Yeah I mean I didn't mean as a long term maint. drug, but the reason I ask is this one girl I know claims that she can have a pretty decent run on dope like a few weeks or so, then do 3 days of mxe and she's totally fine, not even any paws or whatever. She says mxe LOWERS her opiate tolerance. I really find this all hard to beleive but after searching bluelight a bit I think it might be somewhat possible. Maybe she is kind of exagerating..but that's why I asked.
Also toothpaste mentions dxm to help with withdrawals.. and I have found very little releif from dosing it.. but I also did not do a huge dose like you would take to get in a pretty serious trip. Ketamine for example, when I was in transition from 80mg methadone to 12mg bupe, I used dope for 4 days after stopped the mdone, then I waited 36 hours with no opiate use before dosing the bupe so as to avoid precipitated withdrawals and try to have the least painful transition. Anyone who has jumped back and forth between bupe and full agonists knows how bad the transition is after a while, and how bad PW's can be if you find your self in that situation.
So anyway, after my 4 days heroin use, during the 36 hours I abstained from opiate use before dosing my buprenorphine, I used K quite a bit. I used about 500mg during that time.. mostly in the last 18 hours when I started to feel the withdrawals pretty bad. When I would sniff about 75mg of K it would get me high (which I am not crazy about the k high) for around 30 mins maybe a bit more, then I found my self sleeping for like an hour after. And if you've been in moderate-severe opiate withdrawals, you know sleep is impossible, and even 5 minutes gives you such a releif. I couldn't beleive how well K worked considering it didn't interact with the bupe in a bad way like giving my PW's or anything. And I used right up till my dose and a little after as well. I would usually weigh out 100mg of the K but by the time I had sniffed 50mg I couldn't even go on. These doses were not k-hole doses.. I never got to experience that.
Now if mxe is essentially the same, which I am not really sure about, I'd think it would have those same effects but a longer duration. I am 99% sure it's still legal in the US, so I think I am going to experiment a little with this. Maybe it would help me to detox off bupe where I am at without tapering lower (4mg daily).
Long kind of unrelated 2nd half to post.. don't read unless you are bored haha:
All I know is I was really scared about the transition from 80mg methadone for over a year, to 12mg bupe because I have had some HORRIBLE transitions. It was such a big releif to complete the transition and walk out of that meth clinic wiht a big FUCK YOU!!! Not that they did anything wrong.. it's just a horrible life being chained to that place. And for me methadone would not last the full 24 hours.. I would feel 'off' by the time I woke up. If I could split dose, like I do my bupe, it would have been better. My clinic MADE me go all the ay to 80 when 50mg had leveled me off.. they said b/c of what I told them I used, I needed to be on a 'theraputic' blocking dose. That indian doctor pissed me off so much.. I had to wait 3 months befoer I could go on vacation and get a week or 2 of takehomes..and even then it was crazy you had to tell them 2 weeks in advance and bring a newspaper from your destination for every day you were there lol.
The first year I used bupe I was using 30mg oxy IR's and bupe was wonderful.. it honestly would work instantly, like in 30 minutes withdrawals were totally gone and I was even feeling 110%. Now it takes me 3 days of hell and another solid 10 days to fully adjust to bupe. The 1st 3 days I have horrible cold sweats and day one sometiems I even have nausea. After 3 days it's minor-moderate.. mostly RLS, major body temp issues, and depression. Man do I wish I could get bupe to work like it used to.. but obviously I have used/abused it too much and bupe hates me now lol. I really want to just get off but I am having a bit of trouble getting under 4mg.
I just want to be off and I am being a stupid wimp.. I drop my dose then I end up messing it all up and copping some dope, then I gotto do the transiton back to bupe so I end up staying at 4mg. Maybe mxe is the answer and that will be the crutch I need to detox off bupe.
