SUBOXONE Reviews (BUPRENORPHINE HYDROCHLORIDE; NALOXONE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 3.2 (174 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare SUBOXONE with similar:
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| 2 | Trying to get off pills | I have gone through the withdrawals on oxy and methadone before and on Subs my withdrawals were way worse and way longer. I started out at a high dose 32mgs per day for 3 months and cut my dose down to 2mgs per day for over a month. Then tried to go cold turkey and I was in massive withdrawals my 3rd day. Then I called a help line and spoke with a guy named Gary. 1(888)290-3935. Gary told me the real story about Subs and it was really a bad thing to hear while I was sitting there feeling so, bad but it showed me the real picture about this drug. He really made me feel better after our conversation. If I was to do it again I would quit while on oxy or for that matter anything else besides subs. So, everyone knows I am 3 weeks clean and here are a few things that I thought about to get through it. My whole body hurt and I wanted to cut my legs off and at times I wanted to use so bad but I didn’t. I told myself this has controlled my life for 8 years and going through hell for 3-4 w | Do not use this drug it is just to keep you on the rollercoaster. All the ups and downs and the need a pill to get through the day is not how you should live life... | M | 28 | 4 months 32 4X day | 1/17/2012 | 5 | Extreme drug addict | Hard to bust. A nut but after 2 months sex is normal and it saved my career and gave me myself back I just hope it stays that way don't ever try methadone please! | M | 30 | 7 months 8mg | 12/3/2011 | 5 | Wanted to itch my nose off of my face, very loopy, vomitting | F | 19 | 1 days 8mg 1X day | 10/19/2011 | 1 | opiate addiction | shaking sweating neausea rapid heat beat. insomnia, leg jerks | When I was put on this med 3 years ago they never told me it was 30 times stonger in your brain than morphine. It was a miracle drug so i thought, I was told that by my doctor word for word. I have been of the suboxone for 5 days. I would take opiate withrawls times 2 over this. I have no clue how long this is going to last since its such a new drug and not alot of info about it. If you are thinking about taking this for addiction do not. You are only trading one for the other. In short suboxone was thought to be a wonder drug, its a wonder that there are no law suites YET. | F | 32 | 3 years 12 1X day | 10/11/2011 | 1 | opiate withdrawal | Severe Constipation, Dizzy, Disorientation, Teeth Falling out, insomnia, no sex drive | Good luck ever getting off this drug, the withdrawals are way worse than regular opiates. Forget sleeping normally, and if you need emergency pain control you are out of luck since this drug naloxone fills up the opiate receptor. I was hit by a car-nothing worked. Emergency rooms have no clue how to over ride this and dont want to risk OD'ing you on fentanyl. You may think you have your life back, hello you are still addicted to another opiate | M | 44 | 2 years 8mg 3X day | 9/8/2011 | 3 | Heroin Withdrawal | Euphoric, constipation, when placing under tongue do not move, talk, drink fluids or anything for at least 20 minutes or you'll mess up the sublingual effects. Hard to withdrawal from Nothing opiate-like is easy to kick. | I have used this medication not only to help withdrawal discomfort from short acting opites like oxycontin, heroin, diuladid but also from methadone at a dose of lower than 30mg. You have to wait until your into your withdrawal before taking or you will get very sick. Just wait as long as you can then you'll feel much better. It's expensive if you have no insurance but I find it much superior to methadone for withdrawal due to being able to get a months prescription immediately and not like a methadone clinic which you have to go to it everyday for 2 months before you can even get a weeks worth of carry homes. Now I would also say unles you want to be on methadone or suboxone for a long time and go through very difficult withdrawals that those 2 opiate therapy drugs should just be used for less than a week to get off short acting opiates and they work great that way. If you choose to get stable than taper very slowly if on it for a month or more or your withdrawals will be quite intense and drawn out. I much prefer suboxone to methadone. You don't gain weight, sweat like a pig and nod out. Of course everyones different but thats been my issues when starting out on methadone. If