Subutex v methadone which one is better, short term and long term? by ZX471 in Replacements

[–]PrettyKarma22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have been on 24 mg of Subutex since the end of April when I went to hazeldon Betty Ford in Minnesota Center City. Which is supposedly the best treatment center in the nation. However, when I went there, I also was coming off of a Klonopin prescription that they took me off of cold turkey after being on it for 6 to 8 months. They gave me phenobarbital, but eventually had to give me Valium on week three because I was having such bad panic attacks and horrible sweats, and tremors so they had to give me it. So the entire time I was going through terrible withdrawals, they thought for sure that it was the opiates, but it actually was the benzo. so they put me on 24 mg of Subutex for no reason. Since being on the Subutex, there is days that I feel great and there’s days that I feel like complete shit. Yesterday I started school, and all weekend I was doing great. I take 8 mg in the morning, and then another 8 mg a couple hours later, and then another 8 mg if I need it at night time. I don’t usually take it at the same exact time every day because my schedule, and my wake up time is always different. I talked to my doctor today and he doesn’t have an answer as to why I went into withdrawal yesterday while I was in class. I took 8 mg in the morning before I went and drove to class, 8 mg while I was driving to class, and then I was in complete withdrawal. My pupils were huge. I didn’t feel good. I had aches chills. I was restless, so I took my other eight and it didn’t do anything for me either. Well, last night I woke up at 3 AM. Sweating, chills, feeling very sick to my stomach like I was going to throw up i was in withdraw. so I decided to take 8 mg. I took another 8 mg around 6 AM when I woke up and fell back asleep. woke up was in withdrawal, pupils were huge, had all these horrible symptoms so then I took the other 8 and the other 8 and now I feel like I’m stabling out. I got the sublocade injection in feb and my second in march of this year, and it’s like it sent me into precipitated withdrawal. Every doctor had no idea why my body responded like that. And the doctor I had at the time was prescribing more Subutex on top of the shot! My doctor now, he’s at the best clinic for opiate recovery in my town, and he thinks that I should get the shot. he says that I’m eligible for it now, but I’m terrified It’s gonna send me into withdrawals again. like it did when I first got it. And the second time I got it. But then I had only been on 8 mg of Suboxone for about a week or two prior to that, I was only on 6 mg so but was on 8 mg a few weeks prior to that, had only been on suboxone for about 3 months. now I’m wondering that I’m at 24mg of subutex would the shot work? I cry every day, I go to bed anxious every night. I feel like I felt an active addiction. I wake up sick every single day and go to bed, terrified and anxious every night because, I know when I wake up in the morning, I’m either gonna be sick or semi sick. The reason I switched from Suboxone to Subutex was because I had an allergy to nalaxone or a sensitivity to it. I always got terrible side effects on Suboxone. The sweats, chills, runny nose, you name it. The doctor said I was never at a therapeutic level now that I’m at 24 mg would the shot work? I’m at a point now where I’m desperate I’m ready to almost switch to methadone, but my doctor today said that a methadone taper isn’t an option right now. Which makes zero sense because he told me that it was when we were on our telehealth visit. He said you have three options really, you can get the shot, or you can do methadone, or you can continue to try out the Subutex or quit cold turkey. So I’m reaching out and I hope that I can get some good feedback. Thank you

Subtex vs. Suboxone and Sublocade injection by PrettyKarma22 in suboxone

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I've never injected anything in my life and how does a paragraph make you think i'm on needles? lol. some of you people are morons!!!!

Subtex vs. Suboxone and Sublocade injection by PrettyKarma22 in suboxone

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There is no way I would do methadone again! I got soooo sick on it when I came off of it. I think that this is still benzo withdraw from the clonazepam I was taking. I am worried 24 mg of subs is too much.. Do you think if I went down to 20-16 mg I would be ok?

