Hi all. i've been on suboxone maintenance for a while and just tapered down to 10mg a day, which i snort for the BA. i usually snort 5mg in the morn and 5mg at night. anyway i also have terrible anxiety, and i was told that docs DO NOT prescribe benzos wit bupe anymore unless under dire circumstances because of how "deadly" the respiratory depression is. Years and years ago i was on suboxone maintenance at 16mg a day while also prescribed ativan AND klonopin so i was a bit skeptical bout how "deadly" the combo is. I was even on methadone maintenance for about 9 months before (80mg liquid dose daily) and i was taking non prescribed xanax anywhere between 1-6mg without ever having any issues.
the thing is that my anxiety is REALLY acting up again to the point that i went to the ER and they gave me a few day script for .5mg klonopin which helped me immensely! i was actually kinda surprised because i thought i would still have a decent benzo tolerance, and kpins never really did much to me, but if i took 1mg of kpins now i can definitely feel the effects. anyway, i cant get into the doc to get a normal script of kpins until 5 weeks from now and i ran out of my kpins. i tried to find more, but could only get .5mg xanax which is VERY easy for me to attain. today i popped around .75mg of xanax and it started to make me fall asleep almost immediately. i took them at around 4PM and i got home and snorted my second dose of 5mg bupe. the drowsiness is pretty bad, and i feel moderately dizzy but nothing too serious at the moment. im not feeling "fucked up" by any means just nodding out every cpl mins.
im just a bit concerned with how tired its making me feel and hearing all the hype about how "deadly" the respiratory depression can be mixing it. im not worried about blacking out or anything right now, but i am kinda worried about falling asleep and not waking up which is basically what my sub doc scared me with. i do work 80 hr weeks at a high stress job and last night i only got about 3 hrs of sleep so im sure thats factoring in with my symptoms but should i be worried about this? is there anything i could do to ease my mind? i know im prolly worrying over nothing, like i said i used to take a 4mg xanax on top of my 80mg methadone dose like it was nothin. i rly didnt think .75mg was gonna hit me this hard, should i hold off falling asleep as long as i can? any advice or input would be greatly appreciated. thanks guys!
the thing is that my anxiety is REALLY acting up again to the point that i went to the ER and they gave me a few day script for .5mg klonopin which helped me immensely! i was actually kinda surprised because i thought i would still have a decent benzo tolerance, and kpins never really did much to me, but if i took 1mg of kpins now i can definitely feel the effects. anyway, i cant get into the doc to get a normal script of kpins until 5 weeks from now and i ran out of my kpins. i tried to find more, but could only get .5mg xanax which is VERY easy for me to attain. today i popped around .75mg of xanax and it started to make me fall asleep almost immediately. i took them at around 4PM and i got home and snorted my second dose of 5mg bupe. the drowsiness is pretty bad, and i feel moderately dizzy but nothing too serious at the moment. im not feeling "fucked up" by any means just nodding out every cpl mins.
im just a bit concerned with how tired its making me feel and hearing all the hype about how "deadly" the respiratory depression can be mixing it. im not worried about blacking out or anything right now, but i am kinda worried about falling asleep and not waking up which is basically what my sub doc scared me with. i do work 80 hr weeks at a high stress job and last night i only got about 3 hrs of sleep so im sure thats factoring in with my symptoms but should i be worried about this? is there anything i could do to ease my mind? i know im prolly worrying over nothing, like i said i used to take a 4mg xanax on top of my 80mg methadone dose like it was nothin. i rly didnt think .75mg was gonna hit me this hard, should i hold off falling asleep as long as i can? any advice or input would be greatly appreciated. thanks guys!