Author: JoshuAble

Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 12:32 pm

Thanks for all the replies, I was pretty sure the EXTREMELY long nature of the post would scare most people away, haha.

Thanks Meltalk for the compliment, I’m glad you enjoyed reading this multiple chapter story.

@Hatmaker510, appreciate the welcome, and you seem quite the observant one. Hit it right on the needle (no pun intended, haha). 2 years ago trying to taper I would have still mentally had a problem with it, always focusing on the "slightest of withdrawals" (something we can all relate to I’m sure). That would of resulted in the physical withdrawals seeming and feeling "that much worse" simply because I focused on it, had a bad diet, never exercised, and had a poor support system after leaving NA/AA initially.

Currently I’m entirely "ready to come off" the suboxone, though I have no timetable set. I learned from the readings on this site and a few others (and of course my doctor does say to take the taper slowly). To just take it slow and listen to your body each time you taper your dosage and adjust accordingly is the best way to go for sure, and if it weren’t for sites like this I would of been up in the air, seeing how my doctor never has brought up tapering to me, though I guess that means he’s letting me be the one to choose, so I could be totally wrong about him simply wanting me on the suboxone for the sake of the money he makes from it.

Balanced, I love that word. Only took about 3-4 years of staying on Suboxone for me to find it, but definitely a great word to describe where I’m currently at. Content and balanced, I see no other way to someone tapering off of it without having these traits or finding these in themselves by changing routines.

Anyway, thanks again for all the replies, it’s nice to know 4 of you read my post. I’ll hopefully be seeing you around the general forums, I hope to help people with any experience I have had and can relate to as well as ask questions on the things I don’t know about.

Again, Kudos to this forum creator. All those Google.ALT.Drugs.Suboxone (and similar) type of forums were full of people trying to abuse the drug suboxone or encouraging "snorting maintenance" because it increases the bio% (which I doubt considering it’s full of awful binders), and even if it did it’s not only continuing that "mental addiction" to snorting/wanting that quicker high, but also going to destroy your mucous membrane as well as give you a friggin’ deviated septum. I’m enjoying the site and blog, and find that basically everyone here posting is here for the right reasons.

One Love.