Just Want To Take Suboxone For A Few Days To Detox From Heroin Will It Work (Page 7)
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hey guys, i have been taking dilaudid for about 5 months 4,8mg a day then switched to heroin for 1 month 2 bags a day,now my friend gave me 4,8mg suboxones and told me it would help me get off h for good, i waited 24 hours took half a subox and i must say it works for wd's but when i run out witch i estimate will be in 2,3 days will i just suffer again;like where i left off or will the h be out of my system and the wd's light enough to withstand, please help, im not a newbee to drug abuse had bad h habits in the past and know the nature of the beast, just want this stuff out of my life so i can go back to work and live again, i need the truth or as close as i can get, can i beat it like this or am i wasting my time,maybe i can get one or two more subs from my freind

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To the cop,
We need more cops like you that understand addiction a little more. I know some cops do have a child, relative, or loved one who is an addict and they are more understanding of certain situation. I just want to say thank you for having an open mind and a huge heart when it comes to us addicts!!!! I hope everything has and continues going well for your son!!!! He is blessed to have a parent like you!!!! Thanks again and stay safe out there!! Thank you for putting yourself out there everyday in danger in order to make this world a safer place for our future!!! Cops do not get the credit they deserve!!! So thank you once again!!!! Love: HopeForMyFuture

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Wow!!!! Your story helped me so much Matt!!!! So so so much!!! I am starting today with the sub and gonna do exactly what you said to do and exactly how you did it!!! Take only when needed... I have read so many stories today online but for some reason ( most likely my higher power) your story spoke to me the most!! Your story gave me hope!! You are a very good writer.. Maybe a trait you need to do more of in your bright future!!! Thanks again and I hope my story ends as happy as yours did!!! Omg though I can't stress enough how much your story spoke to me and how much hope you just brought to me... Thanks a million!! Ill post in five days the outcome of it all!!!!!!!! Xoxoxo!!! I would love to give you real hugs and kisses just for bringing hope and a smile to my face!!! Thank you!!!

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Wow Matt. I am sitting in my car with a box of unopened sub tabs, perusing heroin detix/addiction boards and just read your post. In the past year I've been working on weaning off H to go on a sub detox and I just can't make the jump. I'm so scared to do it. I want it more than anything and have hit my lowest of lows. Your post is encouraging...I'm going to save it and tape to my fridge. Thank u

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Hi, im hoping for some advice. I have been on 8-12 (5 mg. oxycodone/percocet tablets for back pain for 13 years . I have tried coming off them a few times, a couple off times with methadone tablets at home and stayed off the percs for 3-4 months (I only stayed on the methadone for 5-6 days weaning myself each day. Never felt NORMAL . Went back on percs. Ive tried taking suboxone a few times using them only till I got enough money to buy my percs or my doctors appt. ( I get 90 a month ) The suboxone gives me horrible headaches . I finally felt like I had enough . Yesterday I started with a 2 mg. sub in the am and felt like crap all day .about 8 hours later I took 2 more 2 mg. tablets and felt a lot better . This mornlng I took 2 (2 mg. ) tablets and a half of one 3 hours ago . My question is how do I proceed and what dose so I don't feel like crap and don't become dependent one the suboxone. Thanks for any help you can give me.

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Dear Pat, Don't listen to what anyone has to say about the way you choose to get clean. Even though you are on methadone, you are not on the streets copping and living the lifestyle of an active addict. You know your body and you know what works and what does not work for you. If the methadone will keep you off the streets and prevent you from living the filthy life of an active user then more power to you. AT LEAST you acknowledge that u needed help beyond abstinence and you are doing something to make that lifestyle change! more power to you. Methadone is not for everyone i agree, but it wouldn't be in existence if it deemed unnecessary or non-beneficial in certain circumstances! Good luck to you Pat., I believe there is nothing wrong on being on a certain medication indefinitely. Addiction is a disease. It is ridiculous to hear a diabetic saying they are not going to take insulin because they wouldn't be considered being "clean". If methadone is what it takes to keep your disease in remission than it is certainly better than being an active user ! I hope my advice helped ,,, Good luck - Danni

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I was on a suboxone program for over a year clean then my birthday came around and it started gettin warm and i slipped, my messed up thinkin said oh go ahead and do that one bag of heroin its ok..yeah right within a week ibwas full blown shooting a half a gram a day..but i got wise fast and got my script for 45 2 mg strips of suboxone and kicked I started with 16mg starter dose then another 8mg throughout first day, 2nd day i woke up and took 8mg then 6mg throughout the day, 3rd day i started with 4mg then 4mg throughout day, 4th day 2mg start and 2 mg throughout day..now im back on track with my 2mg strip a day program...oh i waited 18 hours after my last use to take suboxone and i was ok...and i had a few chills here and there but nothing like full w/d's..I hope this was helpful...

