Feeling 'sick' From Suboxone (Page 3) (Top voted first)

I have been on Subox for about 4 months now...I started at a very low dose. Only 6 MG a day for the first 2 days (and then after getting very sick on that amount) lowered my dose to only 2 mg total a day. The trouble is I feel really sick...horrible headaches, zero energy, body aches. It feels literally like I am being poisened slowly by the Subox. So why not stop taking it you will ask. I have tried to taper down and the WDs are as bad as coming off Oxy to me. I am now stuck between the option every day to feel like a '10' bad and have serious WDs and not take anything...or take a little Subox , not have the sweats as bad, but still feel like a '8' bad. There seems to be no good option anymore for me. Maybe my brain is truly damaged and will never feel the same without the exact meds I was on before. Oxy. Has anyone else had a bad experience getting off the Subox, even if they tapered very slowly? If so did you ever make it through? I just don't see any reward at the end of all of this.

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Many people have the same issue due to the fillers and bioavailability of Suboxone, I know I did. You should try Zubsolv or Bunavail (different brands) and see if you feel better. Bunavail and Zubsolv taste like mint, are more convenient to dose with, and they peak higher and quicker in the blood with different bioavailability and have way fewer side effects. After a couple of days after I switched, I felt a thousand times better and felt like I had my life back. Bunavail in particular has almost zero incidents of constipation, and lessened nausea and headaches, and you won't get the lethargy, mood swings and depression like Suboxone. It changed my life to switch.

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I have been on suboxone for the past 4 years and I need help with not going back to taking it Bc I have stopped taking it before and I went right back to it to just wake up and feel normal. Bc that is all it does. It makes me function. I'm so tried of having to depend on something to make me feel normal and happy. And the sad thing is I started taking it Bc I was board. I mean who does that. I knew what it was like to come off of pain pills and how horrible that was. So why would I be so quick to try and do and become addicted to suboxone? I honestly thought nothing could be worse then coming off of morphine right? Well at least that's what I thought and told myself. But I was wrong. Here I am four years later and I have finally made that jump. Its so hard and all I want to do is isolate myself from everyone. I wish I could go to sleep and wake up a month later but that isn't how any of this works. I know I am a strong woman and I can and will get through this. I just need people to talk to that won't judge. The hardest part is, it's actually f*****g with me and I mean me by my head. It's making me angry and mean to the ones I love and they don't deserve that nor do they understand it. I just want to feel good and normal again. I want my life back, that boring old life that I was so quick to get out of when I started using the subs.

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Thank you for sharing your story with me. I really didn't think anyone would write back with this so old. Today is a hard day for me but I'll be okay. I know I can do this. I have too much to loose ya know? This will probably one of those things that keeps trying to knock me down but I know I'm worth being clean and living a clean life. I will have to work at this mentally after all of the aches and pains. I agree with you though on it being way worse than coming off of pain pills. Maybe I'll start to feel normal again. I sure hope so. My family deserves that's much. I do know one thing and im not going back to that life ever ever again.

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I'm trying to get off opiates i been on 15+ years oxys an Roxy's 30mg I'd be doing up to 800mg aday an I need a doctor in Lynchburg Virginia for getting off opiates by getting on like an outpatient maintenance an get put on suboxone or subutex an hopefully they take Medicaid Medicare if anyone knows a doctor that might see me asap please post back an let me no please I really need this help as I don't want to lose my family all over opiates i hope someone can help thanks to all

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I have been through the same and i actually said exact same side effects. Trust my that is not that you aren't taking enough in my opinion cause i felt that "poison" feeling along worth all the others for 8 months and i was at 24mg a day down to 4mg and it never mattered. If you can tolerate those horrible side effects maybe it's great. I can see how it might as i totally subconsciously tapered and if done slow enough, i imagine it makes wds far less intense. I just couldn't tale those side effects one more day and found a dr to prescribe methadone.

I was on it before and got on subs then went back. Yes subs work but you still feel horrible physically which leads to bad depression.

