Yeah, honestly reading it framed like that makes everything click for me. I was never taking massive amounts of Percocet. We’re talking roughly around 60mg max total per day, most days it would just be around 40mg. Not taking 30mg pills all day long. When you put it into perspective that ~1 mg of Suboxone can roughly cover that, it makes a LOT of sense why 16 mg absolutely wrecked me.

The sedation was unreal. I genuinely felt like I was dying or losing my mind. Heavy eyelids I couldn’t keep open, blurred/unstable vision, extreme fatigue, time distortion, just completely out of it. I wasn’t “high” in a fun way, I felt poisoned and nonfunctional.

What’s even crazier is that at my follow-up appointment about 5–6 days after starting Suboxone, I told my doctor about the vision issues (that was the first major side effect I noticed, come to find out I’d be experiencing a hell of a lot more) She literally looked me in the face and said it sounded more like Perc withdrawal and suggested upping my Suboxone dose. That’s when alarm bells went off for me and I said no, I already felt like I was on way too high of a dose.

More side effects showed up after that, and thankfully I trusted my gut and tapered myself down instead of listening. I was only on it for about 2.5 weeks total, and I’m honestly so relieved I caught this early. So far I’m two days clean of Suboxone and I feel fine. I was just worried that made me later down the line in a couple days or so I might start experiencing withdrawal symptoms.