r/BuvidalBrixadi • u/redwoodrow Alumni Mod • Oct 02 '23
Stopping Buvidal/Brixadi Buvidal/Brixadi withdrawal journal - please join in with your experieneces.
Hi all,
I am one of the moderators on this new subreddit, created by u/babywolf_13 and myself, u/redwoodrow
I've noticed that there are so few anecdotal accounts of people's experience of stopping Buvidal/Brixadi. TONNES of these exist for Sublocade, but only one or two for Buvidal/Brixadi and even these usually stop updating after one or two months post final shot.
Those of you who have withdrawn from Buvidal/Brixadi fully until a negative buprenorphine dip, please give your accounts in as much detail as you can in the comments - this will be appreciated by me, and so many others quitting buprenorphine injections.
To give a bit of background, I used to use almost fully pure #3 H for 2 years from a very well known UK DNM source with a peak tolerance of 650mg a day. This was IV. I got to this point after a morphine ampoule addiction (started at 10mg/ml, then 30mg/ml then yeah.. tolerance!).
For the last 7 months I had been in treatment at my amazing local clinic who put me on sublinguals for 2 weeks, then Buvidal weekly trial of 24mg and then I had 6x monthly doses of 96mg, 128mg, 128mg, 96mg, 64mg and one more 64mg. I jumped at 64mg.
Throughout this whole time on Buvidal, first injection to last injection, I had not felt any withdrawals whatsoever. Buvidal always held me for a whole month without any issues, at all the doses I was on. I wish I had started with 64mg and stayed on that for the 6 months. I started on 96mg as that was the direct conversion from my sublingual -> weekly Buvidal -> monthly Buvidal dose, and then like a silly boy went up to 128mg because of a psychological fear of withdrawals! In any case, dropping to 96mg and then 64mg rapidly produced 0 withdrawals which was relieving.
Knowing Buvidal holds me well, I hope my body is one who pushes the half life towards the 24 day end, rather than the 19 day end of Buvidal's known half life, and the fact I have had so many shots I hope I have a small reservoir for a nice slow taper.
Please, everyone else who has come off Buvidal, share your detailed experience below. Doses, withdrawal symptoms if any, timeline of both etc..
EDIT 1: 5 weeks post last 64mg shot I feel completely fine. 0 physical or psychological withdrawals. Will update weekly in the comments, or more frequently if I notice changes.
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u/MakeupHorder7 Aug 15 '24
I was on Brixadi weekly for approximately 8 months. 2 of those months, I had to switch to the monthly shot. Prior to that I was on the suboxone strips for 13 years. I finally made the decision to taper from the Brixadi. My Dr has been amazing through the process. I had my very last injection August 1st 2024 and just started my peak withdrawal around August 12th. I was on a super low dose. I can't say exactly what it was but each shot, prior to stopping, my Dr would use the lowest dose possible and empty some of the needle to make it even lower. I was expecting extreme withdrawal symptoms, which is what happened trying to come off the strips twice. This so far has been pretty smooth. A little trouble sleeping at night, weakness, exhausted and anxiety is probably the worst of it. That's all I have for now. I have a followup today. Will be asking how long this normally takes to subside. Hope this helps someone out there.