Do You Gain Weight With Suboxone? (Page 8) (Top voted first)

Hi I'm just starting to research suboxone. I'm currently going to a methadone clinic every day and it is such a hassle. I have to get up every morning at 4am to be there in time to get to work the line is so long but that's beside my point, My real question is Do you gain weight with Suboxone? This is my third attempt at trying to get off of opiates by taking Methadone but every single time I start taking Methadone I gain 40 to 60 pounds within the first 4 months. Most people do, some don't I just happen to be one of them. I get so discouraged by the weight gain that I stop going to the Methadone clinic and then start using again. Sadly my mom died from using the same drug I used before treatment. I have 3 children and want to get my life together again but I just can't cope with the weight gain. Can anyone tell me if Suboxone has the same side affect? And also is there any difference between Suboxone & Suboxine? PLEASE HELP!!!

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The quickest way is to....... Miss your drink for 48-72 hours... Get yourself sick and get inducted with either 30mls or 2-4mg of suboxone... If u go with the meth and start at 30 (this is where a doc should start you off) u can work your way right down, or if your really determined get on suboxone and get no more then 4 mg and drop a mg each week till 1mg.. Then half that as well to .5.. And so on play with whatever your comfortable with.. But this is the quickest way without completely just not going for a dose and getting sick..

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Hi, Love to feel again, I might have misread your post but are you saying that your taking Baclofen and subutex at the same time?

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Guys, just reading about Baclofen. Could anyone using it tell me how they go & how much & in what ways it helps exactly once you come off Suboxone/Subutext.thanks. Also I've been on Methadone for about 5 yrs then reducing off Subi for the last 3. In a few months I will have tapered off it altogether. Can you please tell me how bad the withdrawals could be. I've come off Methadone once brier at 35mgs which was he'll & Id only been on it for 10 months. Any help would be great. Thanks. Really great to hear everyone's point of views/experiences on here so thanks to everyone for sharing.

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AJ. If you taper low and slow from subs there quite easy to jump with little wd. The trick is to stay on each taper long enough and to get as low as you can like .25mg would be good.

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Thanks jolter. Also really interested to hear answers from people who have been on high doses & for a period of time. All up it was nearly 10 yrs for me. Methadone I went from 135ml to 40mg then swapped to Subi 24mg tapered down to 3.2 now. Going to give myself 4 months to reduce the rest then off.

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You might want to make a new post with your question because this ones old. That way more people are apt to see and read it. Just a thought.

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AJ,
I was curious to how you went from 135ml to 40 mg and then directly to Sub? If you have methadone in your system wont you go through withdraw if you swap to sub, at least that is what everyone says? My program won't let me switch to sub unless I am without methadone for 72hours. I have been on 150 mg for 8 years and I go through withdraw every evening. In order to get increased or put on split dose they want me to get a EKG to make sure it does not show irregular heartbeat. I really don't want to go up though because I feel that even though it will help my symptoms, the increase still makes me feel horrible inside. I figured if I stayed on this same dose for a period of time my body would get adjusted to this dose and I would stop getting sick...but I don't think I will ever feel normal again. I JUST WANT OFF OF THIS S*** ! Thanks for reading!

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AJ',
I just wanted to let you know that you are not alone.....I feel the same way everday! I haven't been motivated in years, depressed and I always think people are thinking I'm lazy. I have always been the complete opposite actually....Ive always been very active. The methadone just makes me feel useless, and actually even more depressed because I never feel like doing anything in which that even makes me feel worse about myself. It's a vicious cycle!I'm just hoping that they come up with some type of drug or way to make it easier to come off of opiates and methadone. I do know that he had people working on studies everyday to find wayS to come off of methadone and opiates.thanks for listening, I'll definitely keep posting if I find new info regarding methadone or suboxone.

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I have been on subutex for 6 years now for back pain. Works so much better then all the other drugs. I have gained about 50 pounds over the 6 years and I'm sure it's the subs. I don't eat much. But I would tell anyone with a problem to take them. They work!!!

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You sound just like me! I'm 27 yrs old and I've been on suboxone like 5-6 years and am terrified to get off it. I'm on two-12mg suboxones a day and I was on that dose at 114lbs when I started...I had my second child three yrs ago n have stayed at about 118-124 lbs. Until now..I have gained like 35-40 lbs in the last three months!!! And I actually am eating wayyy less than before and I'm n nursing school now too so I'm always moving around..before wen I was my normal weight(120) I did nothing but stay home and snack but NOW I'm gaining weight! Wth? I'm tired all the time too...I have no IDEA all the sudden why suboxone decided to make me blow up after being stable on it for 5 years. I've always been a small framed girl even after I had two kids. I weigh between 145-154lbs now! None of my clothes fit. I went from a juniors 3-5 n pants to a size 9-11! I'm so depressed. I've never been close to this big even at nine months pregnant. Idk wut to do bc I CANNOT get off it right now, I'm n school and its the only thing keeping me stable! Not to mention I have some facial acne now for the first time, along with my period fixed itself n got regular like never before. I've had two periods a year for a decade (due to cesarean complications) until about four months ago. I can literally time them now. Everything's so weird and I can't live looking or being this fat! My bp also drastically increased from 90/60 to 130/89! Yeah ppl May think I need to get off suboxone but I'd never finish school and stay off opiates if I did. Help. Realistic help someone plz. My Dr thinks it may be my thyroid but if so why isn't my husband having problems like mine too? He takes more than me n for longer and he's actually been overweight several times before. But he's n the best shape ever now. Pssh...answers?!??

