Call your local hospital's substance abuse program, ASAP! They will help you.

Congratualtions on taking that first big step toward recovery. You have clearly seen that a life on drugs is no life at all!

Keep us posted along the way. Your journey may help someone else in your situation.

God Bless and TC!

Yea, those pain pills are real buggers. You will need help. I got off them at home, but I wouldn't recomend that to anyone. It was hell. Two weeks of being sick, not able to move or do anything, constant huge headache, everything hurt. Not nice at all. Then after I felt like an old man for months. No energy at all, and thought my life was done. Lost a lot of weight, but couldn't gain it back. Went to treatment for three months. It was great. Ate good, slept good, got some good clean time and felt healthy again. Everyday I saw myself looking better, and better. it was a much needed holiday away from the real world. Best thing I did.

hey i know what you are going through i have lost everything i ever care about..but i got to say you need to give suboxone a chance im takeing it and its been great i can function without thinking where im going to get my next pill,it also helps for pain because i have chronic back problems..so hang in there and look up this site..www.turntohelp.com you really need to check this out

Thanks for all the support. I was on suboxone once, it's been a thought. I wish I could find a DR who would bill it through insurance :/ The last time it was $200 for the 1st visit then $125 every 3 weeks. What's the difference between suboxone & subutex?

SUBOXONE and SUBUTEX take the place of these medicines and drugs and may help you stop using and abusing them. SUBOXONE and SUBUTEX are part of a complete addiction treatment program that also includes counseling or behavioral therapy.

SUBOXONE is a tablet that contains 2 medicines.
1. The first medicine is called buprenorphine (BYOO-pruh-NOR-feen). It is like painkiller
medicines such as morphine, street drugs like heroin, and addiction treatment medicines
like methadone. Buprenorphine may give you less of a "high" than these other prescription medicines and street drugs. Withdrawal or stopping buprenorphine is easier than stopping other prescription medicines and street drugs.

2. SUBOXONE also contains naloxone (nal-OX-own). When naloxone is injected, it blocks the effects of medicines and drugs like methadone, heroin, and morphine. Naloxone is
added to SUBOXONE to stop people from injecting ("shooting-up") SUBOXONE tablets. When you use SUBOXONE under your tongue (sublingually), as prescribed, the naloxone
in SUBOXONE should not stop the medicine's effects. However, if you inject
SUBOXONE, the naloxone can give you bad withdrawal symptoms.
SUBUTEX is a tablet and it contains only the medicine buprenorphine SUBUTEX is different from SUBOXONE because it does not contain naloxone. It is usually used under a doctor's direct supervision.

Thanks, I knew about the Suboxone, I just wasn't sure about the Subutex. I've dramatically decreased my usage, so hopefully I can keep weaning myself down! Any suggestions for pain relief since I do have slipped discs, scoliosis, reversal of the cervical lordosis, disc dessication, ddd, fibromyalgia, chiari 1 malformation...

800 miligrams of ibprofen = 4 pills = the prescription dose. If that doesn't work, there are dozens of other anti inflammatory drugs which your doctor can prescribe.

Good Luck!