Hello- I have a question/observation.
(I'm totally new here, as in I finally created an account as to be able to ask questions and comment, so I don't know if just tossing this out on this particular thread is cool, but I still can't create new threads)
ABOUT DOSAGE AND SUB'S HALF LIFE:
It seems to me, that if
the half-life on suboxone is 36 HOURS, then if
you're taking a given dose (maintenance) every 24 hours, say, in the morning
(let's say 8mg to keep things easy), that 24 hours later on day 2, when you take another 8 mg dose you will STILL have approx 5.3mg in your system,
(as it would take 36 hours to metabolize 8mg down to 4mg) so by adding 8, you'd now have 13.3mg in your system.
(Remembering that the half life is 36 hours, but you're dosing every 24 hours!)
NEXT DAY:
That 13.3mg has metabolized down to 8.86mg ( of the 13.3-as it has only been 24 hours, NOT 36!),
so now you take your daily 8mg dose and you will now have 16.86mg (give or take) in your system.
NEXT DAY:
The 16.86mg has only "half lifed" down to 11.24mg in 24 hours, and so you take your usual 8mg dose, for what is now 19.24mg!
That now only half-lifes down to 12.82mg over 24 hours.
NEXT DAY:
That 12.82 and 8mg more... 20.82mg!
Continuing the math day by day the pattern
seems to kind of top out at about 24mg total per day, then there seem to be diminishing returns(???)
I suck at math- so this may be wrong.
So if you're taking 8mg every day, you're REALLY stacking up about 24mg per day.
Is this pretty much right? or is my math wrong?
Anyone with better information or better math skills- please reply.
The point being, that you're getting in deeper and deeper by dosing every 24 hours, because you're compounding the dosage still in your system with the daily dose.
No wonder it's really difficult to get off the stuff!
On a separate matter, that of insufflating suboxone tablets:
It seems a silly route of ingestion, BUT the drug IS DESIGNED to be absorbed via mucous membranes, so it seems that in the nose or under the tongue shouldn't make much difference (Although I would imagine doing it as intended would be your best bet since the nose is generally full of snot (pardon) and it seems a lot of the drug wouldn't make proper contact inside the nasal cavity and you'd end up having to swallow what drips down the throat anyway- and the medication is not intended to be swallowed. Just a thought.