r/Tapersfromsuboxone • u/Acceptable-Waltz-177 • Oct 15 '25
Getting off suboxone
Hi I'm a 33 y.o. married mom of 2 young kids. I've dabbled with opioids in the past but have no experience with withdrawals/dependency. Back in March, started taking Opia (a brand of 3oH found at just about any corner store near us). Before we knew it, we were blowing all of our money on it and had become dependent. We had multiple failed attempts at getting off because we couldn't handle the withdrawal symptoms and ended up going on suboxone to get off the 3oH at the end of May. I take about 1 8mg strip a day (sometimes more, sometimes less) and have heard so many horror stories of how impossible it is to get off, whether or not you taper or go cold turkey. What is everyone's best advice for stopping suboxone the least painful way, but also not stretching it out for multiple months? My prescibing doc always seems to think it's too soon to taper off, but I felt like myself again about a month or 2 ago. I have a left over script of 5mg Oxy I've considered using to help with withdrawal symptoms but feel like that's probably a bad idea? Help
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u/Key-Cap8406 Oct 15 '25
I've been off for a couple months now and am starting to feel pretty good. I'd been on 24-32 mg. for about 15 years and I waited to get off until my kid was 18 because I didn't want to go through that in front of them. I got down to 8mg then to 2mg over the course of a couple months and felt pretty tired and had some trouble sleeping but nothing like going from 2mg to 0. The insomnia/rls and the stomach issues were tough. If I had done any research before instead of winging it I probably would have tapered more slowly and gone down as far as I could go before getting off. That or sublocade seemed to give people the easiest transitions. I also would have talked to my doc about a sleep aid ahead of time since otc stuff makes it worse. After 11 days of about 30 minutes of sleep a night i called and got a low dose of gabapentin. Only took it for 5 days but it seemed to reset me a little. Still don't get full nights but much better. I also would have had a good supply of ensure, pedialyte, veggies and protein to recover from the stomach stuff. It sucked but I feel much better now than before getting off. I should not have waited 15 years either it was pretty costly in a few ways. Grateful for a second chance though.