Reporting from the Windy City
So last month, after a ripping painful rootcanal, I took extra suboxone for about a week because I couldn't take the vicodin they gave me. I take a relatively high dose of suboxone because my doctor is using it for pain management as well as detox. And I've been taking it for two years. I was hooked on oxy, vicodin, fentanyl for about four years before that so I'm definitely not opiate naive.
When I ran out of my suboxone a few days early in December, I didn't know about lope

and i literally thought I was going to die. I couldn't close my eyes for a second to rest because of the restless legs, I was crying at everything, sweating like a pig...gross. Last month I ran out seven days early. wow. 24 hours after my last dose I took about 20mgs of Lope, and continued dosing at that amount or a little higher every four hours or so (while awake) until my appointment. I felt FANTASTIC. Not just relief of withdrawal, but good, up, happy. No discomfort whatsoever.
BUT BE WARNED - precipitated withdrawals are a bitch. There was some debate on here about whether suboxone would cause precipitated lope withdrawal. The answer is yes. I waited about 24 hours before taking my first sub, and within an hour I was crying, uncomfortable,nauseated, no other word but DYSPHORIC. It didn't go away for two days. I will not make that mistake again.