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I'm in the same boat, I've been on subutex for about 14 months and gained every bit of 40 lbs. not to mention with my diet and excercise patterns, I should have lost 40. I've never been fat, well I was when I was a strung out junkie but that makes me eat non stop and not exercise. Today I have been on a liquid diet (whey protein powder and water or skim milk) and I allow myself to eat fruit and vegetables. I literally work out 1 to 3 times per day, and I mean seriously working out hardcore and I keep gaining weight, certainly am not losing any. There's 0% doubt in my mind it's the subutex which I'm down to 4 mg/day. I'm suicidally depressed now and my girlfriend of course left me and I have no love life and I'm consumed by anger and resentment. Oh on a side note, I have no idea what people are talking about when they say the withdraw of buprenorphin is worse than any opiate. That's laughable to me. It's harder withdrawing off Tylenol as far as physical symptoms. I'm not seeing that side. But if I come off this which I can but relapse on other drugs my problems will be compounded exponentially and I'll do anything just to be miserable and fat. So it's tough, a person like me who is so emotional and needs love in his life and can't have it, it's just torturous. I'm a really good person and really funny but just big, I don't really have much of a belly but I'm just a big guy and that's a bad look now of days. I'm 39 and going to come off these now, well the last time I filled my script will be my last time. I just hope I'm doing the right thing, I have to take a chance one way or another. I'm down to 4 mg/day from 20. Still bloated and overweight. Give me any feedback if you want. Thanks.

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To Tracy, I was on suboxone for 4 months. Before that I was methadone for a very long time. All prescriptions. I developed an allergy to Methadone and it made me very sick. The only way I was able to get off was to go to detox center and treatment. The rehab center put me on suboxone to get me off Methadone. They also gave me librium (a benzoyl). After 4 months on suboxone I loved it but could not find a (legit) doctor who will prescribe it. I have yet to figure that out. When you go off it there is not the withdrawal you get from Methadone or Percocet. I also never gained weight but it gave me so much energy to do things such as clean house, shopping, cooking, the normal things you do in life. My point good luck with finding someone to prescribe suboxone or buprenorphine Generic suboxone in pain patches. It worked great too but no one will prescribe it for me!! I go to a pain clinic and even they want prescribe it anymore! It is very frustrating!!!

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TRACY: Yes, Suboxone, Subutex and methadone can all cause weight gain. And the only difference between Suboxone and Subutex is that the Suboxone has an opiate blocker in it called Naloxone. The reason it is in the Suboxone is so that addicts don't take the Subutex intravenously, which is just buprenorphine. SO...Subutex is buprenorphine, and Suboxone is buprenorphine plus Naloxone.

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I've been on suboxone for almost a year now and just started my taper recently (last month) but I'm down to 4mg (half of an 8mg strip). Next week I'll be cutting that in half down to 2mg daily. Im a small framed female, always have been under 120. My only weight gain was 3 pregnancies, all got up to about 160 but quickly rebounded to the 120. After being on suboxone for about 4 months I was up to 150! I eat the same I've always eaten, I don't exercise but I'm active if that makes sense. I have NO DOUBT that it's the suboxone. But I've read that after you come off the sub you can lose the weight fairly easy. Good luck!

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I have had a very long history of opiate abuse... I've been on methadone 3 times and when I was on it for a long period of time I gained a ton of weight. Had a very bad experience coming of subs years ago...so sick...could keep no food down. And that was a 30 days taper. Fast forward 8 years, I ended up, being an addict, right back into hell. In December, I started subs because I just needed to feel semi normal. I have had 6 children and with the exception of pregnancy, was never over 125. Mind you, i take a very small dose....one 8 mg strip can last me 10 days or more. Since Dec...i kept gaining weight. Last I was 150..I am sure I have gained more since then. Can't fit into anything. The other day I was depressed and couldn't understand. I don't eat any different. I don't eat sweets....ever...no chips, no candy, no soda. And there it appeared. ...it's the SUBS. Don't care what any doctor says they will make you gain weight just like methadone makes you gain weight. Whether or not you gained it from eating extra sweets or water retention. I'm just a little confused because the dose I take is so very small. I'm happy because at least I'm not sticking needles in my arm anymore but this weight gain is making me very depressed.

