What Exactly Does Suboxone Do? Is It Addicitive? (Page 12) (Top voted first)

i have a friend who desperately wants to get off of methadone and pain pills. will suboxone work? is it addicitive too? if someone can please help me that would be great! also is it very expensive, that's what i've heard.

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Make sure it's all out of your system first cause if you take the subs before your fully withdrawing you'll be more dope sick than you ever have in your life. But with all my heart i truly recommend subs i shot up H for 7 years and am now 8 months sober thanks to it. Best of luck...it's worth it

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Hey Carrie, I do need some extra support, just someone to talk to about my addiction to oxycodone. I rely on the experience of others to keep my sanity and hope.

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Have you experienced any muscle pain while taking suboxone? Can't explain it.

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My post was for Lady bluejay.

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I know what you mean...remember just feeling NORMAL and GOOD without anything? I wish I could break the dependent mentality and feel like I don't need to pop anything just to get the day done. I bet if someone gave us placebos and told us they were something we would do better lol. It's all in our minds but even years later it's still literally an everyday battle....but I just want off EVERYTHING, the subs make me just feel almost foggy, so now I'm large, stupid and no longer charming lol. Whatever though, we will be off this stuff eventually, look and FEEL great again. We can do it, I've been trying to work out again but this crap makes me lazy and groggy too so I doubt it will last lol. Any motivational ideas guys let me know plllleeeease! :)

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I have been addicted to percacet for 3years now. I Insufflate about 20, 10 mg pills a day. I just started getting the subs from different ppl. I cant stop thinking about the percs though. I have been borderline withdrawl since i started and am miserable. I want to be quit by christmas though. I want to wake up look at my wife and tell her i dont want one. I want to give my son a hug and not want to use money that could go to him on drugs. I just want to be done more than anything. This is the hardest thing ive ever done.

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Josh I know what you're feeling a 100% ....and it hurts. Can you attend a suboxone clinic yourself? How much suboxone and what kind are you taking right now? How frequently and are you taking percs while suboxone is in your system still? That's enough to throw you into PAWS alone.

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I feel the SAME EXACT WAY...........I miss so badly that warm rush of euphoria but I know that I have to stay on the suboxone or I'll be right back to doctor shopping and spending all my money on pills or dope. I hate it ..... I just wish suboxone made you feel SOMETHING........at least methadone makes you feel good!

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I hear that! I just wanted to say Merry Christmas everyone. Hope it's happy and sober lol <3

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Trabae, you should check into getting suboxone treatment for sure! It will give you your life back...with help from you of course!
I used anywhere from 3 opana 40s or when not available ten perk thirties a day. I was able to use all the way up til the day before my doc appt for suboxone on a Friday, had my first appt Saturday and have been clean EVER SINCE!

I was in the same boat, had two small children and a young stepson and didn't have the option to go cold turkey and just suffer while trying to manage my family along with sports, games, practice school etc.

It feels terrible I know, to realize that this isn't any life for your kids, and especially YOURSELF, is a great sign.

Start googling sub docs in your area now, a lot don't accept insurance so you may have to pay cash until an office that does opens a spot up. If you have insurance it will cover your script which is costly if you don't have coverage but there's a program that pays your prescription cost for a year (sub program are usually a min of two years though) .

Find a doctor fast, they are filling up quickly, due to people really wanting help, each sub doc is only allowed a hundred patients at a time, three of those enrolled in the pharmaceutical company prescription coverage.

Let us know if you need any help, advice, support or ANYTHING! !!

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i really need help to get off H. i am working on my bachelors degree. i do not have time to be in a rehabilitation center. i live in detroit and have no idea where to find help or a clinic.

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Jasmine, I googled suboxone docs/clinics in or near Detroit area.

Here is a link of all the authorized physicians contact information.

If you need more help hit us up please!

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Here is the link: buprenorphine-doctors.com/suboxone-doctors/Michigan-MI.cfm?c=Detroit

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Well apparently I'm not allowed to post a link.

Anyway, Jasmine, all you need to do is Google suboxone doctors in your area and start calling.

