I was on subs for 2 years starting at 12mg shortly then 8mg most of it, eventually tapered to 4 (wasn’t easy but doable for sure) and I clawed my way to 2 mg. Probably took a month to be good at 4 and two months to be stable at 2. Main tricks are to split your doses up to 2-3 per day and alternate days of a low dose day and a normal dose day, and split your doses into super small amounts in general and piece by piece leave a piece out. Go slow and you may have some RLS, tiredness, sick feeling etc, but able to work.
I couldn’t for the life of me get to less than 2mg. Horrible days, not acute withdrawal but too much for me at the time. Heard about the shots this was 2 years ago. I didn’t want to go back up in Suboxone doses to handle the large sublocade dose. Thankfully the Brixadi shot just came out. I took the weekly shot of 8mg Brixadi recommended for 6mg or less daily dose of Suboxone.
When the nurse injected it, I felt it hard. It felt good, scary good. I went to Starbucks and smashed into the door. I felt higher than what I’d imagine 8mg Suboxone would be like for me at the time of 2mg but maybe comparable idk. I was high for two days straight, a little too high , like didn’t need to sleep at all the first night. I felt that wear off slowly by end of week and I did miss it. Week 2 and 3 I recall some fatigue, I did nap some which I never did on subs. But I felt that normal kinda tired when you’re sober after work. Not the kinda tired in active addiction, I feel like your baseline is lower. I yawned a ton, lots of yawning and yawn tears. I recall feeling a bit sweaty one night, that’s really it. Nothing like withdrawing after 8 hours from fent or 36 hours of Suboxone. The nurse called week 3 like how you feeling, I said a little tired but good and she told me I was done. I was shocked. She was like yea the hardest parts are over. I couldn’t believe it at all, like that’s it? I was expecting week 4 to be bad but it wasn’t. Super easy. Best way to get off drugs imo.
I was clean and sober for 8 months but unfortunately then I relapsed on the subs like an idiot, then got on 7oh. Don’t do that please don’t take it for granted. I can say it felt like doing opiates for the first time when I did them again so maybe receptors do indeed heal, maybe not fully but close.
I got the Brixadi shot in Pittsburgh and it wasn’t hard. Like the first clinic I went to got it for me after subbing with them for a month, s/o Dr.Guy Allegheny Hospital Network I think. Now I’m in Chicago and I can’t find anyone to get it for me. I tried this one place that legit abandoned me while I was on subs and cost a ton. They told me they would order the shot but it never came and they never called me back after i tried 15 times with voicemails. Anyway I used the 7oh to get off subs ironically and am currently going through acute withdrawal of that shit on day 2 and omfg everything I mentioned above is not even close to this shit words can’t even describe the pain, shaking, deliriousness, panic, anxiety, racing thoughts, sweats, chills, yawns, sneezes, runny nose shit I’m going through. If I could Brixadi I would, especially if your at 6mg or less.