Have you ever considered methadone? There's no shame in using medication assisted treatment and taper very very slowly when ready. Either get it from your Dr. for pain or a clinic for addiction. The latter obviously is last resort.

If you never heard, some of us can't handle the subs because of the narcan/naltraxone or any of those blockers even if they say your body doesn't absorb any. They say that we absorb some of it and even that very small amount messes with white blood cells and immune system causing all those horrible physical and mental side effects but then we see a ton of people who swear by suboxone and preach about how it is the very best thing ever.

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Wow, that is about the ballsiest "Freedom from suboxone handcuffs" accounts I have ever read - and I have read many in the 6.5 years I've been on suboxone. While it is not the first time I've read of someone going short term to a full agonist opioid to get free from the sub, it is definitely the first time I've read an account written as honestly & intelligently as yours. Just the fact that you say to not go with your old d.O.C. When using a full opioid to take very short term, as you did with norco. You must really, really have been ready. I think you said you lost access temporarily due to amox??? That is so f'n crazy because I just gave a u/a today for my 4 week suboxone script & I was taking amox all of last week due to a tooth infection, as well! Now I am wondering if my 875 mg antibiotic is going to turn up as coke? Wow, that would really be a kick in the ass, because I didn't even get to have any of the fun, so I hope I don't come up dirty?? Geez, I would love to think my doctor will believe me, since she is a great lady & I have a great relationship with her and at least on my end, there appears to be mutual respect. Hopefully I'm worrying for nothing but nothing wrong with being prepared. Yeah, suboxone is some pretty evil s***. I was really in a bad way when a friend told me of suboxone in september 2010...I have never relapsed since starting suboxone 9/29/10, but now that time is marching on, I see what you mean about the handcuffs. Plus, being in the pharmaceutical industry, it still blows my mind and f***s me up that I can forget to take this crap for 3 days and feel fine & then wake up on the 4th day & swear I am ready to die both inside & out, it's just pure evil for any medication to do that to a person! No way do I have the guts to do it in your style, but that's only for now...Maybe that will one day change? Hope so! Congrats & let me know how you are doing since your post is from over 2 months ago. It would be very encouraging to hear you are doing well???

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Yes I am going through it right now myself and it is terrible absolutely terrible. I have been taking Suboxone every single day for 4 years I had wean myself down to about somewhere between 1 mg and 0.5 and then stop taking it cold turkey it has been the pits I get the chills sweats insomnia is very bad diarrhea every day I am now about day for into when I took my last last dose it was like about 0.5 or 1 mg this is not fun this is not easy but it's worth it you don't want to be a slave to anything I refuse to live that way any longer weird you will be sick if you don't have it so it sucks but I'm sticking through with it no matter what I will be free I will be delivered. I've found that alcohol has helped with the detox symptoms to a certain degree now I'm not condoning this but I've been drinking pretty steadily for the last 3 days in order to just cope and be able to get up and go to even to work after I finally put to death this Suboxone then I'll put down alcohol and cigarettes and be completely free from all addiction. The longer that you were on it the worst the detox is going to be and I've been on it religiously for 4 years like I said it's very very rough I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy but you have to find the resolve within yourself and say do I want to be clean do I want to be free if the answer is yes then tough it out it's worth it

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Everyone here inspires me to keep going. God bless you all

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Just started on subs.. I have been on about 100 mg to 150 mg of oxy per day.. I didn't have any more pills and had a sub around.. 8mg.. I took it only 10 hours after my last dose of oxy.. I felt like I was gonna die the first two times I took it. Which was about 8 hours apart. It's been about 24 hours since my last dose of oxy but I still feel like s***.. need some guidance please.

