I have used opiates pills then heroin for about the last 10 years off and on. I have gone through numerous detoxes going cold turkey and my last two put me in the hospital. I was dangerously sick and was told by the ER doctor I should not attempt going cold turkey again. I have been seeing a Suboxone doctor and have a prescription but I am having trouble making it 24 hours without using so I can take my dose. I also do not want to get hooked on Suboxone so is it possible to only take suboxone for a few days until I feel better and then not take anything at all? Any help is appreciated thank you
I have used opiates pills then heroin for about the last 10 years off and on. I have gone through numerous detoxes going cold turkey and my last two put me in the hospital. I was dangerously sick and was told by the ER doctor I should not attempt going cold turkey again. I have been seeing a Suboxone doctor and have a prescription but I am having trouble making it 24 hours without using so I can take my dose. I also do not want to get hooked on Suboxone so is it possible to only take suboxone for a few days until I feel better and then not take anything at all? Any help is appreciated thank you
Its stories like this that bewilder me as to why a suboxone Dr cannot(or will not) prescribe a short term (2-3 days) dose of oxycodone to use before inducing on Subs from heroin(or black market fentanyl powder, which is very common on the streets these days and has practically supplanted H in some areas). If you are using enough H, its an absolute bitch to switch over to subs. Then even after a 24 hour wait of misery for those with high dose habits on strong opioids, you're still looking at 3-5 days of withdrawal until your tolerance will be low enough to get full relief from the Subs.
BTW, don't listen to people who are going to degrade the difficulty of this switch. I've honestly done it, possibly double digit times(also cold turkeyed oxy 3 times...so yeah, relapsed a time or 2), a few from each of oxy, H and fent addictions. The oxy was a cake walk, legit 12 hours(I metabolize opiates crazy fast, so don't do as I do) after last dose of 30 mg and I'd be feeling 50% and 24 hours, take a 2nd dose and good to go. With H I tried waiting only 12, didn't give me legit precip w/d, but think it made me worse in some areas and better in others. After that off H I'd always go about 16-18(as long as I could manage) and it'd basically do nothing, but prob helped a little. Then I'd just keep dosing and it slowly got better until about 3rd day, when I'd feel decent. With the fent I can't say its been much diff than H. I made it 24 hrs last time I did it and it def helped a lot, but I was at the point of w/d where I was losing my mind.
I also don't know if I'd F with the methadone. I never understood when people would be put on methadone to lower tolerance to get on Subs. Methadone to Sub is prob the #1 cause for precip w/d. I weaker full agonist that is short acting makes 100% more sense. Shit on the streets can be damn strong, I've tried curbing w/d with oxy and find 90 mg isn't even enough to ward it all off. Everytime I've made switch to Subs I wish I had the ability(mainly the $) to get some oxy and use it for atleast one day before induction. I don't believe it's just the strength, either. The pharmacodynamics of Sub to Oxy are much more similar(both thebaine derivatives, more energetic highs) than other opioids like H, Oxymorphone or synthetics like methdone and fent.
