Author: slashNaxl

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 3:44 pm

I was reading through some of the other boards on this site, and came across one where someone mentioned that at lower doses, bupe loses that long half life it’s known to have. I was hoping someone on here could clarify this. I only ask because a few weeks ago, when I thought I really needed to quit, I stopped for 3 full days. By the end of the third day, I received some terrible news, and my sub was right there, so it was almost too easy to just give up and start taking it again. But at the end of that third day, at about 72 hours or so since my last dose, I wasn’t really feeling anything…in fact I went to the gym, to try to take my mind off of it, and drove around town just to stay busy. But I had barely any symptoms…maybe very slight chills/sweats, slight RLS, but nothing that kept me up at night…I was getting about 4-5 hours of sleep a night. My dose has always been less than 1mg. sometimes i drop down to about .3-.5, sometimes I take closer to 1. But I have never gone over one.

SOOO, my thinking back then was that the half life of sub was so long, that I probably hadn’t started the WD’s yet, and that’s why I was feeling ok at day 3. But then I read this thread and it makes me wonder…was I actually just lucky? With my low dose and relatively short length of use (about 2 months) did I avoid serious WD’s?

Here’s the thread I read that in, btw.

http://suboxforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=5234

Author: slashNaxl

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 3:44 pm

I was reading through some of the other boards on this site, and came across one where someone mentioned that at lower doses, bupe loses that long half life it’s known to have. I was hoping someone on here could clarify this. I only ask because a few weeks ago, when I thought I really needed to quit, I stopped for 3 full days. By the end of the third day, I received some terrible news, and my sub was right there, so it was almost too easy to just give up and start taking it again. But at the end of that third day, at about 72 hours or so since my last dose, I wasn’t really feeling anything…in fact I went to the gym, to try to take my mind off of it, and drove around town just to stay busy. But I had barely any symptoms…maybe very slight chills/sweats, slight RLS, but nothing that kept me up at night…I was getting about 4-5 hours of sleep a night. My dose has always been less than 1mg. sometimes i drop down to about .3-.5, sometimes I take closer to 1. But I have never gone over one.

SOOO, my thinking back then was that the half life of sub was so long, that I probably hadn’t started the WD’s yet, and that’s why I was feeling ok at day 3. But then I read this thread and it makes me wonder…was I actually just lucky? With my low dose and relatively short length of use (about 2 months) did I avoid serious WD’s?

Here’s the thread I read that in, btw.

http://suboxforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=5234