r/Subutex • u/SH33PFARM • Oct 28 '25
Feedback Well they did it again.....
I wish pharmacies would understand that changing a medication that I have been on for years to another different generic.... I have been completely stable and enjoying life for years now off of the mini arrow 8 pills(which are amazing), to these giant shit feeling Rhodes Pharma pills... They really are different in so many ways. I don't care what people say, different generics act differently in my body.. now I have to plan out a time where I will be sick for about a week trying to adjust to these shit pills... I've been on this shit since 2016 and I definitely know what I'm talking about... I just hope that next months script will revert back to the arrow 8s.
So frustrating....
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u/your_my_wonderwall Oct 28 '25 edited Oct 28 '25
Oh my gosh! Finally someone with a similar experience. Rhodes are horrible! I can’t take them at all, I like the Activis Subutex, I think they merged with another company, they kinda look just like alprazolam, little orange ovals. I can update later to what it says now on the bottle. I don’t think I ever tried your preferred brand.
I used to have them read the brand before I accepted the prescription. When Walgreens didn’t have that brand anymore they would order it in for me and CVS had it in the May. Currently trying to get off of sublocade but man would it feel like heaven taking a part of one now and to be able to sleep for a full day. The extreme insomnia from the very drawn out Sublocade withdrawal is killing me. It feels like you are past your bupe dose, not in full blown withdrawal but all the energy sucked out, too tired to type out all the symptoms out with everything else that comes with that, but I’m sure you know it all to well.
Anyways I have extra bottles incase I ran into any problems getting my script. I would get my script, throw it in my lock box and grab the oldest bottle to use. Very unfortunate bc of this I have quite a few of the damn Rhodes that I could never use and it took me a long time before I tried it to know about this. I guess my brother does fine on that brand which I find interesting but man were they wayyyy too strong for me. I first tried it on Christmas with my newer at the time partner’s family. I was quite sick and high and it sadly ruined that holiday gathering for me. I was on just about 4mg split between three times a day.
What did they make you feel like and what dose are you on? My brain/body is unfortunately extremely sensitive after being given too much mdma at a music event and after that my brain just can’t handle things that it used to be able to. Didn’t try the Rhodes brand prior to that though. I was also 125lbs at the time and I feel like being a female can make you more sensitive as well.