Bupe Newbies urgent question about Suboxone dosage for opiate withdrawl

[cm0265880]

Hello! I am new to this online community and have a few urgent questions regarding Suboxone usage in the treatment of opiate withdrawal. I am not entirely sure what forum to post this on so I am hoping that this post isn't laughably out of place on this thread. If so, I apologize in advance. Down to business.

I have been battling heroin addiction for years and has once again started up an old habit. I have been slamming .2-.3 grams of black tar heroin for the past 5 months with the occasional methadone and Oxycodone sprinkled in. Recently I went to an inpatient detox center where I spent 8 painful days being reminded why heroin is no longer my friend. Then being the poster child for impulsive decisions that I am, I decided to ignore that latest hard earned reminder, and renew the friendship with heroin less than 12 hours after leaving detox. For the past 4 days I have been once again using .2-.3 grams of tar, but ever so smartly have upgraded this current trounce of relapse with the addition of 1.7 grams of meth smoked over the course of this 4 day period.

I wishe to get off of heroin again but this time in the privacy of my own home, and to do so as painlessly as possible. So, I acquired some Suboxone and was wondering with my current addiction model detailed above; what the approximate appropriate dose of Suboxone might be given the assumption that the heroin (and also meth, though I doubt that to be relevant) I was using is of a med-high grade quality? In essence I am looking for a chart that would in general, compare the quantity of heroin I used to the appropriate dose of Suboxone needed to survive comfortably given a med-high grade quality of heroin as a constant. My last dose of heroin was roughly 2 hours ago and I'm hoping that someone on this forum might be able to give an answer ASAP? I'm a little nervous and could definitely use the advice. Any help would be greatly appreciated and thank you in advance...

Also, here is a general profile of for me in case that helps.

Age: 27
height: 5'8
weight: 175
Sex: Male
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Physical condition is considered healthy with no major medical complications

Thanks again

 

[missmeyet?]

Welcome to Bluelight..we can definitely help you out. The only other rule we ask for you to follow is to please not refer to yourself in the third person as you did in the thread. You might want to change that (Sammy to "I"), it will allow you to most likely receive more answers here.

First, let me direct you to the thread about buprenorphine (subs) so that you can look through it...it has everything youu could possibly want to know about it, secondly, let me say that you will not want to start the subs until you are actively withdrawing from heroin. If you start a dose of subs before then it will throw you into precipitated withdrawals...most people will say wait 24 hours or so..I personally can start bupe as soon as i start having withdrawal symptoms. Most importantly i would start low with the subs and go slow with increasing your dose until you get some relief. You are going to want to be on the lowest sub dose possible that can help you. Too many people are on ridiculously high doses when a doc puts them on it. The smaller the dose at the least amount of time on it will make tapering off much much easierwhen you come off it. I have been a nurse for twenty years in addition to being an IV heroin user/addict. Personally, once i begin to go into withdrawals (and the longer you can wait into withdrawals the better), I wouls tart with half mg dose and work my way up by. 5mg. Each time until i had some relief. You should get to that point by 2 - 4 mgs. I have a bigger heroin habit than what you listed and i can get relief around those doses. It is a little different for everyone and i dont really know of a chart that shows dosages but i really think you will find those doses sufficient.

Link to sub/bupe thread:

http://www.bluelight.org/vb/threads/704514-Suboxone-Buprenorphine-Mega-Thread-and-FAQ-v17-0?p=12054536#post12054536

 

[cm0265880]

oh really? thank you I was unaware of that fact, I will change that right now. And more importantly thanks for the bup advice