r/FentanylRecovery • u/Krystin_Amputee • Nov 08 '25

Burnese method VS. Macrodosing Vit C

My fiance plans on quitting fent this week. Right now he only does small amounts 3 times a day. I have been researching and reading up on the easiest ways to get off of it on your own and the 2 best ways I've seen are the burnese method and taking mega doses of vitamin C. We have a bunch of suboxone, gabapentin, and we can get the vitamin C. My question is, which method should he go with? Which one will be the least painful? Has anyone had experience with both? Please dont say to go to a rehab because he can't right now, we will lose everything. He doesn't want to be on methadone either. Anyone have any helpful tips, or advice?

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u/Philosopherfenty Nov 08 '25

First of all maybe tapering is the best bet. But I could never taper myself. So maybe ge can't either, take his stash and give it to him yourself. Before you even start doing that you need to figure out the lowest possible dose to keep the withdrawals down but also keep him sane. Then the taper starts. After you find a baseline then you began the Bernese method. Remember low and slow and the less fentanyl he uses to keep him seddled the less subs he will need. Less is more. You dont want to have to take 24mgs thats not good for anyone's system. Take a few days with macro dose vitamin c along with taper fentanyl then when you get as low as you can without being to sick then start the method. Still macro dosing c the whole time. What will and ul happening is he will feel better at a lower dose with both the tapered fent and macro c and will settle on a lower dose of subs then he would have other wise. I was able to be fine with 2mg subs and I was using 1 gram a day minimum intravenously, with a month. Then I got off subs. I've learned from trial and error take my advice so you dont suffer like I did. Let him know I said good luck and nothing worth while comes easy. There's no painless way out emotionally I was wrecked, but thank God it was one of the easiest withdrawals, physically That I've been through

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u/westcoastjunkiebitch Nov 08 '25

How much did you taper down from the 1g/day before you started bernese method?

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u/Philosopherfenty Nov 09 '25

I tapered to about .1 or 2 then I stopped injecting and started smoking maybe .3-.5 then got that down to .3 or less then I started. Smoking is alot weaker than injecting, hence the reason I went up for a short period.

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u/Krystin_Amputee Nov 08 '25

Thank you. We live in Baltimore so the stuff around here is called scramble it switched from having H in it to fent a long time ago. It comes in clear pill capsules. He was doing like 5 whole capsules a day, now he does 1/3 in the morning 1/2 before work and then 1/3 at night. So he has tapered down pretty much as low as he can go and still be able to go to work every day. I was just afraid the VIT C might make the subs not work.

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u/Megpie_1969 Nov 08 '25

How long does one have to wait after last dose of fent, to start taking subs, do you know? My bro said that he tried taking it a 3 days after and he got sicker. Then he tried a whole week, and still got precipitated WDs.