hi all. i've been an opiate addict for close to a decade. i was on suboxone for a cpl years and came off it about 2 years ago. my dumb ass ended up usin again and started goin to a methadone clinic for about 8 months with an avg dose of 65mg a day. i came off the subs in sept, then got back on suboxone for a month, then decided to go cold turkey, but the wds were too intense. i had to find dones on the street every 3-5 days to stop the wds. this went on for about a month and a half. i decided to get back on the subs, and i started on a much lower dose than before. i started on 8mg, and after two weeks i dropped it down to 6mg. im in a tough spot because i have to be completely clean by march(long story). but i was told that methadone wds last a LONG fucking time, and even if you take suboxone, once you stop the subs the methadone wds can come raging back. would it be feasible to taper off the subs in 2 and a half months and not feel the methadone wds? how long should i expect to feel wds? like i said i just dropped to 6mg, and i have two months to taper down, so id prolly drop 2mg every two weeks. should that be enough time for me to not feel the methadone wd? any help/advice would be greatly appreciated!
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yea man thats a shitty spot to be in... i was in detox for H and there were a few ppl there for subs and they said the WDs from that can last for upto a month, shit the one girl had been there two weeks and said day 14 was just as bad as day one... so honestly if you have two months Id start cutting back now and you still might go thru WDs... wish I had more advice but I dont really fuck w subs or methadone...
I wouldn't worry the methadone wd after 2.5 months but your suboxone taper plan sounds awful to me. Two mgs every 2 weeks? That's insane, you could probably drop 4 mg overnight and not notice much if any wd. Whenever I use sub, I take high doses the first few days to get me off whatever opiate ive been abusing (IV heroin usually) and then I immediately drop down to very low doses like 1 mg a day or less split into two doses. I never have much trouble doing this, the only hard part is getting completely off it. So I would recommend drop down to as low a dose of suboxone as will hold you soon, and then taper gradually from there. Your body will tell you if you go too fast and you can always take more but going to slow is stupid and have no benefits.