Opioids Can someone design a Taper plan for me?

[Not Again]

So Lately I've been doing 220mg oxy , but sometimes I binge and go as high as 280. Like today.

I would be so appreciated if someone could outline a reasonable taper plan for me. I'd like to be down to 60 mg a day by this time next month. Is that to much to do? will it hurt too much like that? I also have 10/ 8 mg suboxone that I plan on using when I get down to 60 mg.

I would so appreciate the help.

I need something like
Day 1-4 = xxx oxy
day 5-10 = xxx oxy.

A plan like that. sorry if this isn't the right place for this. I'm going to get this plan and give my wife control of all the med's.

Short story is. I've been on the oxy daily since mid June this year. Before that I was chipping every 3-4 day since April. My tolerance was high because I was clean for 4 months from my previous run which lasted 6 months and was 100 mg a day and I guess it didn't drop to much.

Again Thank you for the help. I don't want to drop too much. It was suggested 25% a day and there is no way I could do that. I run a business where I see several customers a day and am a father when I get home.

 

[Shadowsblaze]

I may be wrong buy I think using some of the subs can get you down pretty quick. I'm not sure how to stretch them but someone should chime in soon enough.

 

[Tommyboy]

Yea, why not just use the subs?

 

[tricomb]

^Agreed, from experience, oxycodone is EXTREMELY difficult to taper down from, due to how easy it is to relapse. Unlike buprenorphine, which I would use as follows for example if I had, let's say 2 of the 8mg tablets or strips, although which Route of Administration your using will have a HUGE impact on how your taper should go, so since we don't know how you intend on taking the medications (oral/nasal/rectal/hopefully you're not using either via injection since oxycodone and buprenorphine are two opioids that have pretty much NOTHING to gain by injecting them). I take oxycodone orally because it's the most effective way of using it. I take buprenorphine rectally because I find it to be rather ineffective via any other ROA, and injecting it be it IV or IM, is flat out stupid and just enables one's addiction to the needle itself. Buprenorphine is so fat-soluble that I never worry about any of it being lost or unable to be absorbed via the rectum, so I only take it rectally.

EDIT: I'm not going to post a taper schedule until I know:

A) How you intend on taking it (are you going to be taking the strips under the tongue? intranasal via concentrated solution? rectal?)
B) What other medications are you on, particularly what other CNS depressants do you take? (Alcohol, benzodiazepines, etc)
C) How long of a taper are you planning on attempting? Most of us who don't have prescriptions for buprenorphine are forced to make do with a limited amount of bupre. I have detoxed off of an oxycodone habit exponentially larger than yours using a single 8mg buprenorphine strip, but obviously this was much more uncomfortable than it was when I've detoxed off high-dose opioid habits (be it oxycodone, morphine, "other stuff") and I had access to multiple buprenorphine tablets or suboxone strips.

The key to tapering is slow and steady wins the race. However as I said, not all of us are lucky enough to have access to as much buprenorphine as we need to comfortably taper off our DOC, forcing us to perform a "rapid detox" like I've done using 8mg total buprenorphine and an effective ROA.

 

[Not Again]

EDIT: I'm not going to post a taper schedule until I know:

A) How you intend on taking it (are you going to be taking the strips under the tongue? intranasal via concentrated solution? rectal?)
B) What other medications are you on, particularly what other CNS depressants do you take? (Alcohol, benzodiazepines, etc)
C) How long of a taper are you planning on attempting? Most of us who don't have prescriptions for buprenorphine are forced to make do with a limited amount of bupre. I have detoxed off of an oxycodone habit exponentially larger than yours using a single 8mg buprenorphine strip, but obviously this was much more uncomfortable than it was when I've detoxed off high-dose opioid habits (be it oxycodone, morphine, "other stuff") and I had access to multiple buprenorphine tablets or suboxone strips.

The key to tapering is slow and steady wins the race. However as I said, not all of us are lucky enough to have access to as much buprenorphine as we need to comfortably taper off our DOC, forcing us to perform a "rapid detox" like I've done using 8mg total buprenorphine and an effective ROA.

A: I intend on tapering on the oxy down to 60 mg then going to the sub.

B: I occasionally take xanax maybe twice a week. I have xanax and valium available. I don't like um, but sometimes when I feel like taking more oxy taking one of those helps the cravings. I also have a glass of bourbon a night. I don't drink that much but a nice size glass with ice. Sometimes a beer.

C:My taper plan I would like to use would be a month and a half. I will pm you with some details.

I don't want to use the sub till I get down to the 60 mg mark on the oxy.