Thanks in advance for your help and everyone’s posts that are encouraging and informative. I also posted this in the recovery section but felt it might belong here as well.
My fight with opiates has been for almost a decade, starting and stopping then starting again like many here. In fact my first post here was in 2011 when I was starting an inpatient bupe study, which helped me taper off of Suboxone the first time successfully.
I started taking oxycodone again a year later, switched to bupe again a few years after that, then got off of bupe again last year with some outpatient help before starting on the oxycodone again.
I am ready to stop, finally, once and for all, and I have the support of a GF this time, which I feel will be instrumental to my success. I am currently taking between 10mg and 20mg of oxycodone per day, which is not a particularly huge habit, but considering it has been for over a decade now, it is certainly one that is ingrained.
I have a good amount of Suboxone leftover from last year, and my plan was to flush my oxycodone, switch to bupe, and then do a relatively quick taper off of that (maybe 14 days). However, I have done a bunch more reading this go-round, and it seems like maybe the detox from bupe is worse than going off of oxycodone directly, given that the half-life is so much longer.
One thing that is important to me is the ability to continue with my life rather than having to be out of commission for a week or so, which I feel the bupe allows me to do. That said, now that I have someone “in the loop” I feel like making the jump direct from the percs cold turkey might be the way to go, even if it means being a zombie for 5-7 days.
In all likelihood I’ll probably be reaching out for professional help, even though my experience with that has been mixed at best and unhelpful at worst; I have found that these forums are typically more knowledgable and helpful than anything.
So my question is: what is your thoughts on detoxing directly off of an oxycodone dose of 15mg versus transitioning to then tapering off of bupe?
Again, thanks so much in advance.
My fight with opiates has been for almost a decade, starting and stopping then starting again like many here. In fact my first post here was in 2011 when I was starting an inpatient bupe study, which helped me taper off of Suboxone the first time successfully.
I started taking oxycodone again a year later, switched to bupe again a few years after that, then got off of bupe again last year with some outpatient help before starting on the oxycodone again.
I am ready to stop, finally, once and for all, and I have the support of a GF this time, which I feel will be instrumental to my success. I am currently taking between 10mg and 20mg of oxycodone per day, which is not a particularly huge habit, but considering it has been for over a decade now, it is certainly one that is ingrained.
I have a good amount of Suboxone leftover from last year, and my plan was to flush my oxycodone, switch to bupe, and then do a relatively quick taper off of that (maybe 14 days). However, I have done a bunch more reading this go-round, and it seems like maybe the detox from bupe is worse than going off of oxycodone directly, given that the half-life is so much longer.
One thing that is important to me is the ability to continue with my life rather than having to be out of commission for a week or so, which I feel the bupe allows me to do. That said, now that I have someone “in the loop” I feel like making the jump direct from the percs cold turkey might be the way to go, even if it means being a zombie for 5-7 days.
In all likelihood I’ll probably be reaching out for professional help, even though my experience with that has been mixed at best and unhelpful at worst; I have found that these forums are typically more knowledgable and helpful than anything.
So my question is: what is your thoughts on detoxing directly off of an oxycodone dose of 15mg versus transitioning to then tapering off of bupe?
Again, thanks so much in advance.
