Author: Ironic
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 3:09 am
OP, I really think that if you choose to attend xA, you should keep your sponsor’s opinions away from your medication descisions. They are not doctors, and sorry, but no way does an (ex) crackhead understand why an opiate addict may need Sub to stop using.
I also think you should keep at a low dose (.5 mg/day?) for a few weeks and make sure you can handle not using before you decide to stop Suboxone.
Maybe you should see if it works for you. Maybe xA isn’t? I just hope you aren’t under any pressure to stop a (in good faith) prescribed medication from anyone you encounter at meetings.
EDIT: I saw in someone else’s post that they thought that OP is taking too low of a dose to saturate his receptors and battle cravings. I am not gonna turn this into the high vs low debate I so love, but I do wanna chime in and say that I believe cravings are largely mental. At 2 months off dope I had horrible cravings at 6 mg. Now I take 1.25/day (it’s been about 16 months) and rarely ever have a craving. Fixing my life, and TIME, that’s what took away cravings for me. Sub never helped with that as much as I had hoped, for me. Others could be different.