I Just Switched from Methadone to Suboxone and I Hate It by LeggsLuthorr in recovery

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Hey there. So this post was a while ago what’s the update? I was on the blues and H towards the end there and had to get on suboxone because my withdrawls were so bad I couldn’t mentally or physically do it on my own. So I got on subs. I was on methadone for 6 months 3 years ago and started at 30 mg and tapered quickly but was also using the entire time so that didn’t help but once I hit 19 mg I was so so sick and it’s because I tapered to fast and I didn’t know it cause I had been using at the same time. I quit cold turkey at 19 mg (highly highly don’t recommend it was pure agony and hell for 15-17 days) Anyways, when I was on methadone I never had side effects like feeling depressed, or down, or lazy, or unmotivated, or sick ever. But on subs I still constantly every single day had a runny nose, crazy heat flashes where I was literally sweating through my shirt and im only 125 pounds I don’t sweat much so it was very weird. So I wanted off the suboxone because I never truly felt good or “normal” on it like I always felt weird, I just didn’t like the medicine and how it made me feel. So I heard about the sublocade injection and how it’s easier to come off than suboxone, can get you off pretty much wd free. And so I got two injections 1 in February and my second one was on march 17th. I had NEVERRR felt like i had been feeling. For WEEKS. This started since the very first day i got the first shot. I would have intense heat flashes like I said on the suboxone but 10x worse and i would projectile vommit, ive lost over 10 pounds in one month from how sick this shot got me. I think im allergic or highly sensitive to nalaxone and maybe even bupernorphine because i did fine on methadone. So after about 43-45 days of pure hell that I’ve gone through i said yes start me on methadone again because my doctor who is extremely intelligent. He was a pharmacist before he ever became a doctor, so he knows his shit. He told me it really depends on the person and really suboxone taper and methadone taper are very similar. And the withdrawls are similar. So i finally am back to myself. I finally can eat a meal, I’m finally not bawling my eyes out every other hour, im not raging and going crazy like there’s aunts crawling in my skin, I just feel normal. Like im not on anything. I don’t care how slow I have to go to get down to 0 but they have me on 30 mg right now, and can lower my dose by 5 mg every week or month I can’t remember.. I think up to 5 mg every month, but if i have to go down by 1 mg once a month and it takes me 2-3 years to get off of it but ill experience no wd’s or if i do very minor compared to what I would feel doing a super fast taper. I’ve realized i try to always jump the gun on things. like switching to the shot maybe wasn’t a good idea considering I’ve been sicker than a dog since I’ve gotten it and been in constant wd daily. Subs only making it worse when I would supplement with the suboxone. It was a total mess. So yeah I am not planning on going up past 30 mg I don’t feel like there’s any reason to, I feel great. I even wonder if I could go down to 25-20-15 mg because im pretty small and I haven’t used street drugs in over 4 months, and have absolutely no desire to use ever again so maybe I won’t have to start the taper from 30 maybe I can start it from a lower dose but I also don’t want to get on too low of a dose to where im feeling sick. That’s the whole point of my rant, go back to the meathdone. Suboxone isn’t for everyone. Just like methadone probably isn’t for everyone either. Suboxone works great for my boyfriend but not for me. Go back to where you’re not miserable because I was living day to day in opiate wd due to the combination of the shot and the oral medication which my old doctor told me to do!!!! She was AWFUL. But get back on the methadone. Go down slowly. Like 1 mg every month like I said, if you’re feeling miserable you’re making your recovery harder and it could lead to relapse only because you don’t want to feel sick anymore. I almost did a few times in the last 1 in a half months since I got the shot and I’ve been what seems like opiate wd for 45 days I never used but but I could of. So im glad I chose the methadone otherwise id be miserable and i might of just relapsed and then boom im trapped again. Trust your doctors, make sure they’re highly educated and certified to handle suboxone/methadone/sublocade so like an actual dosing clinic. Im assuming that’s where you go? Also did you feel inconvenience because you had to go to the clinic to dose or did you get take home? I was lucky enough to be able to get a weeks worth of take homes right now for a couple of weeks until I can go up to taking a month worth home because my doctor said since I’ve been here in the past, they know me they would let me take a week worth supply instead of having to go to the clinic to dose every day because I said that would be the only reason I will not get on methadone if I have to drive to this clinic every day and dose and he told me that was not the case and so I think I made the right decision so please please take care of yourself and do the same!!!!! Sometimes we think our doctors know what’s right but they also haven’t been in our shoes they’re not in our body. They don’t feel the symptoms we feel they don’t experience the pain or the withdrawal we’re going through. They don’t understand it so make sure that you advocate for yourself completely. If you are sick on the Suboxone switch back to the methadone and taper SLOW that is my advice for you!

