Suboxone/Subutex Question?

Question

Only serious answers please

I'm coming off heroin and i was prescribed suboxone. i can't get a hold of my doctor but i feel like i need to take the suboxone to deal with the symptoms. the only problem is that i was told that you need to wait a certain amount of hours for the heroin to leave your system due to a possible drug interaction/reaction. does anyone know how long i should wait to take my medication?

Answer 1

You MUST wait until you are in full blown withdrawal. I would wait at LEAST 24 hours and be sure you are sick SICK, not just sick, know what I mean? Subutex/suboxone will knock all opiates off of your brain receptors. If you take it too soon, you will go into precitated withdrawal and be 50 times sicker for much longer! No kidding, please wait. This feeling is a hell that is worse than just being dopesick...it's dopesick times 50. I am serious.

If you can, take something to sleep through some hours when you start your withdrawal. Make sure you are full blown sick. Ride it out, my friend. Once you are sick enough, relief will come to you within 20-50 minutes after taking your sub. You will be absolutely normal, no sickness, not high, feeling good. It is worth the wait.

I'm so happy you are getting off of the dope. I've known many, many people who use suboxone and their lives have changed dramatically.

If you want, email me and tell me your specific details of your situation and maybe I can assist you further. Click on my avatar to email me. I'll help if I can.

Merry Christmas to you. Congrats on beginning to take your life back.

Answer 2

Wait!!!! I have done what you are talking about doing and it sucks!! You will still be sick and will not get better for a long time. If you take the suboxone before the time is right it will not make you better.

You need to wait until you are in full blown withdrawls. I mean puking, shivering, sweating, shaking, the whole deal. I know it's hard, but if you take it too soon it will not make the symptoms go away. I have doen it and it sucks. So, for your own good, wait!!

You can also email me if you want. I have been a heroin addict and have used suboxone as well. Feel free to email me and ask anything you want, or if you just want some support. Oh ya, I'm not going to preach to you either, I'll tell it to ya straight.

Answer 3

Comming out of drug(Heroin) addiction is very difficult. for this reason only your doctor has given SUBOXONE.

You may be hooked emotionally and psychologically. You may have a physical dependence, too. If you have a drug addiction, you have intense cravings for the drug. You want to use it again and again. When you stop taking it, you may have unpleasant physical reactions.

While not everyone who uses drugs becomes addicted, many people do. Drug addiction involves compulsively seeking to use a substance, regardless of the potentially negative social, psychological and physical consequences. Certain drugs are more likely to cause physical dependence than are others.

Breaking a drug addiction is difficult, but not impossible. Support from your doctor, family, friends and others who have a drug addiction, as well as inpatient or outpatient drug addiction treatment, may help you beat your drug dependence.

COMMING TO YOUR QUESTION THE EFFECT OF HEROIN YOU HAVE TAKEN WILL BE IN YOUR SYSTEM AND BLOOD FOR MOR THAN 24 HOURS. You need not worry for it and can have the medication after 24 hours of taking Heroin . You will have certain problems initially and IF YOU DO NOT GO FOR HEROIN AGAIN you will improve and in about 72 hours or so you will be alright. It all depends the type of heroin and doseaga you take.

Best of luck for for your intention to come out of Heroin and I wish and pray for your success.-

Answer 4

The withdrawal syndrome from heroin may begin starting from within 6 to 24 hours of discontinuation of sustained use of the drug; however, this time frame can fluctuate with the degree of tolerance as well as the amount of the last consumed dose.
Buprenorphine (Subutex) and buprenorphine and naloxone (Suboxone) are used to treat opioid dependence (addiction to opioid drugs, including heroin and narcotic painkillers). Buprenorphine is in a class of medications called opioid partial agonist-antagonists, and naloxone is in a class of medications called opioid antagonists. Buprenorphine alone and the combination of buprenorphine and naloxone prevent withdrawal symptoms when someone stops taking opioid drugs by producing similar effects to these drugs.
Please see the web pages for more details on Heroin, Drug abuse and Suboxone: Dependence treatment.