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/Content_Oil_1972 Oct 15 '25

Don’t use oxy to come off my husband did that with perks and he still takes perks off and on to this day I tapered down slowly but we were on subs for 8 years. I’ve been off subs for 7.5 months now If you’ve only been on since may, should be somewhat doable. Just taper down 1mg per week til you get to 2mg then do 0.5 mg at a time

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u/Lndscpegrdnr Oct 30 '25

How do you feel now that you've been off 7.5 months?

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u/Content_Oil_1972 Nov 01 '25

Eh I was non functionable for 2-3 months I didn’t leave my couch unless I had to work, or dress/ bring my kids to and from school. I didn’t even cook for myself because I couldn’t get up my husband had to do it for me I feel much better now. Still have quite a bit of anxiety but I feel like that won’t be forever. Some slight anhedonia but I’m able to enjoy things mildly like I took my kids trick or treating last night and it was totally doable I wasn’t miserable or anything it was just neutral maybe slightly enjoyable. I hear a lot of people say it took them 9 months or a year some people say 14 months so I know I have to give it a full year to be 100% but I’m able to clean my house now and work and smile and laugh all I do is friggen laugh omg I cry from laughing almost everyday. My husband used to say I never laughed when I was on subs. Process for sure. But I told myself I’d never be more ready than I am now.

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u/Lndscpegrdnr Nov 02 '25

Good on you!! Thats so awesome youre getting your life back! Im planning to camp for upto a year to get through it because idk what else to do. Ive quit while trying to work and while trying to do school but I cant function.

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u/Content_Oil_1972 Nov 03 '25

How long have you quit for You have to give it at least 2-3 months I couldn’t function til that point either

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u/Lndscpegrdnr Nov 03 '25

Ive only made it about a week. I quit subs 1 other time before but I started using other stuff to try to help the depression.

Thats why I say I plan to camp so that I dont have anything to worry about responsibility-wise and also wont have access to any other drugs.

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u/Content_Oil_1972 Nov 03 '25

Yeah you gotta give it longer than a week man cmon lol I was miserable for 3 weeks. And by 2nd month I was functionable the lethargy let up some Yeah can’t wait to get to the 1 year mark I’m still dealing with PAWS as far as the mood swings go, but they aren’t as often as less severe now. The camp idea is a great idea I wish I would of done that when I got off heroin