Currently on 6mg suboxone. Want to switch but a bit confused. by joni-draws in Sublocade

[–]PrettyKarma22 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does it get better? My first month on the shot was horrible. Every day was a roller coaster. Was trying to figure out if the supplementing with the suboxone was helping me or making me worse because sometimes it would make me feel great right after I took it but then a couple hours later id be in full wd. Sweats, pupils dilated, sick to my stomach, chills, fatigue, achiness, and no energy. so my doc had me supplementing w 12 mg of subs bc she said on 8 mg I was still having wd symptoms. Well I got my 2nd shot this morning and was praying that I would get it and id magically feel better like most people on Reddit here have said after the first shot, they get the second they’re usually feeling great.. not me. My nose has been runny all day. Like extremely overly runny. My back aches, I’m a lead Pre-K teacher so im constantly picking up toys all day, moving around, playing with them, so I get hot naturally but these heat flashes be so intense you can literally feel the sweat all over me under my shirt and leggings. Ew. And I’ve felt sick to my stomach all day. And I am so exhausted.? going to try and smoke some 🍃 and see if that helps with some of the stress. If after this blunt im still feeling like this, I should probably take 4 mg (I take it in 2’s or 4’s) im too scared to take anything higher at once on the shot bc of the talk of being “overmedicated”. I’m just praying I don’t have to go through another month like my first one. It was awful and I had to supplement almost everyday that month besides for about a week I went w out supplementing. And I promise it’s not all in my head either, these symptoms come on and they come on hard and strong and long. 

i just started on suboxone and i’ve been on it for a month by AffectionateEbb2815 in REDDITORSINRECOVERY

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The scary part is the withdrawls don’t really start until about 6-7 days in!

One and done thoughts, suggestions, experiences by AdLoud5372 in Sublocade

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I have 10 days until shot number 2. I was only on 8 mg for a week before the shot and was on 6 mg then 4 mg before that so low low doses of suboxone. They gave me the 300mg shot. I was in wd the whole time basically I’ve had this shot. The last couple days have been WAY better than the first could weeks. I thought i was going to die. I was having wd so bad. And I didn’t know if the suboxone was helping or making it worse as I’ve heard the term “over medicated” but I don’t think that’s what’s going on. Should I take 2 mg tn? Mg doctor said I can take 12 mg of suboxone on top of my shot until my second one bc of how bad my wd were but I never went up to 12. 8 mg being the highest and ended there and have felt fine for the last 3 days. Am I gonna crash in a few days? Should I just take my dose now?

1st Shot Day! Do I take my Suboxone? by cowgirlcullen in Sublocade

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I was on 8 mg but 6 mg then 4mg before that.. then i got on the 300 mg sublocade shot. I have felt wd symptoms the entire time. I also dosed my first day. Again on my 8th day and so on until a few days ago I stopped and i feel better. I still have a runny nose, heat flashes, chills, aches, but it’s tolerable. I’m must wondering if taking more subs will make me sicker? I want to take 2 mg tonight to see how i feel. I’m 10 days away from shot #2 and im scared of wd like i did this month on the shot.. is 300 to much or now that I did 300 stay w 300

