How do get off Suboxone?

[JAS3]

Hi, I have been on 16mg of Suboxone for over 5 years after abusing Oxycontin for less than 2 years.  My mood is content, but I am a shell of a person.  I do not work and I never leave my home.  I get up in the afternoon and go on my laptop until I go to bed around 4am, and then I repeat the same thing the next day.  I am extremely constipated and have no energy.  I know I need to get off Suboxone, but I don't feel strong enough to and the more time that goes by, the weaker I get.  There was only 1 time that I was ready to ween myself off Suboxone.  It was after being on it for 6 months and a psychiatrist had put me on an anti-depressant.  I mentioned to my doctor, that was prescribing the Subs, that I was ready to ween down and he said I shouldn't think about that now.  So here I am, 5 years later.  I get frustrated to why Suboxone affects me so much because I know plenty of other people who take it who can work and function properly.  I used to be a very hard-working, family oriented person and now I don't work, hardly every see my family, and lost touch with most of my friends.  But still, none of this motivates me enough to even go one day without Suboxone.  I've called a few rehab centers, but they only offer like a 5 day detoxification, which makes no sense for the long term nature of Suboxone.  Does anybody have any suggestions or is anyone in a similar situation?

I'd like to make a note, though.  I am not condemning Suboxone.  It stopped my life from spiraling out of control and I know I wouldn't be in this situation if I got some kind of co-therapy when I initially started taking Suboxone.  I am blaming myself and the doctor who only cared about my urine samples every month I saw him.  (Sometimes, I would have to stay in his office bathroom all day until I could produce a sample because the Suboxone also causes extreme urinary retention for me, even though the doctor didn't think that was possible.)  I have a new doctor now who prescribes the Suboxone and thinks everything in my life is going great because I don't know what to tell him.

[cbgarner2002]

I need help. I want to come off my dose of 8mg a day because I went though the withdrawal before and I wanted to kill myself the pain was so bad. How do I do it? Cut my strips in half, wait a month, then cut those in half and so on?

[toddio]

Hello all, i have been on suboxone for like 7yrs, most of the time on 12mg a day but recently have tapered to 4mg, and now I'm down to about 2mg. I have always been scared of the wd so never really planned a time to jump off, bur recently my brother ran out at a time when his dr wasn't available and i was out of town so he had no option but to go cold turkey. He was at about 6mg a day and when he realized he had to.quit he had one pill left and took 4mg, next day 2mg then 1mg next day then none. He said the first 3 days werent bad, the 4th through 7th days were rough but he still got it and didnt miss work. Then on day 8 he began feeling better and now on day 14 he says all withdrawl is gone. This is very encouraging to me cause i always thought it woukd.take.much longer and be much worse. He said at worst the withal from suboxone isnt near as bad as from hydrocodone. Im gonna try very soon. Good luck everyone it can be done, two weeks isn't anything in the big picture.

[toddio]

Hello all, i have been on suboxone for like 7yrs, most of the time on 12mg a day but recently have tapered to 4mg, and now I'm down to about 2mg. I have always been scared of the wd so never really planned a time to jump off, bur recently my brother ran out at a time when his dr wasn't available and i was out of town so he had no option but to go cold turkey. He was at about 6mg a day and when he realized he had to.quit he had one pill left and took 4mg, next day 2mg then 1mg next day then none. He said the first 3 days werent bad, the 4th through 7th days were rough but he still got it and didnt miss work. Then on day 8 he began feeling better and now on day 14 he says all withdrawl is gone. This is very encouraging to me cause i always thought it woukd.take.much longer and be much worse. He said at worst the withal from suboxone isnt near as bad as from hydrocodone. Im gonna try very soon. Good luck everyone it can be done, two weeks isn't anything in the big picture.

[Map1944]

The rehab doesn't want you on sub?  I would think they'd encourage that.  
The best thing is to just taper as much as you can.
I started on 24mg 4 years ago and stopped 9 days ago.  My last dose was about .25mg.  Tapering from sub is a long process but when done the WD are not as intense.  I still am having some WD but not much.

[Kellz25]

Please help me. I've been on Suboxone for a year and a half now, this being my third time on Suboxone, and I was accepted into a residential treatment center which I really need to go to, but before I can go there I have to be completely detoxed. I'm on a waiting list for the treatment center so it could be any day now that they tell me to come in. I was on 8mgs and I have weaned down to 4mgs and it's starting to get extremely hard for me. I want this so bad but it is just so hard. I was thinking about going inpatient for detox which is only 5 days and that's not long enough. I would greatly appreciate any advice or feedback.

Thanks,
Kelly
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[lizzann11]

I am currently trying to ween myself off of suboxne and am need of some serious support and a plan on how to do it, I really don't have a lot of information on how to do so and am looking for any one who would like to help, thanks.