substances we should pass the acute stages of withdrawal sooner? This is the hard part I’m having trouble believing...

Hi Cook, Thanks for your reply
As soon as we started feeling the physical withdrawals we began taking Vicodin/tramadol, then discovered Kratom, and so on… I do believe we are doing a good job in controlling how much medicine we do take though. To be honest I think I would be able to quit everything without much issue as long as I can keep smoking, thing is I just don’t know if I should because I am still not 100% convinced if I did stop it wouldn’t be a bunch of bad pain for us for nothing. Again a lot of research I have done shows that Suboxone withdrawal can last up to 2-3 years? Those numbers look more realistic as each day passes! I’m afraid we might be the unlucky ones who will withdrawal for that type of length/period because the way we just jumped off the Suboxone, I tried to taper my wife as soon as I found out that the withdrawals thing was going to be an issue with the remainder of my medicine however that was only for about 1-2 weeks and if it did helped all it did was prolong her withdrawals…
clonidine/gabapentin – do I need a doctor to prescribe this?

Hi Silas GUY, Thanks for replying
My wife and I are kind of at different stages, she is lucky and not having as bad bathroom issues and can hold her food in for the most part. She feels at worst in the mornings and at night, I would say the same goes for me. When she wakes up she drinks a vile of kratom/extract and within 10 minutes that gets her out of bed… She has to take sleeping pills to sleep, however I don’t agree with those just because I feel like she already has a built tolerance on them… however at least she is sleeping at night now. Throughout the day it’s not like we are mixing all these meds but I would say on average we take Kratom 1-3 times a day, and sometimes we substitute Kratom with the other meds. If I know I have to go see my family or do something that requires heavy social/public interaction I would take about 30 mgs of Vicodin or a good dose of Kratom.. My wife is similar…
I’m going to talk to my wife about sticking with smoking & Kratom only.. I don’t think we will be able to stop Kratom but I definitely think we can stop taking that other stuff if there is a shot it would really help..
 
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Clonidine and gabapentin as the rest I mentioned except melatonin are prescription meds so you need to see a doc anyway.

The reason you are still withdrawing is that you have been taking different opioids and kratom since you stopped suboxone. Its just that you have been on a long acting before, so you felt no WD between doses because the blood levels are high enough all the time. Now you are taking others drugs which are short acting, which means you will feel the WD between doses too. There is no such thing as suboxone withdrawal really, they are all opioid withdrawals and the only thing your body knows is that it is missing mu-stimulation and whatever satisfies will make you feel better instantly.

"Suboxone withdrawal" is lengthy because it takes about a week to the drug even leave your system completely. The whole thing will not take years, it takes couple weeks of the physical symptoms and perhaps the PAWS stage for a few months which is mostly mental and results from addictive behaviour.
 
Thanks Herbavore, I will take a look at that page.

Cook, so you are saying if I cut out all these other opiates the acute withdrawal symptoms will go away within weeks?

Has anyone seen this chart before? It shows how long the Suboxone half life is and how it effects you if you take it on a daily basis...

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Cook, so you are saying if I cut out all these other opiates the acute withdrawal symptoms will go away within weeks?

Has anyone seen this chart before? It shows how long the Suboxone half life is and how it effects you if you take it on a daily basis...

Yes, if you stop all of them you will most likely have rough ~2-3weeks but it will get better soon after that. And with the comfort meds I listed its easier.

The chart just shows how high doses accumulate to your blood stream over time and therefore when you stop taking high dose the dose that stays in your bloodstream will be "tapering" you for the first week or so. After that its gone, and then its just withdrawal without anything to ease. This is why buprenorphine WD is longer but in turn less severe than for example oxycodone WD in general. Because it includes "taper" built-in.
 
Neversickanymore,
Thanks for your reply, I’m surprised how caring you and everyone who’s replied has been! I have never truly believed what we are doing is the wrong approach, of course I know how crazy it may sound. In writing everything you are saying makes sense, however thinking about dropping all pain medication right now sounds a bit rough considering that I got put on this crap for a reason and still suffer from the same physical pain I was in originally. From research I have learned to believe that Suboxone withdrawal can last months to a couple years? At first I thought no way, we will be over this in a week... Two weeks... 1 month 2 months… yeah... Still not over!!!
I personally believe given the circumstances we are doing well, together we can do anything and we both feel the same way however this is a big bummer / kick in the teeth! Without my wife I don’t know how deep into a rut I’d be in. Really life could be worse ~ we actually just found out our friend is going to die from cancer and it certainly puts EVERYTHING in perspective – we are the lucky ones..