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sandstormtakeursonsvirginity, you are a complete fool.

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noone cares about your stupid NA meeting experiences. this is totally irrelevant to the topic of the thread. people are looking for answers to the original post, and ONLY answers to the original post. all of your experiences and bulls*** youve gone through to get clean are irrelevant to the topic of the thread, and noone really cares what youve gone through. if youre looking for friends and support go somewhere else or post a new thread. people clicked on this thread for an answer if you can detox using subs for only the time you are withdrawling and them stop taking subs. obviously you wont be taking more than .5mg/day or you risk getting addicted to subs which is far worse than any heroin, oxy, vic, roxi, etc.. addiction.

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Hanna/Matt;
Thank you for the post. I just found out my 19 yoa son is addicted to Oxycodone. he takes 2 30mg pills a day by splitting them up and snorting them. He is completly embarassed and it was difficult to get him to admit. He is asking for help and wants so bad to feel normal. I read your post and he is goign to take the route you described. We know it is not guaranteed but it is something. We are making a Doctors apointment for the suboxone. Regardless of how much the Doctor pprescribes; he plans on taking the smallest dose possible, as many times as he needs it and hopefully beat this in the shortest amount of time. We have discussed the pproblems with switching one drug for another. I also expplained the problems with once he beats it that he may feel it was easy and then relapse. I exlained it will be harder the next time. He has spent a minimum of $15,000 in the last year because he just doesn't want to feel sick. You have an encouraging story which I have shared with him. Getting him to the point to admit has been extremely difficult with his avoiding me for the last 1 1/2 years. You see..... I'm a cop. I have made many drug arrests over the last 20 years. I almost always ask the arrested person his or her story of how they became addicted and how they fixed it if and when they ever did. They all say they just wish they didn't think they were the one who wouldn't get addicted and had never taken that first pill/heroin bag, etc. I have seen so many good peopple with an addiction. Unlike some of my compadres, I see the good in the people and realize some are just caught up in the addiction and need to get out. I caught a guy doing heroin after he just got revived from EMT's. He told me he screwed up and was due to go to rehab the next day. His parents confirmed it. I couldn't arrest him. I told him that if he went to rehab and finished the program then I would ditch the case. I also told him that if he left the program, I would charge him with the heroion and put him in jail. He finished the program and it is now 12 years later. He is still doing great and is a productive member of society. The pills are so avalable I believe it is just a matter of time before someone tries it. My son is no different. If I think of it; I will let you know how it worked out. Good luck to you and you need to realize these positive stories at least give people hope. Thanks

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23 years old now I just bought I've been on percocet for two years and I've been taking them for two day so far feel so far feel great hopefully the withdraw fro hopefully the withdraw from the subs is not to bad but like another person on here said I seen the light at the end of the tunnel I just got tired taking drugs just to feel normal talk to you later on every talk to you later on everybody good luck

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Hi. I don't know you but your comment really inspired me. I'm currently on suboxone and was looking to see how much was really needed to get off being as the one I have just taken is my last chance because I'm all out due to repeated failures. If you could email me just to answer some questions and help me out you'd literally be saving my life.

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I would like to share my story and hopefully get some feedback. I am a 32 yr old mother of 3 AMAZING sons. I was in a very serious car accident in June of 2011. The accident wasn't my fault but I was seriously injured. I had 6 broken ribs and my knee cap was shattered. My orthopedic dr tried to piece my knee back together and hold it together with pins and wire. I was still having swelling and pain afterwards so I had another surgery in March of 2012 to take the metal out and replace my knee cap. After each surgery my dr had given me perc 7.5mg to be taken every 4hrs around the clock. I wore a brace to keep my knee from bending for 4 months and within that time my dr had prescribed 120 perc 7.5mgs every month. (That's 580 pills in a 4month period) I also went through extensive physcial therapy during that time. When I went back for my last follow up appt my dr said he couldn't give me any more pain meds.. I would need to get them from my primary care dr. (Which I didn't have). Its been almost 2yrs and I still have severe pain in my knee and my lower back. I found a primary dr and he told me he doesn't prescribe narcotics.. because a lot of people are dr shopping so it ruins it for the ones that really need it. He referred my to a pain management dr who would only prescribe me muscles relaxers (which knock me out so I can't take them). During this long process of trying to get pain management the legit way.. I of course couldn't take the pain so I turned to the streets. Now I don't know about other places but its very hard to find anything less then a perc 30 in columbus ohio. Needless to say they are very expensive.. $30 a pill. So I have been buying 1 a day for the past yr and a half. I would take a half in the morning and a half a night. I didn't think I would withdrawl because I wasn't abusing them. I was taking them for legit pain and making sure I wasn't over doing it. Well I was wrong. I didn't withdrawl as bad as I thought (or as I've seen others) but bad enough. I had a horriable headache.. and the worst hot/cold flashes ever.. and my calves ached a little bit.. but not to bad. I took my last half of pill yesterday morning around 10am. About 530 lastnight I started to feel bad.. so I turned to the streets again.. but this time I bought suboxone.. much cheaper and I feel AMAZING. I'm not withdrawling at all. I took 1 strip lastnight and then a half when I woke up today about 8am.. its now 7hrs later and I'm starting to feel bad again. So my question is how should I take the subs and for how long to get through the w/d's.. but not get addicted and w/d from subs. I don't feel like I'm an addict.. but I do feel dependent. I wasn't taking the pills to get high.. but to control the pain (which by the way the subs are helping with the pain also). I'm hoping once I get all this crap out of my system and my body isn't used to having it everyday that I can just take tylenol for the pain.. and hoping it will help. What do you guys think? What's the best way to get off of opaties but still be able to control legit pain? Any thoughts/advice would be helpful and very appreciated. Thanks in advance:-)

