I am not sure how fast I should taper off Suboxone after doing 800-1000 mgs of oxy every single day for almost 14 months.
I like the anti-depressant qualities of bupe, but I also know i can get by , just fine, with much less than the 4 8mg pills a day they prescribed me this first week.
My experience so far ( i had been on bupe once in july for two ro three weeks) yesterday was my first regular dosage, last opiates were Monday at noon, waited to 7pm the next night, Tuesday, to take my first 12mgs of 1.5 pills, right at the intake center while waiting to get processed, I also got talked into rehab. I had four 8mg stashed for emergencies . , so i did one more 8mg the next morning at the rehab...(the only one they were gonna give me that day, and were gonna do two days at 8mg a day, 2 days at 6, 2 days at 4, and like that until down to half a mg in two weeks. I decided that wasn't gonna work, why suffer slowly for two weeks, only to go thru three more days of withdrawal, even if they were somewhat milder, after doing all that for two weeks?
Didn't sleep all night....then I checked out of this nuthouse the next day, and did another two 8mgs that Wednesday night when I finally got out. Thursday i did three, and today did four.
Doc said to stay at the 32 mg dose to stabilize the first week and see how you feel. I feel fine. The xanax and the couple of bowls helped the transition "go down slow".
How soon do people usually taper off, if they taper of bupe at all? My cousin has been on it for two years, probably takes a 4mg everyday or every two days once in a while.
Curious as to anyone's experience who successfully tapered of Suboxone and stayed clean. At least for a while.
Thanks in Advance. [email protected]
I like the anti-depressant qualities of bupe, but I also know i can get by , just fine, with much less than the 4 8mg pills a day they prescribed me this first week.
My experience so far ( i had been on bupe once in july for two ro three weeks) yesterday was my first regular dosage, last opiates were Monday at noon, waited to 7pm the next night, Tuesday, to take my first 12mgs of 1.5 pills, right at the intake center while waiting to get processed, I also got talked into rehab. I had four 8mg stashed for emergencies . , so i did one more 8mg the next morning at the rehab...(the only one they were gonna give me that day, and were gonna do two days at 8mg a day, 2 days at 6, 2 days at 4, and like that until down to half a mg in two weeks. I decided that wasn't gonna work, why suffer slowly for two weeks, only to go thru three more days of withdrawal, even if they were somewhat milder, after doing all that for two weeks?
Didn't sleep all night....then I checked out of this nuthouse the next day, and did another two 8mgs that Wednesday night when I finally got out. Thursday i did three, and today did four.
Doc said to stay at the 32 mg dose to stabilize the first week and see how you feel. I feel fine. The xanax and the couple of bowls helped the transition "go down slow".
How soon do people usually taper off, if they taper of bupe at all? My cousin has been on it for two years, probably takes a 4mg everyday or every two days once in a while.
Curious as to anyone's experience who successfully tapered of Suboxone and stayed clean. At least for a while.
Thanks in Advance. [email protected]
