When is a easy time to quit suboxone?!


Question: When is a easy time to quit suboxone?
My husband has been doing suboxone for 4 yrs now and is now being monitored by the doctor. So now he takes 8mgs everyday. Does this stuff also affect your behaviour? sex drive? has anyone quit, what is the best way??????????

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Suboxone is used as an alternative to whatever he was addicted to as you know. Most peoples lives are wrecked by their addiction. You take suboxone for a while until you get your life straight and your mind in the right place. Once you are ready to quit, tell your doctor. Remember, suboxone is an opiate so he is still addicted. There is no painless way to detox from opiates but its a good thing he sees a doctor because he can make it as ainless as possible, which he should because it cost so much money to see those doctors. The doctor will start a taper process. I started taking two 8mg strips or pills a day. Once I started the taper I was taking 6mg a day for a month (2mg strips). Then i went to 4mg a for a month, and then down to 2mg for a month. The tapering is very important and a little difficult but if your really ready to quit then it wont be that bad. Once, you are down to as little of a dose as possible, you will get sick for about a week. Its not as bad as going through your typical withdrawal because you were taking a very low dose. It will be like having the flu for a week, and nothing worse. I took a week of work. There are other drugs beside suboxone (nothing as good as suboxone) that your doctor will give you(some old school stuff). He gives you a cocktail of those, muscle relaxers and sleeping pills. You pretty much sleep it off. Its not bad at all. I was taking 300mg of norcos (vicodin) a day for years and I took suboxone for 5 months and quit. The doctor makes a lot of money from prescribing suboxone so he will keep giving you them unless you tell him it time to for yourself to quit (most of the time). After all that, you will feel fine. Then its all mental but if your really ready, its not bad. The whole reason I didnt want to quit was because of the physical pain I knew I was going to be in. Most doctors want you to also go to rehab or out-patient programs but youve probably spent enough money like i did. A good rehab place will cost a years salary for a month. They have NA or AA meetings you can go to, but I found most of them to be extremely religious but there is good support there. I found my support through my dog. I was kind of bad to him while I was using so that was my main motivation to get better. As long as your motivated, you wont need all that extra crap. You spend a lot of money at that doctor, I would expect, so you should expect a lot from it. So the easiest time to quit is when your head and your life is in he right place and you have motivation to quit. Suboxone made me happy and always in a good mood while I took it and I had no sex drive what so ever. Good Luck. Theres nothing to fear since you have a doctors help. I never needed anything but my doctors help.




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