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Bupe best suboxone dosage for me today/tomorrow

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Titus

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I've been struggling, using a lot of dope recently after being stable on a lowish does of suboxone (4mg). Last use of dope was Sun am. did .6 (not 6) mg of bupe Sunday. Since then none, just some xanax. Got some suboxone today and took 8mg along with usual xanax. Want to know if I take more will I get positive effect or negative effect. I plan to get back to 4m but after going through withdrawls a few times recently I want to get ful effect from the suboxone today and tomorrow since I am now back on that and just suffered some hell before getting back down to a maintenance dose. If I take another 2 or 4mg will I get additional positive effects from the opiate or not? Over next 2 days detox mode is not my goal, getting totally away from suffering and being able to relax is. Advice appreciated!
 
f'it. I'm taking another 2mg sublingually and gonna wait an hour. Hope I can get a reply or 3 before I decide whether or not to go on to another 2mg. My legs are killing me and I need to get normal for a day or 2 before I can honestly give tapering again a shot. The first taper went well until I stupidly picked up dope after a month or 2....
 
and I have no itentions on jacking up my dose of xanax, I just want to get opiate well for a cpl days here before forumlating a realistic taper plan.
 
If you're feeling restless/signs of withdrawal, just take 1 mg every 30 mins or so until you feel that you're stabilized. Definitely use the lowest dose that's effective for you, as it'll make getting of the bupe easier. Just listen to your body
 
If you're still experiencing withdrawal symptoms at the dose your currently on, taking more will definitely help. Dropping down to 4mg (where you said you wanted to be) is pretty easy no matter what dose of bupe you are on. It's dropping from 4 to nothing that is really difficult. So, if I were you I'd take enough suboxone to where I'm no longer going through any withdrawal symptoms, maintain on that dose for another day or two.. and then drop down to 4mg's.
 
Thanks for the replies guys. I never tried going from 4mg to nothing, I was maintaining at 4mg then when to dope at a gram or more per day after like 2 'chip uses in a cpl months. So I'm really coming off a 1-2g/day dope habit. Then ran out of bupe, got a new supply. Hopfully I will learn my lesson this time and not think I can successfully 'chip' dope. And either work down to 4mg and stay there for however long or continue to taper, but for right now you've helped me a lot. thank you!
 
I couldn't quite tell if you were asking whether taking an additional one or two mg would give you more euphoria or if it would just help more with withdrawal. Usually, I find, as far as suboxone goes, any dose above four mg will not add any more euphoric effects, but rather just increase the duration of time the suboxone/subutex stays in your system. I find that when switching to bupe from a full agonist, it is usually helpful to take higher dosages the first few days, though I will never take more than four mg at a time. By day three it should be relatively easy to skip back down to 6 mg, and the next day to 4. Any withdrawal you will experience will be minimal, and if absolutely necessairy can be remedied by adding another .5mg of buprenorphine. It's usually when you start to taper below 4mg that you feel actual withdrawal from buprenorphine, as the blood levels start to drop in a steeper fashion.

Anyway, I'm glad you transitioned nicely. Staying clean off dope/opiates is a real struggle, about should be proud that you were able to reign yourself in before it became too late.
 
Thanks. Not trying to get high. Just void of neg sx of w/d. Found it at 12mg today. Did it 4, 4, 2, and 2. Will start with 4 and 4 tomorrow and see if I can keep it there. Max out at 10mg. Then work towards 4mg over the week. Can't say what my plans are when I stabilize at 4 yet, if I keep shooting lower or play it safe at 4mg. But in a better place with the sub's than the dope that's for sure! Thanks man!
 
Feeling relaxed and normal now. Functional. This is good. Thanks again everyone for your support!
 
Good to hear, Titus. It's a great feeling once the bupe kicks in hah, sending you back to a level feeling. It's a breath of fresh air after being sick. Post back once you're stabilized at 4mg's and want to ween off of that. It takes a little more effort like I said, but you can definitely come up with a taper plan that works for you.
 
Glad you doing good Titus, I'm struggling with subs right now too but I am coming off of them. I don't mean to hijack your thread but I have a question. I tapered down to 4mgs of bupe from 16mgs over a 2 week period. I'm stabilized on 4mg and my sub doc wrote me a script of 15 2mg film strips. He wrote a 21 day taper schedule but when I got home I realized he was planning on having me jump from 1mg.

I've heard a lot of bad things about jumping above anything over .8 and I want to get down to AT LEAST .5mg. How should I taper down to .5mg with only 15 film strips(2mg)?? I don't want any w/d's and I'm reading a ton of horror stories about suboxone. Wish I never got on maintenance therapy with it
 
You can definitely get down to .5 and lower with 30mg's of bupe. You say you're on 4mg's now. Start decreasing your dose every day by .25mg's or .5mg's if you want to get through it a bit faster. This will give your brain a nice and gradual weening off of the bupe. It'll become slowly more and more used to not having its receptors filled. When you get down to .25 mg's, or 1/8th of a 2mg strip, jump off.
 
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