Author: Romeo
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 9:33 am
Hmmm, it’s really hard to figure out what his intentions are. From what you said in your first post, about the plan has always been to taper down slow and steady and when you’re ready, you’ll jump off…..that makes me think your doctor is just pushing you? He may have no real intentions of starting you on Naltrexone yet? It’s really hard to say, though.
He may be dead serious about putting you on Naltrexone because he believe that’s the best course of action for you? Again, it’s very hard to say.
What you have to do is convince him that getting off of Suboxone is not the best course of action for you. I would talk to him about the progress you’ve made, but I’d also mention that you’re just not ready for the jump yet. If he insists on getting you off of Suboxone, I would plead with him to let you continue lowering your dose because jumping from anywhere near where you are isn’t gonna be pretty. Ideally, you should taper well below 1mg. Getting well under 1mg before you jump will minimize your wd greatly. Honestly, if I were you, I’d shoot for getting to .25mg. We’ve had several people jump from around .25mg and their wd has been very mild.
I don’t know how you get your doctor to understand that 6mg or anything near that dose is too high to jump off of. If you tell him you heard it on the internet, he’ll just scoff at you.
You could try to look up some of Dr. J’s articles about tapering, print them out and maybe your doctor would be willing to read what another doctor has wrote?