1st off, the fact you have percs and darvoset on hand while on sub tx isn't a very good sign. Why do you still have opiates around?? You're just asking for trouble, and IMHO it's a sign you're not really ready to quit.
Getting below 4 mg of sub is hard....really hard. I recently did it, after being stable at 4mg for a good 6 months. I droped to about 3 mg a day for a few weeks, then right to 2 mg. It was really hard some mornings not to take more than 2 mg, and a a few times I did take extra...but I finally got the willpower up to stick with just 2 mg a day, and now after a month at 2 mg, I feel just the same as i did on 4, or 8 mg even. It's all about willpower and determination, and wanting to do this. Yes, you're not going to feel wonderful all the time, but thats the way it is...You'll feel a lot better than if you had nothing, and will still be able to sleep and function.
Are you getting couceling? I use to scoff at the idea of it myself, but there really can be something to it....even if that something is going is such a pain in the butt that it gives you incentive to stop using. Counceling also gives you someone to report to, and to be proud when you have been doing good, or to help you evaluatae when you're not doing so well. Suboxone without counceling is largely a waste of your time and money, unless maybe you don't have any underlying ciases for using in the first place.
Stopping sub at 3, 2 or even 1 mg of sub is almost a guarantee you'll replapse. Yoiu need to get down to just tiny crumbs a day, like 0.25 mg a day, and then quit. If you're at 4 mg a day still, you have a ways to go, to be successful at it....and please, flush those other opiates you have laying around. Perhaps inlist the help of your hubby to dole out your daily sub, because it is so easy to take just a little more on those days when you feel like crap....it
is really mostly psycological though...thats our old more is better thinking....With sub, less is better.
Good luck,
mano
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