Once I am off of it, well I hope to quit opiates and all drugs forever.. but if I ever find my self in the position of being addicted to opiates i will never start a maint program again. The withdrawals/dependency keep me stuck on the drug sometimes because of fear more than anything, and I also feel like having the bupe to fall back on can be negative because in my head I rationalize using for a day sometimes.. which I feel like if I was totally clean I wouldn't tempt fate like that.
Also toothpaste mentions dxm to help with withdrawals.. and I have found very little releif from dosing it.. but I also did not do a huge dose like you would take to get in a pretty serious trip. Ketamine for example, when I was in transition from 80mg methadone to 12mg bupe, I used dope for 4 days after stopped the mdone, then I waited 36 hours with no opiate use before dosing the bupe so as to avoid precipitated withdrawals and try to have the least painful transition. Anyone who has jumped back and forth between bupe and full agonists knows how bad the transition is after a while, and how bad PW's can be if you find your self in that situation.
So anyway, after my 4 days heroin use, during the 36 hours I abstained from opiate use before dosing my buprenorphine, I used K quite a bit. I used about 500mg during that time.. mostly in the last 18 hours when I started to feel the withdrawals pretty bad. When I would sniff about 75mg of K it would get me high (which I am not crazy about the k high) for around 30 mins maybe a bit more, then I found my self sleeping for like an hour after. And if you've been in moderate-severe opiate withdrawals, you know sleep is impossible, and even 5 minutes gives you such a releif. I couldn't beleive how well K worked considering it didn't interact with the bupe in a bad way like giving my PW's or anything. And I used right up till my dose and a little after as well. I would usually weigh out 100mg of the K but by the time I had sniffed 50mg I couldn't even go on. These doses were not k-hole doses.. I never got to experience that.
Now if mxe is essentially the same, which I am not really sure about, I'd think it would have those same effects but a longer duration. I am 99% sure it's still legal in the US, so I think I am going to experiment a little with this. Maybe it would help me to detox off bupe where I am at without tapering lower (4mg daily).
Long kind of unrelated 2nd half to post.. don't read unless you are bored haha:
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All I know is I was really scared about the transition from 80mg methadone for over a year, to 12mg bupe because I have had some HORRIBLE transitions. It was such a big releif to complete the transition and walk out of that meth clinic wiht a big FUCK YOU!!! Not that they did anything wrong.. it's just a horrible life being chained to that place. And for me methadone would not last the full 24 hours.. I would feel 'off' by the time I woke up. If I could split dose, like I do my bupe, it would have been better. My clinic MADE me go all the ay to 80 when 50mg had leveled me off.. they said b/c of what I told them I used, I needed to be on a 'theraputic' blocking dose. That indian doctor pissed me off so much.. I had to wait 3 months befoer I could go on vacation and get a week or 2 of takehomes..and even then it was crazy you had to tell them 2 weeks in advance and bring a newspaper from your destination for every day you were there lol.
The first year I used bupe I was using 30mg oxy IR's and bupe was wonderful.. it honestly would work instantly, like in 30 minutes withdrawals were totally gone and I was even feeling 110%. Now it takes me 3 days of hell and another solid 10 days to fully adjust to bupe. The 1st 3 days I have horrible cold sweats and day one sometiems I even have nausea. After 3 days it's minor-moderate.. mostly RLS, major body temp issues, and depression. Man do I wish I could get bupe to work like it used to.. but obviously I have used/abused it too much and bupe hates me now lol. I really want to just get off but I am having a bit of trouble getting under 4mg.
I just want to be off and I am being a stupid wimp.. I drop my dose then I end up messing it all up and copping some dope, then I gotto do the transiton back to bupe so I end up staying at 4mg. Maybe mxe is the answer and that will be the crutch I need to detox off bupe.
Once I am off of it, well I hope to quit opiates and all drugs forever.. but if I ever find my self in the position of being addicted to opiates i will never start a maint program again. The withdrawals/dependency keep me stuck on the drug sometimes because of fear more than anything, and I also feel like having the bupe to fall back on can be negative because in my head I rationalize using for a day sometimes.. which I feel like if I was totally clean I wouldn't tempt fate like that.