It may have worked! I'm toying with dropping a half hit of L to combat some acute WD symptoms, yet fearful of being a tippy, uncomfortable mess for hours on end... keep us posted if your symptoms do or do not return!
Congrats on your decision, KraziKat. I've been in the same place, detoxed inpatient (I'm middle-aged and was too naive to know that wasn't my only option. Traumatic lesson learned!), but because being locked down for the first (only) time was so unpleasant, I toughed it out and fast-tracked my taper to 3.5 days on minimal suboxone. I agree that subs are rough and not ideal for everyone. For reference, I have a rare, severe form of rheumatoid arthritis in my spine that's caused an unfortunate dance with pain management methods. When I kicked inpatient, I went in on 125mcg fentanyl patches, and 150mg/day oxy & hydro. Yikes. Seeing that # again still shakes me up. I had an old school doc that was obviously liberal with the meds. Well, since I'm in Utah, the holiest, puritanical state of the Southwest (no doubt ground zero for anti-opioid mania) they yanked his license. Leaving me without the epic amount of opiates. Apparently, I was on the lower end of his patients in the amount prescribed, so I was able to go to another pain clinic, provided I detox and start over. That was November 2016. I was scared at first, but I'm so glad I did it. That was an insane amount for a 36 year old with a long road of worsening symptoms yet to travel.
Fast forward to last week: I had a rough, rough month of pain/anxiety from life and I threw all self-control out the window. I went through my entire month of 10mg oxy, 5x/day in 2 weeks, with 2 weeks of SOL, nada ahead of me. I battled the demon monkey perched on my back hard enough to have 3 pills left to taper. Of course, that was a joke. I took the last of it on Friday, 6 days ago. However, there's a light at the end of this tortuous tunnel. I had 2.5 days of decent discomfort (yawning, sneezing, nausea, EM EFFING UBER RESTLESS LEG SYNDROME), all of which were manageable enough with OTC Imodium, dxm cough syrup/Benadryl, lots o' edible MJ, and alternating Flexeril and Zanaflex muscle relaxers for the RLS/knocking me out enough to sleep a few hours. By the 3rd day, the most unbearable symptoms of yawning and kicking were substantially better. Days 4 & 5, I just felt mildly fluey with low fever, achy and generally run down. Day 6 today, and I feel completely human again. & with a stronger resolve to take my meds as prescribed because it's not fun otherwise. So, it's possible and not unbearable without subs. No w/d is painless, but I wish success to all of you trying. Hang in there!