Suboxone/personality Change (Page 2)

Since my son started taking suboxone, he has developed hatred for me. We have always been very close, but now he is verbally abusive. It is only when he takes the drug. I should add, he sometimes drinks beer while on it. Has anyone else experienced this?

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Yes I was clean for 8 years and then prescribed suboxone, I have now ruined my relationship with my ex, I threatened him and he says I'm not the same person I was when he met me I'm now realizing that this drug IS NOT WORTH IT! I've lost 30 plus pounds and it's really scary:,( every single night I go to sleep I wonder if I'm going to wake up, I have a big heart but tend to be all about the suboxone and me me me on it, first thing I do in the morning is take it or I start to feel REALLY sick, it's now been 3YEARS AND I FEEL LIKE I HAVE WASTED 3 YEARS OF MY LIFE :,( I want off of it it's just a legal high ! And does nothing but Ruin lives:/ and all that matters to the doctors is the money. I'm now trying to get the courage to go get the help I need n deserve to have a normal life

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I am in the exact situation. Is your situation better now? How did you cope? it makes me feel likeI'mthe problem

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Well, I first addressed my problem with my wife last May. She had been on suboxocone since Oct of last year. Hasn't got any better. Trtying to get enough money together to get out!

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I'm currently pregnant from a guy who's been on subutex for the last three years. We've been together for more than year. He snaps on me whenever he wants, he avoid any intimacy with me, he moved to the dinner room, doesn't sleep at nights, falls asleep at around 10 am. He stop going to work, eating healthy food. He prefers sweets and carbs mostly. We've become strangers. I love him very much but I can do anything to get him back to normal. I noticed when he runs out of pulls for three day he becomes a cometely different person.

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I'm going through the same exact thing and it's so frustrating because I don't know about you but I feel like it's me. But I know for sure it's not me. I need feedback to as to how to deal with these emotional outbursts. I've actually left this weekend because I don't want to be abused yet I love him so much and don't want to go through this and he doesn't think he's got a problem. This drug is a destroyer. Please somebody who used Suboxone and had the anger outbursts and had the loss of emotions and had the loss of libido please respond and let us know that it will and that even going through it you realize how we lived you through it.

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The doctors are lying. They are fully aware of what this drug does to people but the agenda is to make money and control/zombify drug addicts who are considered expendable. This stuff is bad news, I dont care what anyone says. Your doctor is definitely wrong.

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Leave him.
Before its too late.
Or give him one last chance to quit the drugs.
But why give him another chance to hurt you?

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I fully agree! I know from first hand experience. I was on buprenorphine for 12 years. My doctor would answer questions when I brought them up, relating to side effects and etc. But never fully informed me in the beginning. Anger and irritation are definitely side effects. I found myself getting, not just upset, but seriously pissed off at many things that a normal person would be able to let go. I have always been a neat freak and very tidy person, but not to the point that I would flip out over minor things. I found myself getting angry over bits of trash in the house, not in the trash can. A single dirty dish in the sink. The remote left in a different spot. People holding conversations in the supermarket in the middle of an aisle. (Although that one I got irritated about before I was ever on the drug lol). Trash on the side of the road I live on... I accused family members of being lazy when things weren't up kept every single minute of the day... things like these would send me into a rage... never physically violent but I would be a mental wreck. Now I did find that I felt better, but really was just a piece of my normal self. I had a very short fuse. 1 minute I would be great, the next... some jackass would pull out in front of me in the left lane, and go 50 mph. The next 1/2 of my day was shot! I just couldn't let things go I commend my wife for being the person she is and sticking with me... But being on the drug that long is NO GOOD! It's all about money to the doctors and big pharm. If it wasnt, the doctor would've forced me to ween off of it long LONG ago...

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J,
Take it from one who knows bupe and folks with rage issues do not make for harmony in anyone's life.Picture this 6'6 300 lb. monster trying to manage a dependence issue at the same time performing in a sport that demanded intense competitive fire all with an undiagnosed rage disorder.suffice it to say bupe only magnified this condition so yeah it most deff. Can have these effects especially for those with inherent chemical imbalance's.tapering was LONG and traumatic. For some used for an appropriate time frame at a measured dose can be life affirming and lead to a productive and happy drug free life.

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I too have these same symptoms. I'm a 35 year old female who has been on Suboxone (8mgs once per day) for four years! I never thought it would be so hard to get off. I'm nothing like I used to be. I have fits of rage for the smallest reasons or none at all. I have zero energy, major dysphoria and cannot seem to get happy. I want nothing more than to be off of this and get my life back. I've tried several times to no avail. I wish I could do it but I've got a small child so I cannot be put of commission for months while trying to get off.

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How did you get off of this stuff? I've been stuck on it four years with the EXACT horrific side effects you outlined. Please help if you can.

