Dear Robert & Melinda,

On day 3 of the horrific w/d off of Subutex & Suboxone.

I just got out of rehab on 4/2/12 (I think) to get off huge amounts of opiates (Oxycontin & Oxycodone) which I have taken for so many years for severe back pain issues. As my tolerance to these meds increased the doses got higher and higher until finally they stopped working no matter how much I took.

I was put in rehab to get off the opiates... the rehab put me on Subutex for 11 days and tapered daily from 24mg/day down to 4mg/day... my insurance ran out and I went to my doctor that same day, who game me 2-1/2 more 2mg. tablets (one more for that evening, one 2mg tab for the next day and 1/2-1mg for the 3rd day), but this time they game me Suboxone to finish the taper.

The rehab place that I was in was reducing the Subutex by 2mg/day.

As I mentioned above, my doc, switched me to Suboxone for the last 2.5 days and I took my last 1mg dose on 4/3/12 and 2 days later the withdrawal started... it is hell! Legs aching to the bone, anxiety through the roof, and now restless leg and arm syndrome when I am trying to sleep, weepy eyes, you know the usual opiate withdrawal nightmares. The rehab said I would not have any withdrawal problems at all when they let me go because they tapered me... what a joke... how long does this withdrawal from the Subutex/Suboxone go on?

I hope to hear from you as I am at my wit's end.

Thank you and take good care, Gracie

P.S. Too bad the drug they use to get you off the drug you were using has a worse w/d than the original one??? Does that make sense to anyone? I think not. Grrrrrrrrrrr