Low dose oxycodone to ease heroin withdrawal?

[aBurningFire]

So to sum it up... I've been on heroin/opiates for over a year this time. I decided to start taking 8mg suboxone and stayed on it for 3 months until i switched back to heroin for the past month (*no prices* worth a day has been keeping me straight).... Now, here is my plan to wane down which is where my question lies. I have 3 50bags left and i plan on using one 50 a day for the next three days. Then i plan on taking 30mg oxycodone a day for the next three days after that. I know that even the oxycodone isn't gonna help that much but it will be way better than just quitting CT right now.... But, after the 3 days of oxycodone and then going cold turkey from there the withdrawal should be pretty easy to handle right? That is my question.


If this is in the wrong section, i'm sorry. feel free to move it to it's accurate home. Grazie.

 

[Pjkt2501]

Tapering down using weaker / shorter half-lived opiates will work, but be tough. Something like a fast suboxone taper has worked out much more successfully in the past.

Just saw you are going to use 30's... Those are what I currently am addicted to, more so than H. I don't like H given that I don't use points, oxy is better. To taper with that seems like the wrong way to go about it.

I'd look around for a 5-10 day sub taper and go with that. I got myself off of 30's w/ 3mg of bupe last time over 5 days. ...Then I decided to stay on the subs and eventually relapsed..

Good luck. It's a tough battle.

 

[aBurningFire]

well, thats really why i switched back to heroin last month. Cuz i read so much about how coming off of 8mg of suboxone would be a killer and last like 2 weeks on the physical side of it. And i know that i can barely even make it thru the 3-5 days of withdrawal from opiates with short half lives. So i switched back to heroin in order to get off of subs.... but then i wound up getting really good deals and a lot of free shit so my tolerance shot thru the roof cuz i've basically been having endless amounts of dat'boy for the past month... and now things have changed and i have to pay for every $50 dollar fucking bag and i just cant afford it..... so yeah.... i do have 1 single 8mg suboxone strip leftover but i'm just worried that i will make my tolerance go up even higher if i wind up using the sub when i can no longer handle the withdrawals.

 

[Pjkt2501]

Wait for the W/D's to kick in, and try taking the sub .5-1mg at a time (every half hour) until your symptoms subside. I'd be willing to bet that 2-3mg would keep you classy.

I was using ~45-90mg Roxy/day and here's my schedule:

Day 1: 1mg bupe morning, 1mg evening
Day 2: 1mg bupe mid-day
Day 3: .5mg bupe morning, .5mg bupe evening

And I was done, but decided to keep taking 1mg/day

 

[NeighborhoodThreat]

The short Suboxone (buprenorphine) taper is pretty effective for some people...but using oxycodone will still work, Pjk pretty much hit the nail on the head. I also recommend picking up some loperamide (Immodium).

 

[aBurningFire]

right, and i know that dropping off from even one mg of sub can still be a bitch. and i know that 30 mg of oxycodone would only be just enough to ease my withdrawals and nothing more based on how much H i been using. I plan on using the oxy tho. I just wanted to know if dropping of from 30mg once a day for three would produce intense withdrawals or if it would just be 3 days of minor withdrawals....

 

[aBurningFire]

becuz if it would be intense withdrawals then ima have to figure out some way to get a little bit of money and then drop from 30 mg to 10-20mg once every 24 hours.... i don't wanna get mixed back up with the subs cuz i can't handle how slow it is. it is a greeat drug if you can stay on it but getting off of suboxone is a whole 'nother story