Oh no, I've never taken methadone. I'm using the buprenorphine as part of a rapid taper plan to get off heroin (and hopefully stay off, fingers crossed)
Ah, I see. Makes more sense. GL ! It's quite doable IMO, the most difficult part is staying clean, of course. Hope you make it!
I've done this quick taper a few times 'coming off' my current oxy habit (sometimes up to 800mg in a day

Usually around 400mg. Though I've recently started to taper and am doing OK on 240mg. Giving myself some time to stabilize on that ATM, but I digress) and while the first few days suck, I always seem to stabilize after about 3 days of misery. By then I usually 'relapse', but I have gotten to 5 days a few times. I have to admit though that when I've done this, it's actually never been my intention to actually get off my oxy, but rather to fill a gap during which I can't get more oxy or H.
Mind you that when I say misery I do mean that, but it's not even close to as bad as it would be without the suboxone, there's no vomiting, diarrhea, watery eyes, runny nose or any of that unpleasantness due to the sub. I still feel like crap (that crushing depression, suicidal thoughts, goosebumps, hot flashes, ...), but I'd say it's quite a blessing to not have to suffer the aforemenioned w/d symptoms on top of that. Whenever I do this I start with about 6mg on day one, and try to take 1-2mg less each day or 2 days depending on how much I feel is needed. It's never insanely much. That works for me. As I mentioned before, it takes about 3 days before I feel somewhat normal on the suboxone despite lowering the dose each day/2 days. I'm pretty sure that if I were to stay the course I would be able to get clean in about 7-10 days with subs with only a moderate amount of suffering compared to what it would be like C/T. So far (thankfully!) I've never had to find out how horrible that would be since I've always had suboxone on hand. I have, however, put myself in precipitated w/d twice before (both times were really horrible, but 1 time it lasted about an hour and the other time it lasted around 12(!!). During these (thankfully relatively short) precipitated withdrawals, I did get the whole package of symptoms with vomiting, diarrhea etc. If I'd have to go through that for 5-7 days I'd probably off myself (or go to the ER to receive SOME sort of medication, probably methadone i imagine).
Anyway, again, GL! I hope you make it!
OT; Just shot 120mg oxy. Failed my goal today of sticking to 240mg. I'm at 240mg already ATM and I will certainly need to take at least 1 more dose (80-120mg) before the day is over. Also took 6mg bromazepam and 15mg flurazepam over the course of the day; flurazepam is definitely a benzo that should be taken in the evening if possible as it is quite sedating, and will easily still be active the whole next day (it is
really long-acting) with a little less hindrance of its sedative effects. I currently have to dose it during the day as I'm about to run out of bromazepam and can't go see my doc for another 12 days. (I told him I was on vacation because I needed early refills

). So I have to make do with what I have, which isn't that terrible. I'm just happy I even have the flurazepam as a backup.
Alright that's enough rambling from me for now. I have to squeeze one eye shut to read what I'm writing and would love to close my eyes for a bit with some music, so here is where I end my post. GL again (that's 3 times, because third time's the charm!) Burnt Offerings. And peace to all of my BL brothers and sisters.
