my friend has been forced to stop methadone and will be taking either sub oxen or subutex i was told she needed to wait for a time or it would put her in withdraw
Buprenorphine - how long should you wait to take sub oxen after taking methadone?
- Posted:
- 30 Dec 2010 by angee1
- Topics:
- subutex, buprenorphine, methadone
Responses (3)
30 Dec 2010
It's vital that your friend take the Clinical Opiate Withdrawal test. She needs to score a 26 in order to start the suboxone treatment. It's best to do this under the care of a doctor or specialist. If she takes it too soon, yes, she will go in to what is called precipitated withdrawals. It's worse than regular withdrawals. Methadone is long lasting and may take longer than other opiates to reach the 26 needed before starting the subs. You can google "clinical opiate withdrawal test" You should be able to find it this way. Good luck and hope you all have a wonderful new year!
chris
I had detoxed down to 2mg of methadone.I have been on methadone 10 years. I waited 54 hours scored a 16 on the COWS SCALE. Took suboxen and within ten minutes was in the worse withdrawals that I had been in years. Horrible goose flesh, shaking severe GI upset. This was under a doctors care. I almost went to the hospital. But within an hour I started to feel a little better. I did not wait long enough and the Score on the COWS scale should be at least a twenty. I did live through it. The pain is still here leg pain joint pain gone.Gi upset gone skin is not cold to the bones. This medication interacts with 732 other drugs. PLEASE CHECK For reactions when on suboxen does any one knows if this medication is good for pAin I a. Still in considerable pain. PROBABLY need an adjustment period. Hope this helps. I also am in a good place in my recovery.
3 Sep 2011
janscares, since your support groups are private, I could not tell if you were in the opiate addiction group or not. If you aren't I would suggest you add it to get more, & better answers from the experts on here. Now being a Holliday Weekend you may not get too many answers, plus I believe they are doing an updaye also which usually kind of messes up the site somewhat. Hang in there until Tuesday the 6th, & add that group please if you haven't already. Best wishes,
I should have added that I have heard on this site of people using it for pain, but have no personal experience. A member named PattieShan is your best bet of any Q& A's on sub use.
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I may be wrong on the score needed. It might be 24. Here's the link for COW's test.
http://www.naabt.org/documents/COWS_induction_flow_sheet.pdf