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Originally Posted by chairmanma084  I never tested high enough to be put on the stuff. In fact after day two, I felt remarkably better. I still couldn't go #2 for a few days. In fact, because I never really WD'ed badly, they bounced me 3 days early with no medication protocol or follow up really at all besides a referral to a local psychiatric facility. |
You have reason to be very grateful, chairmanma! I suggest that you take the referral seriously because, as JK so correctly indicated, all opiate addiction should be considered "serious." Addiction (period) should be considered serious. Because addiction is serious, please consider NA (or another twelve-step program).
Just so that you don't feel like you got short-changed: Suboxone doesn't really get or keep you clean. It's merely an aid (albeit a good one); it really doesn't address most of the aspects of addiction. Fortunately,
because you weren't started on Suboxone, you won't need to face the need to either taper off the stuff (Sub makes you physically dependent, just like the OC and hydros did) or possibly decide that you just want off and, therefore, decide to jump off it, at which time you, might possibly, have gotten to experience some of the withdrawal symptoms which you seem to have been spared during your first detox.
Congrats on getting clean! and
to SR.
Please keep posting. Hopefully, your recovery has just begun.