Author: junkie781
Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 9:04 am
Nothing wrong with venting a little bit, I guess. Addiction is a gut-wrenching condition to deal with and there is no easy way out of opiate dependence, it’s really that simple.
It sounds to me, fishguy, that you’re more angry with yourself than anyone else. Am I right?
Look, you were strung out on Oxy, a substance that could easily end your life at any moment had you continued down the path you described. To me, it sounds like you got on Suboxone just in time.
Now, look, it sucks to not feel good, no doubt about that, but I don’t know that you can just lay the blame for that at the feet of these little orange pills just yet. Sometimes it takes a while to get stabilized on Suboxone, and given the fact that you are taking several other medications in addition to the suboxone, it’s also possible that you are having some interactions between some of those and your sub that exacerbating the situation.
I would suggest taking to your doctor about it, working on finding a way to make this work for you. It could be a combination of factors including dosing.
As far as the fact that suboxone is an addictive opioid medication…..well…….it’s not like that’s a big deep dark evil secret. A 1 minute search of Google would have yielded this information to you. I’m not trying to be a jerk, I’m just sayin’ It’s common knowledge that suboxone and methadone for that matter are both highly addictive.
The advantage you have with suboxone, however, is you can manage a slow and steady decline in your dose and then jump off from a tiny dose, making the withdrawal much less acute than it would have been if you had just quit taking those oxys cold-turkey.
So, yeah, the glass is, indeed, half full.
