[Ariesfire27]

Hi, all. I'm curious if anyone else on Suboxone has trouble waking up in the morning, even after a good night's sleep. It's hard to think back if I had this problem before Sub as I've been on it so long (over 2 years), prior to that I was the new mother of a special needs baby, and before that a daily drug user. I know one of the side effects is sedation, so I wonder if that's it, but on the other hand after my a.m. dose I seem to perk up a bit. I am so, so hoping once I'm off Sub this morning to noon zombie zone will go away!! Thanks for sharing any info/insight you have!

[Sgt.Anger]

Originally Posted by Ariesfire27

Hi, all. I'm curious if anyone else on Suboxone has trouble waking up in the morning, even after a good night's sleep. It's hard to think back if I had this problem before Sub as I've been on it so long (over 2 years), prior to that I was the new mother of a special needs baby, and before that a daily drug user. I know one of the side effects is sedation, so I wonder if that's it, but on the other hand after my a.m. dose I seem to perk up a bit. I am so, so hoping once I'm off Sub this morning to noon zombie zone will go away!! Thanks for sharing any info/insight you have!

Yes i get that too..What i do is leave my suboxone right next to my bed and just pop em and lay on my belly while they dissolve.Im awake but im just tired..I find after they dissolve i wake right up..Then an hour or two later im a little tired again but work through it..Suboxone works really weird in me..People say it lasts three days in them but when i wake up im half dope sick..And they say it blocks there dope but after 12 hours and im on 16 mgs i can do like 5 bags and get high,it doesnt block it..Thats why i ly in my bed like a typical junkie who used to wake up and couldnt wait for that shot in my room..Suboxone doesnt make me tired though..

[Robert_325]

Originally Posted by Ariesfire27

Hi, all. I'm curious if anyone else on Suboxone has trouble waking up in the morning, even after a good night's sleep. It's hard to think back if I had this problem before Sub as I've been on it so long (over 2 years), prior to that I was the new mother of a special needs baby, and before that a daily drug user. I know one of the side effects is sedation, so I wonder if that's it, but on the other hand after my a.m. dose I seem to perk up a bit. I am so, so hoping once I'm off Sub this morning to noon zombie zone will go away!! Thanks for sharing any info/insight you have!

Ariesfire ... Suboxone can have kind of a sedating effect, but it's not something that typically causes us to be "wiped out" when we sleep. I would never question anyone who says suboxone keeps them from waking up but that is not a common side effect. If anything suboxone might be inclined to do just the opposite at times. I've heard from people who occasionally have a little trouble going to sleep, or sleeping well, but I don't recall hearing about what you describe. It seems that occasionally some people are kept awake as a side effect of the naloxone in the suboxone. I don't believe that is even a common side effect, it just happens occasionally. I know that I never had any problems with buprenorphine causing me any problems waking up as long as I wasn't taking any benzos or something similar with it.

[sisterwin2]

Originally Posted by Ariesfire27

Hi, all. I'm curious if anyone else on Suboxone has trouble waking up in the morning, even after a good night's sleep. It's hard to think back if I had this problem before Sub as I've been on it so long (over 2 years), prior to that I was the new mother of a special needs baby, and before that a daily drug user. I know one of the side effects is sedation, so I wonder if that's it, but on the other hand after my a.m. dose I seem to perk up a bit. I am so, so hoping once I'm off Sub this morning to noon zombie zone will go away!! Thanks for sharing any info/insight you have!

I wish it made me tired.... in fact I have the manic feeling after about an hours of doseing.... Now that I am on 3 mg it is alot less manic but I have to take my sencond dose by about 2pm or I really will not sleep.

[Sleepyhead40]

Originally Posted by Sgt.Anger

Yes i get that too..What i do is leave my suboxone right next to my bed and just pop em and lay on my belly while they dissolve.Im awake but im just tired..I find after they dissolve i wake right up..Then an hour or two later im a little tired again but work through it..Suboxone works really weird in me..People say it lasts three days in them but when i wake up im half dope sick..And they say it blocks there dope but after 12 hours and im on 16 mgs i can do like 5 bags and get high,it doesnt block it..Thats why i ly in my bed like a typical junkie who used to wake up and couldnt wait for that shot in my room..Suboxone doesnt make me tired though..

Yeah, I've taken suboxone within a few hrs of finishing my last pills and it did the job without the massive WD, and I've taken pills the same day that I used suboxone without it really blocking it. But overall it's been great, and it's gonna get me all better eventually, when I make up my mind. I also get intense waves of sleepiness from it if I stop moving for more than 5 mins.I also have a hard time getting going in the mornings as well when on it. I think it hits everybody different.

[bev49]

It has the opposite effect on me. When I started I would take the 2nd dose right before bedtime and I was so hyped up I couldnt fall asleep. Taking the 2nd dose at dinner time, as per dear Robert's directions, solved that problem. Sometimes it makes me a bit hyper during the day, but never tired or groggy.

[Ariesfire27]

So I'm not the only one then! I feel so sick in the morning, zombified really. Then about 10 minutes after I take the Sub I'm ok, still not what I'd like but the B vitamins are helping. I know it's a lot worse now that I'm down to 4mg (2mg a.m. & 2mg p.m.) - I can only make it until 4:30 before I take the second 2mg & by 8 a.m. the next day I'm in rough shape. All hot, crampy, dizzy, sick stomach. Makes me wonder if I don't have the half life most people do, I should be a-ok w/only 16 hours but it is GONE from my system.

Originally Posted by Sgt.Anger

Yes i get that too..What i do is leave my suboxone right next to my bed and just pop em and lay on my belly while they dissolve.Im awake but im just tired..I find after they dissolve i wake right up..Then an hour or two later im a little tired again but work through it..Suboxone works really weird in me..People say it lasts three days in them but when i wake up im half dope sick..And they say it blocks there dope but after 12 hours and im on 16 mgs i can do like 5 bags and get high,it doesnt block it..Thats why i ly in my bed like a typical junkie who used to wake up and couldnt wait for that shot in my room..Suboxone doesnt make me tired though..