Author: tearj3rker
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 12:35 am
| Dizzle wrote: |
| I feel that 4 mg twice daily just might work for me and will split the roughly 400$ a month cost of the medicine in half allowing me to actually pay my doctor. I feel that 4 mg might be ok because of how long the halflife of bupe is. I dont feel like plugging in the half life formula to figure out just how much bupe is in my system right now but i suspect it is around the 35 mg mark. If I were to take 16mg every day I would finally level off with such a high amount in my system that I am worried about side-effects. Elsewhere on the internet I have frequently read that 16mg is a very high dose and not necessary for people with my duration and amount of use.
Thanks for your replies!! |
Congrats Dizzle on making a step in the right direction, and it’s good to see you’re still picking yourself up and going to work in times of real sickness. 8 months of addiction is definitely long enough to know that it’s not a life you want, and hopefully it’ll be easier to recover than those who’ve been stuck in for 8+ years.
Suboxone’s half life really doesn’t mean much when put up against your individual tolerance. ie a person with a massive tolerance to opiates could take 4mg of suboxone and find it only gives relief from withdrawals for 4 hours, because they need high levels of buprenorphine remaining in their blood to get relief – while another person with a tiny tolerance could get relief for 24 hours. Half life does not equal relief. If it did, we’d all be on the same dose regardless of tolerance.
You might be onto something about the whole salivating thing. When in withdrawals, we salivate like dogs over dinner. You say you’re feeling better now? Give yourself some time to stabilise. Don’t make any drastic decisions about dosing yet. In the early days, it’s better to be on too high a dose than too low. You can always adjust a dose down if you need to, but you might not come back from a relapse if you crave too much from a low dose. Try to do what you can to afford your current dose. Surely it must be cheaper than your habit?
