subutex maintenance

[zelda77]

Could someone please describe they case scenario,because all my doctors differs and doesn't seem to know alot about it. I know you start with 4-8mg and up your dose for the next 3 days or so. If you decide to go with subutex for a year,do you take the max dose what you ended with and reduce it over a few months. I wanted to go on suboxone,because it's much cheaper,but the pharmacists say we don't have it in South Africa. Please give me help. My neurologist told me 16-32mg is more like a lethal dose???????

[TJinPA]

Zelda - Suboxone and subutex are pretty much the same thing. Subutex does not have naloxone in it which prevents the med from being abused. The normal daily dose is between 4 and 16 mg. It really depends on how much of your DOC you took. The maintenance is also an individual thing. I was on 16 for 6 months before I decided to taper. The Dr. never asked me to, and she said I was only the 2nd patient that she had who self tapered.

[zelda77]

May I ask you how did you taper yourself? Did you took any other meds with the subutex.I have fibromyalgia and he prescribed me provigil and it gives ;you lotsa energy,but not in a rush way,It feels more normal. I also drink alpralozam to relax my muscles

[captnanny]

I'm unfamiliar with subutox and suboxone but I do know that there a lot of people on this board who have differing experiences. It depends on the individual and the withdrawal symptoms. I would ask you to please wait for the troops to arrive as many struggle with tapering, any drug really. I am tapering off of fentanyl and now norco which is just extra strength vicodan. I am also on provigil, wish I could say it woke me up. But like I said everyone is different and there are lots of people on here with info about suboxone, subutex. Please be patient, keep posting the thing is you want to get clean. That's great.

[zelda77]

I was prescribed 100mg for provigil,but I see you can drink 200mg. I drink 200mg now,cause the 100mg also did not much for me. Maybe you should skip a day or two, because the body also gets use to it as with other meds.