waitingfo...Hey everyone, I just wanted to update (and thank you) for helping me. I stopped depakote and within 3 days felt back to normal. The hallucinations, depression and everything was the depakote. I still take suboxone. 2mg a day now. In two days ill probably end that and I will happily and proudly be off all meds! I am so happy now. My life finally feels back to normal. Pretty scary to think how a medicine can make you feel like committing suicide. I'm so blessed to have kiced my tramadol addiction. I strongly recommend suboxone . I definetly couldn't of done this without it. I never got addicted to it but then again I didn't take the dose the dr told me too. (4mg three times day) I started 4mg a day. 2mg in the morning and 2mg at night for 5 days. Then 2mg a day. Sboxone will not work though if you don't have the WILL and desire to stop using. Thank you all for being there for me and listening.what a great community we have here :)
Suboxone - Just updating everyone?
- Posted:
- 22 Jan 2012 by waitingforsomelight
- Topics:
- depakote, suboxone, depression, opiate dependence, hallucination
Responses (5)
LaurieShay
babyr042322 Jan 2012
Dear waitingforsomelight,
I am so happy for you girl! I knew you could do it. And you are right. It is a great community here. I don't know what I would do without my DC family and friends. They are wonderful. I am so very proud of you, and you should be proud of yourself. Give yourself a big ole hug. I would hug you if I could. lol. Well keep up the good work, and God bless. Ruth
pattishan6122 Jan 2012
Dear waiting, thank you for the update, i was so worried when you stopped responding. I am curious, if this is not too invasive, did your dr tell you to stop suboxone and did he come up with the plan to jump at 2 mgs. The reason i ask is that each dr comes up with his or her own exit plan, if they encourage patients to taper off. You aren't under any obligation to answer those 2 questions, but if you feel it is not too invasive, please do. You usually have to stay on it at least 3 months, but some drs use a rapid schedule and i am curious. If your dr did NOT tell you to jump off at 2 mgs, You may be coming off too fast and too high, but please update us so we will know how you are doing. We care around here and i know i prayed very hard for you. You did the right thing by reaching out and letting someone know you were having these awful thoughts. I am so glad the paranoia and delusions are gone and wish you the very bewt. Patti
rvnew24 Jan 2012
Congradulations on your 12 day detox! I think it's great when a person can detox without needing to be on maintenance and then have to detox slowly. I wish I could have done a rapid detox but it was not an option for me. You did good by managing your doses according to your needs and not taking more than what was really necessary. Good job! Good example!
rvnew
waitingforsomelight
25 Jan 2012
Hey, its weird you mention it is treated for depression because I am bipolar and the worst part getting off the tramadol was it helped stabilize my moods. I was scared to get off because it helped so much. The first week (even on suboxone) I was beyond miserable. But I also started depkote right away which made it worse for me. I honestly believe all meds work so differently with each individual. But now I am off all meds and I'm more stable then ever. Just gotta stick to it.I completely understand when you say your family doesn't want to understand. My husband tried for a while but it came to a point that the depression made me so ugly towards him that he just threw his hands up and said "I give up , do it on your own" but for me, that's what worked. He let me vent to him and he tried as hard as he could but you can't expect anyone to understand if they aren't going through it. My father was the only one that was there for me.
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Hey! No my dr had me on a 12 day rapid detox. But if I couldn't do it then he would do a "maintenance" program . I have read and out of experience I know the shorter your on suboxone the better! I'm glad I did it quick. Thanks again everywhere
Please keep us updated, we have people ask about the short treatment with subs and none of us have done that. Please stay around and let us know how things are. We care here, you may be able to answer those short stent on subs questions we get, so please hang around. We need ya. Patti
Oh I will definetly stck around. I think short treatment of suboxone is the way to go. Maybe not for everyone but for me. I had NOOO withdrawals and still don't. I haven't even taken my 2mg dose of suboxone today. Haven't needed it. But I will stick around to answer questions for sure