Looking for some genuine answers about personal subutex withdrawal experiences?
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- 30 Dec 2009 by i_spoiler
- Topics:
- subutex, withdrawal
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I've looked on probably every website out there at every post about subutex withdrawals and not a single one ever says the same thing. I know everyone's experience is different but I was curious about a few things hopefully someone out there can answer. I've been on subutex for just over a year now, when I began taking it my doctor gave me a dose of 8mg a day which I did for about 2 weeks and than I stopped taking it all together for about 5 months. I began taking it again at a dose of about 4mgs a day for I'd say 3 months than began to take less and less up until the point I'm at now. I take anywhere between .5-1mg a day depending on how I'm feeling, I guess you can say.
I had a small (and in all honesty SMALL) bout with oxy's & roxy's for about a year when I first started college and went through the withdrawals from that and got them over with and than for some god awful reason decided to start subutex just to prevent a relapse from occuring. Well here I am now a year later and haven't had a single run in or thought of drug use and I'm stuck on these things. I'm not concerned at all about relapsing or how my life will be after subutex cause I'm really excited for that, I'm just ready to put this all behind me. I just want to know what to really expect from these w/d according to what I've told you above about my sub. usage. I can handle the aches, chills, insomnia, etc. but I've heard the psychological part is the hardest.
Any response would be so much appreciated! :]
30 Jan 2010
Your doing good and i am sorry no one has responded out there for you. I am on suboxone for 4 months and i only take 1mg a day. all the info i read is diffrent to but i have come up with some consistencies. Dont stop cold turkey even at that dose because of the long have life and remeber even 1mg of subs on the narcotic chart is equal to about 30mg of oxycodone in the binding sites of the receptors. In Europe they start people on 200 micrograms because this is one of the strongest agonist-antagonist know to man. So everyone says its the worst is because they jump off to early. I believe we have to go down slowly but how the hell do you taper by micrograms when its in a pill. My friend took a 2mg pill easy to cut in half and then cut that in half and that leaves you with roughly 250 micrograms and then he took it every other day and for a couple of weeks and then every 3 days for a couple of weeks becasue of the long have life then every 4 day. The day he came off it he took some valium for a couple of nights to sleep and he was fine. You can come of it and have no real problems. In America is prescribed in too higher doses and we need smaller pill doses but I know marketing and if a consumer has to keep on coming back and back thats good buisness. This is all out there and Becket the manufacturer knows about this just read the European medical journals. You will be fine, and let me know.
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