this is day 4 of suboxone withdrawal..my doctor totally lied said i will have a few chills and body aches maybe..so i was all positive now i feel like someone is trying to rip out my internal organs permanent goosebumps and shivering and a backache that will just not go or allow me to move about..im 45 I feel like 145 .. i never felt so bad..makes me want to use heroin again which i dont want to of course.. but the cold turkey off h is not as bad as this...so scared and sad at the moment :(
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I'm on day 26 off suboxone. I have absolutely no energy. When can I hope to see some light at the end of the tunnel?
Michelle, I have to say, I feel extremely similar. I was on suboxone for 1.25 years. Over the past 3-4 months, I began sleeping poorly, having vivid nightmares almost nightly, waking up with pain in my arms and legs that would last most of the day. The transition from sleep to awake seemed like a 2 or MORE hour process of bed to couch, in and out of sleep, finally some coffee, then maybe a shower. I was beginning to be exhausted all of the time. I own a painting business, and I couldn't seem to put in more than 4 hours a day the past couple months. I stopped taking suboxone 7 days ago this morning (tapered down to 1.333 mg once daily over the past month to get ready to quit) For the first 5 days i didn't have any medicine of any kind other than tylenol and ibuprofen. I must say that it was a hell of a time. Not all of my symptoms were severe, but enough of them were that i spent days 3-5 crying, taking baths, wanting to just give up.... man... well, on day 5 I forced myself to go for a run after crying on the couch and finally breaking to the point of trying anything to feel better. I felt better for about an hour, then it was back to the bad. The doctor gave me clonidine, trazodone, zolfran, and dicyclomine near the end of day 5. They help. The only thing, the clonidine just zaps all of my energy... so i cut my dose in half after 2 days... that helped some more. Then I added in 200mg of B6 and 1g of N-Acetyl L-Tyrosine for energy and nervous system stabilization. That helped some more. I still am feeling very low energy, very tired, still pain in my lower legs... BUT, I feel like there is hope. I got out for a bike ride this morning, went disc golfing yesterday, just trying to do active things that i enjoy. The short of all this is; the doctors NEVER go over how bad going off of suboxone is (due to a hell of a long 37 hour half life!!!!!!) and they never tell you about some of the bad reactions that some patients (like you michelle and myself) have... If you use suboxone, buprenorphine, subutex, etc. use it for a short time then get off.... don't get dependent and have it ruin your body...
Your WD.will start 4 days after you stop
I agree with your post 100%....was on the subs for 7 years starting at 24mg per day. I think there horrible and I wish I'd have never found them! Am now 117 days clean...that was the hardest detox I've ever done In my life. Took me over 30 days to be able to leave my house, still wasn't right, but had to get the hell out of my house! I lost 10lbs in 30 days and thought I was dancing with satan himself!