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I'm so sorry to hear of your...un-coupling, but here's what happened to me: I was in a relationship with a guy I thought I loved until I went to rehab and got on suboxone. I then realized that I was in love with the drug, not him. I was confusing the effects of the opiates with my feelings for him. When the opiates were out of the equation I saw him clearly for the first time and felt nothing but fear and resentment. Now, the way he treated me, his ideals, and his overall personality were all horrible, so that's totally different than your situation. It seems like he does genuinely love you, but is confused about what he's feeling because of this new drug's effect on his emotions and thoughts. If you stay strong and patient, he'll come around.

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Thank you, so you agree that subs deaden your emotions? I see positive changes as he reduces the dosage. I just need the whole him back!

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This might be horrible advice, but as I've said this is my experience which may be different than yours. So... I had a brief relapse because I slipped on the stairs (and I mean, cartoon-style. My foot had something very slippery stuck on the bottom and when I put all my weight on it it completely slipped out from under me, and I flew up into the air and bounced uncontrollably down five stairs, each bounce hitting the same area of my tailbone) I told the doctor at the hospital every medicine I was on including suboxone. He prescribed me Percocet and those numbing topical patches. So I wanted my ass to stop hurting so I stopped taking the suboxone and waited in withdrawals for as long as I could (2.5 days? I think..) to take the Percocet. It worked and because percs are not as strong as suboxone my tolerance went down. So then I was ready to go from 12 mg to 8mg. I've been on 6mg forever, but I ran out early so I again waited until I was in withdrawals and took 2mg or a quarter of a pill (my insurance only covers the pill form) but it's the same as a fourth of the strip film. The 2 mg lasted for a lot longer than I had anticipated and was a lot stronger than I had anticipated because I took it when I was in withdrawals. So that has been my way of getting down. And I only waited until my eyes were watering my muscles ached and my nose was running, or 24 hours exactly. I did not have to wait for the hellish part with the cold sweats, constant goosebumps-till-my-skin-was-sore, nor the yawning-till-my-jaw-wanted-to-break-off crap either. I hope this made sense and helps.

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Are you a male or a female? How long were you on the Suboxone/Percocet? I'm wondering because I want to know, did you lose your libido? Did you have any other emotional symptoms or personality changes because of the subs and has it affected any of your relationships? Now that you're coming off of it or off of it, have those relationships and your libido come back?

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Oh yes yes and yes. When anyone is on opiates, even if you try to climax, you can't (because an orgasm releases the same exact chemicals that opiates do). So when all of your opiate receptors are busy with the suboxone, you have no libido. When you are in withdrawals, or off of it, suddenly your libido comes back with a vengeance! Haha!

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Mine just up and left me and was sweet as anything hours early...always calls me fake,liar cheater and never did anything wrong

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My husband has been taking suboxone since we met. I am not sure how he controlled his anger before but sometimes he can. I quickly noticed that he had mood swings and that his anger and irritability would peak about a half an hour after taking the Suboxone. We recently got married and we've been together 4 years now. He's always had some more of aggression not really towards me but just in general. I just thought it was his personality and it's actually kind of like that because I felt safe with him. Recently after he brought Suboxone home he seems to get angry at me about everything for anything. I can't do anything right and he tells me I am a selfish dumb b****. I think he's taking money from me. He stopped taking the drug at my request for about a month. Well he was still taking it but in very little amounts. I don't know if maybe his doctor told him not to do that anymore but he recently went back to his normal dose and he has been on fire. Four days ago he grabbed my face, got in my face and told me I was a selfish dumb b****, squeezed my head into the back of the couch and then yesterday we were going to see a friend and give him a ride somewhere and I asked if we could stop at a store that had a big sale that I really wanted to get something at and I would only be a minute. He completely went off the deep end, went into a fit of rage and turned into a psychotic a**hole you would have thought. I just told him that I've been cheating on him for the whole duration of our relationship. He started throwing stuff at me and I ran out of the house. He was going to take my van cuz I told him I wasn't going with him anymore and so I jumped in my van and he came outside screaming. He managed to get into the van before I was able to pull all the way out, so I ran back into the house and he came after me and shoved me and elbowed me in the back. And then he continued to scream at me and scream at me. I was honestly so petrified I didn't even know what to do. I adore this man. When he looks at me when he's still on those pills I honestly feel like I see the devil in him. I know it's Suboxone. Suboxone is the devil.

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Re: Wishfulwife (# 38)

Dear wishful wife, I can tell you that probably he abuses the medicine. My partner lashes out at me without apparent reason and I know he does that when abusing his medicine. When he only used it orally, he’s a totally normal person, that I can tolerate.

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Re: Antonia (# 39)

Thank you so much and I agree with you. He seems to do fine and then when he doubled up on the dosage is when the moodiness takes over. I've gotten to the point where I asked him how much he has, how much he's taking, and almost keeping a daily log of the mood swings. I also wish some guys would respond to let me know about the lack of libido and emotions as well. I tried to be supportive but it's really really hard. The only thing keeping me going is that I know who he was and every now and then I see the glimpse of the man I fell in love with.

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