How Can I Get Prescribed Subutex Instead Of Suboxone (Page 5)
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i get sick everytime i take my dose of suboxone. I throw up everytime. but my doctor will not switch me to the subutex even though it is in my charts that i have yaken the subutex and never got nausiated. what do i need to say or do to get my doctor to understand and switch me? i also have severe intestinal problems that get aggravated with the suboxone, what can i do. i do not want to quit treatment but i cant keep throwing up everyday all day. please someone help me.

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I'm the same I'm trying my damdest to find a Dr that will put me on subutex if not I think I'm a go to the methadone clinic

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Read my comment a few down, I couldn't get an answer from either one of my doctors on how to get the test, My sub doctor even joked that there was only one person in all west Tn that he knew of that could get the papers saying he's allergic to naloxone, You gotta take some kind of skin test but I can't even get a name or recommendation to a specialist that does the test, I'm sure I could get online and call a hundred places and get talked to like a junkie like they do to me at the pharmacy and everywhere else trying to find where to get the test, but I don't got time for that. My former methadone clinic now a suboxone doctor should know where and who to get the test from but nope he don't SMH

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everyone has started going to North Carolina to get subutex they dont care in that state i just need ti know the address and thats where I would go to get them ,Im not on anything now and I mean nothing but im going to go and see if I can get them to gv me subutex i dont know if ill beable to get it or not but if not i guess ill come out with a script for subodone which will b a bummer because i cant do suboxon i couldnt about 5 years ago, How do u get a dr to write that u r elergic to it can u just go n and say i took one and now im sick throwing up or WHAT.PLEASE REPLY

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I get sick from suboxone and bunavail. Plus the hot flashes and feelings of suicide.

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Now, even a lot of Suboxone docs are dropping patients. There was some new law this year that every private practive Doc must now "join a major healthcare institution". After 5 yrs with her I get a letter: "For business reasons I am no longer dealing with Suboxone and joining Kennedy Health Systems" (YOU MEAN: Now I have to declare all that cash income I was getting and it's not worth it!!!) I have leftover subs but I'm not starting this doc finding crap again. F'd up for sure. Europe doesn't have these issues where people are controlled by pharmacueticals.

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Well I went thru all steps to get back on Subutex and left with no choices, I asked my doctor where can I get a test and this doctor is a former methadone clinic doctor mind you tells me he don't know ask your primary ok I go to him he told me he don't know find another Suboxone doctor that will give you Subutex haha man what, it's the law in TN now to have the test saying your allergic to naloxone but they have nobody to send me to. I'm trying to get on pain management but there's no such thing according to my two doctors pain management for addicts. Only why I stayed with an addiction doctor this long so I wouldn't be in the situation I'm in now trying to find a doctor that don't exist according to them. Anybody have any thoughts let me hear em, I been clean for 5 years and 5 years worth of clean drug test and not even a speeding ticket, And they took away the medicine that gave me a halfway normal life without any warning or other option, But here's the funny thing my Ex methadone Dr. Told me to go get on Morphine and fentanyl patches the stuff I was putting in my arm in the first place to get here lol man I don't have enough in me to go thru another one of them drug loops, I'm getting to old for that it ain't fun anymore I can't do it. I done it to many times. Hopeless

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Go to hospital and tell them that ur allergic to it .That u that u hv been throwing up and my eyes hv swelled up. Make them gv u copy that u r allergic to it .They will gv to u .I know that's how two people got it that I know of forsure because I'm going to do that this week.

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AT Costco you can get generic" subutex"for about $2.20 a tab,almost a fourth or fifth of what you pay for suboxone.stay clear of vs.they bend you over the counter.

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IF you have come to the point that you are citing how you have "heard every excuse", etc., you are either 1) Not a Doctor or 2) should resign being so, because you have become clearly PREJUDICED with your patients and clearly "profile" before knowing the facts or performing a full accessment on the patient. Your comment alone is inaccurate (subutex contains NO narcan). So much for your two doctorates. Do patients a favor and refrain from advising them. You clearly know NOTHING addictions.

