Bupe If you taper down off sub/bup do you still get RLS?

[Gordon]

If it's a short term detox i.e 3 weeks and you jump off from 0.4 or 0.25mg, do you still get bad insomnia/RLS? am talking about using sub for a short while and np opiate before then for several months.

thanks!

 

[BlueHues]

^It really depends on a lot of different factors, and there's no way of predicting what exactly someone's symptoms will be....

Tapering slowly down to a very low dose of buprenorphine will definitely make the symptoms much more mild and bearable, but as to whether or not you'll have insomnia and RLS, nobody can really say...

3 weeks is plenty of time to become dependent, and even very small amounts of suboxone will stave of almost all withdrawal symptoms.

The only situation I can think of where someone would do a 3 week long suboxone taper without a habit, would be if they were in a rehab facility and had lied about their opiate use so that they would be given suboxone. I've actually seen this before...people in rehab getting absolutely bombed from the suboxone they were being given to taper from their nonexistent opiate habit! Absent a situation like that, I see no other scenario of someone performing a suboxone taper with no habit!

 

[The Doc.]

It depends every person is different some may but if you've never taken sub before and use it for a couple weeks while tapering then the withdrawal symptoms should be minimal mabye a bit of the restlessness and anxiety along with a bit of upset stomach but nothing too severe. When I've gone into detox to get off heroin they started me on 8mg and worked me down to 1 in 7days then I jumped off with nothing and didn't feel too bad just the minor symptoms I described above

 

[The Doc.]

Oh I didn't see that for some reason he said he didn't have a opiate habit before that huh I guess mabye the OP is just abusing sub's for. awhile then thinking off tapering off