Suboxone and Klonopin

[melinda7.5]

Hi dschmitta
Are you down to 5mg a day of oxycodone...If you are you should be able to quit using the Thomas recipe...with out to much trouble...
Just a thought...

Talk to you later, Melinda

Hi dschmitta
Hey sorry I was being a tard...LOL you were talking about methadone not oxycodone...
Talk to you later, Melinda

[dschmitta]

Everyone, want to thank you for the help. I'm switching from methadone to suboxone. Just really nervous about screwing this up. Made a promise to my son when I started methadone 6 years ago.( He unfortunately was along for the ride while we were using all the illegal stuff. Wow, hurts to even remember those times!) I. more worried about my wife, I seem to handle the W/D's alot better than her. Just have to adjust her accordingly. I really do appreciate the help. God Bless everone of you! I'll keep you posted when I switch.

[Robert_325]

Everyone, want to thank you for the help. I'm switching from methadone to suboxone. Just really nervous about screwing this up. Made a promise to my son when I started methadone 6 years ago.( He unfortunately was along for the ride while we were using all the illegal stuff. Wow, hurts to even remember those times!) I. more worried about my wife, I seem to handle the W/D's alot better than her. Just have to adjust her accordingly. I really do appreciate the help. God Bless everone of you! I'll keep you posted when I switch.

It's good to be a little apprehensive, makes you more aware of whether you're doing things right or not. But there is no reason to be so nervous about this. Just follow the link I gave you earlier and post any specific questions you have. Relax! God bless.

[nomoreblues]

hey guys! i am new to the forum and i am very happy to have found you guys. i love this place already, everyone seems very nice and seem to care about one another...

i have a long history unfortunately with opiod abuse... it started when i was fifteen with vicodin and it progressed quickly to oxycontin and heroin. i also abused benzodiazepines and cocaine until a couple years back. okay, when i was 19 i got married and joined the army to try to kick my heroin habit... it failed miserably and three years ago i overdosed on heroin.

the events that followed the heroin overdose are a bit difficult to understand... that would require an entirely new thread haha, so i will just highlight the basic points.... the doctors thought i suffered from a hypoxic episode and that is what caused any kind of motor injury. for the past three years i have been going off my doctor's say so that my injury was indeed physical and i obviously believed them because.. hey they are my docs! but i saw a series of new doctors after moving back home and they could not figure out why this theory stuck so much since i have no short term memory loss, frontal lobe damage, or any damage as far as they could tell from any mri, ctscan, eeg, etc... so they believe i have a severe anxiety/panic disorder which manifests itself as a sort of movement disorder... okay now that my history is out of the way i will try to give some medication history... i was on at one point, and this is no joke...

40 mgs Valium
194.4 mgs Phenobarbital
500 mgs Primidone
8 mgs Klonopin
50 mgs Baclofen

this was every day... they wondered why it looked like i had a 'movement disorder' huh? anyway, i am now down to

1.5 mgs Klonopin
100 mgs Primidone

so i am pretty proud of myself... i just want to get all my movement abilities back and i will be set as far as my anxiety and depression. now on to my other problem... opiod addiction... i had stopped doing hard drugs after the overdose that nearly killed me, but that craving for pills continued... i took vicodin for about eight months at a stretch before coming off it cold turkey each time because my doctor would just cut me off. this time i started a vicodin regimen because i dislocated and tore my right shoulder from a fall about twelve weeks ago. my doctor cut off my vicodin for reason that i was too dependent on it. i could not go to the methadone clinic because of my anxiety disorder (i am unable to go just about anywhere by myself because i become so nervous, and my girlfriend works during the day) but a friend of mine had suboxone. unfortunately, my cravings gave in and i decided to try the suboxone to ease the discomfort of coming off opiates... i was just tired of it ya know?

my question is really this... i do not know what dosage of suboxone i should be taking... the first day i took 4 mgs and i felt like i was on heroin... i didnt want to feel it that strongly so the next time i took 2 mgs and was fine... no withdrawal symptoms, it even helped my shoulder pain a bit. i took one mg the past two nights because my girlfriend is afraid i could overdose because of the klonopin. she got the idea that i would overdose from her buddy who used to abuse methadone with klonopin and nearly overdosed one day. i was hoping someone could tell me a bit about the interaction of suboxone, klonopin, and primidone. i appreciate you reading this extremely long-winded, drawn out post... i am just trying to give accurate information. thank you in advance!

take care and God Bless!
Mikhail

mikhail, i was/am in a very similar boat to you i went from doing 4mg of xanax and 450mg of oxycodone a day to 1 mg of klonopin and no more opiates... now i dont know to what degree your most recent painkiller addiction reached but id assume it was similar to or less than mine... i took
8 mg suboxone day 1
4 mg day 2
2 mg day 3
1 mg day 4
1 mg day 5
all the while taking my 1 mg of dissolving klonopin, and have been clean of opiates since(6 months) ::thankyou::: i had no major withdrawl symptoms throughout the ordeal, aside from my legs being a little restless... the most important/most uncomfortable part of this detox is to wait a full 24 hours after using an opiate to take a suboxone, otherwise you will enter precipitated withdrawl, you can look that up, and based on experience you want nothing to do with it... if u are taking morphines (opana codiene etc) i would recomend waiting 36 hours because i entered precipitated from opanas after 28 hours, and the only remedy for that is water and time

I hope i was a help stay away from those roxy's,
nomoreblues