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Greenlighter
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I've been on methadone maintenance since June 2014, and managed to stay clean from other opioids until roughly 6 months ago, when I started smoking heroin and fentanyl again in addition to my daily methadone dose. My ECG shows a prolonged QTI, and due to this as well as my inability to stop using, my doctor is switching me to Suboxone. I've done some research and it seems like the standard protocol is to taper down to 30mg of methadone, stop for 72 hours then work up to a max of 16mg of Suboxone from there... However, my doc simply had me stop my methadone at the usual 80mg (Sunday was my last dose), and is planning on giving me 16mg of Suboxone on Thursday to start, expecting to quickly move me up to roughly 32mg total. Although he didn't exactly condone it, he did say that if I used short-acting opioids on Monday and Tuesday, it wouldn't be a problem as long as I didn't do any in the 24 hours before my Thursday appointment.
It's currently Tuesday evening, and I've spent the last two days on a steady diet of Morphine pills and heroin/fentanyl powder. I've had to do a hell of a lot of both to avoid getting sick, which hasn't been an option given I've had to work. But as long as I stop everything by tomorrow morning (24 hours before first Suboxone dose) I should be ok and not experience any precipitated withdrawals, correct
It's currently Tuesday evening, and I've spent the last two days on a steady diet of Morphine pills and heroin/fentanyl powder. I've had to do a hell of a lot of both to avoid getting sick, which hasn't been an option given I've had to work. But as long as I stop everything by tomorrow morning (24 hours before first Suboxone dose) I should be ok and not experience any precipitated withdrawals, correct