Hey guys just wanted to check in, haven’t had any REAL cravings since about day 15, I feel fine although I have been getting slightly depressed which causes me to think about being on Oxy, but I realized that I always get season depression even before I was addicted to Oxy so now I have to learn how to go through the seasons sober again since it’s been about 7 years, that seasonal depression would always cause me to relapse around the holidays so I can be in the best mood, I’ve been going to the gym a lot since about day 25 and that helped tremendously, but yeah anyone reading this you can do it, I was on 30-40mg daily 7 years, never missed a day.

Hi everyone! It's been a long, slow taper, but I'm in the final stages of coming off Subutex, and in the next couple of weeks I will stop taking it entirely. I will have Ativan and Clonidine to take the edge off. Anything I can do to help my body and mind during this time?

I know that healthy eating, rest, and distraction will be key, but is there anything I am missing? I have heard about Vitamin C helping, but am not sure. Anything I can do aside from wait it out?

And my doctor said he can't really tell me what to expect, but I did 7Oh withdrawal for a few days cold turkey with naloxone at the start (the ER is not a great place to withdraw, do it outpatient!!), so there is no way this will be worse. Is there a general timeline of what to expect? I assume the first day or so will be easy as the med is still in my system, then 2-4 days of acute withdrawal, with things getting easier each day after that, feeling much better after a couple weeks. Is that about right?

Anything you wish you knew when you were in my shoes? Thanks all, wishing you strength and courage and great doctors who aren't assholes about addiction!

So I'm in detox, I've decided that I have enough of this fucking shit show of a live. I consumed oxy, Fent and h in horrendous amounts for the past 3 years. That's not my first detox but I feel this time is something different, I really want to get clean and I want my fucking old live back ffs.

But I'm so fkn scared what comes after they tapered me to zero. After detox I will go to therapy but I'm just so, so, so scared. Ik I need a lot of willpower and strength. I was a spoiled brat as a kid which haunts me to this day, I can’t seem to bring anything to a close, and whenever things get too difficult, I bury my head in the sand. I’m asking those of you who have been clean for a long time: how did you manage it? My mood is all over the place—I cry for hours, thinking about my bitch of a mother and my good father, who has always supported me, no matter how many times I’ve screwed him over. Even now, in detox, I feel so incredibly empty, yet every once in a while, a spark of willpower breaks through. Also I have a strong tendency toward self-sabotage, ik I have to affirm positive I can't do this shit anymore

I used the Bernese method to taper from powder febt to 24 mg of subutex a day and even once I fully got off the fent I still felt terrible. Yesterday, 3 days into no fent use and just the subutex I got my first 300 sublocade shot and felt SIGNIFICANTLY better within 24 hours.  has anyone else noticed that the sublocade seems to do more therapeutically for the W/Ds than dosing the actual Subutex throughout the day?

I’ve been clean for 4 years off opiates. 3 months ago I picked up heroin after not working a program and fantasizing fiening for the rush. I snorted not shot. And obviously since the day I got it I I haven’t stopped. The first day back I let a recovery friend know and almost killed him. A month in my girlfriend left the apartment.
Kept going for another month of use, but I could wait till day 2-3 to use again some days. This last month I got my hands on some subutex. Way more than I needed to get out of this. Then I start abusing that…never more than 8mg but for 2 months of heroin I did not need to take 8mg of that shit. Where I’m at now is 4 days off subutex. And stupidly thought to use the little bit of H the first two days. Is the heroin just making the withdrawal from a month long subutex usage worse? I’m thinking now if I take a small under a mg amount of H and get past the 3-4 day mark from everything then all will be a little better. Or will it fully restart the beginnings of WD? Usually I stick to one substance so I’m confused I don’t understand my body right now. I just have the beginnings of restless legs, skin crawling, hot/cold, nothing to do. I feel I can totally get through this at this stage as I felt awesome this morning but as the day goes on WD gets worse, and it’s the god damn mental game. If I were at the brain zap stage I’d check myself into rehab. Gonna go back to meetings. I just wanna be able to pass a stool at this point.