How does alcohol affect bupe levels?

[Scagermeister]

I'm not a big drinker, but everyonce in a while I have 1 or 2 beers at night.

However, the day after I usually wake up with mild WD symptoms that go right away as soon as I take my 4 mg dose.

Does the alcohol displace some of the bupe thats on your opiate receptors? Or raise your tolerance or something?

[duck]

I'm not a big drinker, but everyonce in a while I have 1 or 2 beers at night.

However, the day after I usually wake up with mild WD symptoms that go right away as soon as I take my 4 mg dose.

Does the alcohol displace some of the bupe thats on your opiate receptors? Or raise your tolerance or something?

I usually have a similar experience to you. Until recently, I didn't realize just how similar waking up after drinking can simulate minor wd symptoms--especially achy, cold legs, minor anxiety and general apathy.

Maybe it's just a minor hang over you're having that is amplified by your sub use?

[Hoss]

One thing I have noticed while taking Bup is that if I am drinking a lot, I will go from like not having to pee at all to DEFCON 10 pee time! When I'm not taking Bup, this is not a prob... dunno, strange.

[Papa Verine]

I've never been on bupe, but I have taken it a few times when I couldn't get my DOC. What I've noticed is that bupe works well to alleviate hangovers. I enjoyed drinking and bupe together much better then drinking with nothing.

Now I don't drink or take bupe. Both of them make me kinda sick to think about.

[Scagermeister]

I usually have a similar experience to you. Until recently, I didn't realize just how similar waking up after drinking can simulate minor wd symptoms--especially achy, cold legs, minor anxiety and general apathy.

Maybe it's just a minor hang over you're having that is amplified by your sub use?

You know that could be....

However, my dose of sub hit me REALLY hard the next day... I went from feeling lethargic, restless legs, and complete blahhhh to that warm, fuzzy, pseudo-opiate buzz all day... Kinda like when I first got on Sub.

I would theorize that it was part mild hangover, plus the alcohol reducing the bupe's efficacy to attach to receptor sites.

I'm gonna try this again. I'm gonna have a beer friday night, and see if I can "reset" my bupe tolerance again.... I think this beats the SJW method, lol.

[Scagermeister]

Now I don't drink or take bupe. Both of them make me kinda sick to think about.

Lol... I hear you

I actually have to quit smoking bud for a few months, so a beer to me is the next best thing. I think its the relaxing effects of the barley and hops more than the alcohol though. A shot of booze does nothing but make me want to vomit.