If you have insurance try to find one that accepts it, if not, or they don't have openings yet, you'll have to pay cash and keep calling and comparing prices. Remember if you don't have insurance you'll be paying for your prescription too. If you need any help or advice please feel free to ask us. We've all been at the point you are, loving the high, but hating the withdrawal and what you're addiction does to your and your families lives.

At least you know it's no way to live. My life and that of my children, family and friends will never be the same. I missed out on and ruined so many relationships it's heart wrenching. I wish obviously I'd never started or gotten help sooner..but beter late then never.

Good luck.

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Do u know anything about furicet w/d? I too have been on everything possible. The barbiturates are the worst next too methadone. If you are on a benzo for a legit reason and you use barbiturates does it perminitally make the benzos not work proper ally?

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So I have been taking lortabs for about 6 years. To be completely honest only for the rush of it. I started with 1 a day. Half at a time then gradually made my way to about 5 a day. Which may not seem like alot to some people but im tired of feeling like I depend on them to be normal. should I try weening myself off the pills or possibly suboxne. I don't want to leave one addiction and go to another. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

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Hi Mae, this may be bad advice, but here goes my explanation lol.

I would ask around, friends, if you could get subs on the street. Four mgs a day for a cpl days, then two, then one. Lasting about a week, ten days tops. Your addiction, is an addiction, but still mild for now so don't let it progress any further.

Now my reasoning for having you get them this way instead of through a doc, is that I've seen people with a minimal vicodin habit end up on 24 mgs of subs for three years which is insane. I've had a terrible opana, oxy and high perc use for years and a measly four mgs has been fine for me.

But to play devils advocate as well, they, emphasis on they, say that you should use suboxone for as long as you were using opiates. They, again, say that without this ongoing maintenance therapy most addicts end up with an 85% relapse rate. Sooo the choice is yours, obviously lol, but if you go to a doc and they prescribe you more then 6mgs a day....don't take it. I was prescribed twelve and I took four and was fine, my habit daily costed me several hundo a day and I was just fine with a miniscule amount of subs.

Everyone is different so figure out what works best for you. If you take subs from a friend, wait at least 48 hours from your last loratab til your first subs to avoid precipitated withdrawal, which is hell in itself.

I want to state I'm not a doctor or have any medical training, I'm just sharing my personal experiences and opinions. ..

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Hi. My name is kristina and I have been a H addict for about 4 years almost I just recently got clean as of October 2013 until about the end of Januar y 2014 and I ended up relapsing. I smoke and inject it. Lately I have been injecting it more. I have been using it for the last 4 months straight and obvioulsy I'm addicted once again but this time I have 4 suboxone 8mg pills to take so that I could kick the H . I got arrested Saturday late night ajd that was the last time i ii injected the H it was probably Saturday around 6 or 7pm I last used I went to jail and kicked cold turkey until Monday when i got bailed out I have used but I still have that itch to. I'm on my 5th day clean off H I havenhing for my withdrawal I had all. of the come down symptoms since I had to do it cold turkey . So i wanted to know if I shoud just take it in halves or the whole thing since I only have 4 of them the last time I tried to use the suboxone to kick the H I was only taking quarter of the pills i would break them into 4 pieces and do it like that and I alad 3 strips that I did thx same thing to. What's would be thx best thing to x I'm dck and rred of bng on thold k

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Hi Bob,
If you are still reading this site and posting to it, I would like to mention that you didn't write the name of the medication, you are writing about. Perhaps, you will post that, too, to help others? Thank you, for your post, it is much appreciated

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Hi Hippefreak, I low this is an older post , but, it caught my eye. I was addicted 2 Oxy 4 almost. 10 years. Went on methadone 4 almost. 5 years. I tapered down from 110 to 24. At that point I could NOT take the withdrawals anymore.Dr put me on suboxone. You need 2 b withdrawing b 4 u can take the suboxone. It works great with cravings and sometimes , pretty good with pain. I've been on it 4 almost 8 years now and if I have 2 stay on it 4 another 8 years, I will. I don't ever want 2 b back in the grips of addiction, again. Plus, I have many painful medical problems that it helps with. Well, I hope by now, u have been successful in your choice . Let me know how u r doing.

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