Author: hatmaker510

Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 8:24 am

The first thing I want to say is that there is no "recommended" time frame to be on suboxone for. It’s individualized for each person. Three years is NOT "too long". The main thing that will give anyone the best hope for success (remaining in remission after stopping suboxone), is that the person is truly READY and PREPARED to stop the med – not because someone else is pushing them to do it. I certainly mean no offense. But from what I’m reading, I keep hearing that YOU think it’s too long, YOU think it’s his security blanket….what does HE think and feel about his suboxone?

Let me put it to you this way. If he broke his leg badly and needed to be in a full leg cast for months and months, after which he’d then have to use crutches. All this "rehab" he would need in order to be ready for his upcoming (hypothetical) "marathon". The more rehab he’s had and the more prepared and the more HELP he’s had from the cast and the crutches HELPED him to prepare for that upcoming race. Look at suboxone that way. It’s been a HELP to him. I’m saying this because it almost sounds like you dislike him being on it.

Please know I’m not saying this to be mean. I want your fiance to succeed! And I know you do to! By succeed, again, I mean that when he stops suboxone, that he doesn’t end up relapsing and going back on opiates.

As for his withdrawals, could you tell us what dose he’s on and what kind of taper he’s been doing? The more info you can offer with regard to his prior dose, how he tapered, what does he was last on, when he dropped it last, all that stuff, then I think we can help him/you to taper better and with less suffering on his part.

*On a technical note, I notice you said you also posted this in a different section/category of the forum. In the future, if you could just leave it in one section, that would be great. One of us moderators can always move the whole thread into the right category. But as it stands now, you have two threads going and responses to both in two different places and I can’t fix that. Just know it might get confusing and you might have the same people responding in both places.

If anyone has an issue with putting something in a different category or needs a thread moved or anything like that, just give one of the moderators a PM and we’ll address it as best we are able.