Suboxone Treatment: Methadone Symptoms & Side Effects

Question: Does everyone respond to suboxone treatment?

(Posted by: on 2010-05-09 09:59:51)

I was an opiate addict & in the middle of march I went to an outpatient suboxone center.. I absolutely hated the taste & would also puke everytime I did my dose. It would take the withdrawl away but my urge to use is still there. About two weeks ago I went from 2mg to nothing. I feel no withdraw but my brain is going nuts for opiates. I'm curious if anyone know someone who the suboxone just didn't work.. Thank you in advance.

Posted by: ms.native pride on 2010-05-09, 10:56:58

Wow,you weren't on it for long.I too was an opiate addict(18+ yrs) & 2 yrs ago i went into treatment & was put on suboxone.I was one it for a year and a half & then my doctor dismissed me as a patient because i lived to far away from him was his reason.So i thought well ok i had been off the opiates for 19 months i figured i would do ok.Wrong! I also started craving opiates so,so bad that yup,i relapsed big time.So i found a different doctor and he put me back on in nov 09 and i haven't taken any opiates since.This time around though,i have been going to n\a meetings and i tell you those really help.Being a opiate addict is something that we are going to have to live with for the rest of our lives.We are always going to wish for them because we know how good they can make us feel.I also hate the taste of suboxone but it sure beats going through withdrawals,or being hooked on pills so bad not having anymore and going out trying to find some.The doctor i now see is really good.He understands so much better then the 1st dr who put me on suboxone.I do go and see him once every month and i also do a drug test.So maybe you need to try & find a doctor who can/ will put you on a treatment maintenance program where you will be on the suboxone until you are ready to come off it.If that isn't the way you want to go,then i would say to find a n\a group or even a aa group to go to and quick! Because if you are already craving for opiates you know it's only going to be a matter time & you will end up relapsing.Good luck to you.

Posted by: Lone on 2010-05-09, 12:12:37

Miss native should change her name to miss naive...She is far from "clean " while sucking on suboxone. Suboxone IS an opiate...actually an opioid, and a very very powerful one. It is 50 times stronger than morphine. It is replacement therapy, just like methadone. You stop taking your drug of choice and take a different one...a long acting one so you don;t get cravings every few hours like you do with oxy or heroin. Of course you are going to feel cravings and w.d. when you suddenly stop it. Suboxone doesn't work for most people...not the way it is intended too. Doctors promise the world, but this drug does not deliver. Rehabs are full of people now trying to get off the suboxone. consider yourself very lucky you didn't like Sub, because if you were on it much longer, you would have suffered the worst and longest withdrawal of your life. watch this to learn the truth about suboxone, from an experienced doctor...not some quack PhD who is looking to make an extra $20,000 a month prescribing the poison. afflictedandaffected.com/ index.php?option= com_content &view= article &id= 248:steven-scanlan &catid= 40:shows2008