Help, need info asap, dr. appt. tomorrow

[faith_hope_love]

Hi all,  I hope I can type this, I am so anxious, my hands are shaking.  Before I ask what I need help with let me just remind everyone what my addiction is...lortab 10mg. up to 10 a day.  The dr. has had me on these for about 6 or 7 yrs.

I know many on here don't recommend sub. for hydro/lortab addiction but as I have told you all, I plan to do a 10-14 day short term detox because I have done the CT before and it was a nightmare.  I will say that last time it was lortab, soma, xanax & prozac that I detoxed CT off of so I don't know if that is what made it so bad but I just can't bring myself to do CT this time.  Not to mention that I live with my parents who are both in bad health, (papa has alzheimer's and mama needs me everyday to help with him, he just fell and busted his head open today :-(  ) so I can't be back here in my bedroom sick for days.

As I have told you all, the only reason I started taking lortabs again is because of a lack of energy but now I know from educating myself  here at MedHelp, I know in time my body will heal.  

The other proactive things I have done is told my dr. that I wanted off the lortabs so not to give me any.  The other proactive thing is I only have one person I could get some from and I told them if I asked not to let me have any and they agreed and they are moving so that fixes that.  I am proud to say that last time I was off the meds. that I never went looking for any so I know I can do this.  I say all this because I know many might think I need long term sub but I just can't afford it and I know I will be fine.

Here is where I need any of your help and please if anyone can help I would appreciate it so much as I am literally out of time.  There was a person here I thought could help me but she is sick and I haven't heard back from her.  She was going to tell me her dosage since she did a 10 day detox too.

What I need is someone to give me suggestions on a dosage plan for 10-14 days that I can suggest to my dr.  I have been talking to his receptionist and she said that he would be happy to do a short term as his way of thinking is the sooner you can be free of it all the better.  He does have mostly long term patients but I think she said there was 1 girl that is doing like I want to.

On a side note - she said the sub. rep came in the other day and the dr. asked him about short term and he said no, he didn't recommend it but the receptionist said the dr. told her later that he didn't agree with that, he said every person is different and should be helped accordingly.  Sounds like an awesome dr. to me and he only charges $300 so that is good.

So, once again, questions for you all -

1.  suggested dosage plans for 10-14 days (btw this dr. doesn't prescribe subutex only suboxone)
2.  Shouldn't I ask for the meds. in the 2mg. tablets so I can break them up when tapering towards the end?
3.  What should I use to break these up for like on the last day maybe I would do a half of 1 mg.  A razor blade?

I am sorry this is so long but please, please somebody help me.  I don't want to start on a dose that is too high since I am not on a stronger drug to begin with.

Thanks in advance!
Lyn

PS> I went and bought a high mineral multi-vitamin, melatonin, samE, 5-HTP and I have protein powder to make shakes.  I even bought flaxseed and omega3 fish oil because my goal after quitting the sub is to get healthy, join a gym, and do whatever it takes to get my body back on track.  Is there anything else I need?  I do need the Ltyrosine but they didn't have it at walmart so I will pick some up at GNC tomorrow.

[joann1975]

You can do this...good luck!

[faith_hope_love]

I haven't figured that out yet but since it would be 8 total for the day, I am thinking trying 4 mg. in the morning and then 4 mg. in the afternoon.  The next day I am going to try 4mg. in the morning and 2mg in the afternoon and see if that is good enough.

I don't want to take too much but I also realize the first few days are when I would be in the harder withdrawals so I guess I will take one day at a time and see how it goes.

[LONESOME]

Hi Lyn I'm so happy you are doing good and full of hope that it self is a good start when going into suboxone I'm really happy for you, I do rinse my mouth before and I don't drink anything for about 5 min. after my doctor never said nothing about waiting 30 min it is probably on the instructions but I guess I'm a bad patient lol. Now you are taking the 2mg subs so are you taking 8mg together or 4mg twice a day?

[faith_hope_love]

I am back from the dr. and everything went well.  I think he was surprised that I took the time to educate myself on sub. and now I am so glad I did because from how he was talking in the beginning, I think he follows the sub. protocol strictly one way across the board.

The good news is even though I am his first patient trying the short term detox, he didn't try to change my mind and was happy to let me try this way.  I had copied both plans above (the 21 day and the 10 day) and showed them to him.  I explained that I wanted to try 10-14 days and this is the plan he came up with for me. (He also said I could start lower and adjust it accordlingly.

Day  1 - 8 mg
Day  2 - 8 mg
Day  3 - 6 mg
Day  4 - 6 mg
Day  5 - 6 mg
Day  6 - 4 mg
Day  7 - 4 mg
Day  8 - 4 mg
Day  9 - 2 mg
Day 10-2 mg
Day 11-1mg
Day 12-1mg
Day 13 - .5mg
Day 14 - .5mg
Day 15 - Done - Hooray!

I am cleaning 2 houses tomorrow with a friend to make some cash so I will take my last lortabs to get through that and plan to take my last lortab by 6 in the evening so by 10 the next morning I should be able to start my first dose of sub. (10 am will make 16 hours in withdrawals)

I will try to post daily on my progress in case people want to see how I am doing.  I know that when I was waiting to start sub., I really appreciated other's posting on their progress.

Last question - when I take this sub., first swish my mouth with hot water and then put them under my tongue to dissolve and don't drink, eat or smoke for about 30 mins. after, right?

Lyn

[faith_hope_love]

I will be leaving for the dr. in a little while and am so glad to see your post because I never did want to go over 14 days and was trying to figure out how to divide the 21 day plan above in half so what you posted is great and I will take that with me to the dr.  

Is there any questions that you all can think of that I should ask the dr.?  I am getting in shower now and will check the board one last time in about and hour and a half.  Thanks!

[flmagi]

Here's a 10 day Sub plan, should you want to do less time and be certain you don't become addicted.
day 1   6 mgs
day2    6 mgs
day3    6 mgs
day 4   6 mgs
day 5   4 mgs
day 6   4 mgs
day 7   2 mgs
day 8   2 mgs
day 9   1 mg
day 10  1/2 mg