cowgirl0510
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If anyone has tried this to switch to suboxone I’d love to hear your stories and how it went. Was it hard? Did you feel ok or really shitty?
I personally have never used subs for maintenance but my SO used to get a sub script and used heroin off and on with no issues restarting his sub doses when he’d get “clean”. That was over 5 years ago though. He was off everything for a year or two, relapsed, then went on methadone maintenance. Ended up relapsing a year in and had stopped going to the clinic so when he wanted to stop that time he said he wanted to get back on subs. I personally watched him try a couple times with the subs and each time sent him into precipitated withdrawals even 48 hours after last heroin dose and over 96 without methadone. He is convinced suboxone no longer works for him, but i don’t see how it would just suddenly stop. Either he was using fentadope without knowing or his constant using on subs in prior years somehow effected something with his receptors (is that a thing?) causing subsequent suboxone therapy to not be as easy. Meaning he has to wait much longer to take it or he’s going to face precipitated withdrawals no matter what and he just has to ride it out and push on with the suboxone doses until it finally works.