Can Tramadol help with Suboxone withdrawals?

[infekt]

Swim has access to tramadol and is currently trying to taper off of Suboxone. Admittedly, swim is pretty ignorant to anything about tramadol and its reaction to buprenorphines, and if it'll even help at all. Swim is wondering if it will just take swim a step back, rather than forward. But, swim wonders what's up because last he heard, Tramadol was not an opiate...


Enlighten me!

[biggpri]

tramadol is an analog of codiene, whatever that means. it does give a slight opiate high, whith the euphoria and all. it also can cause nausea and its own withdrawals. after taking it daily for a months, swim quit cold turkey. the next day, while doing some community service, he began to feel very lethargic and had a lot of trouble just standing up straight. it gave swim a generalized discomfort throughout the body, with cold sweats. but the withdrawals were not as bad as cold turkey suboxone withdrawals. taper down from suboxone very gradually, and one shouldn't have too bad of withdrawals. tramadol, in low doses may help, but substituting one opiate for another does not sound like a good idea to swim.

[JaWill88]

swim wants to know more about this as well. swim is trying to get off suboxone and has been on it for a little more than 1 year now. he really doesn't like being on it anymore. swim would rather suffer heroin withdrawals any day of the week. why? suboxone withdrawals seem to last at least a month. well at least for swim. swim is sure this is because of the extremely long half life. swims plan is to get back on a short acting opioid and do just enough to keep him straight and be physically addicted to that, and not buprenorphine. then swim can suffer a short withdrawal he can deal with. he may use benzos, or even suboxone but just for like 3, maybe 4 days at really low doses to detox. anyways swim is wondering if tramadol would be the way to go? does tramadol have the weakest withdrawal out of all opioids? any help would be greatly appreciated.