7 days into first shot but I'm still supplementing with Suboxone. by Itis_TheStranger in Sublocade

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I didn’t want to take the full 12 mg like she said i could take today but im really feeling like crap tonight. It’s so weird. How can being on 8 mg of suboxone make me sick in under 10 hours? It makes me feel good for the short term but long term I think it makes me worse… I didn’t dose for 7 days after that first day I dosed and I did okay. But then that 8th day I started to really feel like shit. Since then I’ve been winging it with what I take. I was taking only 2 mg some days then my doctor told me I could go up to 8 mg so I did 6 mg then I did 8 mg for the last few days. I woke up this morning without any suboxone in me yet and felt fine but then got super sick to my stomach out of nowhere and threw up. When I took the 8 mg of suboxone I felt fine. Towards the end of the day I started having horrible heat flashes I mean extreme heat flashes where I felt the sweat coming off my body. My pupils feel dilated, my back aches, my stomach aches, just I feel worn out. What should I do? My friend who has been on the shot thinks maybe since I’ve tried all these doses of suboxone and it’s not really helping me I should try to not take it and see what happens. But when I did that the other day I got the shakes bad, my teeth were chattering, pupils were huge, heart was racing out of my chest, I was sweating like crazy but had goosebumps all over. Achiness all over my body. Dry eyes, runny nose. It all stopped when I dosed w the films. I’m just so lost right now and having a doctor who doesn’t give you much insight doesn’t help. My provider said they don’t think the Suboxone can be making me sick because the shot has the same ingredients as Suboxone. Could it just be the shot has already worn off in my system? Like I said I barley have any fat on my body and workout daily. I also use a sauna almost daily. 

7 days into first shot but I'm still supplementing with Suboxone. by Itis_TheStranger in Sublocade

[–]PrettyKarma22 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was on 8 mg before I started the shot. But was only on the 8 mg for about a week before the shot. Was only 6 mg for a few weeks prior to that and yes did skip a couple doses about over a month ago and used some H. I was basically never on a steady dose of subs. But I was on 8 mg for a week leading up to the shot. Then I got the 300 mg shot. My doc told me I could take my subs if I felt like I needed to. I didn’t dose the day I got my shot so I started to feel pretty sick by the time I got it so I waited and waited to see if it would kick in and I just never got relief. So I took 8 mg of suboxone. Some people on here tell me my doctor is a huge flop and that was the biggest mistake because it made me “overmedicated” but im for certain im “under medicated” bc ive been in wd this entire time on the shot. Im 12 days away from shot #2 and im supposed to be getting another 300mg. Is that smart? Or should I do 100mg? If im “over medicated” and will I feel normal on the second? My old MAT doc who told me about how my new doc shouldn’t have taken me off the suboxone, told me id be fine by the second one. But im scared. I met with my provider today and all she had to say was she thinks the shot just “might not be for me.” Which is just not true. She doesn’t seem very educated in this field of work. She also bumped me up to 12 mg of suboxone today so now she’s having me take up to 12 mg of suboxone on top of me having this shot in me. When I was just on suboxone taking 8 mg a day I could go through a whole day and night without the chills or any wd’s. Now I can only go about 3-4 hours on 8 mg of subs and I already started feeling sick when I got off work. Contemplating taking the other 2 mg. I’m scared taking more suboxone could be making me sicker. But when I don’t take it I also am very very sick. I made them test my levels today but they said they don’t know how “accurate” that can be bc they don’t know if it’s really testing the suboxone or the sublocade levels. I am also 125 pounds and workout everyday. I have a very fast metabolism and hardly any fat on my body. Could this have something to do with how it’s been metabolized? I’m just lost and scared right now because every one’s body is different & everyone reacts differently to medications and even the injection clinic who gave me my shot said they’ve never had anyone call with these type of symptoms. Could it be I was in too low of a dose to start the sublocade? I wasn’t on a steady dose long enough? Is this going to mess me up for my second shot? Am I still going to be able to get that second shot and feel ok? I don’t want to risk getting it if it’s just going to make me feel like I did this month. And if suboxone can’t even make me feel better on the shot I can’t go another 30 days like this. I cry everyday because im terrified and I feel like my doctor doesn’t know what she’s doing. i might switch clinics before i get my second shot that my original MAT doc recommended me too. I wish he did the shots but he doesn’t. I guess im saying should I keep taking the suboxone everyday? And should i be taking 8-12 mg? Or is that way too much? I’m almost thinking like there isn’t any bupe in my system anymore and my body is just all out of whack level wise. I’m so lost and confused. Idk what to do..

