r/suboxone

?? is that possible? To get high on you’re own suboxone

Be careful of QuickMd cancelling prescriptions after they get your money. There support is impossible to get a hold of.

I had a $99 phone appointment with a QuickMd dr. The Dr called in a prescription for 15 Suboxone films to the pharmacy.

Well because I did not pick up the prescription the same day the Dr and QuickMd cancelled it. When I reached out to support they told me the only way to resolve was to pay another $100 for a new appointment.

Now I’m in withdrawals and out another $100. What a rip off.

theres gotta be something that factors into this, i know lack of sleep will do it FOR SURE, but is there anything else? like diet? or placing it under the tongue vs cheeking it?

the other night i was so eff'd up that i thought the strip i took was more concentrated than the others, which i know couldn't be the case but damn

How often do you need appointments? Monthly? How much suboxone do they prescribe if you are eligible? One month worth?

I am trying to go to a detox facility asap and I mean today. I’m detoxing from alcohol and 7oh, which my dumbass has been using on top of suboxone. The treatment facility will only let me use the meds I come in with, I guess even after 7oh WD. So basically I have 5 8mg strips of suboxone left, 10 days until I can even get the next script. On top of going into detox I will have less, not more suboxone to detox off of 7oh. And even when I come out 5 days later, I will be detoxed but have suboxone WD to come home to.

What can I do?? What ways can I get suboxone? I need to go to detox so bad I want my life to get back on track but I can’t do that if I have half the supply for regular living- not to mention detox and possible adjustments.

Ive been on 8mg/2mg for about 5 years now and throughout the years every now and then my dose doesn’t hit like it usually does & i instantly start to feel anxiety & depressed. It usually only lasts for a week or 2 but this time its been a whole entire month & im worried because it never went this long. Im not taking to get a high or anything i just want to feel calm & this does the complete opposite. It almost feels like withdrawal. I see a few other ppl That have experienced this & others that haven’t but no one knows why.. i use to take under my tongue till it stopped working then i switched to my cheek for years & it would work sometimes and stop. But now it has completely just stopped this past month. I also take adderall so idk.. please keep judgement at minimum i know how ppl love to attack others on here when asking for advice

I've been on Suboxone almost two weeks and have started having anxiety attacks every night. I stopped taking clonidine because I was afraid it would kill me if I took both the same day.

My anxiety was so bad I ended up calling 911 the other night because my heartrate was so high and I started sweating.

I felt like something really bad was happening to me.

I had a appointment with my Doctor today and he said I could go ahead and take the clonidine if my anxiety gets bad.

I'm still nervous though. With my parents dying there is no other family around for my kids. They are grown, but still need me.

I've been on opioids for many years. Maybe the stress is catching up with me now that I'm off of them and facing reality.

It's all just too much for me right now. I am proud that I haven't used anything else since I started taking Suboxone.

I've started having some cravings, but I know I cannot go back to doing that stuff again. I can't afford it. I need therapy.

I'm supposed to meet with a therapist tomorrow through the Suboxone clinic. I'm hoping that might help.

My house is a mess and I look terrible. I realize I've barely been functioning this past year. I've lost 50 pounds and none of my clothes fit me. I started losing my hair from the 7oh I was taking. Now that I'm thinking more clearer I see what I've become. I'm not happy with this at all and I'm overwhelmed.

I know this is long and I'm rambling on and on, but just needed to talk to someone and get this off my chest.

I hope everyone is doing okay. Any advice is well appreciated.

Three days ago I decided I was done with subs. There's a job I was offered and I want it badly, in fact I need it. They drug test, so I quit smoking weed and taking my subs that minute. I was taking 12mg a day, for about 8-9 months now. I just really felt like sharing in case anyone else needed the encouragement. Love y'all.

I'll keep updating as the days pass by...

Day 1: relatively calm, expected worse tbh. Actually slept.

Day 2: withdrawal symptoms set in rough. Chills, stomach aches, anxiety, depression, panic. Took some ibuprofen to keep the fever down, and stayed hydrated with my own electrolyte recipe. Forced down cold bagel, spoonfuls of peanut butter, and fresh fruit. Had some old hydroxyzine in my drawer that I took to try and sleep. Slept maybe two hours. Rough.

Day 3: woke up in panic, last night was possibly the worst of if. The rls, flopping in bed to get comfy, wrapped in a towel to soak up the sweat. I hope it was the worst of it. I'm going to do some mild exercise today, I have to ship something at the post office so I will be forced to drive. Plan on taking laps around the park while I'm out. Edit: printed off some shipping labels, boxes up some goods and drove them to the post office. Took the dog with, and we walked around the park/river for about an hour. Sweat like crazy, heart pounding, took rests as needed. Got home and took a cold shower, I'm feeling pretty good. Aside from the gooseflesh, and swimming head feeling, I'm managing pretty well. Food and electrolytes, plus ibuprofen are definitely doing their job. I've got this.

