17 days off suboxone: my story

[Ashk1983]

A little bit of background on me: I was on pain meds for about 4 years. Everything and anything I could get my hands on (pills). One day I heard about suboxone on the street and bought it instead of doc. I got into a sub dr and 4 1/2 years later here I am telling you my story!
I was on 24-16mg sub for 3 1/2 years. After I started with a new dr I felt encouraged to start tapering so I went down to 8mg pretty fast. Well my dr office closed up shop and I got a 30 day script and told "see yah!". I tapered down so much over 30 days that I had half my script (maybe more) left and I was at a tiny dose. Definitely less that 1mg. And I jumped! Scared to death but I did it and haven't looked back! I flushed every single suboxone I had left and waited it out! Day one wasn't so bad, day 2&3 kinda sucked; day 4-6 was the worst by far! The rls, anxiety, hot/cold flashes, painful joints, all of it hit me by then. Day 7 I had the BEST evening by far! Idk if it was the praying I did or the vitamins I was on finally working but I felt good. Day 8-14 was all the same, showers for pain, laying around, and baths lol had some energy spurts! That whole week I was slowly but surely feeling human!  Day 16 I think I had some stomach bug because I back tracked 100%! But I woke up this morning and like light switch I feel great!! All day today I have felt amazing! Did Christmas shopping, grocery shopping! It's not all a nightmare like some say, it definitely ***** but if the withdraw isn't memorable then relapse is inevitable! Just pray every day that someone has your best interest at heart up there!
Meds I took;
Magnesium 500mg morning and half pill at night
Clonidine (only the first week or so) .1 am/.1pm
Motrin 800 prescription strength!! Am/pm
Zyprexa for bypolar
Vivitrol 50mg as needed
Multi vitamin
Today I took nothing but v8 fusion energy drink in the am. Thanks for reading!!

[Ashk1983]

Thank you everyone! It's definately been a crazy ride but a huge support system and a fiancé thats 12 years clean helped me a lot! Honestly reading posts, daily checking people's progress, talking and talking and talking has been my days! I also have a 2 year old that I have by myself until 3 pm when my older kids get home.
But today is the start of day 18 and I don't feel like crap! Lol that's a plus! Lol

[sweetp41]

wow, thank you for sharing, I am just switching from methadone to sub, I enjoyed reading your story. congratulations!!

[ScarrieAnne]

Thank you so much for sharing your story! It will give a lot of people that are in the early stages hope. I am 35 days off subs and my story is similar to yours. it really sucked off and on for me the first month, but now I am starting to feel normal again and it is truly amazing. I tell everyone I know that still takes Subs to just try your best to make it the first month, then it really gets easier. I am so happy it wasn't that bad for you, some people on here have a terrible time, but everyone is different and a lot of factors play into your individual experience. So proud of you! I think your positivity is awesome and Im sure that helped you immensely. Keep us posted on how you are doing. XX. C.

[Junip]

Congrats, you did awesome!!! Sub withdrawal is awful and you tapered from a very high dose!  Thank you for sharing your story, it is very motivating. I am going purchase what you took for when I try AGAIN to jump off this opiate train.  I did subs but ended up on percs to ease sub withdrawal...stupid!  Keep up the awesome work and thanks again for sharing.
JJ