This whole ordeal It really has bought us closer ~ I think in some cases it should have driven us apart!

What I’m trying to get it is do you really think if we quit all opiate altering substances we should pass the acute stages of withdrawal sooner? This is the hard part I’m having trouble believing...

Hi Cook, Thanks for your reply
As soon as we started feeling the physical withdrawals we began taking Vicodin/tramadol, then discovered Kratom, and so on… I do believe we are doing a good job in controlling how much medicine we do take though. To be honest I think I would be able to quit everything without much issue as long as I can keep smoking, thing is I just don’t know if I should because I am still not 100% convinced if I did stop it wouldn’t be a bunch of bad pain for us for nothing. Again a lot of research I have done shows that Suboxone withdrawal can last up to 2-3 years? Those numbers look more realistic as each day passes! I’m afraid we might be the unlucky ones who will withdrawal for that type of length/period because the way we just jumped off the Suboxone, I tried to taper my wife as soon as I found out that the withdrawals thing was going to be an issue with the remainder of my medicine however that was only for about 1-2 weeks and if it did helped all it did was prolong her withdrawals…
clonidine/gabapentin – do I need a doctor to prescribe this?

Hi Silas GUY, Thanks for replying
My wife and I are kind of at different stages, she is lucky and not having as bad bathroom issues and can hold her food in for the most part. She feels at worst in the mornings and at night, I would say the same goes for me. When she wakes up she drinks a vile of kratom/extract and within 10 minutes that gets her out of bed… She has to take sleeping pills to sleep, however I don’t agree with those just because I feel like she already has a built tolerance on them… however at least she is sleeping at night now. Throughout the day it’s not like we are mixing all these meds but I would say on average we take Kratom 1-3 times a day, and sometimes we substitute Kratom with the other meds. If I know I have to go see my family or do something that requires heavy social/public interaction I would take about 30 mgs of Vicodin or a good dose of Kratom.. My wife is similar…
I’m going to talk to my wife about sticking with smoking & Kratom only.. I don’t think we will be able to stop Kratom but I definitely think we can stop taking that other stuff if there is a shot it would really help..

i think you're on the right mind set ! get off the subs and stick to kartom and herb :) and if you do take other full agonist opiates of a semi synthetic nature then try to limit intake as much as possible ! i have been off my subs about a week now and feel good as long as i have good red type kartom ! sometimes at night i feel like i want to crawl out of my own skin and sleep is an issue but no other hard WD at all ! im going to get some etz for sleep and keep up the 10 grams 3 x a day of kartom and a good indica as needed !
 
Hey abe i hope you guys are hanging in there. If you want to get out of this eventually your going to have to drop all the opiates.

Marathon post if you are on a phone let me know and i will take the nsfw tabs off so you can access it.

NSFW:


You can switch to kratom full time, but then you guys are just going to swap on drug for another. I've seen people on BL that were spending well over three hundred a week just to stave off withdrawal.

Here is some good information you can look through

medications for acute opiate detox

The medications I would explore the use of for detox would be:
>Clonidine< DOSED EVER FOUR HOURS..

one of either
>NEURONTIN< >HERE< >HERE< >here<
OR >Lyrica<
OR >phenibut<

>A BENZO BUT JUST AT NIGHT<
>a nsaid<
>melatonin<
tylenol
Senokot S is a stool softener and laxative. If you do not want the laxative you can go for strait stool softenerDioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate.

(Opi Withdrawal) what is the best comfort meds for opiate w/d?

Your Personal Opiate Withdrawal Arsenal


And info on paws

PAWS LINKS
Why We Don’t Get Better Immediately: Post-acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS)
Post Acute Withdrawal (PAW) Excerpted From “Staying Sober” By: Terence T. Gorski
Post-acute-withdrawal syndrome Wiki

Exercise and Brain Neurotransmission
Neurobiology of Exercise
Exercise 4 Health, Mental Health, and Addiction vs. I worked all that out
exercise and sleep

Chemicals and supplements to recover from opiate addiction
Diet & Neurogenesis


it is a powerful thing to keep our thoughts possitive and here are some threads many of us use to help us do this.
Managing depressive thinking
Good things about being off drugs/getting sober
Share something POSITIVE from your day!
Today I Am Thankful For... Ver. 3: Earth, Wind and Fire!

