Sorry to double post but wtf...you really CANT jump off at MICROGRAMS? That's like what?...a headache, mabe?....if you realyl can't man it up at that low of a dose just damn....
No, i think philip there was a little confused. I dont know if you know this but he was talking about the moderator Captain.Heroin. who is currently taking like 26 mcg doses every day. Im not sure if you know about the Captain.....but I think Phillip was just asking him if he was taking such tiny doses in order to get off of suboxone more easily.....and the answer to the question(if i may speak in the Captains absence)....is no not really. Him taking those tiny doses do, in fact, allow him to quit much easier than he would at a much higher dose.....but if he was just going down to that tiny of a dose in order to make quitting subs easier, thn he would have quit by now....hes been at that dose for quite some time now, and hes actually been in the microgram range now for even longer.
The main reason, I believe, why the Captain keeps taking such tiny doses of suboxone IV every day, is because it is giving him many beneficail benefits at that dos level. He has talked about how it makes him feel better than any other dose he has been on, also, it acts as an anti-depressant to him I believe, and if im not mistaken, he says that he uses it as a medication to help with his ADD(or ADHD, not sure which one). Even though bupe is not prescribed for that reason, the Captain has found a way to use suboxone so that it seems to help him in that aspect.
Does that clarify things for you?
BTW....all of what I said about Captain.Heroin I learned by speaking to him directly in PM's, or by speaking with him in the open forums.....and there is always a possibility that I got somethign not quite right here, so I jsut wanted to remind you that these ARE NOT the remarks of the Captain himself, and do not directly reflect his views since he is not here typing this. But I do think, from how much I have spoken with him, that I knew what I was talking about. Im sure when the Captain reads this he will come in and say just about everything I said, and more, but in a more intellectual fashion.....I was just trying to explain his "situation" while he wasnt here to do it for himself.