From Feeling Better Than Ever to Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome 

I have been off opiates going on 5 months after 12 years of heavy use. The only thing that bothers me is that I have no energy or motivation. PAWS SUCKS. I understand why people relapse. My faith keeps me clean. ✌

So many misunderstandings here. Suboxone is worse to get off of than any short acting opioid and it you have to get through paws all again.

Thanks for sharing Glen. I’ve just come off my opiate pain treatment. I hate to say stopping a drug was the hardest experience of my life, we all have tragedies that befall us in this life, but it’s up there. Thank you for your service brother. Stay well.

At 3 milligrams, suboxone fills 70% of opioid receptors. It's a terrible drug. I hated it.

Suboxone for paws is ridiculous. Suboxone is an absolute nightmare to get off of and causes long lasting paws.

God he was probably just a couple months away from being done with PAWS and they put him on 4-6mg of sub… poor guy.

5 months sober and those assholes cost him another 4 years. He was so close to being done. I'll bet he had worse paws from the Suboxone. That's just dirty. They should have been honest and let him know how close he was.

im 5 months off methadone and still feel like im in mild withdrawal. infact it feels more intense.

It's usually the people that get the "up" feeling that end up having addiction issues with opiates.

This was informative Thank you

Nothing new here.. glad he was successful ...least he was not on a benzo that makes opioid use seems easy. Least opiods have a treatment God bless

I live in the Appalachian mountains & my husband became permanently disabled at 32 years old from an accident in, yup, you guessed it, the coal mines. Have been in MAT for 9 years & off Suboxone for 13 months. Although I am not in active addiction & no longer experiencing acute wd, I must say I am sure glad I didn’t know THIS is what it’d be like all this time later.

That isn’t “restless legs” that is called “withdrawal akathisia” and it can become chronic and last for decades. Do not push through withdrawal. Don’t fear seizure & death. Fear things you have to live with like painful movement disorders. Half of opiate addiction is lower level akathisia and everyone doesn’t realize it.

I had a severe leg injury back in 2019 and had 4 surgerys i was prescribed 10mgs of percocets that i took every 6 hours. Unfortunately this went on for 3 years. One morning i said to myself thats it im Done! I am now 20 weeks off that poison and still suffering from Paws. I whould never ever go on Methadone or Suboxone! I hope it sure does end soon its been such a journey!

Lol. Opioids were a cakewalk compared to benzos.

I once saw the homecoming queen, a beautiful girl, eat a WHITE DOG TURD for an oxy 80!! Thank goodness I had money that day bc I was scanning the yard for one of the “least gross” ones just in case the dope man asked me to!!! The damage so far has been irreversible & irreparable! Even after 11-12 years😔

Another story .. great... but what the hell is being done to stop all this from opiods and BENZOS....DAM enough talking ENOUGH....GET TO THE ROOT OF THIS MESS .. DAM IT ALL I SEE IS STORIES HORRIBLE STORIES BUT WERE ARE THE SOLUTIONS ????

Thank you i have described my feeling when i took pain medication, you calling it a utopia uforic? Cant spell. But utopia was my way of describing it. Im now using methadone and down to low dose but the energy and on top of it the pain, no sleeping or not well, no energy, nausia headaches you name it ive been this way for two years, test show nothing. I have rhymitiod arteritis and its been over 20 years ive known but these last two out of 6 years sobriety, im not sure if getting off methadone is possable. Thanks just listening knowing im not crazy, or trying to make excuse to use drug of any kind. God bless our mess. This was a testamony i will use to educate my family and friends.

3rd week from stopping cold turkey from 20-25 10mg Vicodin a day for over a year. Will I ever feel normal again???????????? Still feel like poop. What can I take to get energy again??? Anyone have any tips.

Ridiculos and at first, I thought he knew. But for PAWS? You just delay and start all over.

Oh man you don’t know what they did to you if they put you on subs lord and Mitch get of subs ASAP

I thought this was going to be a different kind of video but this guy is making me very irritable he keeps talking about how he was a pilot okay I get it but man get on with your story! 🙄

People are so full of shit