Tapering off my suboxone. Need some advice please!!

[OnceWasLost]

OK so I was an H addict, amongst other things as well, for years. I have been fully clean, other than my prescribed Suboxone, for going on 3 months I would say. And let me tell you what, getting off of H was something. But what fears me now is that I do not want to experience WD when I stop the Suboxone program. So I am going to taper down for a good while until I am taking nothing but around 0.025 mg or less, then will hopefully be able to jump off altogether. I am not having issues with my Subs or anything its just that this whole ordeal is getting old and I want my life back that I have missed for so many years. Now, for a request on advice, Can anyone suggest to me, or advise me on some proven, factual, tried and true taper methods for Suboxone please? Here is my strategy, which will be my taper method unless someone can help me and make improvements and some alterations to the one I have planned. I am currently dosing 4 mg every morning like clock work. And on occasion another 2 mg in the late afternoon/ early evening. yes I know its rather long and is going to take me a nice bit of time to do but, Im sure hoping its worth it.
First step i will take is cutting out the occasional evening 2 mg altogether. This will be held for 3 days
The following 3 days I will dose 3.5 mg per day
The next 3 that follows will be a 3.0 mg dose
The next 3 days will be a 2.50 mg dose
3 more days at 2.0 mg
3 more days at 1.75 mg
3 more days at 1.50 mg
3 more days at 1.25 mg
3 more days at 1.00 mg
3 more days at 0.75 mg
3 more days at 0.50 mg
3 more days at 0.25 mg
3 more days at 0.20 mg lPlease share you input on an improvement
5 more days at 0.15 mg
skip 1 day
3 more days at 0.10 mg
skip 1 day
2 more days at 0.05 mg
skip 2 days
1 more day at 0.025 mg
skip 3 days
1 more day at 0.01 mg




This is almost a 2 month taper, but I have a strong feeling that the slow and gradual cut backs are the key so my system will have time to adjust and not experience any shock or withdrawal symptoms.
Any and All suggestions that are logical and factual are more than welcome and I will be looking forward to reading them!! Thank you so much for taking your time and reading this. I cant weight to have this weight off my shoulders and be a 100% legitimately clean individual.

 

[OnceWasLost]

Anyone? Any suggestion? Any change I should make If any at all? Any motivating Taper Success stories?

 

[Speed King]

Are you almost out of Suboxone? If so, I say go for it. If you have or can get more Suboxone, I would take a longer slower taper. Basically what you plan on doing but twice as long. Also consider gabapentin or if you can handle it, benzodiazepines can reduce some of the withdrawal side effects.

Use the search function to look up threads on opiate withdrawal and Suboxone tapers.
Hope this helped and welcome to Bluelight.

 

[C C]

I agree with speed king. My doc has had me on it for three years. I have severe back issues and became addicted to my pain meds. I was on 2 80mv OC a daY and four roxys a day. I went to my doc and said NO MORE after i discovered snorting opana was above and beyond any incredible feeling i had ever had. I would run out of opana every month about a week to week and a half early and the w/d was HELL. Worse than OC or roxy and suboxone didn't help. So i had a cycle where every month i got sick until i got my opana. One day i said ENOUGH! Fix the problem stop masking it with drugs thats like putting a band aid on a broken leg. So i went on suboxone and had a successful surgery. However three years later i still take sub because nothing takes away my back pain like sub and its much better than chasing pills. I can take 2mg and on a bad day 4 mg. However it works miracles on my back pain. I prefer this to chasing pills any day. This is my story...

 

[Jayues T Iien]

Speed King says it best. If you have the subs a longer taper would be more helpful. Stretch your tapers to bout a week to even up to 3 weeks apart. Also as you suggested try an go more than a day without any. Either way you're gonna go through withdrawals but when your only doing a 0.25 mg piece a day compared to a 8 mg strip, the WD's are going to be less severe. An if your thinking of 0.025- 0.01 mg a day then it'll be that much "easier". At one point way into the taper you have to stop it all together. You may not sleep for a couple days, lose your appetite, restlessness of your limbs/body, and will have this really tired feeling for up to months, like you just can't seem to wake up. Depending on how much you take. Best thing to do at that point is exercise. If your legs are aching, stretch and/or go for a jog. Any movement can help. Also taking your mind off it however you can. Find a hobby. But once you're committed a few days without or even weeks to months than please DO NOT just do another piece, as your right back where you were before. It's not gonna be easy or a short process. Done right, tapering can take Years. But it's been done by many, many people. I hope this will help you. Best of luck to you, you can do it!