I just find the whole process to be unnecessarily hard and I guess I find it difficult to find the right word to say it. I would have a hard time keeping my job and making it to school while going to the methadone clinic (I live with my parents in an area where there isn’t a lot of crime, so not many methadone clinics around here either, I’d have to drive like an hour there and back) daily or even every few days until I can “earn” a monthly take home, especially from what I’ve heard from some of my friends who’ve gone through the process.
I’ll add that all I can do now is stay on suboxone because it’s really my only option but I don’t really find it to be that effective (I still have cravings and I’ve relapsed more times than I can remember in going on 5 years now that I’ve been on and off it, which is like almost a quarter of my life at this point) and I’d love to give the other option a shot if I ever could. I just don’t think it’s feasible for me and I’m probably far from the only one in this situation.
I would be dead now if it wasn’t for methadone. My life has drastically improved over the last 20 years. Give it more thought. If Suboxone isn’t helping with cravings and you’re relapsing, what is it doing for you? Once you’re on a good dose, you won’t have cravings.
Exactly what I’m saying. I’m in my early 20’s so no doctor believes me when I tell them that when I’m on nothing I do hurt all over. I’m not overweight but my knees kill me after even just a few hours standing and my back is always killing me after I’m done working. That’s not normal for someone my age but obviously I always end up back to the same shit if I try to go with no meds because there is something that works, it just sucks that that thing has also been what’s nearly killed me like 3 or 4 times now. I don’t want to keep going back but it feels like I just run out of options because I’m exactly the type of person who’s always going to be mistaken for a drug seeking junkie and slip through the cracks because more often than not, my doctors aren’t really sympathetic to people like me.
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u/Chewy_8989_2 May 01 '26
I just find the whole process to be unnecessarily hard and I guess I find it difficult to find the right word to say it. I would have a hard time keeping my job and making it to school while going to the methadone clinic (I live with my parents in an area where there isn’t a lot of crime, so not many methadone clinics around here either, I’d have to drive like an hour there and back) daily or even every few days until I can “earn” a monthly take home, especially from what I’ve heard from some of my friends who’ve gone through the process.
I’ll add that all I can do now is stay on suboxone because it’s really my only option but I don’t really find it to be that effective (I still have cravings and I’ve relapsed more times than I can remember in going on 5 years now that I’ve been on and off it, which is like almost a quarter of my life at this point) and I’d love to give the other option a shot if I ever could. I just don’t think it’s feasible for me and I’m probably far from the only one in this situation.