How soon after taking an opiate can you take Suboxone?

Answer 1

I HAVE BEEN TAKING SUBOXONE FOR ABOUT TWO YEARS NOW AND ALTHOUGH IN MY OPINION IT IS THE BEST PILL EVER INVENTED, THERE ARE TIME IN WHICH YOU WILL NEED TO TAKE PAIN MEDICATION FOR SURGERIES, TOOTHACHES, CAR ACCIDENTS, ETC. I HAVE FOUNF THAT IT TAKE ME USUALLY 4-6 DAYS FOR IT TO LEAVE MY BODY WHEN I HAVE BEEN TAKING IT CONSISTENTLY OVER A LONGER PERIOD OF TIME. ANYONE WHO ATTEMPTS TO TAKE ANYTHING BEFORE IS WASTING THEIR TIME. THANK YOU

Answer 2

You have to wait until you're in full withdrawal from the opiate (at least 18 to 24 hours). If you take Suboxone on top of another opiate, you will have the worst, most horrible withdrawal symptoms you can imagine. You will get really, really sick.

Answer 3

You should know that while on suboxone you have an (depending on your dose) often considerably high dose of opiods in your system, so if you then took a lot of opiate painkillers (which you normally did fine on) you would be at a greater risk of overdose. For me when I'm on suboxone (I get them from a friend, I've never been addicted) I'll already be feeling good from the suboxone and when I take even one pill of 50mg tramadol (which normally wouldent do a whole lot, just a mild contentment and feeling of well being) I feel a pretty strong euphoria.

Here is my answer from another question, in responce to a rumor that taking opiates while on suboxone will give you withdraw symptoms:

The previous author probably thought this because if you are dependent to a high dose of opiates (regular heroin use, high doses of oxycodone, very high daily use of vicodin) and you take suboxone it will knock the high level dose of the opiates off of your receptors and replace them with its own. For people addicted to very high levels of opiates this causes them to immediately go into withdraw, as the suboxone replacement will not be as "high" of an opiate dose as the person is used to recieving. This is a common rumor about Suboxone and I thought I would clear it up, but I believe it is important to warn people about taking Suboxone while they are already on, and dependent on, a high dose of opiates. The manufacturer reccomends that people who are used to high regular doses of opiates wait until moderate (not mild) withdraw symptoms begin to start taking Suboxone. Otherwise it will make you feel a lot worse, not better.

That probably gave rise to the rumor that you can't be on other opiates while on suboxone (I was a guinea pig for this myself, as I took pain pills while on suboxone unaware of the rumor)

Answer 4

You should be able to take Tylenol or ibuprofen for pain.

If you are talking about opiod pain relievers, you should never take them again or else you risk a relapse of the addiction.

Suboxone has a half life of 37 hours though. So in about 2 days you should feel the affects of any opiod and then about 2 days after that you will feel more and so on and so forth till it is out of your system enough that it isn't even noticeable.

Answer 5

You can take non-opiate pain medications while you're on Suboxone. Actually, you can even take opiate pain medications while you are on Suboxone. You won't get high from them, but they will still relieve your pain (you might have to take a double, or even a triple, dose of the pain medication, though).

What you can't do is the opposite: take Suboxone while you are on opiate pain medication. You must wait at least 18 hours after taking any opiate painkiller, before you can take Suboxone.

Answer 6

Yes, but inform your doctor that you are taking Suboxone so that he/she can adjust your pain management drugs accordingly. you may have to partialy withdrawal from Suboxone before surgery so that you do not develop "precipitated withdrawals" from the introduction of another opiate or opioid for pain and/or analgesia.

Answer 7

24-36 hours