How To Get Off Suboxone (Page 18) (Top voted first)

Im Marina Im 24 years old and a mother of 2 beautiul little boys. From the years 2006-2007 i was heavily addicted to Oxy 80 and eventually started doing herion. I got help in sep.2007 at a methadone clinic, it worked for as long as i was on the methadone i had NO relapse's. In June 2009 i was completly off of the methadone that first day that i was on 0Mgs I went through extreme withdrawls i went through things that i would never wish upon my worst enemy! i stayed that way for a day and a half and decided to go to a suboxone doctor. He put me on 32 mgs a day which i thought was pretty high of a dose but he explained to me that methadone withdrawls was worst then any other withdrawls. so i trusted him. Now when i go to see him every month i pretty much beg for him to start the weining process and start lowering me and he pretty much refuses. After months of being on 32mgs a day he finally started tapering me down slowly, i never really thought any thing of it till now but i realized he's keeping me on the suboxne for as long as posible so that he can get my $200.00 a month. all he is, is a legal drug dealer bc now im highly addicted to the suboxone. I recently had to go a few days with out my suboxone bc i didnt have the money to see him and i went through hell. i thought methadone withdrawl was bad OMG there is no comparison. i wanted to either use which i havent done in years or rip my face off lol its funny now but it definatley wasnt funny a few days ago while i was feeling that way! So i spoke to a good friend whos going through the same thing and he told me that they just came out with a new pill to get you off suboxone. I just want to know if that's true. I tryed googleing it but i cant find any thing. If you have heard of this new pill please respond or if you even have a good way to get off soboxone as painless and posible... thanx

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please give me advice... 5 years on subs. down to 2mg a day but scared to stop. Im soo done with it!! please share

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Nic, follow the forum down to the message by one informed chic dated october 25, 2013. It gives u all the taper help and advice u need. Then if u need any more help, come back and ask me. Im the same person who posted it, just diff name registered on this device. Good luck and god bless!

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Well yesterday was my last day at .5mg and Im ready. Been on subs for about 5yrs and I tapered down by myself. The highest I've ever been was only 8mg and didn't like the way it made me feel. Only problem is my wife is scared for me. I know I'm ready just tired of wasting money when I can use it for my kids. So as of today I will no longer be on subs. I will keep everyone informed on how things are going.
As of now my back is a little stiff but I can deal with that.

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Hi JamesG, I wish you luck. I,ve come off subs twice before so its doable. I,m back on them again. Be careful you don,t fall back into your old habits like I did. Doesn,t take much, some pain pills from dental precedure etc... and back to the races. It was about days 3-5 when the half life started wearing off when I felt worse. However, it was nothing like past oxy wds. You,ll be fine. Excercise helps a lot. Even a walk around the block after supper does wonders. Good luck and please post in your progress. You could even start your own post if you wanted. That way more people would be apt to read it and can make suggestions.

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If you take 2 or more a day I found and it not that fun, but if you WD for a whole day you can start your dose back way lower. I take 2 a day and anything less would get me sick when I ran out of money I WD for maybe 24-36 hours and was able to take 1/8 of a strip and I was fine. Hope that helps anyone who takes a huge dose a day

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Ibudilast or ibogaine has been known to help get off suboxone I haven't tried it but am curios to. I just need my Dr. to prescribe them for me, but I want to do more research into it. Good luck and if anyone's tried this how'd it go.

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Marina
Ibudilast or ibogaine has been known to help get off suboxone I haven't tried it but am curios to. I just need my Dr. to prescribe them for me, but I want to do more research into it. Good luck and if anyone's tried this how'd it go.

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Autumn sweetie, marina posted that back in 2010. Thanks for ur post in general but she is no longer on here. U have to pay attention to dates n most recent posts. But again, thanks for stoppin by and good luck to u.

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I saw your post which I'm sure is pretty old by now but if you are still on here, I'd like to know how you got off subs? I am a mother of two toddlers, a full time time worker for a group home for girls where I live there for 48hrs and then do a 6 hour meeting weekly. I CANNOT afford to be sick. Not even a little. Subs have helped me for sure, obviously it can't be forever, not to metion I'm getting my works insurance now and I'll have a 15% co-pay IF my doctor even accepts the insurance. I'm scared as s***. Help please!

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and how do you suggest getting off suboxone? thanks

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Nancy and Kayla, How much do you take a day? How long you been taking it? Is it prescribed by Dr? The best way to come off subs is to get your dr. on board. But if for some reason he can,t or won,t you can do it yourself. I,m no dr. but have done it before. Trick is to taper slowly. Get a calander and write down your dose on it each day. At first if your on a high dose you can come off it pretty easily, say from 8mg to 6 to 4. Then you gotta come down a mg. at a time to 1mg or even .5mg then jump. In a perfect world you should wait a week bettween each taper. You could cut it back to 5 days but I wouldn,t go any shorter. The half life on subs last a long time, thats why it takes so long to get off them relativly painless. It can be done.

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Can you feel the difference the mental piece too like depression etc if you do it slowly enough will you avoid most of it? I do have a doc but her view is a little different then mine, she sees it as I have this disease or condition and I take a medication for it, and it helps me function better in the world just as if I was diabetic.. So why would I want to get off is basically her point if it's working right now in my life. And while I agree to a point I'm also aware I can't depend on anything if I want to be truly clean and you begin to feel stuck somewhere in between I guess idk haha I'm rambling. I'm on 16mg/day it doesn't have any negative side effects for me it's been almost a year.

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If you do it slowly you won,t feel any differance at all bettween tapers until you get down to around 1 or 2 mgs. Even then if done slowly you,ll hardly notice much of anything. When on a high dose like yourself you could drop to 12mgs for a week or so and not notice much difference. I don't know why that is. It just is. As you can tell, I,m not a dr. Try dropping a couple mgs. for a week and see what I mean. Trick is to remain with it for a week. Don,t jump back and forth, that,ll do you no good. Writing it down on a calender helps also. I forget the dose I was on at the time but my sub dr. had me do this: If you wanted to drop down 2mgs say from 16 to 14 you would take 16mg the first day then 12mgs the second day then 16mgs the third day and keep doing this routine back and forth for a couple weeks. Doing this will make your system adjust to 14mgs. With the long half life you can do this and not feel like crap. Just remember,, slow and steady.

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Thank you!! It's nice to know there are other people out there dealing with the same things or have done it and made it. Thanks again! Have a great holiday season!

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yes I am please help me

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How are you doing ?

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Help one strip a day for4 years

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Can u please tell me how you got off suboxone? Desperate sad scared.

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If he's talking about bupinophine STAY A WAY I'm on that and if you think those couple days where hell. Its what suboxon is made from. I'm using it for pain management and can't wait to get away from it

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please let me know how to get off of Suboxone quickly. It is affecting my breathing.

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