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Bupe Coming off Bupe with poppyseed tea

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jesshatessubs46

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I’ve been taking one tablet 8 mg of Suboxone for over 10 months now. I thought for the longest time this is just what sobriety feels like.. however I am constantly miserable. I have severe headache, headaches with nausea and vomiting.. I have zero sexual desire with my partner who I had a very healthy sex life with.. I feel nothing in my vagina sexually. It is completely numb. I feel completely numb.. I’m highly depressed. I have no motivation. I procrastinate on everything.. I’ve gained 50+ pounds.. I lost my spiritual energy. I I don’t even listen or feel music anymore..
my husband and I have decided to do poppyseed tea. We are wondering when we could start drinking this to avoid the withdrawal from the Suboxone.. we’re not necessarily trying to be high. We are just trying to do a natural resource instead of Suboxone.. The question is when can we start taking the opiate after been on Suboxone this long and it’ll be OK?
 
So are you talking about getting off of suboxone by temporarily switching to poppy seed tea?

Or are you talking about replacing your daily suboxone with poppy seed tea?

Poppy seed tea, as innocuous as it might sound, is a more heavy duty substance than suboxone. Dependence from poppy seed tea (which is essentially opium in liquid form) is severe, with a withdrawal syndrome far more brutal than suboxone withdrawal. It is also hard to get a consistent supply of high quality seeds since the type of seed used isn't the kind you find at the grocery store, but rather unwashed poppy seeds that are usually sold for the purpose of making tea. Those seeds aren't cheap and the supply is inconsistent.

Or, would the poppy seed tea be a temporary thing? (Even so, you're playing with fire.)

But I get it. I've played around with suboxone and am not a fan, definitely not something I'd want to be on daily. Have you tried tapering? You'd better off using something like kratom or maybe tramadol to use temporarily rather than a harder drug (opium). It could work but it's rather risky given how brutal opium addiction is.
 
negrogesic said:
It is also hard to get a consistent supply of high quality seeds since the type of seed used isn't the kind you find at the grocery store, but rather unwashed poppy seeds that are usually sold for the purpose of making tea. Those seeds aren't cheap and the supply is inconsistent.
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Yeah, I've tried like 10 different brands and none of them worked. :rolleyes:
 
Survival0200 said:
Yeah, I've tried like 10 different brands and none of them worked. :rolleyes:
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You mean store brands of poppy seeds? Generally speaking none of those will work. The only way you might find viable seeds in a store is at some health food place that sells seeds not in bags, but in bins (where you scoop it into a bag and it's sold by the pound). Even then you'll probably need a bunch. In theory, some store bought ones might work if you used a massive amount, but it isn't viable.

But yeah, in anycase, hopefully the OP knows that most poppy seeds won't work for making tea. But there bigger question is whether opium could be used to get off of suboxone. The answer is, maybe it could bridge the gap, but i think the idea might not play out well in practice as opium is a "harder" drug than bupe, and could result in a nasty poppy seed tea habit (which can get incredibly expensive since unwashed poppy seeds are less common these days). Around a decade ago, you could actually buy good quality seeds on Amazon for not much more than $10 a pound. Then some kid died and the company started washing their seeds, along with others. So it all dried up, and now a pound of good seeds are far more expensive and hard to find.

This is what's behind it: https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2019/dec/13/rogers-parents-push-leads-to-warning-on/

Its called the "Stephen Hacala Poppy Seed Safety Act". I've read the details of the case and the guys parents knew he was making tea for his "depression" and thought it was safe. He apparently OD'd so his parents have had a hard-on about poppy seeds ever since. OD's are pretty rare, yet thousands use poppy seeds as pain relief because doctors are too scared to write narcotic prescriptions. Deaths are unfortunate but I believe that poppy seeds should remain unregulated. When is Elon Musk and DOGE going to defund the DEA....
 
We have a consistent and good supply for the poppyseed tea. The idea would be to get off the Suboxone and only use the tea necessary to dwindle down to be substance free for a while.
 
jesshatessubs46 said:
We have a consistent and good supply for the poppyseed tea. The idea would be to get off the Suboxone and only use the tea necessary to dwindle down to be substance free for a while.
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If this is your plan, I suggest you taper as far as you can with the suboxone and then merely use the poppyseed tea in small amounts to deal with lingering issues.

As others have said, in spite of sounding "safe" because its the natural(ish) form of product, it is still on the potent side and probably causes worse WDs than suboxone.
 
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