Opiate Addiction: Methadone Detox Facts

Question: Would taking 1mg suboxone, to help paws, reverse repair of your brain due to opiate addiction?

(Posted by: on 2009-11-02 08:16:49)

I've taken poppy tea for about 2 years. I stopped cold turkey last April. And started using occationally (2 pods), about once a week (Fridays). That quickly turned into up to 7- 10 every other day until a month ago I quit. I took Suboxone for a week to get past the bad WD's, and now i'm in PAWS. I've been clean for a month of poppy tea, and have no desire to take it again. Here is what i'm taking to help PAWS: B12 Multivitamin with 600mg Lycopene Milk Thistle 2- 3 times a day with 3 square meals Vitamin C 500mg Before I was not taking any vitamins, nor eating for a few days at a time. I've actually lost 12 lbs since I stopped the tea and started eating normal. Lots of fruit, vegetables, and TONS of water, and Gatorade. Also, I have been running/ jogging every nice(er) day I get here. If it sucks outside, I exercise inside. I've read all about PAWS, so don't think I'm not a educated on whats going on inside my body and brain. Right now my PAWS symptoms are gooseflesh, cant regulate my temperature, RLS that is pins and needles, that sometimes goes to my hands. (I know it's RLS because klonopin stops it.) Also some days a full body ache. My big question is, I have 1 8mg suboxone left. If I would take 1mg or .5mg on REALLY bad days, would that reverse the repair process im heading towards? Because I know my brain is waiting for that "instant fix ". I need my brain to fire normally, but sometimes it's unmanageable with all the things going on in my life. And being cold in 90 degree weather in the sun REALLY sucks. If I give it an instant fix every once in a while like once a month or once a week or two of .5- 1mg Suboxone, will my brain still stop making Melatonin, Endorphins, and all the other chemicals that it's now not making? I know I have tons of stuff still in my colon and bowels. I was constipated for 2 years. I've been going about 5 times daily instead of once every 4 days, so i'm ridding my body of that. I'm more worried about repairing my brain so I can live a normal life.

Posted by: Lone on 2009-11-03, 10:00:29

The symptoms you describe, like RLS and chills are not symptoms of PAWS. Those are initial w.d. symptoms...PAWS does not start until after you go through the initial phase. I highly doubt you will get PAWS from poppy pods. Most people don't even get PAWS from heroin, or if they do it is short lived. suboxone will not repair anything...if the w.d. gets too bad you could take a tiny bit of sub, like 0.5 mg's, but it wouldn't be wise when you are this far along. It might have been an Ok idea to use it for the 1st week like you did, and maybe not. Sub is way stronger than poppy pod tea. Keep up the exercise and you should be past the worst of things. subsux.com