Boyfriend Detoxing From Suboxone Alone

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My boyfriend has been taking suboxone for over a year now. somewhere between 2mg to 8mg. i think its around 6. he decided to detox himself. so he loaded up on klonopin, nuerontin and colonadine. sorry about the spelling. he went 9 days without the suboxone the first few were pretty easy then the 5th day he was supposedly getting sick. so he tried scoring some more at the 9 day mark. i basically called all his drug dealers and convinced them to stop selling to him. he got furious and went chasing looking. not sure if he scored or not. After 9 days off shouldnt he have been clean and not feeling "deathly" ill.

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Hi Sophia, Suboxone has a very long half life. When I,ve jumped from subs in past I really didn,t feel too bad till about day 4. Everyones different. Some people don,t start feeling real bad until 7-9th day. If not tapered properly off subs the wds can last for a few weeks.
Even if he stopped at 2.0mgs he would be feeling like crap for quite awhile.
Subs need to be tapered down very slowly to doses like 0.25mgs or less. And when I say taper slowly I mean to drop 1mg or less at a time and to stay at that drop for a week or longer till your body gets used to it.
It doesn,t surprise me at all that your bf is feeling bad at day 9.
If he can,t get straight maybe you should get him to a sub doctor.

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im trying he has an apt. july 2 but needs some til then. hes kind of a liar so i never know what to believe.. but im tired of living this way. he keeps changing up what hes going to do which makes it hard to believe. thanks for your input though. :)

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