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DYI bupe
"subs" Suboxone

This is not medical advice.  You should only take buprenorphine under the direction of a trained clinican.
 

The following is a report of what people are saying online about starting buprenorphine and is for informational purposes only

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Wait till you’re properly dope sick, then try the subs.

 

You must let the opioid clear out of your system before taking a sub

  • Don’t take the sub when you are anxious, craving hurting—push through the early symptoms

  • With fent, the clock is not enough, you must SEE the dope sickness

  • Wait 12-36 hours till you can see yawning, sweats, runny nose, goosebumps

 

When you’re properly dope sick, try a sub

  • Let the tablet or film dissolve completely under the tongue.  (If you swallow it, you get 10%)


Options

  • Flood the receptors with a big dose and get the switch over with

    •  Take 3 to 4 8mg SL subs (24-32 mg SL) at once
       

  • Try a tiny bit and see which way it goes. A little bit is less likely to make you really sick.

    • Take 2 mg (quarter up an 8 mg strip) every couple of hours till you feel well

    • If you feel better- keep going

    • If you feel bad- stop dosing

Keep using while you build up the bupe, then drop the dope.

(“Bernese method, micro-dosing, overlapping”)


First get bupe on board with little doses, deal with cutting out the fent later

  • Add bupe in gradually to take over the receptors

  • Keep using fent/opioid to not get sick
     

Start with ½ mg bupe ( safe for everyone)

Build up every day for a week

Day 1 – ½ mg

Day 2 – ½ mg morning AND ½ mg evening

Day 3 – 1 mg morning AND 1 mg evening

Day 4 – 2 mg morning AND 2 mg evening

Day 5 – 3 mg morning AND 3 mg evening

Day 6 – STOP fent  

4 mg morning AND 4 mg evening

Day 7 – 8 mg bupe morning, 8 mg bupe noon, 8 mg bupe evening   

 

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How to make a microdose (0.25-0.5 mg)

Microdose options

  • Strips: Fold, cut, repeat

    • Get scissors or a knife

    • Fold a strip

    • Cut it in half

    • Repeat

      • 8 -> 4 ->2->1->1/2mg

 

  • Tablets: need a pill cutter.  Gets crumbly and hard to handle
     

  • Swallowing: if you swallow 2mg SL tablet or film you only absorb 10-15%

    • Swallow a 2 mg SL tablet and it will feel like ½ mg under the tongue
       

  • Liquid - “Liquid Microdosing” or “Volumetric dosing”

    • Take an 8mg strip and put in clean water in 30mL dropper bottle

    • Each dropper (1mL) is ¼ mg of bupe

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Bridge with heroin or oxy

Switch from Fent to another opioid, then switch to subs
First get off the fent, use another opioid to hold you, then switch to subs.

  • If you can find real (not fent) heroin or oxy switch to that

  • Let the fentanyl wash out for 3-7 days

  • Start bupe by any method and it will be much easier

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