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Heroin initially stopped me from killing myself. Even addiction gave me a reason to “live”, such as a was, a routine (albeit a broken painful one) that I was mi

by girvo 3y ago

Heroin initially stopped me from killing myself. Even addiction gave me a reason to “live”, such as a was, a routine (albeit a broken painful one) that I was missing prior. Still a horrible outcome of course; opioid dependence sucks. The Buvidal injection is a life changer for me.

tipiirai 3y ago
Wow. Pretty intense story. Did you actually start taking heroin due to suicidal thoughts?
- girvo 3y ago
  It’s more that my crippling untreated depression as a 16-17 year old (plus some pretty brutal trauma) lead to me taking risks with little regard for the consequences, and one of those was opiates and heroin. It really did give me some measure of “purpose” and it really did keep my suicidal thoughts at bay. Not worth the long term consequences of addiction/dependency, but it wasn’t pure hedonism as the reason I was using it either.
  - tipiirai 3y ago
    Makes sense. Thanks for sharing
DougEiffel 3y ago
Congrats on making it through and getting the injection. I did Suboxone for a couple years, the Sublocade injection for a few more, and then I stopped my Sublocade ~5 months ago. My total clean time is almost 7 years now. I wish more people knew about Sublocade and Buvidal. I always tell people that opioid addiction pretty much has a cure these days but they are so hesitant to start the injections because they never heard of it.
- girvo 3y ago
  Congrats to you! Yeah it’s literally a miracle drug as far as I’m concerned. I was on Suboxone/Subutex for 8ish years, relapsed for a few weeks despite years of compliance on the program over the hell time that was COVID lockdowns, and so finally pulled the trigger and swapped to the injection. It’s infinitely better not waking up every morning in mild withdrawals. It’s a godsend, and everything I’ve heard is coming off it is pretty easy, well as easy as it could really be anyway.
  - DougEiffel 3y ago
    Super easy. I took Imodium for a couple of days at the 3 month mark for some very minor digestive symptoms. The "worst" part of quitting Sublocade so far was the one day, also around 3 months, when I felt a little tired and my emotions came back. I felt like I had the most mild cold ever, but what bothered me was the intense fear that I was about to go into legitimate withdrawal. 8 hours later I felt fine and have felt fine since.
    - girvo 3y ago
      Heck yeah. They might switch me onto Sublockade as they have more experience with the long term pharmacokinetics of stopping, but we’ll see. Might just stick with Buvidal, much more comfortable injection If the US and state governments really wanted to solve the opioid crisis, getting Buvidal/Sublockade to anyone who asks for it, for free, would go a very long way. It’s free for me paid for by my state government here in Aus, and it changed my life.

by girvo 3y ago

tipiirai 3y ago

Wow. Pretty intense story. Did you actually start taking heroin due to suicidal thoughts?

girvo 3y ago
It’s more that my crippling untreated depression as a 16-17 year old (plus some pretty brutal trauma) lead to me taking risks with little regard for the consequences, and one of those was opiates and heroin. It really did give me some measure of “purpose” and it really did keep my suicidal thoughts at bay. Not worth the long term consequences of addiction/dependency, but it wasn’t pure hedonism as the reason I was using it either.
- tipiirai 3y ago
  Makes sense. Thanks for sharing

DougEiffel 3y ago

Congrats on making it through and getting the injection. I did Suboxone for a couple years, the Sublocade injection for a few more, and then I stopped my Sublocade ~5 months ago. My total clean time is almost 7 years now. I wish more people knew about Sublocade and Buvidal. I always tell people that opioid addiction pretty much has a cure these days but they are so hesitant to start the injections because they never heard of it.

girvo 3y ago
Congrats to you! Yeah it’s literally a miracle drug as far as I’m concerned. I was on Suboxone/Subutex for 8ish years, relapsed for a few weeks despite years of compliance on the program over the hell time that was COVID lockdowns, and so finally pulled the trigger and swapped to the injection. It’s infinitely better not waking up every morning in mild withdrawals. It’s a godsend, and everything I’ve heard is coming off it is pretty easy, well as easy as it could really be anyway.
- DougEiffel 3y ago
  Super easy. I took Imodium for a couple of days at the 3 month mark for some very minor digestive symptoms. The "worst" part of quitting Sublocade so far was the one day, also around 3 months, when I felt a little tired and my emotions came back. I felt like I had the most mild cold ever, but what bothered me was the intense fear that I was about to go into legitimate withdrawal. 8 hours later I felt fine and have felt fine since.
  - girvo 3y ago
    Heck yeah. They might switch me onto Sublockade as they have more experience with the long term pharmacokinetics of stopping, but we’ll see. Might just stick with Buvidal, much more comfortable injection If the US and state governments really wanted to solve the opioid crisis, getting Buvidal/Sublockade to anyone who asks for it, for free, would go a very long way. It’s free for me paid for by my state government here in Aus, and it changed my life.