Author: Romeo
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 8:17 pm
Hey Sherry,
2mg of Suboxone would be equal to approximately 40mg of Hydrocodone (Lortab), which would be 8 of the 5mg pills you were taking.
Again, I’m sorry for coming off so shitty, I was just like 
when I understood your story. It certainly wasn’t your fault that you were on such a high dose of Suboxone……it’s my opinion that your Suboxone doctor should be shot and pissed on!!
You’re at 3mg of Suboxone now, right? Seeing as you haven’t been on it that long, you should be able to drop your dose by about 25% each week or so. When you do a dosage drop, it should take somewhere in the neighborhood of a week or so to feel "normal" again.
If you drop your dose and you feel really crappy, you may need to cut back to dropping your dose by 10%.
Have you had a lot of issues with your previous dose drops of Suboxone?? Have they been relatively painless?? How have you been dropping your dose…..have you been dropping 1 or 2mg’s at a time??
BTW, do NOT go cold turkey off of Suboxone, you’re already tapering, just keep on tapering. You can certainly minimize your withdrawal by continuing to taper down to a very low dose of Suboxone. Has your doctor given you the 2mg pills/strips yet?? They are a lot easier to do your final taper with.
I hope you keep us updated on your progress.
