It is commonly believed that taken less than 21 days, you will not develop an addiction to buprenorphine. I used subs for 20 days, and either had PAWS from my DOC or sub withdrawal one. I believe that subs block part of the brain receptor, so that part of the healing only begins when subs are gone. I do not know of any way to completely avoid withdrawal. All that being said, no, I do not think you will have "bad" sub withdrawal, but you may return to withdrawal symptoms of the pills you where on before subs.
Thanks, Weaver. Well, I am going to wean my way down and try to be done in two weeks, if not less. Gotta take my lumps at some point, I guess. Just hope it's doable with work and my kids, but I'll do it.
It's doable, many have done it and you can to. I can say that there's no way I could have jumped at my last dose of 160mg of methadone and I would have another year of tapering had I not used the fast sub taper. It decreased my symptoms to make it possible to get totally clean much faster. It was by no means easy, but I made it. I think you're going to be fine. Keep us posted on how it's going.
Thank you so much, the support means so much. And kudos to you, you are a strong person!!