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Bupe [Q] How long til I can take suboxone

Silicon Knight

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I've heard many varying opinions on this subject, and I've read a lot of different threads about it on Bluelight and other sites, but none of them are able to answer my specific question So I guess I will just ask....

Up until 2 months ago I had been clean from opiates for over 9 months for the first time since starting to use them 4years ago. Well I messed up 2months ago and started poppin oxycodones and mscontins. Now I wanna get back off and stay straight this time. So I got myself a couple of suboxones, there the sublingual strips and are 8MG each. For the last week I've only been taking about 40mg of morphine or sometimes I would take one or two 30mg oxycodones. Either by Parachuting or by Snorting. for the last four day I've done about 20-25mg of mscontin up until the day before yesterday, which I did a shot of Heroin, it was barely .1 and then today at around 11am, I IV'd like 15-20mg of Morphine. I was going through withdrawals already when i took the morphine today, and that stopped them until like 4hours ago.....

Now to my question.....

I decided to take half of one of the 8mg strips about 1 hour ago, cause I was going through more then mild withdrawals. Which I've heard people say either wait 24hrs after last opiate use or wait until you have mild or full on withdrawal symptoms. As I said, its been a lil over an hour, and I fill a tad bit better, definitely don't fill worse, so I know I am not getting precipitated withdrawals, but in the past usually my withdrawal go away within 30-45min of suboxone. Usually i would take a whole one, and that was when the pills were still around more so then the strips. So I am thinkin the reason my withdrawals are still there is cause I didn't take enough of a dose.

Should I take the other half of the strip, or should i take that half, and cut it in half, and take that instead. I don't wanna make things worse. I was told that if i was going to go into precipitated withdrawals, I would know within 15min, and definitely would know before an hour, so I think I am good on that front. What do you guys think I should do ?
 
If you took 4mg's for your first dose and don't go into PW's for 1-2 hours.. chances are you're fine.

Bupe can take 2 hours to kick in 100%, so wait another hour or so, then take another 2mg's and see how you feel. If you're still sick 2 hours after that, I'd take another 1mg. Repeat until you hit 8mg's or your withdrawals go away. You shouldn't take more than 8mg's the first day, even if you're still feeling kind of sick.

Sometimes, no matter what dose of suboxone you're on, it takes a couple days for the bupe to really kick in and start working 100%.
 
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