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I have been on suboxone for 10 years, since I was 19. Came off opiates. My doc strung me along on this s*** for years and years. I never had a problem with it though, it gave me energy, and I just felt pretty good on it.

I've always struggled with weight, but I managed to lose 40 lbs on it doing low carb and working out about 3-4 years ago. The past year to two, my body has completely changed. I gained all the weight back, and nothing, absolutely nothing I do is helping me lose it. I eat low carb, I workout more than ever, and I just gain.

I don't know if it's the suboxone or why it would suddenly send my body into havoc, but maybe it is.

It's time for me to come off this stuff. I've started weaning down and hope to be off it within a couple weeks. I hope to lose the weight. These posts here have been encouraging to me.

Good luck to everyone else. I'll try to update in a couple weeks but god knows I'm literally scared of the scale.

Peace/Love

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TIM: Unbelievable. "Firstly, if you can maintain a weight before going to methadone, your problem isn't methadone. You need to get a grip on your life and I suggest adding serious prayer to your life along with getting serious about quitting drugs." That has got to be the biggest LOAD I have heard in a while. When you start right off with a self-righteous load of s***e like that, there is really no need to go on. But, I jumped in regardless, so here we go.

First of all, ORT's will ABSOLUTELY cause weight gain, BUD, so spare me your mis-information. ALL ORT'S. They cause drops in metabolism like nobody's business, so on that, you are just plain WRONG.

Second, this is a forum for ADVICE REGARDING MEDICATION; it is absolutely NOT a RELIGIOUS FORUM. Keep your religious opinions to yourself. Telling someone on a forum regarding medication that they "just need some prayer in their life" is a joke, just like you are.

Third, this is a forum for ADVICE REGARDING MEDICATION; it is absolutely NOT a FORUM FOR DIET/NUTRITION ADVICE. You make a LOT of assumptions. "You probably don't drink enough water.." etc. How and why, ON THIS PLANET, would you make this assumption? So besides being a religious adviser, an addiction specialist, and a nutrition expert, now you are a psychic? Wow. Telling someone what they should eat and how much....you are, again, a complete and total joke.

Fourth, yes there are indeed some less-than-desirable docs out there. But calling doctors and medical professionals "idiots" when it is YOU who is indeed the "idiot" on here is pretty darn hypocritical. And anyone who gets "the nods" on 2 milligrams of Suboxone needs to just stop altogether. People who have LEGITIMATE OPIOID TOLERANCES are not EVER going to "nod off" from 2 milligrams of Bupe. And it is recommended that a person do roughly half the Bupe, of what they were doing on Methadone. So a person on 30 mgs of Methadone should be on roughly 16 mgs. of Bupe. Now, this can vary of course, and if a person can do less ORT's in general, I'm all for it. But as I said, anyone who is "nodding" off of 2 mgs. of Bupe really needs to just stop altogether. And how nice for them! Some of us will need to be on some sort of ORT for life, and we don't need some self-appointed "expert" telling us to just eat celery, pray and drink more water.

I have been an opioid addict for 30 years, have been on Methadone and Subutex, and am also involved in medical research. I work with one of the leading addiction specialists in the entire US. In fact, for a while, he was the Addiction Specialist for an NBA basketball team, and still consults for the NBA. He speaks for 8 different pharmaceutical companies, mostly for this new wave of opioids that are virtually "abuse proof". He also speaks regularly in front of the State Legislature in as an addiction expert. I let him read that whole load of garbage you wrote, and his first, honest reaction was "another 'world's foremost authority' heard from. I really hope no one LISTENS to this guy!!". What you wrote would be just plain hilarious if it weren't on a site where someone may ACTUALLY take your "advice" as being the least bit accurate. "someone needs to be honest with you"....Yeah, well it ain't YOU, pal.

Religion, or lack thereof, is a personal thing. This is NOT a religious forum. You want to give people religious advice? There are PLENTY of forums out there for religion. FIND ONE.

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TIM: "I din't see if you were employed, what your habit is and what your dose is....... that tells me you are not honest with yourself." Ok, so because she didn't tell YOU her entire life story, that tells you that she isn't "honest with" herself? Are you even flipping SERIOUS right now? You have GOT to be the most ridiculous individual on here IN A WHILE. I mean, that doesn't even make sense!!! Holy crap man, maybe YOU should pray that your "god" blesses you with a little humility, because you seem to think that your $#!& doesn't stink. Work on your own GLARING issues before you start telling others how to live. Holy crap....LITERALLY holy crap.

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Hello there, I've been on subutex for over 5 yrs and I've stayed at around 180 lbs. I know quite a bit about the medicine, seeing that I've been on subs for a while now and my wife is a Certified Prevention Specialist.

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I have been taking suboxone films for 3 yrs now I went from 122 to 158 no difference in diet and if anything I am more active now. I have read many posts of it causing weight gain. I am now in the process of taking myself off of them. Prior to suboxone I was also using methadone, that did not cause me to gain. Best of luck everyones body reacts differently.

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