you are just wanting to get off short acting opiates it's a great drug if you, once again, only use for a week or even 2 days would be fine because of the long half-life. Being dependent on any drug sucks and being free of them all is the way life should be. Don't let your doctors try to tell you they | M | 44 | 1 months 8mg 1X day | 8/17/2011 | 1 | opiate relapse | Severe constipation; addiction to sugar/chocolate/ice cream: no laughter | This is a substitute bs drug that one can take for a while...but at the end ofthe day the opiate addiction is still there. Im on day 16 off Suboxone and it has been hell on earth. I have no energy and my mind is very much not okay. This drug is not the answer. Shoudve gone to DEtox when i repased. Drug stole my happy. The withdrawal off this mwdicine is 10 times harder than normal short acting opiates. Beware.thanks | F | 33 | 11 months 8mg 1X day | 6/18/2011 | 4 | Opiate addiction | none at the right dose, when I take too much it makes me sleepy, constipated, and kills my sex drive. | I think it is a great drug if you have an opiate problem and need to get off of them. It can give you your life back to a degree, although as long as you're on it you're still on a very powerful narcotic. You have to be ready to get off the opiates for it to work. If you don't need maintenance you can detox fairly quickly with it and this is probably the best way to use it. However some people such as my self can only clean up their act to a certain extent, for me a daily dose of sub gives me the ability to live a normal life again. I have detoxed off of subs a few times but ultimately relapsed and have just stayed on subs since then. Great drug if you're ready to get off opiates for good or stay on an opiate maintenance drug. The lower the dose the better, since it is very powerful at even the 1mg range. 1mg would probably knock out a person who has no opiate tolerance. Bottom line is yes you don't need as much as your doctor may prescribe you most of the time, but some people need a higher dose and need to stay on it for longer periods of time. I think it's the lesser of the two evils since it allows an opiate addicted person to balance out their life. | M | 32 | 9 months 8mgs 1X day | 6/10/2011 | 5 | addicted to Norco | A little bit of sleepiness,nothing more. | This is my second day at posting a blog and tomorrow will be my fourth day taking Suboxone.Once again, I've had no side effects other then a small amount of sleepiness. Maybe there will be more as I progress but I dont think so. I had been taking Trazadone prior to starting Sboxone for sleep issues so I believe thats playing a part. I've been reading alot of comments regarding the effects & also how much time they've been on the medication.I'm really not understand it! I have insurance so I only paid $25 for the Dr. visit & my insurance covered over half the price of the medicine. Also, I dont get WHY some people need to take or are advised to take this medicine as long as they've been told to take it for! My dr. told me that if all is well next Monday that hes going to start weaning me down. He said one should start weaning down as soon as the body can tolerate things & that the sooner one can get off the medicine the better. He stated that I should definitely be off in under a month. However, my dr. isn't one of those fly by the mill docs who get a kick out of prescribing people who are completely clueless about the drug to taking it for unecessarily long periods of time. Thats just plain sad for these dr.s to profit off of people in life threatening situations. If you have insurance, are SERIOUS about getting your life back, are WILLING to admit your life is unmanageable, find yourself a damn good dr. who is familiar with de | F | 37 | 3 days 16mg 1X day | 4/5/2011 | 5 | addicted to Norco | I'm on going on my 3rd day of detoxing with Suboxone and have had not ONE side effect. | I had been addicted to Norco for about a year & a half. I was taking enough at one time to kill 3-4 people & really knew if I didn't put a stop to it I'd wind up dead eventually. So when my script was up I decided to & definitely with my husbands support to finally stop the cycle.I made some phone calls & was referred to a dr. at an Urgent Care facility nearby.