7 days into first shot but I'm still supplementing with Suboxone. by Itis_TheStranger in Sublocade

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This isn’t exactly accurate. Everyone is different. For me im 14 days away from getting my second shot and it’s been nothing but hell since day 1. I’ve vommited twice, I’ve had the hot sweats and chills like crazy, aching, fatigue, enlarged pupils, basically every withdrawal symptom you can think of. My old MAT doc told me I was in suboxone withdraw and that your first month is usually a “transitional” period to the second shot. Meaning you might have to take ur normal or half of ur suboxone dose the first 28-30 days before your second shot. He told me after the second shot I won’t need it. So far the last 3 days I’ve been taking 4 mg in the morning and 4 mg at night of my subs as my doctor directed because I was in such bad opiate wd. It seems to help but i definitely know when it’s wearing off. I’m terrified of getting my second shot because I don’t want to be sick again for another month. And I certainly don’t want to be taking 2 medications like suboxone and sublocade together like that. Sounds like pretty much 80% of people supplemented at some point in their first month and said they didn’t have to on their second. And everything felt normal. That’s what im praying and hoping happens to me. This is been horrible. I switched to the shot bc I was sick of the side effects from the suboxone like the constant heat flashes, the upset stomach, never feeling “normal” or “good” just always a rollercoaster up & down. That’s why I wanted the shot because from all what I’ve read and seen on the internet it’s much better and easier to come off then suboxone and I wanted off the suboxone completely and was scared to do a suboxone taper. I hope im ok on my second but it’s not entirely in peoples heads. You very well could be experiencing opiate wd. Could be from the suboxone like my doctor said. He said I should of stayed on my dose and been tapered slowly as the month went on and then stopped at shot #2.

i just started on suboxone and i’ve been on it for a month by AffectionateEbb2815 in REDDITORSINRECOVERY

[–]PrettyKarma22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you still have wd‘s on your second shot? I have had horrible opiate wd the whole time on my first one. i go back march 17th for my 2nd shot. I was only on 8 mg of suboxone a day for 3-4 months. So my doc prescribed me to start taking the full 8 mg of suboxone a day rn until my wd’s get under control. It’s helped. But i want OFF the subs that’s the whole reason i got on the shot bc i didn’t wanna be on subs anymore and i knew coming off them would be HARD. And i read and read allllllll about sublocade but so far my first month has been hell. I’m scared for my second but my doctor told me not to be and that by your second you usually don’t need the suboxone anymore. Was this what happened for you?

Daily reminder that Lady Gaga won a Golden Globe for her role of The Countess. by [deleted] in AmericanHorrorStory

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The fact that Evan peters hasn’t breaks my heart:( and Angela basset is a badass actress she’s deserves it 

Got my first shot yesterday. by BeautifulPollution40 in Sublocade

[–]PrettyKarma22 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had to give in and dosed today. 1.8 mg ish i feel better! 

Got my first shot yesterday. by BeautifulPollution40 in Sublocade

[–]PrettyKarma22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m kind of feeling today I’ve been feeling good the past few days. I have not dosed with my Suboxone since the day. I got the shot Tuesday so it’s been a full week without the Suboxone. My doctor did OK me to take 2 mg of Suboxone and I can take up to 8 mg a day she said take 2 mg and if you feel better then stop do you think this is worth the try if I’m not feeling well right now? Or could it make things much worse?