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Hopefully my story helps bud. I was on Suboxone and subutex taking close to a whole pill a day for about a year. When I finally decided to quit, well, me being the person I am had done it cold turkey while quitting cigs, dipping, and caffeine at the same time. It was torture man. Sweating all day and night, freezing bones, aching, restless leg syndrome so bad I could hardly move. I went through this for 3 months man. Absolute worst time of my life but once I got out back on my neurontin for my back, boom it helped with the aches and I could finally sleep and could eat and the sweats stopped. Ask your doc about it or lyrica or gabapentin. It’s all the same. It’s a non narcotic alternative and helps.

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Hey. {edited for privacy}. I'm having the same issue. I'm a dude in the USA in exactly the same situation 6 months after cvs and all the pharmacies ran out for 30 days of 8mg generic orange round 357 pills.

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I need help. In 1yr I went to 16mg to 4mg. Now it's 6 months later and it's 16mg daily. I feel like death, flu, pain in joints, bp changes, mood changes, etc. It sucks and it's hard to function at work. Anyway, I have not used s***. All my U/A's for a year are clean, mean and lean. 3 years of lifting. 5'7 inches tall and was 256lbs. Now 215lbs, I barely eat and feel fatigued, cold nose with drawling feeling. Seriously, I can't take s***, but this blows. If you know how to help or want to hear my story {edited for privacy} this is a serious daily problem. Also, I have Lyme and they both have the symptoms I'm having.

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Suffering suboxone, I pray you were able to get the help you needed! It is truly horrible how the same people that prescribed the medicine that got us addicted in the first place treats us when we want to get off of them! When they should be proud that we want to take the steps to put our lives back together again! Instead, they look down their noses and most act like it's no big deal! I waited 13 years after the doctors wanted to put me on pain meds before I actually started taking them. Started out on 10mg tabs then after 4 years was put on 50 MCG Fentanyl patch with 4 10mg perks a day. I had no clue what fentanyl was when I started it... Prescribing me that was the WORST thing my doc could have done! After taking for almost 5 years the DEA decided I couldn't have that dosage and my pain doc cut my dosage in half!!! I was proud I had not asked to up my dosage in all that time yet was forced to cut it in half... I had to go from putting on the patch to chewing strips and buying what I could to get through the month...

All these years now of taking opiates has caused severe depression as well as all that goes with it. I have gotten some subs to try and see if it will help me get off all the opiates. There has to be a way for us to kick all of this without all the bs! Anyway... Really curious on how things went for suffering and hope we all are able to get back to a normal life!

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Ok so anyone having flu-like symptoms, numbness on hands & feet, frozen nose, hands & feet cold sweats, erratic heartbeat, high blood pressure, fatigue, loss of appetite, sleeping a lot. I've been prescribed to suboxen for 1 year at 16mg/4mg then took 2mgs to sustain my 4mg a day but it was more like 6mg. All pharmacies ran out of the generic 8mg pills I was taking. That’s why I was on 2mg. So when they were back in stock I had them put me on the 8mg again, but I kept shooting up in mg cuz I was feeling like s*** due to the symptoms above. I’ve done bloodwork and complained to my dr and he kept upping my dose when I wanted to come off. Now I’m at 16mg a year later feeling s***tier. These past 3 weeks I lost weight 256/215lbs. Was going to the gym daily for 3 years. It’s part of my recovery. I’m guessing that one of the ingredients isn’t sitting rite with my body and affecting me. I’ve had to leave work. Once I had my daily mg intake I’ve tried to only take it when I feel sick. I've held it in my mouth for 5,10,15 minutes, swallowed it, spit it out. I’ve been on name brand films for 2 months as I thought the manufacturer lowered the mg in their pill so I asked for films. Been on for them 2 months and still have the same problem. Today, I waited to take the film, then took it 20 minutes later. I got all the symptoms as usual. Look, it sucks. If I knew that I could’ve came off 6 months ago at 4mg I would’ve. I can’t stand my dr telling me it’s withdrawing. I was clean for 2 years then I hurt my back and was passing a kidney stone so they prescribed me 5 mg vykes for a month or so. I got scared at the end and decided to get on subs. I didn’t want to abuse drugs. I know this s**** is f***ing me up. I want to come off with anything but I’ll lose my job. I pay child support and bills so I’m trying anything to feel normal. I’d like to try subutex to see if it’s nax that’s beating me. If I feel the same then it’s bup, but can’t do s***. I’ll have to wait two months till I see an allergist. What a joke.