$25 later I was put on an outpatient Suboxon regimen & on my way to recovery. As said, Im going on day 3 tomorrow & just cant wait to see what the future holds. I dont really have the "wanting" or craving for the Norco either. My Suboxon was only $40 due to my insurance but I realize so many people out there that dont have that privelege & i wish them all the best of luck! | F | 37 | 3 days 16mg 1X day | 4/4/2011 | 4 | Heroin/methadone addiction | MASSIVE constipation. Sleepy after taking it. Lack of sex drive. Lack of appetite. Lost 30lbs in 3 months. | Tried detoxing off heroin using methadone. Was on MMT for 5 years, the last 2 1/2 detoxing. Could not get past 32mg's w/out ending up in the E.R.. Decided to try Suboxone. Started at 16mg's/day and weened myself down to 1.5 mg's/day, NOT following my drs' orders. I know enough that you should get off this as quick as possible, unless you use it as treatment, or you become very dependant, and w/drawals will last longer than needed. People need to know that you need to get to a VERY LOW dose, (less than 1mg/day), for w/drawals to be tolerable. Everyone trying to detox off this should learn about the "liquid taper" method. That's the only way to get your dose real low and accurate. I use an empty asprin bottle, crush up an 8mg pill, then add 8ml's of water to make a liquid, then use a childs med dropper to suck up what I need. This way I know I'm getting .5 mg's everytime I dose. It's WAY better than methadone detox, but if you can, detox off your DOC instead of either of these two drugs. The half-life is a real bitch to get use to. Plus the cost is insane. $350.00 just to see the dr., then almost $600.00/month for the script. Massive rip-off. So far, on a scale of 1-10, 10 being super sick, detoxing off Subs is a 5 or 6. Wish I would have just kept detoxing off heroin instead of going down these roads, but it does allow you to get your head straightened out. | M | 34 | 3 months .5mg's 3X day | 2/5/2011 | 4 | Opiate addiction | I definitely agree with everyone who said they experience infrequent BMs, but usually that's just a part of opiate addiction anytime. It gives me energy but it also still causes nausea every now and then after three years. I'm still not used to the awful taste either so don't get your hopes up on that. | Other than side effects, it's great. It definitely saved my life but it won't do it on its own. "Works if you work it" kinda thing. I'm sure we've all heard that -.^ | F | 23 | 3 years 2mg 3X day | 12/12/2010 | 5 | oxys | energy when taking the subox but not mucg energy when not taking sub | this drug was amazing BUT sorry but doc DONT use this drug the right way. I was taking 8 - 80 mg oxy's/day and decided to use suboxone. I did 8mg/2 days, 6mg/3days, 4mg/3days, 2mg/week and no side effects or withdrawl. It only took three weeks. DO NOT USE THIS DRUG HOW YOUR DOCTOR WILL TELL YOU. DO NOT STAY ON IT FOR MONTHS AND OR YEARS. Methadone/suboxone clinics are horrible money making schemes. for every pill your doctor prescribes you they make a despensing fee off it, therefor the doctors will tell you you need to be on it for months or years because everyday they get make the fee! they want to keep you on as long as they can thats why they recomend 1/2 year treatment plans, and for methadone its even worse, its totally unecessary and all about the money. The reason you dont stay on sub for more thAN A month is because your body will gain a tolerence, and once your body has that tolerance you become addicted to it and when you decide to quit the subox you will withdrawl. If you are only on for a couple weeks or one month your body doesnt take that time to develope a dependance, and along with the constant weening, you dont experience anything. SO use subox as quickly as you can and dont listen to the methadone doctors or pharmacies because they want to make that $10 fee for everry pill you are perscribed. the methadone doctor here in T.O runs like 3 clinics here and three in peterborough and makes $25 000 a week of despensing fees......RIDICULOUS!!! DONT STAY ON FOR MON | F | 25 | 2 weeks 8 1X day | 12/7/2010 | 3 | opiate tolerance from many surgerie | Severe tiredness (slept 14-16 hrs a day), constipation, headache, stomachache, loss of taste in mouth, | Tried to be proactive and switch to suboxone from diluadid 2mg every 4 hrs. I was having difficulty coming off the diluadid when it was cut in half. My pharmacist Uncle suggested to give suboxone a try. I didn't have an addiction to the medicine but a tolerance and just needed help to slowly decrease the medicine. I have had 4 surgeries in 4 years and have decreased myself off of percocet and hydrocodone on numberous occations but the diladid was too tough. I went on the suboxone for about 2 weeks but do not like it. I'm severly tired, constipated and feel that this