I have some 0.3 mg clonidine for an upcoming opiate withdrawal. Well its for the switch from fentanyl to suboxone, which will be no fun as I've done it before and my tolerance is higher now.
I also take a small dose of a cardiac selective beta blocker called Nebivolol. Its not much different than Atenolol, aside from it being stronger per mg and being a bit more cardiac selective. Plus, it has some very mild vaso-dilatory effect (I am not sure if Atenolol also has this effect, it very well may, as well). I was wondering if it will be safe to take the clonidine while I am waiting to induce the suboxone and during the stabilization period? which will be pretty tough coming off the fent habit I have(like arguable as bad as a 60-90 mg oxycodone cold turkey, I have done both). Also is .3 mg too high of a dose? Especially with no past use of any alpha agonist. I would think starting at .15 or .1 would be more reasonable.
The beta blocker I take is a very small daily dose, its only half the normal starting dose for an adult (I was Rx'd it at around 25 years old.) It helped lower my usually high resting heart rate, which I liked. But the initial full dose lowered it a little too much so I cut the pill in half and liked how it lowered the rate. It still doesn't lower my blood pressure that much, I think it prevents it from going up from the stress of the high heart rate. Much rarer for me to get palpitations now. My CP is still normall around 130/80 so I don't think taking the clonidine in a normal dose will be an issue.
I am very interested to see how much clonidine helps with w/d, as I have gone through a lot of it and this will be the first time trying it as a w/d aide.
I also take a small dose of a cardiac selective beta blocker called Nebivolol. Its not much different than Atenolol, aside from it being stronger per mg and being a bit more cardiac selective. Plus, it has some very mild vaso-dilatory effect (I am not sure if Atenolol also has this effect, it very well may, as well). I was wondering if it will be safe to take the clonidine while I am waiting to induce the suboxone and during the stabilization period? which will be pretty tough coming off the fent habit I have(like arguable as bad as a 60-90 mg oxycodone cold turkey, I have done both). Also is .3 mg too high of a dose? Especially with no past use of any alpha agonist. I would think starting at .15 or .1 would be more reasonable.
The beta blocker I take is a very small daily dose, its only half the normal starting dose for an adult (I was Rx'd it at around 25 years old.) It helped lower my usually high resting heart rate, which I liked. But the initial full dose lowered it a little too much so I cut the pill in half and liked how it lowered the rate. It still doesn't lower my blood pressure that much, I think it prevents it from going up from the stress of the high heart rate. Much rarer for me to get palpitations now. My CP is still normall around 130/80 so I don't think taking the clonidine in a normal dose will be an issue.
I am very interested to see how much clonidine helps with w/d, as I have gone through a lot of it and this will be the first time trying it as a w/d aide.
