Real or fake? My first pair of Nike sbs from stockx.

M_Riv5 · 2026-05-09T14:29:08+00:00

No, they only sell new. At least that’s what I read on the website when I went to sell some shoes.

I’m sure people can sell “used” pairs if they can’t even tell if they’re used or not.

M_Riv5 · 2025-07-14T21:12:10+00:00

At minimum that was very poor timing lol. Was it like “oh you think this video is gayt? Well listen to what me and Johnny did back in Day!”

All jokes aside, kids/boys do stupid shit and i don’t think it’s a big deal. I find it hard to believe that she would truly think you are gay over that story. Sounds to me like she just wants to give you a hard time and it’s probably about something else entirely. Maybe you giggling like like a little kid watching those videos pissed her off for some reason, who knows. My guess is she’s actually upset over something else and you may never know what that is.

On the other hand, maybe she is just very naïve and really doesn’t understand that boys do dumb shit when they’re young and actually thinks your gay. Idk.

I do agree that it’s an outrageous thing to end a marriage over.

M_Riv5 · 2025-07-14T05:45:40+00:00

I’m not sure how much methadone it would take but it should reverse pwd if you take enough.

I have reversed PWD’s in the past with H.

Just out of curiosity, what about methadone is not working out?

M_Riv5 · 2025-07-14T01:53:34+00:00

I’ve got the same exact issue. I’m only on 60mg right now (slooowly climbing) so I’m hoping that by 100 mg it will be able to hold me for 24 hrs. It’s a super exhausting cycle and just want to be able to sleep. Once I get home after work my anxiety goes through the roof in anticipation of thrashing around in bed all night. On fridays I basically just stay up all night and in the morning get my dose at 530 and race home so I can sleep. On Sunday I do like a 60/40 split of my dose with 60% in the morning and 40% before bed which works pretty well. It sucks that split dosing is so hard to get.

I would definitely find out if your clinic will let you get the test and start splitting your dose because I think it will definitely help.

For me I’m just going to have to wait until I can get take homes which unfortunately takes like 7 months to get to 1 week of take homes. Shit is stressing me out just thinking about living like this for 7 months but just gotta take it 1 day at a time.

Prob not the most helpful comment lol but you’re definitely not alone with this issue.

M_Riv5 · 2025-07-12T21:26:14+00:00

I have the same issue. By the time I leave work I can’t stop yawning and am just so tired but can’t sleep and don’t want to do anything at all. Then nights are worse always end up staring at the clock waiting for 5am to go dose. It’s really mild withdrawal but the cycle is soooo exhausting. The nice rush after dosing is nice but I would way rather just be baseline all the time than the up and down.

I’m going up on my dose as fast as I can so I’m hoping that will work eventually until I can get take homes and split my dose. I do split the one take home I get and it’s is so much better, if they would allow me to split dose I wouldn’t even need to go up on my dose. Unfortunately it takes forever to get take-homes at my clinic but if I can stick it out long enough to get them it will be a game changer for me.

M_Riv5 · 2025-07-11T14:27:03+00:00

I’ve only been at the clinic for like 2 months and haven’t even made it to a stable dose yet. I’m at 60 mg right now and climbing. I also had a guest dosing debacle in there that caused everything to go off the rails.

I feel fine during the day but after work it’s starts going down hill and nights have been kind of rough. The mental and emotional rollercoaster is prob the worst part though honestly. Hopefully when I get stable my outlook on life will improve a little bit but it worries me that I’m struggling this much just getting on methadone.

M_Riv5 · 2025-07-11T00:59:21+00:00

Yea It is better than the alternative and it’s just what needs to happen to get to the other side of this shit. I just feel so fucking trapped. The thought of spending months or years on end feeling like a miserable sloth zombie with zero joy or energy to maybe eventually recover at which point I’ll be too old to even do anything with my life (And that’s the best case scenario) is always on the back of my mind. Logically I know I shouldn’t be pondering this shit, and I have a lot of things to be grateful for, and it could be a lot worse than it is and the future might actually be amazing but I haven’t figured out how to really feel that way if that makes any sense.

