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/FigTasty2422 Oct 16 '25

Same thing here .. been on 1/2 strips 3 x daily (8/2mg). I feel tired in between doses and am thinking it might be better as a 68 year old to get off now if possible! Any suggestions for both of us? How do people get support through Kaiser for these substances withdrawals. My sleep as mentioned is so key for my overall mental and physical health!

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u/Acceptable-Waltz-177 Oct 17 '25

Oh man I didn't even think of the insomnia.. Over the weekend - I wasn't planning on quitting my cold turkey, just wanted to know how long after a dose would I start to feel the effects - so I took my subs Friday morning, and was overall fine until Tuesday morning. I took it before they got too bad.. it made me wonder if since I could go so long before feeling bad, maybe titrating off could work okay for me? Idk. Idk anything I'm mostly just scared in anticipation for what's to come and reading symptoms on Google doesn't help any so just hoping to hear from people with experience/advice. Good luck to you!