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  • BDD Moderators: Keif’ Richards

subutes (buprenorphone)

I think this person is asking that instead of taking 7 days worth of suboxone, can he take 7 days worth in 1 or 2 days if it will reduce the severity of withdrawals.

the thing to remember with suboxone is that taking large doses is pointless, with bupe less is better for some reason. I also think taking such high doses and cramming it into a day or 2 is only going to put off the same withdrawals you were going to have by about 4 days.

I'm gonna guess you have the 8mg tabs. 8mg is enough to hold over most people, and if its not, you at least wont be in full blown withdrawal because you will have 2/3s of your dose in you and this will save you medication, I'm gonna help you stretch it out further than 7 days.

but I'd start out with 8mg under the tongue as soon as your eyes open in the morning. you do it this way, so you'll be just that little bit sick (or maybe fully sick) because you don't want to have opiates in your system when you dose suboxone or you'll REALLY feel like shit thanks to the naloxone in it. and you're supposed to dose once a day, but the half life is something like 36-48 hours so what I would do is hold off the next day in the morning and wait until in the afternoon to take second dose. you should just start to feel withdrawal coming on before each dose, that way you're stretching it out as long as possible. generally a day and a half- 2 full days is how long you can go. but yeah, I'd do 8mg for 2-3 days, and then cut it down to 6mg for a few days, and then 4mg and so on.

I don't feel like doing the math to figure out how long that stretched out as I'm nodding hardcore and that took me forever to type up above. but what that does is put off full blown withdrawals for much longer, and in the end your withdrawals won't be so bad because you've worked your way down to 1-2mg before you fully quit.

best of luck, and may I ask why you're doing bupe? are you trying to quit? or just trying to stay off sick until your drug of choice is back in town? or...?
 
^^exacly hat u said in te first paragaff

free opiates... and is i do sub, i'm less tempted to go and do H or morphine and aste my money, it gives e a hing o look forwads go each week... bit sad really, especially combined with meprobamate and diazepam and loprazolam it does a great job... but its essentially taking aound (cant do the maths atm 90mg approx) wold last abou a week before the W/D kicked in ...

as for the "ceiling dose" is it IV99%? sniffed60%? sblingual33%? coz i feel considerably higher n 80 mg sub than 32mg))

sorry for the typing, i think iwas/am still effected by the 200mg phenazpam i took saturday night, that shit has a long half life
 
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