Suboxone / Heroin Withdrawal (Page 3) (Top voted first)

I would like to know if I can take Suboxone for 3 or 4 days to wean off my heroin addiction? I don't want to replace one habit for another. Will I be alright?

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A "miracle " detox??? Not to be rude but I lol'd loudly at that one. No addict miraculously becomes addiction free. I've been clean for 6 months and still consider myself very much an addict.

But back to your question I am only vaguely familiar with suboxone only being used for detoxification since it is a maintenance drug. You need some training on coping strategies to avoid relapse and breaking that addiction mentality. I would imagine you spend quite a bit of money maintaining your heroin habit so maybe you could make the subs you have now last several days until you get in to a suboxone doctor. Check with several one's before deciding since it can be costly and make sure to check at your town or county's local mental health facility since they usually have low cost suboxone and addiction treatment options at no cost or based on your income.

If you're serious about getting clean then take all that effort you apply into procuring dope every day into getting clean and you'd be able to do it.

Good luck :)

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Umm suboxone is used to detox only in some situations you CAN just take it for five days to get clran the ppl take it for longer periods of Time BC it fights cravings

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I have been on Heroin for about year, using about a gram a day. I have three Suboxone strips. I have two shots of heroin left. Just took one not to long ago. What is the best way to take my suboxone's to go through the least withdrawals as possible. Please reply, I want off of this drug it's hell on earth.

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do you have to wait to be in withdraw before taking them my friend is trying to get off oxycodone its extremely serious he is highly addicted please help!!!!!!!
please email me at {edited for privacy} with the proper way of doing it thank you

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To find a suboxone detox doctor go to suboxone.com and put your zip code in and they will give you a list with phone numbers. good luck

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I can tell you using suboxone for the first 3/4 days to get past withdrawals, then going cold turkey so to speak is the best way to do it. Why? Well I had a 600-800 a day habit and did it. Honesty when you go cold turkey its the withdrawal symptoms, pounding headaches and runs, that make you use again, after that its really all mental, so if you don't want to feel like that again and are adamant you want out you'll get past the mental demons. Withdraw symptoms are the worst and personally the reason why is transgress. So if you can understand that and don't want to depend on a substitute, do it you won't look back. Anyway good luck to you all, asking about it is the first step, the second is doing it. Just inquiring shows you are sick of it and want help, if you need anymore advice or help don't be afraid to seek and ask, there are a lot of people out there willing to assist non judgementally. Cheers, dazza xo

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I was just wondering if you knew if it was okay for me to use nurotin while taking a couple strips of suboxone to get off heroin which I only used for a month

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Plz help I'm starting my detoxification off with 5 2mg subs will this work ??

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I have been taking heroin for about 6 months now. At first it would only take a tiny piece to feel its effects. Now I'm up to about two packs a day. I really want to stop. I just don't want to feel the withdraws. I have a 8 month old daughter an that makes the withdrawals that much worse because I have no help with her so I can't just lay around. Can someone please give me you're best advice on how I can get through this with barely any withdrawals plz

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I am a mother helping my daughter detox off off H. we are using suboxone, is it "normal" for her to be sleeping through most of this?

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start drinking about eight hours since your last fix. try to kill as much time as possible, then take your sub.

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Me and my girlfriend have came off heroin after a year. I bought a couple subs (9 of them) and tapered myself down. I was on the subs for 6 days before I ran out. But I felt fine. Now I'm 4 days off the subs and I feel like s***. How am I possibly still sick 10 days later?

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Ive been clean for over a year and i relapsed yesterday... Can i take subs right away so i dont relapse again even tho i dont get withdrawls from dope as a preventative measure?

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i am trying to detox myself i been doing heroin for 3 years. been to a few detoxs. every time i am dope sick all i do is sleep and when up dont feel like doing anything no motivation. i slept for 4 days in detox. it is because of the sickness and when you sleep you don't feel it is very terrible.

the worst thing you have to worry about helping her is when she not sick. she will have terrible anxiety and want heroin it will be on her mind 24/7

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Me too we probally still goin throughbherion withdrawls

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just wait until your bold.Thats the most important part of sub recovery..I recommend getting bold everytime the first week of taking subs. You want s××t, piss and sweet as much dope as possible out of you every chance you get.The next week decrease the mg's.The 3rd week dont take a sub a whole day.Might get a stomach pain and a enormous bowl movement and sweet. Take a piece of a sub.just a guarter of a 8mg. Then the rest is up to you.Remember the sub only help you get off of opiates.We have to come up with solutionsto help ourselves also. Its only been 3 days for me but i feel awesome.

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I took last H dose last night at 8pm.. 4 east coast 0.1mg stamps daily habit for last 3 months. I cut into 8 pieces a 8mg suboxone and took 2 pieces at 11am this morning-15 HOURS after my last dose of H (it's 6pm now). When I took the 2 pieces at 11am I was already in preety bad shape with moderate to kind of severe WD's. I know that not only from sweating like crazy and all the rest stuff but also because I'm not able to read on my iPhone anymore. It felt like looking at the sun, like looking straight to a car's headlights kind of thing. So I knew WD's set in and it was safe to use SUBS without the fear of precipitated WD's. It took about 30 minutes and I was able to look at my phone again and actually be able to use it and read. Around 1pm I was feeling no WD's anymore. Now it's 6pm and still normal. Bottom line all I'm trying to do is to REPEAT the success I had 3 years ago when I also had relapsed. Having ONLY ONE SUBOXONE (I'd feel more safe having 2 subs but I couldn't find more than one, nor that I wanted to find more than 2 strips). Why only 2? Because after lots of trial and error between friends and acquaintances I realized that anything more than a week of use can backfire. But let me speak for myself only. What I did before worked and what I'm about to repeat is 2 pieces (out of the 8mg) the first day, then 1 piece for next each 3 days, then SKIP the 5th day, then resume for following 2 days (6th & 7th day), then SKIP the 8th day, then CUT THE LAST PIECE IN HALF. Take one of the half the 9th day, SKIP THE 10th day and use my FINAL HALF mg at the 11th, and then jump off... I know that 3 days later around the 14th mild discomfort will set in for a couple days but it's ok (some cheap or fine merlot and a little bit of indices will take care of that). Thank you for reading.

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I am coming off heroin and I stretched a subutex and a half through 4 days and felt fine. The 1st day or 2 after now it's been a few more days and I'm starting to feel crappy. My legs are bothering me alot I have the bathroom problem but nit too bad and my energy is non existent. Did I just pronlong this? Are the with drawls about t start now? Was the sub pointless?

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Yea boom no with drawl!!! Lol wish it was as easy as you just stated...

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I've been on methadone for four years and was detoxed off in 10 days. Now I'm using heroin, two bags everyday for two weeks. So I finally got into a suboxone clinic. Thursday was my first day without heroin so I took a 8mg/2mg film at six thirty a.m. Friday morning. Thats when the h Withdraws were going on. I waited for two hours. Some of them stopped but I still had them so I use some h about two hours later. Just to take the wd away. My last h use was five pm. Now it's midnight and I'm having wd.should I take another suboxone. Trying not to use h. But I'm sick. If I use h and take a suboxone at eight am. Will I be ok. I just don't want to be sick.

So I have to get the sun. I'm my system before they can work, how long

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