Author: hatmaker510
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 7:04 am
I wholeheartedly agree with Lilly and the others. Really look at where you were then as compared to now. And I’ll stress it again, we addicts find it damn near impossible to taper off our DOC, but what we can do is taper off suboxone. And let’s be honest with ourselves here, suboxone isn’t a cure all, and we were already addicted to opiates, right? And we did have withdrawals coming our way, didn’t we? But now we are able to taper off sub and if done correctly, we can have little to no withdrawals to speak of.
There was one other thing I wanted to comment on. You said a couple of times in your first post that you were "messed up" on oxys or "high" or something to that effect when you first went to see your sub doc. So when you started suboxone, you were in withdrawals, weren’t you? Or did you go into the office still high? I’m asking because it would make a huge difference in how you would respond when you took your first dose of sub.
And like the others said, you might want to taper down to a lower dose. That very often helps with side effects (although pins and needles in the face and prostate issues aren’t normal side effects – I’d see a doctor about those).
