Author: laddertipper
Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2011 11:10 am
| MES999 wrote: |
| pls dont hate what im about to say but just throwing out something i heard today from someone i met… met a guy who told me that he was addicted to oxy for 4 yrs and was put on subutex and tried to quit sub so many times and relized it was to hard for him. he tried to get off even going down to the lowest doses and wanted off the stuff….. he wwas on sub for a year and couldnt take it anymore wanted to be drug free….. so one day he had enough and decided to quit…. now the way he told me he quit finally was prob a way people are against but he told me it worked…..HE TELLS ME ANYWAY that he has been drug free over 8 months now…. HE QUIT by doing the following: |
I would so not recommend this method. I stopped Sub a full two months before having surgery and then went on painkillers for a little over a week following surgery. I didn’t take a high dose, other than the IV pain meds. However, it really set me back. My w/d symptoms, which had mostly disappeared, came back in decent swing after I stopped the painkillers. It was incredibly odd and fairly uncomfortable. Also, in between doses of painkillers, I started getting w/d symptoms. It was like my brain had been thrown a crumb and then threw a whole bunch of stuff at me to try to convince me to take more. I hated it. I don’t know how short-acting opiates can help anything at all. Suboxone is way, way easier to stop taking, so long as you have the key ingredient: patience. You can taper as low as you want and you are not up and down all the time. The whole experience freaked me out to the point that I canceled elective surgery I was supposed to have not long after this non-elective one. I don’t want anything to do with any painkiller/opiate whatsoever for a good while. Stay away!! That is my advice. Stick with the Sub and stick with it and you’ll be fine. There truly are no short-cuts and the long way is much more pleasant. We don’t need no stinkin’ painkillers.
laddertipper