My brother in-law has struggled for decades with opioid addiction but has been on Bur. for a couple years now and it has been helpful! However, in the past couple of months he has been becoming increasingly paranoid including posting on social medial stating that “the medicine is being taken from his body” and there are additional people there when there is not. He is also prescribed 70mg of Vyvance daily. Based on my basic research I saw that there could be side effects from the Vyvance with people with a family of mental illness (specifically schizophrenia), which in his case there is. Personally, I don’t think he was honest with his prescribing doctor(s) for either medication in regard to family history, addiction history or any other current medications. Do we think the paranoia he is experiencing is from taking them both together or is he experiencing some other sort of mental health crisis?

(Please note we have tried to get him evaluated but he refused and at this point “he is not harmful to himself or others” so we are kind of at a loss 😓)

So, I need help figuring this out. I need to get a script for subs like, today. I’m coming off of 7Oh and I’m not dealing with these withdrawals. I was on subs for ten years before, jumped off at eight mg and remained clean for several years until I got sick and required a script of Oxy. You know the drill. Here I am, and I just can’t do the withdrawals at this time.

So. Things have changed since I was on subs, and I’m hearing things. I am in Florida. I hear there are online ways to go about getting a script and there’s generic pills/strips now. My insurance company said they want nothing to do with this so, apparently I’m on my own. Definitely worried about the price. I’m also worried about getting a script and no pharmacy willing to fill it (have you heard that is an issue?) or it still costing me $600 to get my meds.

Help?

I've been on suboxone for around 8 years. I decided to be done with it last week. I had surgery on the 30th and I've basically recovered from it. I stopped taking suboxone on the 27th but since I had surgery on the 30th I was given 10 hydrocodone and 30 tramadol. I was taking around 2 tramadol a day and yesterday was the first day I'm taking none. I have clonidine and trazodone but I'm so anxious and bored it's been so hard to sleep.

I'm done with this and will never put myself in this situation again. I'm just tired of feeling like shit. I'm lucky I have a very supportive family and husband.

Didn’t see anything in the rules about this subject.

I got onto subs to kick 7OH in December. I quit everything to clear my head and get healthier. Unlike many of y’all who lost weight on 7OH, I gained weight.

Decided I was going to start casually drinking again, but looked it up and many people said drinking on Subs sucked and they ended up just stopping drinking all together.

My family and my families friends all drink pretty casually, maybe a happy hour during the week, but usually not during the week. Cabin weekends and holidays are big drinking times though. I’d like to participate again.

I’ve gone from 16mg to 8mg now down to 2mg which I’ve been at for about 2 months now. Working out Sublocade with insurance rn.

Curious at one mg were you able to start drinking where you didn’t have the side effects people post about in this sub? Am I good where I am? Should I go lower? Should I wait until sublocade? Should I wait until totally clear? Is every person different and I need to just try and I might be good to go?

TIA!

Hey guys, I have been on suboxone for 5 years now, and started at 12mg. Went down to 8mg after 6 months and stayed at 8mg for years….for the constipation my doc prescribed me LACTULOSE and it worked wonders for many years….

in the past year I have dropped to 4mg and have started working out and running about 6 months ago…that’s when the constant constipation started again. Small very very hard poops 12 times a day straining…lactlose does not work, miralax does not work, water doesn’t work, fiber doesn’t work… and lowering my dose to 2mg doesn’t work.

I can’t continue to live like this. I went to the GI doctor and they were no help, just wanted to throw me on opioid constipation meds…when I am literally on 2mg….oh I have explosive farts too that I have to try and push out….tmi… anyone have any advice?

So unfortunately I'm stuck in the 7oh and subutex cycle and I'm hoping someone can help!
I realized last week that I really screwed myself by staying on subs when I tried to get off 7 by going back to my sub routine, and the subs barely did anything for the withdrawal. It doesn't stop much of the w/ d symptoms for me and I already tried other methods to get off 7 (Kratom leaf, helper meds etc) and I can never make it over 30 hour hump.