Here is the mindfulness thread.
Anhedonia MEGA Thread


Long term pain treatment makes pain much worse. I know that sounds crazy right and from our experiences it certainly is crazy, because when we take the medicine it certainly alleviates pain.

The problem is that the brain likes its natural levels of everything. This unpleasant phenomenon is shown buy your present physical dependence. You added in suboxone every day for two years. The brain adjusted and brought the system as close as it could manage to its desired natural state even with the medication on board and included. Then the meds were taken away. The system that adjusted to having the meds in it, no longer has the meds in and its suddenly way outa wack and this is clearly portrayed by..

Four days later me and my wife look like Dennis and Dee from it's always Sunny in Philadelphia when they began withdrawing from crack.. Seriously - my wife was taken to the ER a week after the withdrawals had started and we both thought we where literally going to die..

The same thing happens with pain. So say we have some significant pain and seek treatment in opiates. Wham they work very well at first.

Lets say the pain went from a 7 down to a two. Sounds great right. Then The brain say wait a minute this isn't right and starts adjusting for the medications presence. It starts ramping up the pain to adjust. It tries to adjust everything the medication is doing back to normal.

So that 2 slowly creeps up to a 3 then four then six. Thats with the medication on board. So the patient says, "this is no longer working like it did, i need more or something stronger." The pain level goes back down to a 2. But the brain goes well ill just adjust for that now.. the pain level are jacked up again to compensate for the new situation.

This repeats until there is no larger dose or stronger medication to go to. Then it continues until the system is pretty much back to normal with the substance on board.

You will hear people say the medications or drugs no longer worked or got me high one bit.. I just was forced to take them to feel "normal."

So if a person takes short acting opiates long term for pain they end being in much worse pain most of the time than if they never took them. But our experience is that they provide great pain relief and going from a 10 to a 6 is great relief. but im not sure its better then finding other routes to treat the 7.

So if we go back to the person who was given long term opiate therapy for pain and went from a seven to a two. In order for the brain to adjust back to about baseline it needed to ramp up the pain 4 points. if we add the 4 points to the natural 7 we get 11. When the short acting medication is taken we are brought down to a six as it wares off quickly we start to work our way back up to 7, 8, 9, redose and we feel much better. So the medication is working? Not really, because most of the time we are in more pain then we would have been if we were on nothing at all.

I can hear the that's utter bullshit from pain sufferers that are reading this. followed by a statement about the last time they were off their meds they couldn't even function at all and were in severe pain. This is true of course.

When we take the medication out of the system our pain experience rockets all the way up and stacks all the normal on and then stacks all the extra pain it created to adjust for the medication on top of it. So temporarily we experience pain at very high levels.. who knows 15.. 20.. but thats the picture.

The pain slowly returns to normal.. most people reach normal levels when the extra opiate receptors were sprouted from our use are retracted. This usually happens around the 6, 7, 8, month mark.

But for this to happen and for the rest of the system to reach base line we cant interact with those receptors. This is why we cant use opiates to detox opiates. This is why its esential to chuck them.

Im very sorry you have the back injury to deal with. I would really put some thought into trying a run at nine months without any opiates. It will not be easy and could mean some significant unnaturally high pain, but i think you could be pretty satisfied in the end.

Sorry this post is so long, but if you give us what you have taken opiate wise in the last two weeks if there were any long acting ones or the last week if they were all short acting we should be able to give you pretty close to the day when you will see the light at the end of the first tunnel. This is they day you will start to feel better and realize your going to finally make it.:D

You guys got this. Every body pays the piper in the end. Depending on what you guys have been taking you will see the first break in a week if you have been on short acting and two if you have been on long half life's.

Then a handful of months later you will feel much better and be free of this wretched path.<3
 
Abe360
I use to be on methadone prescription highest dose the clinics here give 210mg...I'm new here by the way but seen what you said suboxone withdrawels...after the methadone treatment failed to work they tried me on suboxone, I was on it years ago when all they had were the orange octangular shaped dissolvable pills anyways, your probably the first I've heard of having withdrawals on suboxone but me I was on it 2 years and if I ran out before I could fill my script I would find a little methadone...suboxone and dones are chemically almost alike as well as both used for heroin or pill addicts, methadone is a lot easier to find then subs so I would say try that.

