Man... I don't worry about the PWs anymore as I have MY method and timing right. I start with small doses when I enter the stage of not being able to stay awake, zero energy, claminess.
My thing is now, bupe does not get me fully right after a few days of good H. It used to work perfectly. Guess I maxed my bupe to the limit of agonizim and the dope for a few days shoots my tolerance up past that level. I stop my dope on Saturday morning and wait till Sunday morning to take bupe. No matter the amount of bupe I'm stuck in this zero energy, sweats, no motivation, depression that really renders me useless as a human being until around Monday afternoon Tuesday morning. It's truly an awful feeling espicslly being so motivated, energetic, talkative, sex to the exact opposite in intensity within 24 hours.
Maybe it's just me, but getting back on bupe after breaks is getting harder and harder.
If done right, tapering bupe, no cheating it is real that one can escape with hardly if any PHYSICAL withdrawals. I once got a "blind taper" over a period of 4-6 months and the last month was placebo but had no idea. I was perfectly fine, until I was told about the blind taper and my mind created all the little bullshit things we do to justify opiates. I was truly shocked in that I had zero WDs.
Other times I tapered to tiny crumbs took loperamide for a week after and besides lack of energy I was fine.