When Can I Start Suboxone After Taking Methadone? (Page 2) (Top voted first)

I'm was hooked on methadone, WHEN CAN I START TAKING SUBOXONE? I tried it after 1 1/2 days and ALMOST DIED! I've was taking 80 mg of methamphetamine for 6 years... I was so sick from taking the suboxone I thought I was going to die!!! Should I wait 2 days. then take the suboxone? (Which I took twice and am scared to death of) I want off of methadose! I can't affort to buy one more pill!!! Will the suboxon work, and if one makes me feel all screwed up (VERY VERY SICK) should I take a second suboxon and when. PLEASE...someone who knows and had got off methadone with suboxone answer me! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!

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Wait 72 hours at least. Don't take any more if u start feeling like crap after taking the sub. What sense does that make? If u ask a dr they will try to send you to detox before they give u the suboxone

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You must be in the beginning of withdrawals before you can take suboxon. otherwise you will go into a nasty full blown withdrawal.

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?True story? Beginning in 2009 after running out of Methadone (which i'd been getting from ppl, never was prescribed) and it becoming harder and harder for me to get my hands on. I went about 3 or 4 days and was in a living hell!!! So I left work and went to a local Dr. that participated in the Suboxone program and after he observed my state of extreme withdrawals he told me I was a prime candidate for the program and immediately got me started (which is very expensive) That day, after filling out several pages of paperwork telling my life history, he wrote me a script for 1 Sub 8mg tablet and told me to go to the pharmacy and get it filled then comeyou mediately back to his office w/ it So I did and after coming back to his office, he explains to me how to put it under my tongue and I immediately felt euphoria (only way to explain it!) I was on top of the world!!! So after an hour or so he observed me again and I explained to him how much better I was feeling he writes me another prescription for a weeks worth (16-8mg tabs..2 per day.. 1 in morn.. 1 in eve.) And tells me I'm to report back to him in a week. I done all I was told. The sub's was working out great for me! After a week I went back and he started me on my monthly scripts which was 2-8mg tablets per day... 60 per month. As of today 8/24/2014 I've not touched or even had the urge to take anything other than the sub's since 2009. ?**BUT THERE'S A DOWNSIDE TO THE SUB'S THAT IVE BEEN ON FOR THE PAST 5 YEARS!!! YOU WILL BECOME HIGHLY ADDICTED TO THEM AND THEIR WITHDRAWALS ARE WAAAAAAAY WORSE THAN ANY OTHER I'VE EVER EXPERIENCED, recently the Dr. that had turned me into a highly addicted sub addict over the past 5 yrs dismissed from the from the program because they said my urine wasn't the correct temp or something to that affect.. (NOTICE: AFTER 5 YRS OF PASSING EVERY UA WHICH IS REQUIRED EA MO. WHILE ON SUB PROGRAM) although a couple of times random oddities would come up but was always cleared after it was sent off to the lab which they do each time, and even the nurses administering the UA's told me their cups were cheap and the temp strips on them was often messed up and displayed wrong temps and stuff quite often, I EVEN TOLD THESE I*****S, LOOK YOU CAN TAKE MY BLOOD, STAND IN THE RESTROOM WITH ME AND WATCH ME URINATE OR WHATEVER IT TOOK TO SATISFY THEIR CURIOSITY!!! BOTTOM LINE.. THEY WOULD NOT BUDGE!!! NO WAY, NO HOW, KICKED ME OUT OF THE PROGRAM, OFF SUBOXONE COLD TURKEY AFTER 5 STRAIGHT YEARS!!! TALK ABOUT SOME COLD HEARTED PIECES OF S***!!! so now I'm taking it one day at a time.. Finding a couple here and there on the street whatever.. Good days then VERY bad days!!! Its been a rough experience and where I live there's waiting lists at every other Dr office that prescribes Suboxone so its not like u can just go jump right into another program.. Plus I've heard that once 1 Dr. Kicks u out of the program, your name goes on a list and you can never be prescribed them legally again.. So being on Suboxone definitely has good points.. But also some VERY BAD ONES!!! STAY AWAY FROM COOPER FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER IN PASCAGOULA MISSISSIPPI AND KEVIN COOPER MD IS GOOD FOR NOTHING.

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You have to wait until you are in complete withdrawal which is usually three days after your last dose...

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I'm in EXACT same boat. 80mgs methadone for 8yrs. But 5mg for 20 hrs. Yeas, 1 day and half is way to soon for you to take subs my poor friend. Try some vicodine or other shorter lasting opiate to give you relief from Methadone. Methadone has what's called a half-life and half of it leaves you in 3-7days, than another half, and so on until it's gone. But after 70hrs you should be ok to take subs. If they make you detox sick again, try a handful of vicodin, it gets up over the Sub blockers and makes u feel better, and take subs about 18 hrs after u eat a vicodine. It's not an easy road, but a necessary one. You should have subutex, not suboxane. Subutex is Soboxane without the chemicals that makes methadone users sick. Drs dont know this yet not enough people comen off methadone for them to discover it.

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Once you've already taken suboxone You may as well take more because of the narcan has taken its toll. You're not going to get any sicker you're just going to get better Once the market has cleared your receptors You need to fill ithem up with bupenorphine. So 45 minutes to an hour you can take more no problem I did. Good luck

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See..i dont get that...the laws should enforce a step down plan to get you back off....maybe people need to unite and file claims thru your goveners office or maybe a lawer that sues over bad drugs...never kno till its tryed.

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If you have ever felt this...you would not want to keep it going....to have every muscle in your body jumping tightening and pain shooting thru you adding more DOES NOT FIX IT...IF YOU CAN TAPER DOWN...you can use a quarter of piece for 2 days..then half for 2 then three quarter for 3 days...now your ready for a whole one if you push it in you the pain receptors are gonna whoop in you...THIS IS A WARNING...I DON'T LIKE HEARING I WAS RIGHT... CAUSE I KNOW YOU JUST PUT YOUR SELF THRU HELL...IF YOU CAN GET A FEW PERKS TO TIDE YOU THRU THAT 72 HRS ALL THE BETTER FOR YOU....THE PERKS AND STRIP GET ALONE FAIRLY WELL....BUT REMEMBER...EVERYONE'S DIFFERENT.

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Simply put...their pissed that you want off..no money frm you kno more means less jingle in their pockets...stop kiddin yourself...they dont give a rats ass.a doc saves your life cause dead people dont needs doctors.

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I had to do the samething before and if u don't wait the 4 day minimum you will be hating life again. Your going to feel bad but its better then taking subs early

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no its synthetic heroion,my new pew gts it it gives him his fix one zanax he's on heroion,it's a misleading drug my sisters on it she looks like a tweeker

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Re: fay (# 32)

If ur sister is misusing it then yes. She's gonna look that way.. I have been on it for ten years. Not one dirty urine. No triggers. And most of all NO CRAVINGS. Everybody is different. Stop judging it based on what u see. Do ur damn research on it before u start talking bad about it.

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when i was thirteen i started with codein and glutetimid, at age 18 i began using heroin , now im 24 and for about 2 years i take about 50 mg of metadon per day and heroin

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