Author: Karen2013

Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 8:49 am

Hi, I have posted before and frustratingly enough I find myself still stuck at 1mg on Sub.

I started viewing other forums and went back to the first website (different than this one) that helped me taper from 8mg to where I am now – 1mg.

I found someone there giving me assistance (writing in coaching me down) who has been off of Sub some time. The first thing she is having me do is go from dosing twice a day (for me, I was dosing .5 at 4:00am every morning then .5 again around noon (ish) time frame). The reason my first dose was so early is because I would wake up at 4 and have trouble falling asleep. So I would dose then..gives the sub time to kick in..so by 6:00am I get up and ready to go.

I was told that is bad habit. I am training my body to get up on that "juice"..as well as getting through my day looking for those extra doses. I have moved to 1x a day now since last Tuesday and although it has allowed me the ability to face my mornings now completely in withdrawal till I take that first dose it remains hard for me. After I dose I am much better (of course) but then around 9:00pm I feel sweaty/cold again but I can fall asleep later (atleast for now).

Does anyone have any experience dosing twice a day to 1x day? I am still struggling with this 1x a day but I do see positives. I am now stretching the dose from 4:00am to 9:30 (then taking the entire 1mg) at that time. My mornings are not good though. I wake up weak, sweaty/cold, irritable, foggy. I usually do a 4mile hike every morning (when I was on the twice a day) but now, I am faced to do the hike without any sub in my system at since the day before. Since the 1x a day switch, I actually did successfully get my hike (4 mile walk with my dog every morning) without the sub a couple times but noticed I have been circling back more and more early – hense my workout is being sabatoged more and more. Yesterday, I decided to just wait later and walk after I dosed at 9:30. The other gal (helping me on the other forum) says I need to force myself to walk before because it helps break bad habit of only doing certain things on the dose and forces my own endorphins. I agree with what she is saying (dont disagree) but this is increasingly hard for me. Will the mornings get better? If I do walk later (keep dosing at 9:30am – btw, I tried to stretch that even later in day since I am dosing 1x a day but that seems to be the latest I can stretch too each morning)… I find myself now, choosing to wait to hike later.

It has been 6 days on 1x a day..I dread my mornings and walking before I dose I am freezing every morning (hot/sweaty/cold) Doesnt help right now it is dead winter here so makes my mornings more intense. Very cold here where I live.

Anyway, I have read peeps are fine dosing twice a day ..then just reducing down.

Just like to see different opinions/experiences on this?

When I was dosing twice a day, I was able to get myself down to .6 at one time (before I went back to the other site) but then had one night where I decided to take a little more – I felt my dosing wasnt even and felt I may have taken too little..ended up going back to 1mg all over again. So I re stabilized at 1mg to start again. That is where I found that other site helping.

No offense to this site, but not too many people respond.