medicine many not be for me. I spoke with my doctor and he is going to put me back on hydrocodone 10mg to ween myself. My dr and I have a great relationship and we have a trust over 4 years during my ordeal with Thoracic Outlet Syndrome. I hope to ween myself off of hydrocodone and feel better than this suboxone...yuke. | M | 33 | 2 weeks 16 mg 1X day | 12/2/2010 | 5 | ADDICTION TO PAIN MEDS | NO NEGATIVE SIDE EFFECTS AT ALL! SOMETIMES IT GIVES ME ENERGY BUT OVERALL NO SIDE EFFECTS!! | THIS DRUG SAVED MY LIFE, MY FAMILY AND MY JOB!! I WAS ADDICTED TO PAIN MEDICATION FOR CROHNS DISEASE AND MULTIPLE BOWEL SURGERIES. SINCE STARTING THIS I FEEL MYSELF AGAIN AFTER 6 YEARS! THANK GOD FOR THIS DRUG! I HIGHLY RECOMMEND FOR OPIATE DEPENDENCE! | F | 38 | 10 months 4 MG 2X day | 10/13/2010 | 1 | Addiction | DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG!!!I AM 22 YEARS OLD AND I THOUGHT I WAS ADDICTED TO PAIN PILLS SO I WENT ON SUBOXONE EVERY TIME ID TAKE IT I WOULD VOMIT LOST 40 POUNDS IN A MONTH DECIDED TO TAKE MYSELF OFF OF IT WITHDRAWLS WERE WORSE THEN ANY PAIN PILL ANY BENZO ANYTHING IVE EVER COME OFF OF. ALSO WHEN I WAS ON THE SUBOXONE I DEVELOPED MIGRANES, MRI AND CATSCAN SHOWED NOTHING. (KEEP IN MIND ONE OF THE SIDE EFFECTS OF SUBOXONE IS BRAIN SWELLING) ALMOST TWO YEARS LATER I HAVE TO TAKE KLONIPIN TWICE A DAY, IT RUINED MY NERVERS AND PERCOCET FOR HEADACHES SO IM BACK WHERE I STARTED. THE SCARY THING I NOW HAVE LESIONS ON MY BRAIN ?COINCIDENCE? I DONT THINK SO. IF YOU DONT LITERALLY DIE FROM WITHDRAWLS YOU WILL HAVE LONG LASTING MENTAL SIDE EFFECTS. | F | 22 | 30 days 2mg 1X day | 10/11/2010 | 5 | pain management RSD | None | Allowed me to have my life back. I could not get out of bed and was intense pain even taking 90Mg of oxycontin. Now I just take the suboxone and have no pain whatsoever! | F | 53 | 2 years 2 MG 2X day | 9/30/2010 | 5 | Opiate dependence | In the beginning: euphoria, immediate relief from opiate cravings/dependence withdrawal-free, dizziness all day, extreme nausea for first nine months, threw up a lot. Euphoria went away after first day or two and then just the other side-effects. But it got me off of opiate dependence. Also had insomnia, constipation, weight gain, sadness, over-emotional, food cravings, felt like a wet blanket thrown over me, foggy. But still a God-send. | Now down to 1 to 2 MGs twice a day. Tapering down slowly. Experiencing extreme lethargy, tiredness, yawning and sleeping a lot. Happy and excited when i take it, sleepy and lifeless when i don't take it. But still no craving for other pain pills. So just going to keep tapering down. Better than being addicted to pain pills. Suboxone saved my life. Couldn't recommend it enough. Just want to get off it completely now. | M | 40 | 14 months 2 MGs 3X day | 7/26/2010 | 3 | Oxycontin addiction | Speedy feeling like an actual speedball. Lost weight quickly, not good I was already skinny enough. | If I would have used this drug for 1 week then gotten off I woulda never had any withdrawals from the oxy's. But I started at 8mg and tapered gradually to 1mg over 3 months then cold turkey. Then 1 month off from work because the withdrawals are pretty darn close to methadone. Whats the point of substituting one drug for another. The only way I'd use this regularly is if you just cannot live without drugs but I would probably go with mmt. | M | 42 | 3 months 4mg 1X day | 5/27/2010 | 5 | roxy and oxy addiction | headches slight depression | i am very happy with my decision to go on suboxen. i am sure i do not have to share with you the exacts of how bad my life was before (broke homeless, scared, ALL FOR PILLS. WTF???) i have been expeirencing bad headaches but totally worth it. i am concerned after reading some comments about coming off of suboxen. but my doc has me on a 2 year de tox plan and he stressed to me the only way i will get better is if i go to NA meetings. i guess by making myself find time to go to these meeting( full time job and single mom to a 6 month old) three times a week it makes the part of my brain that was messed up from the opiate addiction start working again. Obviously i have not been on the suboxen long so only time will tell. But i think everyone should try to attend some NA meetings it was truly amazing how good feel after listening and talking to other addicts. Especially because i now know that i am not alone. If anyone needs a friend or has any questions please email me:) GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE YOU CAN DO IT!!!! | F | 26 | 20 days 4mg 3X day | 5/22/2010 |