Suboxone Users - Please answer these questions

15 Sep 2005

Hello Poppyqueen,
Looks like you have a little habit like I once did. WELCOME! :)
I will make this short. Get on the Suboxone!! Best thing that ever happened to me! No cravings from day one and I am upbeat and happy going to work and doing my daily activities!! Can you drink alcohol? Well to be truthful, You can drink socially while one Suboxone... it doesn't effect me. Even though they say that you shouldn't... But... But..But... then again you are not supposed to drink while on Vic's either... but we have! Same kind of thing!!! You know what I mean. But I don't think you should take the Anti-depressants while on Suboxone... I believe that they ARE NOT a good mix!!! Anyway, good luck! Do the right thing!

15 Sep 2005

I have never taken Sub im on methadone maintaince but i have read alot about it. Do you get it prescribes or did you get it on your own. I hear less is more meaning the less you take the more affective and when your just starting you take 2 mgs at a time wait like 20 mins if your not feeling better take another 2 mgs. Also i know you have to be in with drawls when you take it for the first time or it will put you in with drawls most ppl i know wait atleast 12 hours after there last dose of tehre drug if not 15 hrs of they can wait it out. The longer the better. Also i would if you could take the first day off of work to see how it hits ya. And i believe Tram is also a addictive drug and also has withdrawls so i wouldnt bother but youd have to take to a Dr about that.
Hope i helped alittle but im not a exspert Hopefully someone else that has first hand exsperiance with it and can help you out with anything else.
Alicia

26 Sep 2006

I, too, am on Suboxone and wonder about the drinking.
I just started 8mg/day, but I enjoy wine with dinner and have for most of my adult life (I am now 40). I was taking 8-9 Norco/day for just over two years, and want to turn my life around. That is why I found a doctor who could get me started on Suboxone. However, they won't tell you whether or not it's ok to drink wine, for they think you will substitute one addiction for another... and become an alcoholic. That isn't the case for me... I simply enjoy my wine with dinner, and it never goes over two glasses/night.

Does anyone have any insight on this? Been on Sub and enjoys his or her wine? Knows a doctor and has received the true answer? Anything like that? I just can't get a straight answer on this.

Many thanks!

26 Sep 2006

27 Sep 2006

Just a question hoping someone can help me with? I had been on about 40 mg of methadone a day. I just recently started suboxone. I had gone cold turkey off the methadon for about 5 days before starting the subox and have been taking it for about 11 days. The latter 3 at about 8mg a day. Last night I stupidly did some o.c. nothing really, less then 20 mg. It was about 12 hours after the subox, my question is how long do i wait until i take the subox again? will it make me sick, seeing as how i wasn't really addicted to o.c.'s i wasn't sure? Thanks for your time.

2 Feb 2007

Hello, I have a question. Next wednesday my husband has an appointment to go on the Suboxen. Right now he's still taking his Narcotics. Does he need to completely be off of them when he goes to his appt.? He is still taking them so that way he's able to still work without feeling bad from the withdrawls. Should he just try to quit cold turkey a day or so before his appt???

2 Feb 2007

Natalie the day before is fine ,just so he is in some type of withdrawal,thenas soon as he takes the sub the w/ds stop.ok take care Tamm

3 Feb 2007

With any type of narcotic (especially alcohol or psilocybin as these generate effects because they are poison) you should use extreme caution when on any other type of medication. The only way to know for certain is to ask a physician about it. The have (or should) a good knowledge about what they are giving you and if it is potentially dangerous to mix it with any types of chemicals.
Now, a normal doctor will probably tell you you can't or shouldn't take anything else as it is detrimental to your health anyways so ask them if there are any chemicals that cannot be mixed with your current medication.
If they don't mention alcohol make sure you bring it and anything else you take or are thinking of taking as they may assume you don't use or forget to mention it. (more so with illicit substances then with alcohol)

12 Feb 2007

12 Feb 2007

Statik ~ I was wondering if you would mind answering a few questions I have.

~ Did you taper your methadone or did you jump off at 40mg.?

~ How were you feeing by day five, or even how were those five days overall?

~ When you did the actual swap and took your first doses of Sub. how did they do that? Did they give a few mg. and wait to see how it worked etc???

I would really love to hear as much detail as you feel comfortable about sharing in terms of how the entire process went... kinda a step by step.

I totally understand and will not be offended at all if you decide that you don't really want to get into the nitty gritty of it right now!!

~Syd

17 Feb 2007

i tried to get off methadone using suboxone & it was the worst mistake i've ever made, next to my first shot of heroin. i did everything the 'experts' told me to do - tapered down to less than 20mg methadone, had over 24hrs w/out methadone before the switch-over, etc. if you want to get off methadone, taper your dose SLOWLY. i'm at 4mg now & it's taken me 3 years to get down to this dose. but that's part of the therapy, going slowly, for physiological reasons. there's no magic to it, just patience. if you taper your methadone dose slowly enough you will not feel withdrawals like the ones we rightfully fear so much. suboxone, from what i've heard, sounds better for people going straight from heroin/opiate to treatment, not for methadone patients.

17 Feb 2007

Lexapoo ~ When you say that going to the suboxone was a mistake what exactly happened? One thing I noticed is that you said you only waited 24hrs. to start the suboxone. You may have had a problem with that because the half life of methadone is much larger than that. Most people that I have heard that did the jump from methadone to suboxone have been made to wait at the LEAST three day (72 hours) and if possible four days. What happened with the suboxone that you did not like?? Was it the switch or was it something else?? I ask because I have thought of trying it myself and it seems like a lot of people have been sugar coating and "pushing" subox as the way to go so I am very interested in what went wrong for you... Any details you are willing to give would be great and by the way CONGRATS on your taper. Only 4mg now. Your a rock star!! Great Job. And you say you have had little to no withdrawal in your taper, correct? WOW!!

18 Feb 2007

Sydbean: Read my post in the "painkiller addiction" section re: Suboxone. If you are looking for a substitute for vics or other opiates, then it's great. But if you're looking to get off of vics or opiates, do not go on Suboxone. Any questions, let me know. Oh and another post I read, yes you can take anti-depressants with sub. In fact, it's often encouraged. I am very fearful a lot of ppl on here are giving misguided advice and information. Be careful who you listen to. I saw someone say you shouldn't take anti-depressants with sub. I would like to know where this information came from as it is absolutely incorrect.

7 Jan 2008

11 Jul 2008

if I get my doctor to prescribe suboxone,do I quit taking my oxycontin right away,or do I continue to taper down the oxycontin while taking suboxone?Or do you quit your oxycontin pills completely the day you go on suboxone?Thanks in advance for any guidance.

Bobby