Two and half months ago, my doctor prescribed me three different drugs: [1] lorazepam [Ativan], [2] trazodone, and [3] naltrexone.
I have found the trazodone to be pretty useless as a sleep aid, and it sort of felt like...opioid withdrawal honestly. I think at 100mg [2x 50mg pills] it made me feel the skin crawling sensation and restless leg syndrome that opioid withdrawal gave me. So I stopped using it.
Lorazepam definitely worked for me - as benzodiazepines work for me, but I'm terrified to use them for even a few days in a row. As I know how horrible opioid withdrawal is, and everything I hear about benzodiazepine withdrawal tells me that it is even worse.
Naltrexone...I have been very hesitant to fill this prescription.
My doctor said that I needed to wait five days since I last used an opiate agonist in order to use it. I would say I'm pretty well done with opiates, as Kratom has helped me get through that, and I want to give my receptors a long break before using them again - and only use them again under the strictest of circumstances.
My question is:
If I used Suboxone three days ago, is it safe to take Naltrexone? I'm not seeing much online about this. It doesn't appear to be an issue, but I just want to make sure.
Also, while on this topic - if I go a full month using nothing, then use Suboxone recreationally, how many days does it take to become addicted? I only ask because I can only get Suboxone in as little as 2mg pills, and that lasts me about three days. I would get less than that, but I just can't. Would three days be enough to form a dependence? Once, the person I go to only had 8mg, and I ended up using it for six days straight. I'm at a point now where I would rather break it apart and throw away three quarters of it, but with my luck - I would end up getting a quarter that had less active ingredient [as I understand that it is not guaranteed that the entire pill contains a uniform amount of drug].
LASTLY...also on this topic...if a person uses three days of Suboxone then three days of methadone, then repeats for a total of 12 days...will they be addicted to...? One or the other? I just don't understand how the cross-tolerance aspect words with full opioid agonists and partial opioid agonists [as the Buprenorphine in the Suboxone is a partial agonist]. I know that a person could hypothetically rotate oxycodone and Xanax on a three days on / three days off schedule, and somewhat skirt addiction, as they are a completely different drug. I'm just wondering how that works with full and partial opioid agonists.
Oh...and out of curiosity, a friend of mine tells me that I am the only person he knows who gets a massive recreational benefit from Suboxone. To the point where if I use 1mg over a 24 hour period, I worry that I am overdosing. Is it normal for people to get this sort of effect from Suboxone?
I have found the trazodone to be pretty useless as a sleep aid, and it sort of felt like...opioid withdrawal honestly. I think at 100mg [2x 50mg pills] it made me feel the skin crawling sensation and restless leg syndrome that opioid withdrawal gave me. So I stopped using it.
Lorazepam definitely worked for me - as benzodiazepines work for me, but I'm terrified to use them for even a few days in a row. As I know how horrible opioid withdrawal is, and everything I hear about benzodiazepine withdrawal tells me that it is even worse.
Naltrexone...I have been very hesitant to fill this prescription.
My doctor said that I needed to wait five days since I last used an opiate agonist in order to use it. I would say I'm pretty well done with opiates, as Kratom has helped me get through that, and I want to give my receptors a long break before using them again - and only use them again under the strictest of circumstances.
My question is:
If I used Suboxone three days ago, is it safe to take Naltrexone? I'm not seeing much online about this. It doesn't appear to be an issue, but I just want to make sure.
Also, while on this topic - if I go a full month using nothing, then use Suboxone recreationally, how many days does it take to become addicted? I only ask because I can only get Suboxone in as little as 2mg pills, and that lasts me about three days. I would get less than that, but I just can't. Would three days be enough to form a dependence? Once, the person I go to only had 8mg, and I ended up using it for six days straight. I'm at a point now where I would rather break it apart and throw away three quarters of it, but with my luck - I would end up getting a quarter that had less active ingredient [as I understand that it is not guaranteed that the entire pill contains a uniform amount of drug].
LASTLY...also on this topic...if a person uses three days of Suboxone then three days of methadone, then repeats for a total of 12 days...will they be addicted to...? One or the other? I just don't understand how the cross-tolerance aspect words with full opioid agonists and partial opioid agonists [as the Buprenorphine in the Suboxone is a partial agonist]. I know that a person could hypothetically rotate oxycodone and Xanax on a three days on / three days off schedule, and somewhat skirt addiction, as they are a completely different drug. I'm just wondering how that works with full and partial opioid agonists.
Oh...and out of curiosity, a friend of mine tells me that I am the only person he knows who gets a massive recreational benefit from Suboxone. To the point where if I use 1mg over a 24 hour period, I worry that I am overdosing. Is it normal for people to get this sort of effect from Suboxone?
