temgesic (buprenorphine) for withdrawls

[jimdandy]

hey y'all i ned some info, quick if possible. i'm yet again gooing to be kicking and won't be able to miss work during withdrawl. i can onlyget my hands on temgesic, which is buprnorphine but in very low dose. it's .2 mg per pill.SWIM can buy 10 for 25$ ( i know its way more than dope itself but thats ALL he can get, that and valiums), and i thought i'd take them over 3 or4 days to help with the withdrawls (since i cant miss work, which is only thurs and fri, i do have the seekend off) from about a quarter g of tar a day iv habit. i'm worried thats its too small a dose to have any effect at all.


anyone in the know out there? am i wasting my money with such a small dose?Edited by: jimdandy

[Silver Fox]

Hi Jimdandy,

Hope your rapid detox went OK, but if you're still needing advice, here goes:

To comfortably come off a 0.25g IV H habit, you would probably be wanting buprenophine (Subutex) or Temgesic 4-8mg/day initially simply in order to feel comfortable, and then cut down slowly from there.

As you say, Temgesic only comes in 0.2mg tabs, so you would be looking at a minimum of 20 tabs in one day.
Of course, you could settle for less, it would be a bit rougher.
Or you could simply forget the Temgesic and keep yourself as comfortable as possible with some Valium.

If you do use Temgesic, or Subutex, remember that you only use them once you are full-on into withdrawals. If you use buprenorphine before you start to withdraw, it displaces the other opiates (heroin) out of your system and precipitates 'cold turkey'.

Hope this is helpful,
All the Best,
Silver Fox

[jimdandy]

thanks for your reply. it would have cost way too much for tht quantity of temgesic, so anyways i just did 10 of them with a few v's to help sleep at night...it's been 2 weeks now, i'm clean agian. teh kick wan¿t too bad compared to others i've done. starting to feel much better, although sleep is still irregular and brief. that's ok, i know it gets better...


am off to a 10 day meditation retreat, which is actually as tough or tougher than kicking...guess i just love suffering.

[Perromaldido]

That's the worst part, but as you said, it goes. SWIM had to kick 1 gr/day habit back in '99 as he could not abandon the place he was being garciously hosted at. I still wonder who said that an H kick is 3 days affair first ...or a bad flu, to say it wit Rents... Hang in there.....


Perro