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Why can ppl get a months worth of suboxone and live normal lives when ppl on methadone have to report to a clinic everyday. Its not fair. My life is surrounded by a clinic it makes me depressed and it to time consuming. If your off all drugs and working the program why cant I go to a privacy of a drs office and get a months supply of methadone and live my life without the hassle of going to a place everyday waiting a half hr sometimes more. Please someone shed light on this situation. I feel that Im on the verge of a nervous breakdown sincerely nelbelle

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Dear doctor,

I suppose you're speaking from actual experience. I know narcan does give people other then myself headaches and a variety of other adverse side effects. Perhaps people just call them "allergies", but regardless if someone really would have a better quality of life on subutex rather then suboxone and they're not asking for it bc they want to use drugs, then what would you advise them to do? At $400.00/visit how might a person get their doctor to believe them, how can a doctor get to know a patient well enough to tell the difference between someone wanting to switch to subutex for the right reasons verses the wrong reasons? Some people can only afford one shot at $300.00-$400.00/visit. Not to mention the receptionist will not give you any information over the phone until you are in there paying upfront...Dr. you are aware there isn't any narcan in Subutex? Or was that a misprint?

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Ha it's not that easy in Tn you have to have a special test that they say your allergic or not, You have no say they know how you feel and how it affects you obviously, And my Dr. Joked at there was only like 2 people In all west Tn that was able to get the note from the test lol that's funny

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You hv to tell them u r allergic to it that's how both of my nieces get it.One drives that North Carolina and gets it because she tells them she's allergic to soboxadone.

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The Dr.s don't care here in Tn. just screwed. I been clean 6 years with 6 years of clean D test and was on subutex for pretty much the whole time until about a half year ago they made that law about Suboxone and had to get on suboxone. been sick the whole time, gained 50 pounds because I can't go out and do anything. I pretty much told the dr I'm gonna be dead soon. I'm gonna off myself and get back on Ds. all he could say was go to a pain clinic and get back on morphine and Oxymorphone, that's the stupidest thing I ever heard. ok I go back to what brought me here in the 1st place great circle of life. See I need pain management but there's nothing they will do for me. all I'm asking for is something with one less ingredient, but they rather me relapse than give me what they know helps me lol. That and methadone but they don't wanna give me either, just right back to the OPs ha. whatever just wasting away. holler.

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The problem is I don't like the drugs but the drugs like me

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If I heard that, I'd believe you, but I wouldn't prescribe a drug compound that has the same drug that causes you to have migraine and allergic reactions. Btw, allergies are easy to check for these days. Ask any allergist; Just a little blood. Assuming I'd accept this story, I would consider ANYTHING with Suboxone or Subutext in it. And, no, Narcan (in Subutex) doesn't mitigate drug allergies. Give us a little credit. WE did earn doctorates (I have two) and, over these past 20 years, have heard every conceivable "excuse" for requesting a SPECIFIC drug in the narcotic or benzodiazepine class.

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Yeah that's my ordeal too. I had gotten subutex from another means to help me get off methadone and it worked. I just couldn't afford the doctor visit at the time and now that I can I'm afraid I'll waste $300-$400 to hear a doctor tell me the same thing! Its the most aggravating thing to me bc I don't abuse opiates, idc for them and haven't for years! I just want off the damn methadone and I KNOW what works for me! But telling a Dr who doesn't know me and spilling out 15 years of history to him, all he's gonna hear is drug addict!... Can't trust anything she says. And that's just soo unfair.

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I was prescribed suboxin several weeks ago. It gave me bad headaches and stomach issues. I went for my follow up today. I told my doctor the symptoms and he prescribed me subutex which doesn't gave the naloxin in it. A lot of doctors don't like prescribing the subutex because you can essentually still use it with opiets with a leader effect but still non the less. If your doctor will not switch you I would suggest finding a new doctor since you are having side effects. There is a list of suboxin/subutex doctors listed online.

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where are you from Kmil? I'm wondeing bc some states can differ

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It doesn't work every time... When I started with my doc I explained I had been buying subutex/suboxone through other means and that suboxone gave me severe migraines and they make me nauseous every time... He told me straight up that he has heard all kinds of excuses to get subutex and he doesn't prescribe subutex to anyone but pregnant women... I had a pregnant friend call in trying to find a doc and he sent her to a methadone clinic, wtf... So yeah doesn't always work.

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