Methadone Uses

Question by cantseepastthis: What is the duration of withdrawal from SUBOXONE?
I am hoping that someone out there who has taken suboxone for opiod dependence can answer this questions for me.

1. How long is the duration of the withdrawal process from suboxone?? I have been off percocets for the past 2 years, total abstinence!!! Yet, the doctor who had helped me along the way has had me on the medication suboxone since then on. When ever I attempt to get off the medication, I go through these terrible flu like symptoms. Each day it just gets worse and worse, instead of getting better!!!!

2. Has any onf you been dependent on an opiod and sucessfully been off of them without the help of any substitute??

3. When can someone get there energy back through the withdrawal process???

Best answer:

Answer by Gov’t Mule
Yep I have. I was a heroin addict. I kicked by going to a methadone clinic and weening myself off.

Here is a good link on Suboxone, it will answer all your concerns.

I’ve never heard anything good about it at all. Good luck,, withdrawls are way beyond what most people expect.

If you want to just kick with out anything then expect the flu symptoms and a little more for about a week to 10 days,, followed by months of having sleep problems.
http://www.naabt.org/faqs.cfm

Answer by DynodiKk
How long is the duration of the withdrawal process from suboxone?? I have been off percocets for the past 2 years, total abstinence!!! SO DOES THIS MEAN you been on Suboxone for two years? Now a pharmacologist told me it should be three months max. Or three weeks. The withdrawal of Sub is nothing like Methadone being it is a partial agonist. This in my opinion (Just my theory) in physically dependant people make the down to the nitty gritty absolute hell! Where Methadone can be reduced by first analgesia threshold and than half life, half life has nothing to do with the tapering of Suboxone.

It even gets to the point where you are literally going to have to crush a 2mg pill and break it into quarters and or more and suck the powder into your mouth into a straw to get 1/8th of a milligram. IT MUST GO THIS LOW! and extremely, extremly slow.I am going to add a edit to this answer being I know an absolute pro on this. I am versed on Methadone not Suboxone.

Either way regardless it is going to take you 6 months to a year of eating proteins, taking vitamins and B-12 and minerals to return your brain and cells to normal functioning. You can expect to feel better 6 weeks after your last dose. B-12 for energy, and green tea. Eat proteins like crazy.

Suboxone varies so much from individual to individual it is hard to determine your situation although you are indicating your not having a good time. And you never indicated what you are on now.

This link might help you explain why some people need meth or sub; (not that it will help, but it can help you understand how these drugs work)

http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Suboxone-Ceiling-Effect—Why-Some-People-Need-Methadone

and here are one one my video’s; (not that it helps but there are some that explain physical dependence)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg5peoZFo6E

And again there is going to be much more extensive info on this answer, it might take a few hours, but I will add a pharmacologist’s view on this that is an absolute expert on Sub. It is my belief that a partial agonist is more difficult to get off than a full one for you get hit with a random array of withdrawal symptoms, on and off ice cold and than hot night sweats etc. And severe depression and fatique.Try melatonin for sleep, and take as much as you need to do the job. As a doc on here put it, there is never too much melatonin, he knew addicts that took a handful to sleep. And the nights are the worse.

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