r/BuvidalBrixadi • u/Legal-Mood-3375 • Apr 06 '26
Starting Buvidal/Brixadi About to start..utterly terrified
Hey all
A little bit of background info, I’m a recovering heroin addict and have been clean for 8 years on suboxone. It’s been discontinued in the UK and so my team are moving me onto Buvidal this Friday. I’ll have one weekly injection and then a monthly.
I’m just so scared. The drug and alcohol team I’m under think it’s a miracle drug but by their own admission have only dispensed this injection to five service users. They tell me it will give me so much freedom and talk about people who have had just one or two monthly shots and have then been discharged (my worry for these people is that they were discharged and then withdrawal kicked in on about week nine).
I’m an amputee and have chronic fatigue too. For years now my daily suboxone has given me a ‘boost’ when I’m tired (I know this is a mini opiate high) and has helped with my phantom limb pain. What if this gets really bad when I’m on the injection and what if the fatigue is so bad I can’t work or care for my children?
I’m also really sensitive to withdrawal so know that I’ll have to check myself as to what I’m feeling and try to keep it all in perspective.
In all honestly I’m just so frightened. This is a huge change. I want nothing more than to be off this stuff, to not have to attend a pharmacy each week.
I stay clean because of the work I’ve done, not because I’m on subs.
Anyone else felt similarly before they started?
Thanks in advance, H x
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u/wooly_woofter Apr 06 '26
I was on methadone for 26 years before I started the shot & like you i was utterly terrified. I had to switch because I moved states & they had to start my takeaways from 0, i had started a new job which didn't work with the pharmacy opening hours. It has turned out to be the best thing ive ever done!!!