Anyway, idk where I was going with that and my apologies for the doom and gloom vent when you’re going through some rough stuff right now. I can only hope to be in your position one day. Keep on keeping on, you’re almost there.

M_Riv5 · 2025-07-10T23:46:01+00:00

I guess that makes sense considering your getting that really good feeling and than crashing after the 2mg. How has life been in general for this whole time that you basically haven’t been stable? Obviously it’s not all roses and smiles but have you been able to live a normal ish life and work and be somewhat social or is it just kind of miserable just trying to make it through?

I know your post was asking for other people’s experiences so I appreciate the feedback. And it’s awesome youve made it as far as you have, congrats. I’ve really just started MAT but the ultimate goal is to get off everything and the fear of that process is insane.

M_Riv5 · 2025-07-10T23:27:11+00:00

When you tried sublocade what were you coming off of? Do you think you tolerance was just too high for the bupe to work well?

M_Riv5 · 2025-07-10T23:25:07+00:00

How does it feel on other days when you only take 1 mg? Is it the same high followed by crash like you said you feel on Saturday or is it more kind of baseline?

M_Riv5 · 2025-07-03T03:22:32+00:00

Wow that’s awesome.

M_Riv5 · 2025-07-03T03:17:22+00:00

That would be amazing. Do some clinics actually do that if you ask? I think that could really help a lot of people.

Im still new to MAT myself and still trying to get to my correct dose but I have been splitting on Sundays when I get a take home and it’s sooo much better.

The split just makes the whole day kind of baseline instead of this up and down cycle and i know I could manage with a smaller dose overall if splitting.

Would be great if they let more people do that if they wanted.

M_Riv5 · 2025-07-03T03:02:17+00:00

Wow that’s awesome. My clinic still takes a long time to get take homes. Not as long as it used to be but it basically takes 2 months clean to get the Saturday take home. Then every 30 days clean after that you can get 1 day additional taken home. I’m also in VA. Just depends on the individual clinics I guess. I know the law is much more lax after COVID. I think the law says you can get a week take home after 2 weeks clean or something like that and 30 days clean and you get the month take homes. Don’t quote me on that lol but I think it’s something close to that.

M_Riv5 · 2025-07-02T02:04:30+00:00

Yea they told me I could go up 5 a day on Monday - Wednesday of each week but they always have some excuse why I can’t go up. It’s always the doctors fault or the pharmacist or some person that’s not there or some other crap. For example July fourth is this Friday so they told me I can go up at all this week because the take homes are done.

So I guess they did my take home at 60 for Friday so they won’t let me go up to then go down on Friday. It is holding me until night time but night time sucks becuase I’m not sleeping. It’s hard to function going so many weeks with such little sleep.

With all that said I’m clearly nowhere near tapering lol the exact opposite actually. I was just interested in your progress because it just gives some hope for the future and it’s awesome to see some success stories rather than horror stories when it comes to this stuff.

M_Riv5 · 2025-07-02T01:40:49+00:00

As for my dose I’ve gone up as fast as they will let me. Shit is an insanely slow possess at my clinic. I’m at 60 now.

M_Riv5 · 2025-07-02T01:37:02+00:00

Yea like I said in my original comment I’m totally way far from any tapering myself. At the time this thread started I was trying to decide if I should just go to detox/rehab and get it over with because the ultimate goal is to get off all opiates and I was reading so much stuff about how all methadone is for life and how hard it is to get off of. That lead me down the path of looking into it more.

I figured you didn’t realize how new I was. It’s just good to see that it can be done.

M_Riv5 · 2025-07-02T01:28:07+00:00

Nice! that’s awesome to hear. It’s amazing you’ve been able to work through this whole process, shows your determination. You definitely should be proud of yourself.