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Oh me oh my oh yeah!!! Insomnia for four years . No kidding I have a new respect for the Steve king novel....PAWS. Post acute withdrawal and it never went away.
My husband , god love the man, is a true documented. Pain patient he’s forced to take son not an actual f ull on narcotic He has CHF, COPD with emphazema, RA, massive heart attack, probable cancer ( pancreatic) and a lung mass. There’s sooo much more, chronic pancreatitis diabetic. Back surgery, nerve pain. No one cares if you find someone who does lemmee know!

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Yeah, I wish someone would answer this question b/c I feel the same way. Except this is my 3rd day on suboxone. I was on methadone 40mg for a year and just currently stopped taking it to switch to suboxone. I waited over 48 hours b/c I read up on it and heard it could send you into complete withdrawl if you didn't wait long enough. Well my Dr. monitored me and started me off on half a suboxone 8mg/2mg and I didn't feel any different. I then took the other half and still nothing. Well I did begin to feel a little flushed and hot. But I never really felt a lot of the withdrawl symptoms except for the sweatyness. Now I've been on it for 3 days and I feel weird on it. I feel like I go in and out of W/D. I also don't sleep well anymore. Can anyone help me with this?

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i have a few questions i have been on suboxone for 3 yrs. i had an addiction to opiates from taking them for migraines and just liked the feeling so i took to much for a few yrs and got myself addicted. i started my suboxone treatment on 2-8mg pills and am now down to 2-2mg strips. but when i started i felt great no withdrawl no cravings and high functioning in my life now that im on a lower dose im tired,achy, nauseas, and have really terrible migraines again. how do i get off this other than the slow taper> also i tried intravenously using my suboxone strips it works well sometimes and sometimes i get sick does anyone kno why? obviously they can b used intravenously because it was suggested to me by more than one person at the drs im treated at who are on the program and use intravenously everyday with no ill effects. also can my dr. tell im using intravenously from my urine test every month for the program?

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I HAVE BEEN ON SUBOXONE FOR ABOUT 8 OR 9 MONTHS KNOW AND I WANT TO KNOW HOW TO GET THE FEELING BACK LIKE THE BEGINNING, IT'S NOT THAT I WANT TO FEEL HIGH BUT I GOT THE WITHDRAWAL FEELINGS BACK NOW LIKE CRAVINGS AND EVEN MORE SO I GOT HORRIBLE HEADACHES,BACK PAIN,NAUSEA,I JUST FEEL LIKE CRAP TO PUT IT STRAIGHT,PLEASE DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW I CAN MAKE THE SUBOXONE ATLEAST FEEL SOMEWHAT EFFECTIVE AGAIN,THXS.

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My husband was on Methadone, 140mg daily for over 10 years and I started Methadone about 1.5 years ago. I was on 55mg. We found out about suboxone and that it could help us get off methadone and money wise it is allot cheaper. But we didn't wait 3 days to start suboxone, we started about 12hours after our last dose and we went into withdrawls. Now it has been 4 days since our last dose of Methadone and we took the suboxone today and we both feel bad. We our cold and sweaty at the same time. We dont feel like doing anything and we both have anxiety. Will this get any better??? I want this drug to work for us. I dont want to go back to Methadone!! We have kids and my husband needs to be able to work and on Methadone we were fine everyday, never sick, and had energy to take care of our house ect. Please tell me that we will not stay feeling like crap. That this will all get better the longer we take it and stay away from methadone. I am so worried. We were both phase 4 patients at our clinic and had our take homes and everything, so we would have to start over there if this doesnt get better. Thank you to everyone who is trying to help others and live the right way. God Bless!

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