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Hi I was wondering if it is possible to dextox from roxys using subs for only 7 days . I don't wanna get addicited to subs . I was takin 2-4 depending on the day . I took one full sub for 2 days in a row now on my 3rd day I wanna cut it in half and do that for 2 days ..then do 2 mgs for 2 days ...will this work ?

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Hi my name is John. I just want to share about my experience and hopefully get some feedback. I was in jail from September to mid November. I kicked cold turky in the intake part of jail. Felt a lot better after a week. My sleep was off. It took about a month for me to sleep normally. I got out of jail and was clean for about a month. I got back on dope and was using for about 2 months. I took subs after about 16 hours of my last dose and went into precipitated withdrawals. I felt bad for about 3 days. Stayed on subs for 2 days after and relapsed again. Went on a 1 1/2 week binge and decided to stop. This time I took 2mg roughly about 26 hours after my last dose. I was using h by the way. It was a real smooth transfer felt hardly no withdraw. I'm on day 4 and an taking about 2 mg of subs a day. 1 mg every 12 hours. I feel normal no withdraws at all. I am thinking of taking another 1 my dose tommorow morning and then split my last 2 mg of subs into 8 pieces and take them as needed meaning holding off until I feel unpleasant. I have been doing opiates for about. 6 years and have detoxed successfully about 6 times. Taking subs for more than a week seems silly to me. Every rehab i been to only keeps you on them a maximum of 8 days. I have felt completely amazing after that time but a few times i did feel a bit sluggish and had some minor withdraws, diaria, hot cold flashes. It really depends on your diet and exercise plans. It is all in your mind as well. Hope for the best, believe in something. Make goals and talk about your feelings. I am a chronic relapser. I have felt terrible withdraws and I will forget about them in a short time and go back to using thinking i can use a few days and stop. It is a terrible trick my mind plays on me. I love the drug. I am only 27 years old. I have issues with relationships with girlfriends and myself. I feel like I'm not good enough for the girl and I beat myself up. Using dope puts me at ease for a little while. It quiets the ongoing battle that takes place in my mind. I know I'm a good person, friendly, attractive, hard worker, good heart, ect. But with brick city being a 10 min drive or 20 min train ride away, the temptation will always be there. I thought I changed in jail. I came out not wanting to do h ever again. But I got into a relationship and didn't feel comfortable with myself. I don't know what tommorow will bring but today i am going to not use. I think that's the only thing that works, is workin on today or this hour or this minute. Good luck to everyone who suffers with the same thing. I will pray for anyone who is struggling. It's amazing how quickly things change. The obsession to use will creep up and slap you in the face. Peace

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I had 12 years clean n have been shooting dope for 6 months. I would give anything to have my sobriety back. I just started subs.today, gonna try to detox in a week. U am so scared. Everyone thinks I am still clean n if I tell anyone I will lose my kids job n fiance. Can't go back to na mtgs cuz my kids father goes n he will take my kids if he finds out. Just needed to get that out. Thx

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i havent started yet :( but i need too!

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Hey I'm in Center City Philly, you said you were in south jersey, I started the "program" almost two weeks ago, it's going very well for me, it's reassuring that there are other people that are close that I can relate to on this issue as I have kept my problems primarily to myself, it'd be nice to hear from you. -Jake

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2 subs arent gonna keep you well throughout the whole withdrawl you better find some more subs.....

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I feel u Matt. I've been on PERCS for 15 years. Moved up to heroin for 8 mths. Withdrawals are a mutha#@*+# but just living everyday getting high spending waay too much $. Being shady and grimey to find a way to get ur fix. I really think the mental addiction is just as bad as physical I went to get some bags last night it fell thru and a dudë gave me 2 subs. So I'm ready. Good luck all. Time to withdrawal. To withdrawal my life back. ONE LOVE.

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Hey I'm in south jersey and going to start subs soon if you want company or someone to talk to email me at {edited for privacy}

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