How Long After Taking A Suboxone Can You Take An Opiate? (Page 6)

I have been on 8 mg/2mg Suboxone strips for 1 year. I am having a tooth (back molar) extraction in the morning. I used my Suboxone strip this morning & the tooth extraction is at 9:30 am tomorrow. If I don't use another Suboxone strip before the extraction, would I be able to take Hydrocodone after my surgery? I don't want to get sick, but I am terrified of going through this surgery with no pain meds. Please help.

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Hey I am having carpel tunnel surgery and same problem here right now !!!! I don't know what to do should I take the pain meds or no !!!!! I'm scared ! What if hospital doses me with pain meds while I come out of surgery omg !!!!!!

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U can take opiates 8 hrs after u take subs. It won't make u go into precipitated withdrawal, but u may not feel the opiates yet.

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Never takes a dam year to feel an opiate after suboxone bro..2 days max! Really 12 hrs to 24 hrs depending on how much suboxone you took that day..for a whole 8 mg strip you'd need to wait 24 hrs half of one of less 12 hours and you will feel an opiate depending on what kind of opiate..you will not feel it as much as you would if u wait 24 hrs but you will feel it..i know from experience

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This is bulls***. A year, yeah in a perfect world if this were true then people would not keep buying opiates when they run out of subs.

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Tramadols can help you get off subs!!!!!

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Hi I'm one day after surgery now it's been over 30 hours now since subs and I took my pain meds and it does take my pain away, when I went into surgery it was 24 hours since the sub ! I just wanted people to know who were scared like me that it will be fine. Also I went under too and that was fine too ! Jeez people were acting like u had to wait days... It's okay after A day

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If you take opioids AFTER taking Buprenorphine, you will not have problems. You probably won't feel the opioids very much, but you will be ok. It is when you do it the other way around that is the problem. If you take Buprenorphine too soon AFTER taking opioids, you will be thrown into precipitated withdrawals. Which, believe me, you DO NOT WANT. So remember, Bupe AFTER the opioids is what you need to avoid. You really need to let those OPs get out of your system before messing with that Bupe.

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I took like two mg of suboxone at like 7:30 a.m today- and then took other opioids at 12 just 4.5 hrs later and I felt it. I have found that when I take subs normally on a Daily basis and then take any opiate it works but takes awhile to get back to working as strong but if I barely take subs(which I try to barely take them ) and the a small piece of one I can immediately take opiates in the same day and feel the effects regularly.

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UAK: Ya, 2 mgs is a pretty small amount. I was always on doses between 16 and 30mgs, so I never felt SQUAT. But I only took other opioids three or four times after buprenorphine because I truly wanted to quit the dope.

Just be sure you don't do it the other way around....don't take the buprenorphine AFTER taking the other opioids unless you wait until you are in withdrawal, because you DON'T want to experience precipitated withdrawals. They are HELLISH!!

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No taking any kind of opiates after taking suboxone will not throw you into withdraws. However if you want to feel the opiate then you should atleast wait 24-48 hours after taking suboxone.

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NICKYNIC: That has to be the most ridiculous thing I have heard in a LONG time. "Trammadol can help you get off of Subs".... are you friggin serious? So take a full agonist opioid in order to get off of a drug that treats addiction to full agonist opioids? Wow, is THAT backwards!!

And did someone on here really say you have to wait a YEAR to take opioids after Suboxone? Again, talk about misinformation! I really wish people would stop posting on here when they are so obviously CLUELESS!!

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A YEAR!?? Are you insane? You obviously have no idea what your talking about. Please don't give advice if you really don't know!

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A year isn't wrong at all, I can't say it's necessarily right either. I believe as others would say it is mainly dependent on the individual. What I know is I ended up with a 80-120mg of hydrocodone habit. I got tired of paying for that habit so I started at a methadone clinic. After the first year I finally leveled off at 120mg daily of methadone (after having a ekg to make sure my heart could handle it of course). This continued for another year until I lost my job, house, and girlfriend. It crippled me to my bed at my parents for nearly 2 months. Stayed clean for 4 months after those 2 months off methadone, when like a genius listening to friends started on subs (pill form). Worst mistake of my life, I was taken 4mg after waking up an another 4mg around 2-3pm. After 2 years of that I had to have back surgery, I completely stop the subs 7 days before surgery, after they gave me 10mg hydrocodone. I took 1 then 2 then 3, 4, 5 at a time and it had no effect on me what so ever. My dad had tramadol which help with the pain some, by the 2nd week I could finally start to feel the hydrocodone but only when taken 40-50mg at a time. Have been cleaning now for 3 months and have tried taking hydrocodone as its prescribed to me and still can't feel it yet. So as I said in the beginning I can't say it will take a year but I can't say it won't either. It depends mainly on the individual, maybe were just rare cases. If I can give any advice to ppl, do not get on subs or methadone, both were extremely addictive for me, and I could feel withdrawals from one day with out them, I've tried coming off both by slowly losing my dosage. Maybe it was a mental thing but I could feel withdrawals and would go back up to my original dose so that didn't work either. I'll end with please don't get started with these drugs, I thought it was fine when I started cus I felt so great, but it's a life long battle for me to stay off subs (which I'm sadly losing btw).

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Maybe if u proof read your message before submitting it people will better understand you in order to respond..Sounds like you just took a hand full of xannies

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Really? No need to be judgemental. Seriously...not cool to just assume anyone is an addict. From what I've read thus far, people are here hoping to get some answers. Shame on you.

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BUDDY123: You not feeling your hydrocodone after 3 months of being clean is not because of Suboxone. That stuff cleared out of you after a week at the most. Maybe they are giving you generics, which can vary GREATLY in their effectiveness/strength. But no, it does not take a YEAR for bupe to get out of your body. And btw, 4mgs, 2x a day really isn't a ton of bupe. I was on anywhere from 16 to 32 mgs, with 32 being the "ceiling" dose. When I switched back to tablet methadone, I was taking 30mgs of bupe. So 8mgs isn't really that much. That is actually on the low side of what people take. And you don't sound like you took a "handful of xannies" to me, btw. It was a little long, but you were clear and concise, and I understood everything you said. Some people just like to hurl insults. PEACE

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God....that was long enough... about fell asleep....Jeeez...calm down! What? U a doctor? I don't think anyone made it through that book. Uggh

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ATWOOD: Is WHO a doctor? Who the heck are you talking to? Who needs to "calm down"? Is that your only contribution to this discussion; complaining that someone's post was "too long"? Gee, thanks for your insightful comment, bud.

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I wasn't trying to give the impression that its taken 3 months to get out of my system. I'm sure that happen within the first week or two, but for the side effects of being off it I know I am still going through. Low energy, low drive, no motivation, clammy hot flashes, general depression, and what I wouldn't do for a good nights sleep. I miss sleep :-(.

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BUDDY123: Yep, that's called Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome, and it can drag on and on for a while. The worst part of opioid withdrawal is usually over by 7 to 10 days, but that PAWS just never seems to end. Feeling like you have a low-grade flu with the aches, fatigue, hot/cold, etc. And not getting good sleep is the one thing that would always throw me into a relapse. "I just need ONE night's sleep!!" Check out a product called Synaptamine. Amazing new technology for helping your dopamine receptors get back to normal.

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