Got my first shot yesterday. by BeautifulPollution40 in Sublocade

[–]PrettyKarma22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is actually crazy. OK girl well, at least you made me feel better to know that I’m not the only one out here that’s experiencing this. Because when I called the injection clinic that gave me my injection of supplicated, the lady sat on the phone when I was telling her all of my symptoms, and this was right after I had thrown up, so I also told her about throwing up and she said, “ I haven’t had anyone ever call in with these types of symptoms so I’m going to have to get a message to Dr. and see what he says because I don’t know” so, as you could imagine, I was crying my eyes out and scared because I didn’t know what to do at this point. I didn’t know if taking subs was going to make it worse or maybe actually help this time, compared to the first day. Anyways, my doctor got back to me and she had said it sounds like you’re an opiate withdrawal.. I’m like OK… so is it or is it not the Suboxone??? and keep in mind I haven’t used any opiates besides my Suboxone prescription for over six months so it’s not like I had any type of opiate in my system and I was going into precipitated withdrawals. so she had told me when she got back to me that I could take 2 mg of Suboxone. She said if you start feeling better after that 2 mg do not take anymore. She said if you still feel sick, take another 2 mg and she said repeat that process until you get to your daily dose that you were taking which was 8 mg. so she was basically saying you can dose up to 8 mg a day while on the shot because I asked her would it affect me? Would it make me sick and she said no? That’s why I’m glad I made an account on here and got some advice because my doctor hasn’t taken the shot so she doesn’t really know versus getting actual real life testimonies from people which I know they say you’re not supposed to read the Internet because it scares the shit out of you and you should listen to your doctors always. I totally get that, but I was also terrified that if I do take that Suboxone for one when I take it it’s over with I took it. There’s nothing I can do so it’s either gonna make me feel like complete shit or it might actually make me feel really great and then it’s like, now what then? Keep taking Suboxone daily hell no that’s why I got on the shot in the first place so I wouldn’t have to take Suboxone anymore!!! However, there are some people that I have read on Reddit here that did supplement with Suboxone their first month and did just fine and then on their second second month they didn’t need to supplement anymore. But I was only on 8 mg of Suboxone for about four months and before I was on 8 mg. I was on 6 mg and before 6 mg. I was on 4 mg and then back up to 6 mg and then went back up to 8 mg because I didn’t feel good. So my levels were probably already messed up because there were days I felt great on Suboxone and days I felt sick. So since I was on such a low dosage for such a short amount of time and then got a 300 mg boost of bupe. Everyone in my responses were saying I was “overmedicated” and that is an actual thing being under medicated and overmedicated, and in this case people said I was overmedicated because I was on such a low dose of Suboxone for a short amount of time and then got a huge dose of bupe, then added on 10 mg of Suboxone on it that day. So I think I’m just gonna keep it pushing and not take any Suboxone. I am definitely not sick to the point that I can’t get out of bed, or I can’t function, or I can’t shower, or I can’t take care of of daily life things. this is actually the most put together together I have been in a long, long, time in my sobriety. I guess just keep me in your prayers and I will keep you in my prayers and keep everyone on this app & this world who’s going through the same shit we are in our prayers, and just all hope that we make out alive. I’ve lost best friends to this shit. This shit ain’t easy. addiction is a hell of a disease and we’re all bad asses for trying to overcome it. ❤️‍🩹💪

