Coming off suboxone

[ilovephishing]

Well ive been on it for pretty much 6 months but ive never done more than 2mgs a day and now im tapering down from that. Im doing .5 mg every other day at this point and haven't felt much beside a few hot flashes and sweating. I see some people do huge amounts a day like 16 mgs and come off of it. My question is with the low amount ive been doing for awhile will the WDS even get that bad. I also haven't done any in the last 48 hours and feel little bit of anxiety, but that's about it.

 

[SS373dOH]

It's difficult to tell you how bad your wd's are going to be, I would only be speculating if I were to guess.. I will say this though, try to get down to .250-.125mg, and then start skipping multiple doses before attempting to jump to 0.

Buprenorphine's half-life is very long, this is significant for two reasons, 1 it explains why you're not feeling too badly after 48 hours of no use, and 2 it makes the wd's last much longer than short acting opioids, albeit less intense.


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