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Starting tomorrow nervous as shit. Been on oxy last 8 years and let my tolerance get out of hand the last three years and my dose is so high you wouldn’t even believe me if I told you.
It has its down sides but it has pretty much cured my ocd and anxiety disorder when dozens of anti depressants and benzos have failed to do over the last 20 years before that. Hoping the suboxone helps with that. Of course I have a very addictive nature and started just taking more and more once I got that nod feeling at night. Like I said before that just stayed same dose every day for years and just kept pushing it higher and higher and couldn’t drop it or taper so have to get on subs from now on and hoping it works for me.
Anyone have luck with it?
It has its down sides but it has pretty much cured my ocd and anxiety disorder when dozens of anti depressants and benzos have failed to do over the last 20 years before that. Hoping the suboxone helps with that. Of course I have a very addictive nature and started just taking more and more once I got that nod feeling at night. Like I said before that just stayed same dose every day for years and just kept pushing it higher and higher and couldn’t drop it or taper so have to get on subs from now on and hoping it works for me.
Anyone have luck with it?
Best of luck getting off of that shit.
The Shop
What are your goals?
Be safe man and good luck.
Level: good luck brother!! Keep telling yourself, "I CAN DO THIS!" and you can! Im pulling for ya bud.
I guess my point is, sometimes a dollar is 20 nickels. There was no single magic solution for me. It was a bunch of small things that had a cumulative effect. Like I said, my issues aren't gone but they went from debilitating to mildly annoying once in a while.
Good luck and don't give up.
Takes the craving away from the Oxy.
Good luck!
Always wondered why before and after my lower back issues/operation opiates did zero for my pain.
Good luck anyway
Anyway he used suboxone several times. His main reason was that it will lesson the severe withdrawals of weaning off the opiates. However, once he began his suboxone “treatment” it would shortly turn into a suboxone addiction and abuse just like his opiates. I would suggest from his experience and me as observing that u need to decide you want to clean up and eventually get off all the meds if at all possible. Like others have said you are just replacing one drug with another and although some may be able to be functioning adults on suboxone I don’t see it as a long term solution.
Our son has been in and out of jail for his drug use/abuse. His last arrest came the day after the SD SX that we attended together. I could tell that night he was getting close on his inevitable downward spiral. Got a call the next night that he was back in jail....this time his antics made
the news. Last we heard he is getting his first prison sentence, 2 years. Honestly those two years are a break for his family as we will not be worried daily that we will get “that call” that he has been found dead somewhere.
My hope for him and people like you is that you do your best to get into a very long term treatment plan. Our son has the opportunity with state help to go to a 9 month facility where they pretty much keep them away from the public and work on their addictions. He has done numerous 30 day programs and I must say at least in his case, and I believe 95% of all cases, they are totally worthless.
Anyway level best of luck to you. It is a serious issue and will take total devotion from yourself to kick it. But my suggestion is to not go the Suboxone route other than to ease through withdrawals.
Pit Row
Not saying prison is everybody's cure all but it does work for some people, we took care of him while he was inside, life at dannamora scared the shit out of him
It is not the way to go. Replacing a drug with another won't work IMO.
Lock yourself down and suffer thru. Takes a week to get over another week to get energy back. More maybe.
Imodium .lots of it. It has a drug in it similar to opiate and makes things much easier.
I know so many that just got worse on sub.
However we did lose a friend to opiate cold turkey withdrawals and he was in the hospital when that happened. I would not hesitate to suggest Level use the Suboxone to ease the withdrawals but then get off the Suboxone as soon as possible
Dealt with a family whose son had finally gotten clean (12 months or more) after going to rehab and starting a new life clear across the country. Unfortunately he couldn’t find work there so mom and Dad allowed him to move back “temporarily.”
He wasn’t back 24 hours before one of his buddies (still using) lured him back in.
I cannot emphasize enough-anyone you used with, bought from etc needs to be completely cut off.
I was fine on oxy for a long time until I started abusing it so now just hopefully can drop my dose significantly and see what happens. I really hope I can.
I’m
Hoping I didn’t damage my body and brain doing the subs and suffering such bad withdrawals. Dropped 12 pounds in 10 hours. I hated the subs. I was on a very high dose of oxy so I need to be strong and get my dose down so i can taper slow or if go cold turkey won’t be as bad. Got myself in a mess that’s for sure. Just hope I’m ok from the rapid withdrawal the subs caused. Only been two days and feel little better but hope I didn’t do any damage to my body.
But I really, really enjoy a perfectly normal, relaxing shit. So I just keep flushing the extras.
Level if I can offer any advice based on what I’ve been through with our kid (who is now 39 and ready to be relocated to prison) it is to not try and beat this the easy way. Meaning a 30 day treatment facility that will not do much for you.
I know it’s not easy to do but u have to completely get rid of and never see contacts they have gotten u pills or partied with you. Even if they say they are ready to get clean and lets do it together I don’t see much success in that method. The only thing harder than treating 1 drug addict is treating 2.
If long term help is available go that route. I’m talking like a 6-9 month program. There is available in some areas as that is not financially feasible for most people.
As far as getting off of them you can try the taper method. If you go cold turkey just be careful and if at all possible have loved ones nearby to get you to the ER if necessary for fluid replacement. This isn’t going to be easy and the odds are against you but it’s up to you to prove you are strong enough to beat those odds and be one of those guys that kicked it and went on to lead a normal life.
Best of luck to you and please keep us posted on how you are doing
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