Methadone: Methadone Facts

Question: The transition to suboxone from methadone?

(Posted by: gocats2009 on 2012-01-10 14:40:52)

Just looking for a little quick advice about my switch from Methadone to Suboxone from anyone that has been through the same thing or any experience with it. Have been on methadone for the past year at 30mg then weened down to 5mg and took my last dose last monday. The earliest I could get in to see the suboxone doctor was wednesday, tomorrow. So i had to wait about 8 days. I have been using opanas this week to get by and i got a suboxone saturday to use. I know I have to be in withdrawals at my appointment but i got an Opana 40 this morning and just finished it off. My appt is at 1:45 so that gives me about 18 hours do you think I will be alright and they will go me my Suboxone? Also I have only used Suboxone a handful of times so not too familiar with it's effects over long time usage? I know it helps with the cravings but do you also have the buzz from other pain killers so you have no desire to use whatsoever? I'm 21 year old male and was using oxys for about 2 years anywhere from 80- a couple hundred miligrams a day. Then i got introduced to opanas about a year ago and was doing 1- 2 opana 40mg pills a day so on average 60- 80mg. This is the same time i started on methadone also so i was doing methadone and opana daily. Switching from using oxys to methadone and opana together has really ****** up my tolerance which im sure is obvious. Just any insightful info about the transition from methadone to suboxone and what to expect would be much appreciated? also what dose do you think i'll be started on? FYI im currently prescribed 40mg of adderall instant release a day for a little more background info. Keep your judgmental comments and any jack *** advice to yourself about how i'm a junkie or ruining my life with opiates please. Heard it all before. Thanks in advance for all your help

Posted by: oldgoat on 2012-01-10, 16:24:58

You miss the point with your last remark. It's not bull shite advice. It's what you want to do You have come around, knowing there is nothing for you down that road is a good move, the best decision you can make for yourself (or so it sounds). I would hardly call it bull. You may be in need of a little encouragement, but you have been plenty hard on yourself to get here. Not an easy thing to look in the mirror and say "I'm a junkie and I'm in need of help ". It's knowing you place in the world and wanting better. I'd say it puts you ahead of the rest of the flock knowing that. Suboxone is an odd drug. It's still an opiate, like methadone, just trading a legally obtained drug for an illegal one. I only know people going from methadone still getting in the chronic pain phase but the doc does suboxone too and I know quite a few that made the transition. At your doses (5mg of done is nutthing) you should have just treated like the drug flu. The Opana was a big step back and the want you in active withdrawal to get your suboxone cause if you're not there's nothing to cure, you just go straight in to the Jones from hell, full blown withdrawal. If you're already sick the suboxone will make you feel bettter. I don't know if it's more a matter of curing the desire to get high as it is the fact while on suboxone you can't. It blocks the effects of about every thing but a bag of uncut China, and you aren't finding that on every corner. Easier to go along with the program. That's just been my iimpressionfrom many a hardcore self aware junkie. Your starting dose is going to be universally low, but they'll want to increase it as soon as they can for it to be efffective. They'll probably start you around 8mg, but don't be afraid to bitch a little and be up front. Maybe if you had the quantity of drug you needed from go you wouldn't be in this situation now. There are no interactions listed between Adderal and Suboxone. I used the Drug Digest interaction checker if they try to give you grief, that's pharmacy grade info, so... I could write you a book man, but as I said to a junkie friend I can't ccriticizewhat I don't know first hand. Maybe I only did it one but had to see what the big deal was and most cases there was no big deal. And a history of being on a stable dose of opiates (something whoever treated you for pain also missed) makes a huge difference. But I've been told Bupe drugs are moderately effective vs pain so you may do well here. Just do not expect too much, it is only a pill and it took a long time to get in trouble. It's not a miracle drug or we'd all be taking it. But you can get through this. 1 tiny little f -ing pill can't kick your a** if your mind is set against it. Best of luck man. Hope it was not too much grief, but you have had enough of that. Now you just need faith you can do it. Others have. You can too. Good luck