How To Get Off Suboxone (Page 25)
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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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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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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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and how do you suggest getting off suboxone? thanks

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Heather I need you to respond back to this post to make sure you see it. Once I know you have seen this and you give me confirmation I will give you further information to contact me. I will help you. But some people post here once and never return So I don't want to put my information on here for it to just be floating around two others. I want to know if I leave the information here to contact me that you will see it. Use my username on here to respond to me. Have a blessed day

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I am so interested. I want to live a normal life again. Please help me. I would give anything to have my life back. How do I do it?

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I was on 70 mg of done for 10 years tapered down to 30mg in one week to get on subs. That 3 days waiting to get on subs was wow! Awful. The most subs I was ever on was 24mg about 3months I just did not need it so I taper down now 5 years later I am now 1mg aday. Now that has been hard cutting that strip. Hell I can barely see what I am taking. Dr saying stay where I am for month or so don't go nsck up. I am trying
I am in the twilight zone. Wish you well you know your body.

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Hey stressed, well congrats on the baby. There is no easy way to get off the oxys or the subs, if you read the thread down, it shows a tapper plan that you could follow just start with the dose u take. But also know that if u are dependent, ur baby may become as well. I already went thru that. As hard as it may be, even if u were taking them unprescribed, the best thing is to tell ur dr so that they can help u or get u to a perinatologist...high risk pregnancy dr. They specialize in things like this. I saw one for my whole pregnancy because you get to a point where it is not safe to come off of those while pregnant. If you go into withdrawls, they can help u, but not ur unborn baby. Ur baby runs the risk of coming out dependent and they have to wein them off after they are born but it is safer then u just stopping while prego. I dont know how far along u have to be for that to be an issue though. For me, they didnt want me to quit but just stay stable on the meds until delivery, then after recovery, weined me off and my baby did not come out dependent, thank god, he was fine, and usually that is not the case and thats alot for a new born to go thru. But at this time i believe its best to tell ur dr and get their help so u can assure ur baby makes it into the world ok. If u have anymore questions or need more advice or info just ask me. Ive been thru this already. Best of luck and god bless!!!

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I am close to three months pregnant and before finding out I was going to having a baby I was doing oxy. As soon as the results came out to positive I stopped doing pills. My boyfriend helped me by getting me a couple suboxone strips. I didnt want to become addicted to those so I've been just cutting little pieces each night before bed and taking one. Is this an ok way of doing it? I feel a little poopy thru out the day but not bad enough where I need to take a piece of suboxone. How should I go about with completely stopping? Need help.

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How? Please share how to get off suboxne. My daughter trying to get off by herself. She tapered from 2 mg every other day to 1 mg and today is day 3 without any. I expect today to be bad..

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