jamesBrown
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I filled my script today for 9 of the 8mg films. I normally inject my sub dose on a daily basis, so that was a big issue for me. I used to take an 8mg pill, cut it in quarters, and inject 2mg. After reading what others on BL have said about injecting the new film strips, I decided to give it a shot.
I cut the 8mg film into quarters (a lot harder to be precise compared to the tablets in my opinion, since the tablets are hexagons or whatever, and I can just cut on the line in the back, then in the middle. estimating the middle on the film is much harder), then took what I assumed to be 2mg and put it in my spoon. I added 100 units of water, and stirred the solution. The film took a little while to actually dissolve fully, like I expected, and the little pieces left over I had to physically move around to get to finally dissolve. I was surprised to find that unlike other posters reports, the solution wasn't *too* thick. It was a little thicker than water usually is, but I've had shots of black tar heroin that were thicker than this. I guess as long as you use enough water, and not too many mg of the sub strips, it really isn't that big of a deal. When I registered, the blood mixed with the solution fine, and I had the familiar lemon lime taste in my mouth, followed by the usual bupe feeling through my body.
As far as I'm concerned, the reports of the film being way too 'syrupy' and thick when attempting to IV have been over exaggerated. I'm in no way saying that I'm 100% sure it's safe to IV, but I do think that the thickness of the solution isn't as worrisome as some might imagine.
I am glad you had such a good first time with the IV sub film strips. I too have made solutions of the strips that seemed perfectly fine for injection. I think alot of the people who posted and said that there solutions seemed to be much more syrupy than normal and that they didnt think it was safe to inject the strips as a result.....I simply think that they were just not using enough water per mg of buprenorphine. I dont know why but for some reason, some people actually inject like 8mg's(or more even) of suboxone at a time, and when they got the new strips they assumed that then tiny strip would dissolve perfectly fine in water but they were mistaken. Because of the formulation of the strips you need to have a certain aount of water per mg to make it a nice liquid injectable solution and that probably is only possible if you are injecting like 2mg's or less a shot. Maybe up to 4mg's but I have not tried that nor am i planning on it. Besides, if you have to take 4mg's at once of suboxone then you really shouldnt be injecting it in the first place. There arent really any beneficial effects gained above 2-3mg's in my experience.
I, for example, only mix about 0.5mg's in each shot and I use a 1 cc syringe with about 90 units of water. This makes the solution excessively watery and thats fine with me.....water doesnt hurt my veins in that small amount, but an injection of a syrupy solution could.