Author: Romeo

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 4:06 pm

When I quit Suboxone, I was exactly like you, I didn’t want to take anything!! After 30 days of basically not sleeping (I jumped off Suboxone from a high dose) I caved and started on Clonidine. Clonidine is technically a blood pressure medication, but it’s prescribed off label for opiate wd. It calms the Sympathetic Nervous System and has a sedative effect. I stayed on Clonidine for months, then stopped it without any trouble at all. The thing is, even while on it, my sleep still wasn’t very good. Getting off of it didn’t help my sleep any either.

Fast forward to about 2 years off Suboxone and I was STILL having sleep issues. Once I drifted off to sleep, I was OK, but getting to sleep usually took me until 1am or so. So, around 2 years off of Suboxone, I started taking Unisom (it’s OTC). I take the Unisom with the Doxylamine Succinate, not the Diphenhydramine…..and I only take 1/2 a pill. Now I go to sleep around 11pm and it’s wonderful.

My whole point being this…..I think it’s great to not want to depend on another drug, but at some point in time you may find you need help and I think taking an OTC would probably be fine.

Jeaners point of our mind and bodies having to undo all the crap we did to them is very valid. This whole thing is a process and it takes time. Early on, I used to remind myself to look back to how I felt the previous week of my wd and that always helped me to keep marching forward because I was always better than the previous week or month.