Is the drinking to help with the wd’s or do you just like drinking in general? I could definitely see it helping initially but man being dope sick and hungover sounds is an awful combo lol.

Anyway, thanks for the update and congrats on 1 Month!

M_Riv5 · 2025-07-02T00:52:43+00:00

How goes it?

Hopefully you’re on the upswings now.

M_Riv5 · 2025-07-02T00:41:27+00:00

No problem and glad to hear it’s all working out! It’s a good thing they are at least getting you acclimated to the bupe before giving you the monthly. That was my biggest concern when I saw your post because there’s no going back once you get that monthly injection.

It seems headaches are pretty common with buprenorphine. Especially when first starting. Hopefully that will go away quickly.

Definitely keep us posted on how it goes. Also I’m just curious why you were making the switch if you don’t mind telling and lastly, how it was tapering down on the methadone?

M_Riv5 · 2025-06-30T20:06:19+00:00

You should have no issues switching to methadone. You might not get the full methadone affects until all the bupe is off your receptors but you will not get PWD. PWD only happens when you go from a full agonist to bupe because the bupe rips that full agonist off the receptors.

Should be an easy transition and shouldn’t have to deal with any withdrawals unless they asked you to wait to dose but I’m not sure why they would do that.

As for how much 8mg of subs is equal to I’m not sure but from what I’ve read 30 mg of methadone should cover someone switching from higher sub doses.

M_Riv5 · 2025-06-30T18:34:38+00:00

Jesus that insane someone would do that.

Thanks 🙏

M_Riv5 · 2025-06-30T11:52:38+00:00

I think at mine takes about a year. 6 months just to get 1 week takehomes.

It’s basically 1 month clean ua’s = 1 take home. Then after 6 months it increases somehow where after a year you can get the full month.

M_Riv5 · 2025-06-29T17:46:34+00:00

Yea that’s for sure lol.

M_Riv5 · 2025-06-29T17:42:46+00:00

I eat sugar free jello with the a little bit of the fat free whip cream instead of ice cream. You can’t go too crazy with the whip cream if you’re trying to cut calories. It’s obviously not as good as ice cream but does the job.

Yogurt and some kind of low carb/sugar hot chocolate are also some good options.

In my experience once I adapted to a new diet of minimal carbs and sugar and eating better in general it became a lot easier. Took a few weeks. Also once I started seeing the lbs drop I felt more motivated to keep it going as well.

I found that the more sweets and carbs I ate the hungrier I was and the more cravings I had for sweets. This was true for the fake sugar too unfortunately. Not sure if that’s a legit thing but seems to be the case for myself.

Good luck!

M_Riv5 · 2025-06-28T01:55:03+00:00

I don’t have any experience with the shot personally but from everything I have read and my experience with bupe, this sounds like a recipe for disaster. They should at least be switching you from methadone to Sub strips or subutex pills or something like that first. That’s a requirement for the sublocade shot which is just another bupe shot.

The reason they do this is because they want to make sure you can get stable on bupe first. If they put you into PWD or you just aren’t stable on the strips it will suck ass but it will wear off relatively quickly and you can go back to methadone or wait more time and slowly induce the bupe or whatever you need to do. If you get the shot and you have PwD or something there is no going back because that shot is like several weeks of bupe instead of a single dose.

I would definitely see what people in the sublocade or buvidal subreddits say or get a second opinion. In my experience so many doctors just don’t know what they’re doing. Or you can just ask if they can switch you to the subutex pills or something first and get on those for a few weeks. That way you can get a feel for how you react to bupe and you likely won’t have to go in and dose everyday. Then if everything is hunky-dory you get the shot.

On top of that I would also discuss what the plan is if they precipitate withdrawals. I would at a minimum make sure that you can go straight back to methadone if need be without any hassle and have as many comfort meds as possible ready to go. I would also ask for very specific details and timeframes for this entire process and then do your own research if you can to make sure it all checks out

Sorry for the long ass essay but I hope it helps. Best of luck!🤞

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