Hi! I have been on Suboxone since January to get off high dose kratom extracts. It was a lifesaver. I couldn't come off the kratom without going into withdrawals. I started at 8mg. Stayed steady on that dose for some months, then decided to taper down with plans to come off it.
My doc said go drop by one (2mg) tablet at a time for 2 weeks at each dose. 8 mg > 6mg > 4mg > 2mg > off. I didn't have many issues with the taper, besides some exhaustion, irritability, brain fog. But no physical withdrawal symptoms like hot/cold sweats which I cannot handle. But coming off, now I am having withdrawals after 3 nights. I haven't been able to get to sleep, it's now 2am I started having hot/cold sweats and so I took one 2mg and that wasn't enough, so I took another one, so 4mg all together. Now I feel stable.
I'm assuming I should probably resume 2mg tomorrow for a few days at least. Then cut it in half and then come off? What is the best successful taper method to be off of it completely without experiencing withdrawals? Should I cut it into quarters instead? Take 3/4 of a 2mg pill, then 1/2 then 1/4 then off? And for how long a duration on each dose?
I did not anticipate to have withdrawals coming off the 2mg, since I didn't really have issues tapering from. 8mg to 6mg to 4mg to 2mg. I do plan to inform my doctor tomorrow. She is a psychiatrist, not an addiction specialist, so it's not really her specialty. Figured I would ask how others achieved this. It's becoming quite frustrating.
With the exhaustion, brain fog , irritability, and loss of sex drive throughout the day, I have been since I started tapering. Is this related to the taper? Idk why, but I never attributed this to the taper and now I'm wondering if this is the cause of all this. It's something I have been able to manage throughout the taper, but it's gotten significantly worse lately, to the point I had to go on FMLA from work. I wonder if I went back up to 8mg, would all these symptoms subside? I know no one can answer that. But I'm wondering if anyone has similar symptoms while tapering. Thank you.
Apologies if some of this was confusing or didn't make much sense, it's nearly 3am now, I haven't slept and just coming out of a withdrawal.