Posted by Elizabeth on July 22, 2001, at 13:30:16
In reply to Re: Ultram withdrawal! » Elizabeth, posted by MB on July 22, 2001, at 1:31:46
> It's like all funny to say "like."
< valleygirl >You are, like, *so* right.< /valleygirl >
> That detox place (not the methadone clinic, this was after that) in California, that stole my Xanax and put me on Tegretol, gave me buprenorphine for H withdrawal. They were too cheap to have a nurse practitioner or MD on site, so we couldn't get injections. The gave it to us sublingually. It didn't work, I thought it was bull****.
That's right: the solution doesn't work reliably if you take it SL; you just end up swallowing most of it, and it's not orally active (at typical doses). There are tablets that you dissolve under your tongue, which might work better than trying to take the injectible solution sublingually, but they're not available in the USA. (They're marketed as Temgesic or Subutex in other countries, and are under investigation as a treatment for opioid dependence in the US.)
> Then one day they took me to the doctor for a checkup (this was inpatient treatment) and he gave me an intramuscular buprenorphine shot and I felt much better...cleared the chills and runny nose right up.
Out of curiosity, how fast did it work? It takes about an hour intranasally, and I've wondered if taking it IM would speed up the process (it definitely would be convenient).
> I have no idea what it would have been like to take if I *hadn't* been withdrawing.
I suspect there are commonalities to depression and dope withdrawal (never experienced the latter). (Of course, depression doesn't cause vomiting, diarrhea, chills, shakes, etc.)
> > < sniff > Ahh, spring is in the air!
>
> I hear ya. Thank god for Flonase. I was a wreck until I got a script for that stuff (that *is* the "sniff" you're talking about, isn't it?).Nope, I was referring to the lovely smell that used to waft through my dorm in college.
-elizabeth
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