Any opiate pharmacology pro can explain to me how come Suboxone can give me a calm, tranquil nod with an elevated mood and quasi-euphoria randomly, after a year and a half at 12mg a day (sometimes I take less, sometimes more, I got my amazing 6 max takehome doses). Today, I'm out of benzos, daily user of benzos, even when i was on methadone, due to intervention by my psychiatrist, and I'm almost totally feeling as good as 60-80mg of oral IR morphine would do to me when I would get morphine pills (that really weren't safe to IV, they weren't IR, I'd turn them Kadians into IR, crush beads, refill 100 or 130mg cap in 2. I had a script for tagamet 600mg then so, it was pretty efficient. Of course it's not like when I had my DOC (Dilaudid/HM Contins), but damn this is puzzling me, especially the fact I am not giving a damn of being out of benzos. Could benzos stop making bupe euphoric after a while and cause the opposite? (not the benzo effect, the opiated effect).
All taken sublingually after thoroughly brushing my teeth and using high alcohol % mouthwash from the dollar store to open those pores under my tongue which apparently is a trick.
oh and P.S.
>Its extremely hard to switch from methadone to Suboxone
I didn't find it to be so. Although I did reduce my methadone dose slowly by 2 or 3mg every month (starting from my max dose of 60mg) when I got to 47mg, the younger than me ADD ridden (i'm not joking she was funny) intern was like "so you plan on switching to suboxone? you feel good now? well, we'll get you to 44mg the next 2 weeks then 39mg the next 2 weeks). Then I was without methadone for 48 hours, I was given 2mg to see if I was good (outpatient, I just stayed 4 hour in the morning, 2 days in a row), and I was, so I was given another 2mg tablet and was on my way. The next day I was given 4mg off the bat then left with a 10mg script, the next month I had it raised to 12. Never changed since then. Of course it's all different....I think the tagamet script was pushing out the methadone out of me faster...(it works, but I don't recommend it!).
And yeah, in countries where bupe is used for pain in pill form, the dose 0.2mg per pill. Temgesic. My grandma is also on bupe lol, but on those BuTrans patches, 20ug/hour, ridiculous. My ORT doc who's also a pain doc said it was for very mild pain and he only scripted to old people so they didn't sleep all day. Preferred over tramacet/zytram xl (docs really hate tramadol in canada, which is good) and regular use of codeine 30mg/300mg apap (Empracets).