Will first you need to get off methadone or be on at least 5mg. And then the doctor can put you on suboxone.
You can take methadone after suboxone but do not take suboxone after methadone. If you have any opiates in your system and take suboxone, you will go into withdrawal......
No, you will not get sick. As long as the Suboxone is out of your system you will not feel any withdrawal symptoms.
You should wait 24 to 72 hours just to be sure that the methadone is out of your system.
at least 24 hours I would say at least 24 hours. The longer you can wait, the more (and better) you will feel. I just switched over from Suboxone to Methadone 2 months ago & didnt really "feel" the methadone for about 3 days. I waited roughly 24 hours between doses because of all the "horror stories" I have heard, and I didnt get sick at all. Methadone and Suboxone are a strange thing when it comes to what to take first and vice versa. I was on 110milligrams of methadone and had to stop altogether without weaning because a broken down car. Nine days later I took 16mgs. of Suboxone at a new clinic and was deathly sick for two days. This is because methadone is a full opiate while Suboxone is a partial opiate. So if you take Suboxone and then Methadone, you will either feel the methadone or feel nothing(depending on your Suboxone dose) BUT if you take Methadone,especially for a long period of time, and then take Suboxone, God have mercy on you, it can throw you into AWS(Acute Withdrawal Syndrome) and its like a flu times 10 with insomnia
Your doctor probably weaned you off the Methadone too fast before switching you over to Suboxone. Methadone takes a LONG time to withdrawal from. I would definitely tell your doctor that you're still feeling withdrawals from the Methadone so he can help you. Hope you feel better.
After getting off of 20 mgs of Methadone, a person would need to wait 72 hours before taking any Suboxone. This should ultimately be left up to your doctor, though.
Going from methadone to Suboxone will make you sick. Going the other way will not make you sick. However, long exposure to the narcotic antagonist in Suboxone will have made you far more sensitive to opiates like methadone. There is a good chance of overdose. The methadone should be phased in slowly, starting with much lower doses than normal. A better idea: get detoxed from the Suboxone if necessary, and get REALLY clean. Why go from one addiction to another? Addicted is still addicted. Don't you want to be free of all that?
You will be VERY VERY sick if you still have methadone in your system. Wait at least 48 hours and 72hours if you can make it that long. Do not take suboxone before 48hours because the suboxone will send you into a type of severe hyper-withdrawal. Trust me on this....wait the 48 hours or more if you can stand the withdrawals. Good luck.
Methadone's active metabolites can remain in the system for up to three weeks, which is what makes cold-turkey methadone detox nearly impossible. Suboxone does not "push" anything out, it merely staves off most of the withdrawal by 1) neutralizing part of the effect, and 2) replacing the methadone metabolites with other opiates. The second reason is why one should not take Suboxone any longer than absolutely necessary: it is possible to become addicted to it as well.(I took methadone on Saturday and took suboxone on Sunday - Wednesday and I came up clean.I wasted $40.00 because of all these false answers .Im on Federal probation so I had to make sure after reading all this false info.So I know for sure 4 days of suboxone will get a small dose of methadone out.I took 10 millagrams.)
It depends how many Mg of methadone you're on & how long you've been on it. You don't want to take suboxone for about 3 days from the start of the withdrawal symptoms. If you start the suboxone before then, it will make you sick.
yes, providing you go off the methadone for a few days prior to starting the suboxone. Suboxone has "naltraxon" in it which is an opiate antagonist which will purge the methadone from your system in expedited manner making you sicker than you need to be. One Warning about Suboxone; unless you have only been using a short time ( not shooting up) one of the foremost authorities on Heroin addiction who is affiliated with Hoag Hospital indicated to me that long term opiate addicts don't stand much of a chance. Try it though if you are determined to get cleaned up.
are you saying after you quit taking the suboxone? or while still taking the suboxone? first of all never EVER take together the both combined. if you take suboxone and want to just take methadone to buzz it will cause severe withdrawal symptoms. if you are taking methadone and want off of it, then wait at least three days, maybe 48 hrs it depends how much you have taken. never combine those two it can be deadly. by the way i don't even know what i'm answering. i'm confused. i'm on crack!!!!!