Author: jonathanm1978
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 4:02 am
| bdonahueweedman wrote: |
| Suboxone will help you. Because it’s that CRAVING that keeps you coming back for more, right? You want ‘THAT Feeling’, because it feels good! Of course we want more! Suboxone took away 100% of my cravings, and i was hooked BAD. Went thru 4 Rehabs…which didn’t work for me because the next tooth extraction, earache or whatever, I was back on them. Could NOT stop..for 20+ years. I was also positive Suboxone ‘wouldn’t work for ME’ because I was a "special" case…LOL. But at the END OF MY ROPE I tried Suboxone, and it’s been over two years and I could not be less interested in painkillers. In fact I have to give them to my elderly Mother every day and I don’t even get a blip on the screen. NO INTEREST. I don’t know how it works, but it does. I’m with the other poster who said "God I wish I had this figured out at 23!" If you don’t stop I PROMISE you nothing but misery. Trust me, if this were hard? I wouldn’t be doing it because I was lazy (still am) and loved pills. The Suboxone just stops that craving, for me anyway, and I suspect a lot of others here. Don’t worry at this point how long you will be on it or any of that stuff. Just give yourself a break, remember baby steps, and YES Suboxone will work for you. Good Luck, dear. |
I posted in another post on this site something similar to this….the part you said about Suboxone not working for me…
In fact, I was talking, face to face, with someone yesterday and discussing my pill habits — way back when. I told the guy that i had hard of Suboxone, but i thought to myself "there’s no way that ONE pill can work that way..and that ONE pill a day can make me feel OK when I’m eating this much Oxycontin"…
I was teetering on the edge..and was about to fall off..if things hadn’t gone the way they did for me, I would be a statistic that only the doctor performing my autopsy would’ve found (since under age 42 autopsy is required)…so I would’ve just gone down on paper as another number when they performed that last "study" on me…
But I found my footing..I found my hope, my saving grace. I stepped away from an AWFUL oxycontin addiction — one that started with me cutting the Oxycontin into 1/4’s and taking them orally…up to cutting them in 1/2 and taking that orally…then up to scraping off the coating, chopping up a 1/4, and snorting it. Then snorting a 1/2…you get the idea. Before I knew it, I was probably snorting 2 or 3 80mg oxy’s a day…and wanted MORE..Never had enough. This happened all within a 7 month period. I went from eating 10-15 lortab 10mg a day, to snorting 80mg oxycontins…and it was QUICK progression into that world. I was basically doing heroin, because the energy and "ahhhh" feeling that I got…I could clean all kinds of shit and do all sorts of work around the house when I was high….It was powder energy, better than ANY 5-hour Energy drink!!!!
But I told this guy yesterday that I found Suboxone and it worked, like a dream come true.
Granted, I don’t go to the meetings and therapy as suggested by my doctor…it’s not a requirement, as much as it is a suggestion — they don’t check to make sure you’re going to those meetings once/month…he would just "like" for me to do it..
I have a great support system in place and a great mentality toward NOT using …for any reason. If I have something medically wrong that causes pain, I don’t look toward getting pills, I take more suboxone to cover it. I don’t self medicate, as he’s prescribed me enough to cover me for the unlikely event that I have pain that requires me to take more than needed daily…so I can up and down my dose on my own…as needed.
I would recommend that the OP get into a program like this ASAP. Don’t wait until you’re looking back and wishing you would’ve done something sooner…
