Rio Fantastic
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- Feb 19, 2009
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How are you doing dude? I tried doing a bupe taper for my habit but failed. I was taking 1200mg DHC, 480mg oxy and 400mg tramadol a day (split into 2 doses). So my habit was quite large. I did a 7 day taper but day 9 I was still very sick and had work the next day so relapsed.
I found bupe didn't get me well until day 3 or 4 and I was still having sweats/chills seeping through.
I'm trying to quit using codeine now. 240mg of it twice a day, I have just started day 3 and feel terrible, but the codeine is allowing me to lie mostly still otherwise i'd be flopping around in agony
You are aware bupe is way stronger than codeine??? You failed a taper with a stronger opioid so you've swapped to a much weaker one? I hope it works out for you - on the positive side a codeine taper should be much easier than a buprenorphine one, especially at the point where you actually jump off completely. However, the issues that made it difficult for you to taper the bupe should be present at the start where you try and habituate to just taking codeine. What happened with your bupe taper exactly?? What was your dose and where did it go wrong?