Danny_ScottF
Greenlighter
- Joined
- May 28, 2020
- Messages
- 3
I have a big problem, which is that I am about to lose my suboxone scrip. I had a bad heroine habit (same old sad story--to First Timers: don't try it even once; it's insidious, you only think you will "only do it once", and it sucks your life away). Anyway, I successfully got off it using Suboxone, which I am using at the highest level--16 mg per day. But circumstances beyond my control are about to make me run out. I know there's nothing ideal about saying that I have opiates (H) and plan on using to avoid withdrawal, until I can get a new Suboxone script, but I can't see what else to do. Anyone here who has suffered cold turkey knows it is beyond painful. I just have to to avoid it, and I'm betting going from 16 mg suboxone to 0.00 anything will be about as bad as going off H cold turkey (am I wrong?).
So I guess I have two major questions. The Suboxone binds to the opiate receptors right?, so as far as I understand it, if I try to avoid withdrawal by taking H, it won't work for some time after my last suboxone dose. So question 1) How long do you expect will I have to wait after I take to last suboxone dose does before other opiates or H will work?
Question 2) as I'm sure many of you know, before taking suboxone, you have to be in basically full withdrawal (best, to have a "COWS 26") before taking it, or you can have "precipitated withdrawal", which I've never experienced but scares me silly when I've read about it--I've seen it described as cold turkey, times 10. In fact, when I first went on the suboxone, I waited 30 hours rather than the "12-24" often cited to make sure wouldn't have precipitated withdrawal, as I was so scared of it. Does it work the other way? What I mean is, will I go into precipitated withdrawal if I start using H too soon after stopping the Suboxone? Or does that only work the other direction, when you're first getting ON the suboxone? Thanks so much for your answers.
So I guess I have two major questions. The Suboxone binds to the opiate receptors right?, so as far as I understand it, if I try to avoid withdrawal by taking H, it won't work for some time after my last suboxone dose. So question 1) How long do you expect will I have to wait after I take to last suboxone dose does before other opiates or H will work?
Question 2) as I'm sure many of you know, before taking suboxone, you have to be in basically full withdrawal (best, to have a "COWS 26") before taking it, or you can have "precipitated withdrawal", which I've never experienced but scares me silly when I've read about it--I've seen it described as cold turkey, times 10. In fact, when I first went on the suboxone, I waited 30 hours rather than the "12-24" often cited to make sure wouldn't have precipitated withdrawal, as I was so scared of it. Does it work the other way? What I mean is, will I go into precipitated withdrawal if I start using H too soon after stopping the Suboxone? Or does that only work the other direction, when you're first getting ON the suboxone? Thanks so much for your answers.