Sasquatchjezus
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- Mar 18, 2018
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Hi y'all,
I'm currently taking between 4-8 mg buprenorphine daily. I either take 4mg in the morning for the whole day, or 4mg 2x daily, or 8 in the morning. Taking buprenorphine twice daily seems to work better, even when I take 8mg. By work better I mean that taking it only once seems to wear off earlier in the evening, which didn't happen when I started BMT. I don't believe more than 8mg would be helpful as 8 makes me feel drowsy at points, but if I were to start taking 8mg daily I could likely acclimate to this. I am wondering if y'all have any advice as far as this goes.
Onto my next part, I am wondering what any of y'all have to say about going from buprenorphine to methadone. I imagine it would be a fairly uncommon switch, with more people going from methadone to buprenorphine. I'd normally look for NCBI articles about the topic, but anything I did find was about methadone maintenance to buprenorphine maintenance. Has anybody had this experience in the past or have any advice regarding the pharmacology? I don't know if y'all are allowed to post links to outside sites even if it's a link to a study, but if you can go ahead, I'd be interested to see some research into the topic. I do have chronic nerve pain as well as opioid dependency if that information helps. I was also wondering what the maximum number of day's that are allowed to be supplied for take home by a clinic in the US is, and whether anyone who has made this type of switch has had a clinic honor their time spent in treatment with clean drug screens. I have had nearly a year in treatment with buprenorphine and never had a dirty urinalysis within that time.
I appreciate any information any of y'all are able to provide on any of the topics. I know having every question I have answered is a tall order, but let me know if y'all need any more information on my case. I expect a lot of the information about clinics to vary from state to state and from clinic to clinic, and as far as now I have not gone to a clinic for dosing, the clinic I went to initially sent me to a doctor as they were already at a large number of patients. Thanks for the time y'all have a good weekend.
-Sasquatch Jesus
I'm currently taking between 4-8 mg buprenorphine daily. I either take 4mg in the morning for the whole day, or 4mg 2x daily, or 8 in the morning. Taking buprenorphine twice daily seems to work better, even when I take 8mg. By work better I mean that taking it only once seems to wear off earlier in the evening, which didn't happen when I started BMT. I don't believe more than 8mg would be helpful as 8 makes me feel drowsy at points, but if I were to start taking 8mg daily I could likely acclimate to this. I am wondering if y'all have any advice as far as this goes.
Onto my next part, I am wondering what any of y'all have to say about going from buprenorphine to methadone. I imagine it would be a fairly uncommon switch, with more people going from methadone to buprenorphine. I'd normally look for NCBI articles about the topic, but anything I did find was about methadone maintenance to buprenorphine maintenance. Has anybody had this experience in the past or have any advice regarding the pharmacology? I don't know if y'all are allowed to post links to outside sites even if it's a link to a study, but if you can go ahead, I'd be interested to see some research into the topic. I do have chronic nerve pain as well as opioid dependency if that information helps. I was also wondering what the maximum number of day's that are allowed to be supplied for take home by a clinic in the US is, and whether anyone who has made this type of switch has had a clinic honor their time spent in treatment with clean drug screens. I have had nearly a year in treatment with buprenorphine and never had a dirty urinalysis within that time.
I appreciate any information any of y'all are able to provide on any of the topics. I know having every question I have answered is a tall order, but let me know if y'all need any more information on my case. I expect a lot of the information about clinics to vary from state to state and from clinic to clinic, and as far as now I have not gone to a clinic for dosing, the clinic I went to initially sent me to a doctor as they were already at a large number of patients. Thanks for the time y'all have a good weekend.
-Sasquatch Jesus
