How To Take Suboxone At Home (Page 8)

I have ten suboxones. I have been taking oxycontin for pain but want to try at home to w/d. I can't discuss this with my doctor as it will affect my insurance. This is a fact..in my case... Can someone on here tell me how to take my subs? I would appreciate any answers and no lectures. How many do I need to withdraw..Thanks so much.

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BIG AL: I don't know what kind of habit you had, as far as the amount, but 2mgs of Bupe wouldn't even TOUCH me. I think telling someone that they "won't have any withdrawals" because that is YOUR experience with taking only 2mgs at a time is very short sighted. When I was on Bupe, I had to get to at LEAST 8 to 10 mgs to get any relief whatsoever, and was taking over 20 mgs a day.

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For Sandra and any others that are standing up and doing an amazing thing by taking a big step with accepting the problem but also cannot get ANY help for attempting to do one of the hardest things ever and are having the exact issues my husband had (no doctors available, doing it in your own) as well as maintaining which is difficult as well. Not every person reacts the same to the naloxene (this ingredient is not in Subutex, used in the beginning days of withdrawal, which only contains the buprenorphine). This is not the ONLY thing that is "believed to be the truth" concerning Suboxone. In saying no person reacts the same, this also pertains to dosage, need of amount and how often, availability.

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Subutex and Suboxone are the same thing. They are both Buprenorphine. Yes one has Naloxone and one doesn't, but it is the Bupe itself that is the active ingredient, the "blocker" to simplify it. The Naloxone is only in there to keep people from injecting the Bupe. The bioavailability of Naloxone when taken sublingually is less than 10%, maybe even less than 5%. So it doesn't matter which one you use in the "first days of withdrawal", the results are the same.

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Suboxone has a three day grace period, a delayed effect if you will. Take half of your first film sublingually & pop the other half back into the packet. Be sure to use dry hands (don't get the film wet, wait 5 hours and if you still feel awful suck the other half but don't swallow it for five to ten minutes. Swirl it around in your mouth so you get the full effect for as long as you can bare, chase down with a hot coffee (gets rid of the bitterness instantly & activates the drug faster) do not eat grapefruit in any form. The secret to breaking addiction is to disrupt it without causing too much pain to yourself. After you have your first suboxone film it will hold you from opiate/codeine phos' withdrawal for 3 days! If you find your feeling awful or crampy etc during those three days have another half of the next film, rinse & repeat & before you know it you'll be off opioids & well and truly feeling much better & you'll probably have some films left over to help someone else! It shouldn't take more than five or six days for the withdrawal to pass. Don't get addicted to suboxone & especially do not inj. Opium based products or the suboxone itself because the naloxone will make you very very sorry you did.

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STORM: Why on EARTH would you think that one dose of Bupe would keep a legit opioid addict from being in withdrawal for THREE DAYS? That is completely ludicrous. And it isn't the Naloxone that will throw someone into withdrawal, it is the Bupe itself. The Naloxone is only in there to keep people from taking the Suboxone intravenously. And why do you think replacing one opioid with another opioid, and then STOPPING, would keep someone from going into withdrawal? That makes no sense whatsoever. I mean, if you are addicted to heroin, and replace the heroin with oxys, then STOP the oxys, you are going to go into withdrawals. Coming off of Subs produces withdrawals, just like coming off of any other opioid. Your information is a bit....OFF.

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Hi to everyone who has been on pain medicine yes suboxone will work and I only have to take 4mg a day also Gabapentin 300mg a day really helps it is for withdrawals it's a non narcotic but works good also Methocarbonol goes with it really good for muscle cramps also non narcotic but good. Hope this helps Have a blessed day

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I am prescribed suboxone 8mg strips, but I received an 8mg pill. Do I let that dissolve under my tongue as well?

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CALIGIRL1983: Yes, the Subutex/Suboxone tablets go under your tongue, just like the strips.

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How long after a suboxone sublingual (orange pill - 54 375) is dissolved can you drink and eat? Are there any other things I should know about administration and how to get the full effect? Is there anything that interferes with it?

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