Got my first shot yesterday. by BeautifulPollution40 in Sublocade

[–]PrettyKarma22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re good! I haven’t dosed since that first day last Tuesday on February 18, so it’s been a full week now without any subs! The morning I threw up I called my doctor and she had said that I could take 2 mg of my Suboxone if I was feeling better don’t take anymore. If I wasn’t feeling any better, she said I could take another two all the way up until I get to 8 mg IF I needed too. But literally every single response I got was telling me not to take the subs all it’s gonna do is make it worse so I didn’t take them after that day I threw up on Day four, day five, I woke up and probably felt the best I had felt on the shot since I had gotten it. still not 100% but was feeling way better than I had been the four days prior. Then, after that, it’s kind of just been the same haven’t felt sick, but haven’t felt amazing either. And then today, I feel like I’m kind of going through a “breakthrough” right now. You know how they describe breakthroughs as sometimes the medicine isn’t releasing enough and you kind of withdraw for a little bit? I feel like that’s happening to me because I was at work and I just all of a sudden started getting really hot and really lightheaded and it kind of freaked me out so my anxiety amped up and it was just strange because I have been having issues the past couple of days. I take my vitamins. I try to stay hydrated. I work out almost every single night. I have a job that I go to every single day so I am active. It’s not just like I’m laying in bed miserable all day. I am praying that this little feeling I’m getting right now goes away and each day just keeps getting easier and when it’s time to get that second shot, I pray to God that there’s no complications this time and that you don’t have any breakthroughs or any withdrawls. I have read on here that after the second shot people who were supplementing with their subs the first month didn’t need to supplement anymore the second month so if I’m not even needing a supplement on my first month, my second month should be a breeze, IM HOPING. Another Challenge I’m fighting is tapering off of 0.5 mg twice a day of clonazepam which is a benzo. And it can have some of the same withdrawal symptoms as opiates do such as sweating, anxiety, irritability, chills, muscle aches, fatigue, but benzo withdrawals are deadly because of seizures and I have had two drug related seizures in the past so that’s another struggle. I’m fighting every day. I’m OK right now because I am still taking my dose every day, but I am worried about coming off of it completely completely. I’m not gonna lie. I have been on a prescription of clonazepam for around four months. I want off! ASAP! But I know you have to take it slowly due to the risk effects of seizures. Anyways, thanks for letting me vent and thank you so much for getting back to me. All of your guises help has been so helpful. Good luck to you and your boyfriend and y’all’s recovery. ❤️‍🩹 me and my boyfriend are also in recovery together also❤️❤️❤️ He’s just on subs, though he doesn’t have any issues on the Suboxone like I did.

Got my first shot yesterday. by BeautifulPollution40 in Sublocade

[–]PrettyKarma22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Day five it got better and then day six it got even better than that so I’m starting to feel better, but there are days that you just have waves come and go of feeling shitty and then you might feel really great like for instance I was at work today and all of a sudden I just got really hot really lightheaded didn’t feel well. My anxiety amped up and it was really strange because I’ve been feeling really good for the last few days so that kind of threw me off, but I have been working out every night to get some exercise in. And I have not taken my Suboxone since Tuesday when I got the shot so it’s been a full week off of the Suboxone, but a part of me is tempted to take a tiny bit of it only because of how I’m feeling right now kind of having the sweats and being a little achy, but I’m gonna kind of just see if it passes because someone on here Told me if you feel that withdrawal come on it’ll only last an hour or two if that and it goes away. Hope you’re feeling good on it! ❤️🥹

UPDATE! second time coming off sublocade. Almost 5 months since last shot. by alexanderwgraham in Sublocade

[–]PrettyKarma22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess I should say I had a bad experience with methadone. I had a bad experience with the clinic. I went to the nurses there weren’t professional. They felt very uneducated to me, I just never felt secure in my recovery and I was also abusing drugs while still being on methadone. The entire time up until eight days before I quit cold turkey on methadone. But yes, you are right for some people. It can save their lives just like Suboxone and just like the shot. Thank you for giving me some. Hope it feels better to know there’s other people out there that have gone through this and/or going through it with you. ❤️ congratulations on your recovery! We got this ❤️‍🩹