Author: weak_and_powerless
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 12:38 am
Hi all,
I’ve been on 8mgs of suboxone since September. The first week I felt like I didn’t even need a half of a pill.it was so strong. Then after about a month, 8mgs seemed like the perfect dose. A couple months ago, someone told me that suboxone tolerance is different then other opiates. He said if you stick at one 8mg pill , then that’s all your body/mind ever needs. While agree it’s not like other opiates where you have to keep raising your dose just to feel normal, I somehow feel like it’s not working as well as it did and I’ve been reading that the majority of people are on 16mgs, some all the way up to 32mgs a day! So I’m starting to feel like I need one dose in the morning and one at night not only because I think I’ve developed a tolerance psychologically but I work really long days and sometimes I get home really feeling like a second dose would be a good idea because I end up having cravings at night. (I take mine when I wake up). What’s worse iis ever since I startedttreatment, my doctor has been adamant about me quitting smoking and I did. It’s been over a month with no cigarettes but I’ve been chewing nicotine gum this whole time and I’m down to 2 a day and want to stop as soon as maybe in a few days. But now with out cigarettes and less nicotine in my system I’ve been having cravings. Do you think my doctor would put me on a second one at night? Next month is going to be one of the hoarders months of my life but I’m not quite sure if that’s something I should say to my doctor as a reason to be knownthat a second one. How should I put it to my doctor so my doctor understands why it’s important that I be on another without sounding like I’m using suboxone as a means of not dealing with life on life terms without nicotine and all the troubles in my life? I don’t want to sound manipulative. I think I’ve been doing really good.
Any advice would be appreciated.
I hate this and I can’t wait until its over! Sometimes I want to cry because of this mess I’m in and I have no one to turn to for support or I talk! So like I said I’m almost a week off subs but I’ve been taking percent 10 which I plan to stop tomorrow I just need to know what I can take to ease the RLS tiredness mood swings sadness and the rest of the crap that comes along with sub withdrawal. Please help someone I really don’t want to go back to subs I’m really ready to be normal again and live a normal life without depending on some type if drug! Plus I have two children so I have to get it together! Thanx guys for any positive info!