Author: blueindian
Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 3:31 am
The link includes my entire long boring cold-turkey story but let me give you a quicker run-down below :http://suboxforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=5614
I’ve been on Sub 16mg/day for the past 3 years. I was forced to quit cold turkey the week before Christmas and I must say it was about as easy of a detox that anyone could wish for. 2-3 days after my last dose I experienced 4-5 days of being really lazy, emotional, bored, restless, bla bla bla but all very very tolerable and nothing that would ever make me scared of having to do it again. I didn’t experience any non-stop freezing/sweating chills, legs jumping, back pain, chronic diarrhea, etc..
Usually withdrawals off Hydro or Oxy are brutal for me! I can literally stay on hydro or oxy for as little as a week and still have bad withdrawals for a few days. I am petrified of opiate withdrawal so I was literally in tears when my NAZI doctor kicked me to the door earlier this month..
I’m trying to figure out why it was so easy for me compared to others and these are some things I’m wondering about:
COULD IT HAVE BEEN BECAUSE
1.) Since I had 3 years of heavy Sub use, could enough bupe have been stored up in my body that it gradually left my body slow enough to where my body was recovering as fast as it was detoxing? Basically my fat cells slowly released enough bupe to keep me comfortable vs. the painful "jump" after a long taper method?
-comment- from reading this forum, it sorta seems like the folks who are on Sub for a short term(1 year or less) are having equally if not more severe withdrawals than many coming off of it long-term
2.) Could staying on SUB for a longer term (2+years) actually make getting off of it a bit easier?
3.) Could taking a high dosage like 16-24mg for an extended period of time in order to get alot of it stored up in your body in preparations for quitting be something to consider?
-comment- I’ve read where transmitters can only absorb like 4-6mg of bupe per day and that bupe is also stored up in your fat. In this case it seems like taking really high doses in the end to get lots of it stored up in your fat and gradually released while in detox would be something to think about
From my personal experience and what I’ve been reading, folks are struggling far far more trying to ween down, live on tiny amounts, taking tiny crumbs after they feel WD’s, etc.. vs. folks having to quit long-term high doses cold turkey.
I haven’t taken my dose of Sub since about the 19th of December and I still feel like I might have some Sub lingering in my system helping me get along. The reason why I think this is when I go #2, sometimes I get the usual painful Sub-turds and other times I get detoxed soft ones or diarrhea.
Having all that Sub stored up in my body is the only thing I can think of that would have made this so easy for me.
I know everybody is different but from reading tons of posts and horror stories about folks unsuccessfully trying to taper down over months or weeks by only supplying themselves minimal amounts over and over again doesn’t seem like the best option. Plus, I’m an addict, trying to taper off of Sub is dang near as hard as not using a drug. I remember trying to taper down a couple years ago to conserve pills for a cross country move. Everytime something important came up, I had company, needed to meet with someone, etc… I justified taking more Sub vs. only what my body needed. Trying to taper is WAY harder than flat out quitting in my opinion.
