My hubby has tried to detox off of Subutex which he takes for chronic pain. He has been on other opioids, morphines, etc. for chronic back pain before, so I have seen many detoxs. Anyways, when he stops taking subutex, he has about 7-12 pain free days - no pain at all-, then he has about 12 hours of being totally out of it, limbs flailing, agitated, mumbling, getting up, falling down, not knowing what he is doing, etc., then after that he goes into severe back pain to the point where it is intolerable and he must resume his subutex. I have experienced this same detox process with him 3 different times.
Can anyone tell us why he would have almost 2 weeks pain free if the subutex was totally out of his body? He has never been able to make it over the hump during the rebound pain session to become subutex free.
Has anyone out there made it over that hump and become pain free afterwards?
I would like to know if anyone else has experienced this kind of detox off subutex and if you can give us any insight.