(Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones, Cars. We miss you!) xx

Sorry it took me so long to see your reply or I would have done it sooner!

It has been great talking to you too!! In fact, you can email me too. I’m at gmail using my user name here. I don’t check it often but when I do I will email you the addy I use more often.

I haven’t had much issue stepping down from 8 to 6, or even 6 to 4 when I have to, but my husband, who is also on it has been trying to get down from 2mg for a while now and has been having a tough time. the problem with suboxone is that you really don’t feel the difference until 3 days later, it’s a very delayed effect for us in the moment kind of people 😝so I always think I’m doing better than I am and then it hits me. but I am trying to lay some by and get myself down… if only in case of emergency! I’m on the strips though, not the pills, so I’m pretty sure they don’t expire as quickly; they’re sealed in plastic. I’m also curious about the other ones, I forget the name but there’s another version of suboxone made by a different company (now that the patent has expired) and according to their literature their product is more bioavailable and therefore you actually need less buprenorphine. but it’s hard to find, Reckitt Benkeiser has a stranglehold on the market – thank God for insurance or else I’d have to get off it a lot faster! 😆 and yes, it is definitely a mental thing too, and it’s hard to talk myself out of taking that extra when I have talked myself into thinking I need it.
Thanks for the convo, it’s good to talk to a fellow 💜

OMG, I hope you see this. I got clean before Katrina and I remember thinking how bad it would suck to be a junkie in NO!!! I did see the first ep of FTWD, but I don’t have cable so I haven’t seen the rest of it. If you are worried about keeping some on hand, taper yourself down before the dr does and stash those pills, (but rotate, they expire eventually). Trust me stepping down is not as hard as it seems…well, it is different for everybody, but I had like zero probs. I was a junkie for almost 10 yrs too, so it’s not like i’d only been doing it a few months or something. It may be mental…I’m sure that is a big part actually. I wanted it. Good luck!!

Just Dee – hiya pretty lily!
Would you consider doing an edit & wiping out that link?
Just so it doesn’t get more hits from unsuspecting peeps…
Paul, this writer, is not honest & fair. I believe he feels his work is justified because it is {funny ‘satire’} but he runs his website deceitfully.
I know he changes the comments in his comment section to support his business, bc he changed mine. :::fuck that shit:::
Apparently, that’s his gig however… more clicks means he gets more money from his advertisers.
nice to see you, Q

I like the way you think, Streinikov. Let us hope that it will be so.
Legal / Courtroom Public exposure ~ more please. Yes.

Nice, thnx!

I’m on 8mg a day, but have been tapering myself to 6, I kind of want to do it myself, so I’m not forced to by my Dr. but you know the addict mindset, if I have 8,im going to take 8. I’m trying to convince myself that a stockpile would be a good thing for the inevitable apocalypse. did you happen to watch Fear the Walking Dead? the new Walking Dead show? one character is a heroin addict, and while I disliked the “addict” tropes that they used I the beginning (him waking up in a shooting gallery, etc) it did make me think about how fucked up it would be to have something happen and I couldn’t get my meds. not a zombie apocalypse per second, but any collapse. and the way they do it in the show is pretty realistic, though any good addict, the first thing they’d do is loot a pharmacy for all they could get.