I have a good idea on how to get a .5mg dose. Take a shot glass and an oral syringe. If you have a pill crush it up and put it in the glass (just put the strip in the glass). Take the syringe and fill it with 8cc of water (or ethanol) and add that to the glass. Stir with toothpick until completely dissolved into a solution. Draw up the solution into the syringe.... you will have 8cc of Suboxone solution. 1cc =1mg of bupe. You can now drop .5 or 1cc under your tounge for a dose of .5 or 1mg. You could also plug the solution if you use water and not alcohol. You could also just draw up a half cc of the solution and then draw up a few more cc of water with it just do there is more liquid that's further diluted to make it easier to plug so you actually get the full dose out of the syringe.
My question is, I've been taking a full 8mg strip a day for the last 2 weeks. How long would I have to lower my dose and by how much in order to microdose and get the norbuprenorphine effects? I want to be able to feel a high so bad... doesn't need to be much. I'd be happy with just a warm fuzzy feeling or a nod. Subs do literally nothing for me.
I don't actually think that it's a matter of norbuprenorphine, but rather that at low dosages, the level of Buprenorphine in your blood decreases enough over a 12-24 hour mark that you feel a 'spike' when you take that dosage. Usually this means that you'll probably be feeling a little uncomfortable for a couple hours during the day, but I always felt it was worth it. Personally I hate high dose Buprenorphine, because it always left me feeling overly medicated without
feeling medicated if that make any sense (kind of like a pointless addiction).
But yeah, in order for micro dosing Bupe to work, you
have to taper down from 8mg. You can probably cut down to 4mg/day relatively painlessly, by taking 2mg in the morning and another 2mg at night. After a three day period you can cut down to 1.5mg, and then after three days cut down to 1mg 2x day. I found Buprenorphine (via SL administration) the most effective in terms of 'effects' at .5mg 2xday (so 1mg/day). However I would note that I ended up preferring to be on 2mg (or 1mg/12hr) because I still felt my dose but I felt a lot more stable. At 1mg, the effects were nice but I just metabolized the Bupe too quick and I found myself always waiting to dose again.
Also, if you're at 8mg/day, you could probably white knuckle it through at least 24 hours without any Buprenorphine at all, and then if after that you're feeling really shitty, just take an incredibly small dosage to get you out of withdrawal and continue to do this, taking 1mg or under for around 3 days, and after the 72 hour mark, you'll probably get a decent little glow off of 2mg.
It should be noted though, that IME I've only nodded off Subs a handful of times, back when I'd take it when I had virtually no tolerance. While on maintenance, regardless of how low my dosage was, I never got anything
close to a nod via the SL ROA, and even when I'd IV it, I'd have to take a couple xanax to get halfway to oblivion.
Buprenorphine is a limiting drug, unlike methadone, and once you have a tolerance to it, it's pretty hard to get a real recreational value out of it. It's not like at a certain dosage it becomes a full agonist, it just acts more like one, albeit a full agonist that you still have a tolerance too. The only thing I can think of comparing it to would be a very light dosage of methadone. It is a strong opiate, but it's not a very flexible one.