trismegistus
Greenlighter
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- Sep 2, 2010
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I'll start off by saying that I've already been given the Vivitrol shot, and it works like a charm for cravings, though it definitely caused some precipitated withdrawal even though it had been 7 days since I took suboxone while detoxing, the period should probably be somewhere around 14 days after suboxone before starting naltrexone due to a 36 hour half life compared to the normal 6-8 hour half life of most opiates.
Awhile back I tried going on Vivitrol, but the prescribing doctor (who was also my suboxone doctor) didn't know what he was doing, and told me to just take suboxone to fight off cravings until the shot came in. He ended up calling in 3 50mg naltrexone pills (could have done that from the get go and I would have avoided what happened) and told me to take half of one to start. Of course, knowing the mechanisms of naltrexone and opiates I was very skeptical of this being a safe idea and only took 12.5mg of naltrexone to test the waters, which launched me right into precipitated withdrawal. However I was able to overcome the naltrexone by injecting a total of 8mg of suboxone before the withdrawal subsided.
Out of curiosity, plus the fact that it was free, I got to do a pretty heavy shot of heroin and I felt it coming over my body, yet my head remained crystal clear, it was like the high was just right on the edge of my brain but I couldn't get to it, sort of hard to explain. But since bupe is able to outcompete naltrexone at the receptor I was curious what would happen if one were to inject some. I'm thinking that either A)nothing at all would happen, or the horrific possibility that B) you would get a nice little buzz from the bupe, but then since there is somewhere around 300mg of naltrexone still just sitting in the ass cheek, it would re-enter the brain as the bupe wore off and cause precipitated withdrawal.
I can't even get any bupe so it's not something I intend to try out, but I was just wondering if anybody here has been on Vivitrol and done this or knows what would happen.
Awhile back I tried going on Vivitrol, but the prescribing doctor (who was also my suboxone doctor) didn't know what he was doing, and told me to just take suboxone to fight off cravings until the shot came in. He ended up calling in 3 50mg naltrexone pills (could have done that from the get go and I would have avoided what happened) and told me to take half of one to start. Of course, knowing the mechanisms of naltrexone and opiates I was very skeptical of this being a safe idea and only took 12.5mg of naltrexone to test the waters, which launched me right into precipitated withdrawal. However I was able to overcome the naltrexone by injecting a total of 8mg of suboxone before the withdrawal subsided.
Out of curiosity, plus the fact that it was free, I got to do a pretty heavy shot of heroin and I felt it coming over my body, yet my head remained crystal clear, it was like the high was just right on the edge of my brain but I couldn't get to it, sort of hard to explain. But since bupe is able to outcompete naltrexone at the receptor I was curious what would happen if one were to inject some. I'm thinking that either A)nothing at all would happen, or the horrific possibility that B) you would get a nice little buzz from the bupe, but then since there is somewhere around 300mg of naltrexone still just sitting in the ass cheek, it would re-enter the brain as the bupe wore off and cause precipitated withdrawal.
I can't even get any bupe so it's not something I intend to try out, but I was just wondering if anybody here has been on Vivitrol and done this or knows what would happen.