Abe360
I can say I know how bad methadone withdrawals were and it being the twin of suboxone I would say atleast it's suboxone, after 3 days of detoxing myself off methadone it put me in the hospital, almost died, clinic kicked me out for misuse of coke....anyways when I dropped suboxone myself I don't remember withdrawels, but both are opiate based so any kind of opiate would help yaw....best of luck!!
 
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..suboxone and dones are chemically almost alike as well as both used for heroin or pill addicts, methadone is a lot easier to find then subs so I would say try that.

Another take would be that they are very different.

Suboxone is a
s a mixed agonist–antagonist opioid receptor modulator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buprenorphine

Methadone is a full opiate agonist, an nmda antagonist, and inhibits the reuptake of serotonin and noradrenalin.

Neuropathic Pain: Causes, Management and Understanding

I also have watched more people than i can remember go through sub withdrawals. maybe you hopped right on another opiate?

Switching to methadone would be a choice that had far reaching consequences. I also kicked done.. no fun rite there.. no fun. I would not consider this if it was me.
 
From research I have learned to believe that Suboxone withdrawal can last months to a couple years? At first I thought no way, we will be over this in a week... Two weeks... 1 month 2 months… yeah... Still not over!!!

From my own personal experience, I've found the worst of it to be over after about 7-8 days and then as for things like no longer waking up drenched in sweat, etc - I find after about 2-3 weeks this pretty much goes away too. The only reason you're likely to still to be experiencing negative effects is because you're still taking opioids. Strong ones too - oxymorph is a serious drug.
 
cook: That makes perfect sence, and what I have thought, just thought it would be longer then a week after quitting.

Silas GUY: Thanks for the kind words, I'm glad you are able to cope with your withdrawals and Kratom works for you.

neversickanymore: Thank you for following through and providing me with that information - when I get home I will re-read vs. skimming through and see if there's anything there I can use to help me and my wife.

anonymous87: Sounds like you've had a rough path to get to where you are at now.. I envy anyone not being screwed by subs! Best of luck however I certainly agree with neversickanymore, the last thing I would do is take methadone right now.. Even when I just took one for back pain before I had all this going on it made me feel sick so maybe that's why I'd be against it but just doesn't sound like the right thing and in fact the quite opposite of what i've been hearing online especially in this particular thread! However I do agree to each their own, if that worked for you then cool.

mostly-human: Within the first month of withdrawls I could say for sure no matter what I did I was going to be screwed.. the fact is if it wasn't for those medicines I wouldn't have made it even past my first month.. it may sound crazy but I am still doubtful if I stop all meds that the withdrawls will stop.. yeah it might get better, and that's what I am hoping to acomplish.


With all yalls motivation this has certainly pushed me to at least give it a shot.

On Saturday I took my last dose of Kratom, and that was in the morning. Since then I haven't taken any pill of any sort including Kratom. What I did not quit was the herb.. without that I think I seriously wouldn't be able to do this... which why out of my 3 month and counting withdrawl experienece if ANYONE asks me what natural medicine is good for withdrawl etc.. I would recommend marijuana, again each their own though! I know it doesn't help my wife as much as it helps me! The symptoms are clearly getting worse but honestly I am very positive. I am hoping by quitting all this messy stuff my wife will soon follow ~ she's already agreed to make a plan and give it a shot as well once she finishes the last of her meds. I'm the most indecisive person I know, however once I do make a decesion I tend to stick with it.. in the past few months I had chosen to go the route that I did however I've been given a new direction.. Thanks everyone - I will keep you updated, my will is strong!
 
Just an update.. it's been a full week since I've quit taking kratom or any opiates.. can't say it hasn't sucked hard, because it has.. it's also been very positive, I feel like this was the right choice to make so thanks everyone who helped! I think really within a week I will be okay, for the first time I actually believe it.
 
Sub widthrawel is hell. The longer on it the worse it gets.
As advice, jump off at below .5MG. A quarter of a strip. 7-10 days of crap then you sleep again and have PAWS for months. At least that's what I and allot of people I've met through the rehabs do. Allot end up back on 1mg and become lifers. The drug company wins again
 
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