Author: Curious_Gia
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 3:59 pm
| laddertipper wrote: | ||
Hi. I stopped Sub on 9/14 from a dose of between 1/16 and 1/8. I was on it for nearly six years. I got through the physical stuff and was into the draggy feeling, and then I had surgery. I took pain meds for about 1.5 weeks and stopped. Really, those pain meds should not have caused me any trouble, as far as w/d and stuff. However, it really set me back. Now, I’m back to the morning anxiety, the diarrhea, the chills. It’s getting a little better each day but it is unbelievable how strongly my body latched onto those pain meds. I think this just takes a while. I’m expecting to feel good after four months of no Sub and no surgeries. laddertipper |
@laddertripper its likely to be the suboxone still in your system, trust me I experienced something similar too except I did not have surgery or go on any pain meds. I was virtually in lingering withdrawals or paws for 6 months. The chills, diarrhea, anxiety etc were lingering with me for bloody 6 months. In those 6 months I would feel quite okish for couple of weeks then out of nowhere "bang" the typical withdrawals set in. Trust me suboxone is attached to your receptors for a hell of a long time. I was on suboxone for 2 1/2 years and I still felt crummy and anxious for 6 months. The low mood was the worst of it. I tapered all the way to 0.25 so I couldnt believe it felt like cold turkey on occassions. The longer your on the sub train the longer it takes for the train to cease and the longer it takes to get those typical lingering withdrawals to subside. Trust me laddertripper its more likely the suboxone in your receptors which is causing these withdrawals. These paws are very gruesom and depression. You feel like its never ending. I dont see many people ride out the symptoms for so many months after having been on suboxone for couple of years, so I cant imagine how difficult it will be for you and other 5 year plus users. Its hard I know, its the hardest detox I ever had to deal with but I virtually had no choice but to go back on suboxone. Those 6 months were some of the worst months I ever been through in my life and I certainly do not blame people relapsing after just couple of months once they take their last dose of suboxone. I even had my family around me and had no other issues yet I still felt crummy and depressed for 6 months, all with those typical acute withdrawals such as anxiety, chills, insomnia and sweats occuring regularly now and then. I hated it. Dont want to go through that ever again. I cant honestly imagine how it is for suboxone users for over 4 or 5 years. Being on a half life medicine for such a long time its bound to take a very long time to adjust, for those receptors to take in reality and slowly take time to adapt to different thoughts and emotions., its just that naturally as human beings we cannot always wait and feel so crummy for a very long time so look for an easy way out, but there is no way except time, well I hope so because I keep hearing of horror stories of brain being permanently damaged and re-wired which makes recovery from suboxone never ending. Jesus I dont know what to believe anymore. I have heard people of feeling withdrawals even 9 months later and feel these paws again and again months and years later because they were on suboxone for a considerable amount of time.
