Methadone Withdrawal Symptoms

If someone has been taking methadone for nearly 4 years, and has been prescribed Subutex and they keep saying they are afraid to begin the Subutex for fear of acute withdrawals but they had their last dose of methadone 51 hours ago and are experiencing mild withdrawal symptoms, would it be okay to begin the Subutex? They keep referring to the half-life of methadone and have a fear of not waiting long enough..any help appreciated.

hello, my friend is dumb and took a single 8mg suboxone to try to get “high”. hes on hydrocodone (percocet) 15mg pills for a ruptured disk. little did he know suboxone is an opiate blocker and will stop his hydrocodone for releaving his pain. what we are wondering is how long will a single 8mg suboxone stay in system and stop his correct medication (percocet) from working? he refuses to speak to his doctor.

I understand that I can’t force anyone to do anything they don’t want to and that they have to be mentally ready to make those kind of changes in their life. But I really love this friend of mine and I want to get under her skin enough to make her want to quit the drug. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance!

I have been on a very low dose of Subutex for 3 years. I don’t know anyone who has gotten off of it who was not just doing the short-term detox thing. Has anyone else gotten off of it and stayed off opiates?
Thank you—

Question on morphine sulfate kadian and Hydromorphone. I was 38 when I hurt my back 2001 The doctor have given me Vicodone 10/660’s dose rate for 2 years then I finaly had back surgery 2003. The doctor who did my surgery placed a fixation screw 12mm to long, and never seen his mistake even after many visits and newer MRIs, this wrong doing which lead me to have more pain. Rating my pain scale a 5 to 10 and nothing less for just over a year. I was commited to a bed and couch for one year. During this year I have taken vicodone with hydromorpone on a steady bases. I thought my life was over and almost ended it. I could not take the pain anymore and I never felt normal with all the pain medication, antiflamatory medication and mussel relaxers. I really thought my life was over until I went ti the twin City Spine Center, They saw the long screw that was palced in my back from the first surgery Doctor right away. This lead to a second Life threating spine surgery 2004 with a 70% chance of dying. The surgery went well but I had severe nerve scaring due to bone growning around the bad screw and into my spinal nerve. Anyway this lead to a long life of pain medication until 2008. Since 2001 to 2008 I have been on many of the hard narcodic medication with Morphine Sulfate and hydromorphine the last type of medication I am on. I just had my third spine surgery March of 2008 and its a miracle that my Nuro spine surgeon has fixed some bad nerve compression and nerve scaring to a point that I dont need my medications anymore. I am trying to stop cold turkey and I am having major withdrawals I have every one mention. I landed in the emergency room 2 day in a row this week with major bloataion, and severe pain of the stomack. I am very nervous, and shakey, I cant sleep, My head is pounding, I have hot and cold sweats, and I cant sleep. I did not realize that my emergecy room visits was because of my quitting cold turkey. There are time at bedtime I am having such a hard with drawal symptom that I take 1/2 a pill but nothing works. I have went a week already but the symptoms are not stopping. What can I do to get over this severe Withdrawal symptoms. I know this was a long writting but it was to give you an Idea that I have been on my pain medications for 7 years until my back was finaly cured by a very good Doctor.

I am on a detox program for my addiction to heroin. I’ve been on it almost two weeks and I’m planning to stick to it as in the past I would only half complete it but I’m doing the whole thing for my baby, myself and Ty – my boyfriend.

But I’m just wondering if the detox program will hurt my baby? I was on heroin for the first few weeks of pregnancy but I’m not taking it anymore and I’m almost 3 months pregnant.

Does anyone know what the drug Subutexis called in Mexico? It is a drug that is used to treat people with addictions to opiates.