Author: BupHasMe
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 4:08 pm
Hey Aqua, congratulations on your taper so far! I am new here but I have been on subutex for 5.5 years and I know everything about it. I am on 8mg daily and want to taper off. My question is, how did you taper from 6 to 3mg? And do you think going on the strips has helped your taper? I ask this because I read about how you switched to strips and they felt stronger (which is what my doc tells me too) so you just immediately went from 12mg to 8mg when you switched to strips.
I promise I won’t hijack your thread. I will create a thread of my own when it comes time. I am just thinking that maybe I should switch to strips if they are so much stronger. Maybe I would only need 6mg or maybe even 4mg on strips as compared to 8mg on subutex generic pills?
Again congrats and God bless you.
P.S. Just to be honest with everyone, I am also on 20mg valium at night that I have been on for 5.5 years too. I am going to taper that after I get off sub completely. I am also taking half a dose of benadryl and a half dose of unisom alternating every other day. So one day I take half a dose of benadryl, then next I take half a dose of unisom which has the active sleep ingredient of nyquil in it. Just for the record in case you are wondering, the unisom works far better than benadryl for sleep. I have also been doing this for 5.5 years. Also take fish oil and centrum vitamin. Thats it.
