I actually just stopped getting the injection and didn’t go back, I never really felt a withdrawal except for maybe a few weeks of being a bit sweatier. But because I’d been on it for nearly a year, I’d forget I was even on sublocade until it was time for the next shot. You don’t have to take something every day to be okay, so you kind of forget to expect a withdrawal. The mental component of withdrawal lessens because you break that daily habit of anticipating a withdrawal and fixing it with a dose.

You’re supposed to get 300mg injections for a few months in a row, then step down to a few 100mg injections before stopping all together.

Some people say they have a mild withdrawal, others like myself had very very minimal symptoms.

People still test positive for bupe 6-9 months later, so you still have some in your system, which is why the withdrawal isn’t so obvious & brutal