So I am wondering if SR-17018 is worth a shot. I need to get away from this 7oh dependency asap and back on my subs! Just trying to figure out of I should continue to take a tiny bit of sub while using SR to taper my 7oh? I can’t find much info on this is any of the sub groups 🫩

Hi currently i have been taking 1.5-2mg buprenorphine..my dopamine reward system is suppressed just because of buprenorphine..i feel anhehodia low mood brain fog poor concentration and memory focus also disturbed autonamic nervous system dsyfunction..when i used to reduce opioid my sympotoms started feeling better...any one is suffering same like me. If any please tell how they manage?I bought nalextrone 3 mg i want take ultra low dose of nalextrone could you tell me as per my buprenorphine dose what amount of nalextrone should take to avoid withdrawals....

Hey everyone, just got out of jail. Been using Suboxone the whole time since being in Jail for 3 years! I’ve organised to see a Doctor tomorrow as I’m not prescribed Suboxone. Can someone please kindly help me and explain the best way possible to be supplied scripts for Suboxone strips. I do not want the injection I want the Suboxone Strips. Thanks any advice/help is much appreciated! I feel sick and coming down hard and hoping that I can be prescribed the strips that same day after talking to the Doctor.

If someone can just please explain to me what I should exactly say to the Doctor so that I can be prescribed the easiest way possible and receive them that day from the pharmacy. Thanks so much🫶🏼❤️😊

How sick do you realistically have to be to start subs?
I’ve heard different stories and want to make sure I cancel out any possibility of PWD from taking it too early. Should I be safe to take it when I start feeling symptoms of wd? Runny nose, body aches, stomach problems etc..?

I feel ashamed...

I knew when I experienced puking/diarrhea and the crazy insomnia I never wanted to touch another Better Now pill. Unfortunately it wasn't enough of a bad time for me not to go back to it when I ran out of strips.

I have now used about 500mg to keep W/D away until tomorrow in which I will get my script filled. I am scared because I also have work tomorrow, how long do I have to wait before taking the strip to prevent precipitated withdrawal?

I have seen mixed reviews on the topic and I know once I wake up in the morning I will be involuntarily tearing up, yawning, hot flashes, and fortunately I don't think I will be puking this time, but they come on so quickly for me and my last dose was this morning at.... 12PM - my appointment is 9:35 am and I'll probably have to wait a hour or so to get script filled.

Any suggestions? I feel so embarrassed that I swore I would never touch the freaking gas station pills and I feel like a complete failure because my birthday was going to be 3 years sobriety and one kava shot made my freaking addict brain orgasm and I haven't stopped since.... Gosh I hate myself right now.

Hi,

I just wanted to make a post about my experience on Suboxone. While trying to get over my past opioid addiction, I did a lot of research about possible treatment options. This is when I learned about Suboxone. However, while reading through countless posts and hearing about countless opinions, I read through a lot of conflicting opinions. Of such opinions, many people said differing things, like if you stay on Suboxone past 2-3 weeks you’d be fucked with withdrawals, or that suboxone isn’t the right move for quickly detoxing from opiates, and that going through the original withdrawals are better.

I was addicted to 7-oh for around 8 months. I used every day, and my doses grew to be extremely high. I tried tapering off them, but was unsuccessful everytime. I wanted to share my taper that worked extremely well, leaving me with virtually 0 withdrawals after quitting. After quitting 7-oh, my taper was the following in mg:

11, 8, 4, 2, 1.5, 1.5, 1, 1, 0.75, 0.65, 0.65, 0.5 for around 5 days, 0.375 for 2 days, 0.25 for 5 days, 0.175 for 3 day, then 0.125 until day 35.

The first 2.5 weeks were the roughest part, but honestly not terrible overall. I felt the worst on the jumps to 0.5, then to 0.25, but after this it was relatively easy. I began to feel completely normal, not even noticing my dose anymore at 0.125. If anyone is thinking of trying to do something similar, I hope you can use this to find some relief. I had the worst anxiety about my taper, and was constantly worried that I was extending it too long, or that I was going to be trapped on this drug. This may not work for everyone, but if anyone is thinking of trying something similar, I highly recommend this method. Good luck everyone, you are stronger than you know and it WILL get better ❤️

Long story short she's been seeing the same psych for around 15 20 years he retired. She's on 24 mg a day of suboxone and she's 63 she takes the suboxone because she does have pain issues and past addiction issues. With all that said i am wondering if they put her on methadone because methadone is a lil better for pain management how do you transition from suboxone to methadone? She would prefer just subutex but its up to the doctors? Do you think any doctor in there right mind would stop a past addict in pain thats 62 and take her off suboxone or do you think they will have no problem? I found a private practice doctor that's closer to her he prescribes suboxone and is on the list of prescribers.......i really hope it works out for her because I can see her going back to using.