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I haven’t went any lower in my daily dose but I’m just going to start skipping days.

I feel I have let my body adjust to taking 0.25mg each dose for long enough.

I have to say it wasn’t easy a lot of ups and downs mentally.

if I was to judge it the mental part is 1000 times worst then the physical part.

This is something I will never put my mind through again ever, they should warn people about the risk of this stuff and not make it seem like it’s just some harmless Matt medicine.

Yeah it’s all smooth and good when comfortably taking it but once you start to taper is when things get ugly, real ugly!!

This stuff makes you have anxiety attacks about everything and it causes breathing problems which I’m finding out myself first hand.

If you take suboxone and you stand up and try and take a deep breath with your stomach and not your chest it maybe difficult, it’s like you can’t take a full belly deep breath it’s crazy smh, only while standing though with just the belly.

I never had this problem until I started taking this stuff!!! Now I look into it and it does say it causes breathing problems.

I’ve been using doctor prescribed muscle relaxers to sleep through the night during my taper and I have to say it really does help.

Idk how hard it will be to fall asleep on my own once I stop taking these but they are amazing, without these I’m sure I would be like a walking zombie right now!!

I guess these just some of the phases I had to go thru but I’m starting to feel much better now.

I have to say once I’m fully done I will never put my body or mind through this ever again, I don’t care what I’m going through once this over I will never put another sub in my body!!!

I thought I’d be done with this taper months ago but it’s fine, any progress is better than no progress!!

I have a sticky note up that simply says “calm”, whenever I’m feeling anxious or sub induced anxiety or panic attacks I just look at the note and calm myself best I can.

Before the end of this year I will be updating here letting everyone know my long journey with subs is over, this for sure will be something I will never forget!!!

I tapered down very low but still find it just cause difficult as when I first started if not more.

Someone told me they just went cold turkey at 2mg and after a month they feel fine, I’m about ready to just do that, this taper I mean I did it but stopping completely doesn’t seem any easier the lower you go.

I think it’s more of a mental thing honestly, but the taper seems to just prolong it.

It’s like tapering just prolong to suffering I can honestly say.

I’ve been in so much pain from this crap, I had no idea what I was getting myself into heard ago smh.

And also feeling like my lower back is numb when seated, this stuff is the worst it’s just causing all kind of panic attacks tonight, I started sweating very bad out of nowhere and won’t stop.

I looked it up and it can causes these symptoms when stopping or taking regularly.

This stuff is very scary, I’m low in my taper but now I’m having all kind of mood swings, yesterday morning I woke up and literally felt like I didn’t want to be here anymore and I’ve never felt like this a day in my life before.

Being on this stuff for 3 years was the biggest mistake of my life, I have never dealt with nothing so long and painful as this.

I’ve been tapering for months and it’s still very difficult to adjust to the current 0.50 a day dose, seems like after about 5 hours after my dose I start not feeling well.

This is the longest most painful thing I’ve ever experienced in my life, I thought quitting smoking was hard hell no, nothing beats this so called helper medication!!

I mean how long does it take the body to begin to start to heal this is crazy to say the least.

Whole side left side of my face hurts badly, can’t eat on that side either, my teeth looks perfect but so much pain smh this is the craziest thing I’ve ever been thru!!!!

They did X-rays and I have a infection under my tooth which is crazy, I mean it’s crazy so I have a filling already in this tooth and I guess the suboxone went down thru it or somehow got under or inside the gum idk this a guess but yeah I’m in so much pain right now smh.

So this tooth have to get removed and I’m pissed, the infection is all the way down at the root, it’s a little spot nothing major big but it hurts like hell.

It has to get removed I’m guessing cause it’s so deep down in there, I will know more when I got see the specialist.

My daughter and son fail in love with this new roast and white rice I make so they want me to make it tonight, I sometimes drink a cup of coffee it gives me a little energy but I don’t want to make it a habit.

A lady I work with said she drunk coffee for 10 years and once she quit now she have headaches sometimes daily !!

I would for sure drink coffee every day that I’m sluggish if my co worker didn’t inform me on her issues with it so I’m very thankful!!

My mouth been sore all day, had to take Tylenol while at work to get thru the day.

This stuff really ruins your mouth smh, I brush 3 times and day and been doing that for a while but it still doesn’t help, I also wait an hour after I take this tiny dose.

On the tough days it’s like you know help is just arms reach away, another dose and all the pain is gone but you just have to fight it, use any distraction possible cause normally the strong urge will pass even though the symptoms will still be there.

I also started chewing gum for some reason that helps a little idk why.

It’s on eBay I know some people may already have it but I just found out about it!!

After 6 years of being on his dentist said he lost all the bones in his mouth, the medicine in the subs causes serious Periodontal problems!!

I’m not dentist so idk much about it but wanted to update people on warning the doctors don’t tell us when putting us on this stuff!!!

Not dropping any lower or making any sudden moves until I’m ready and feel my body is fully stable!!

This is the slowest and hardest things I’ve ever done in my life!

If I’d known I was going to have to go thru this I would of just cold turkey the percosets I was taking, dealt with the 1 week of WD symptoms and been done, but we live and we learn!!

When I was on a high dose of subs something I never noticed was the birds chirping, and I only realize this now the sounds of the birds sounds so beautiful outside on walks!!

This is so crazy that I don’t recall hearing a bird chirp in over 3 years and that’s the amount of time I’ve been on a high dose, omg this is truely heartbreaking to me and eye opening!!

I’ve really been walking around dormant to say the least!!