How Can I Get Prescribed Subutex Instead Of Suboxone (Page 8)
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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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Bupe itself will not allow opiates to attach to your receptors. Naloxone is only active in your body for a very short period. I have been on TeX for 3 years and in the beginning I tried every way I could to feel high on it. I had to wait at least 12 hours to feel anything. If I took say a mg of TeX it would be a shorter period. People that say they take TeX for that reason are full of s***. If you research it you will see what I am saying is stone cold fact not opinion. I used to watch people take sub or TeX and still be a dumpster for everything else and just smile. That's just a dumb move. Like wiping your ass with 100 dollar bills.

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I have no idea. I'll try to find out. That's why I didn't post my #.

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Is there any way to private message on here? I'm new here and have no idea how if you can. Thanks!

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Hello Daniel, is there a way to private message people on here? I'm new to this so I don't know how if you can. I just don't want everyone having my number lol, I would not care at all to give it to you but I'm not sure how to private message?

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What's your number (Knoxville writer). You could try to get prescribed generic Suboxone pills and they are much cheaper. I may be able to help you

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Hello Daniel I'm in the Knoxville area and I would like to have someone to talk to about what we're going through. If you are interested in another person in your support group, then please feel free to respond back to this. Thank you. I guess I'll go ahead and share my story with everyone as well. I have been on Subutex for over a year up until recently when this "new" law changed that stated I could not be put on Subutex unless I got a physician to say I was allergic to the naloxone in Suboxone and went into anaphylect shock. Well when my doctor said this new law made him had to switch me to suboxone I just could not afford $13 a piece at my pharmacy versus $5 for the subutex. So I ended up not being able to pay for it and now I've not been going to my doctor for financial reasons for about a month and a half now. This has been the worst month and a half of my life. The withdrawals have been terrible, and I just can not afford to keep myself not sick. I don't know if anyone had heard of this new law that my doctor told me, but it's absolutely ridiculous. I've never failed a drug screen for opiates or been a bad patient. I've always taken my meds correctly but now this happened. If anyone has any information on how to get subutex from a doctor or have heard of this law, please share it with me. Thank you very much. I hope everyone has a blessed day and I look forward to someone's help.

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It is a shame that a qualified physician can prescribe what he feels best for his patient yet the insurance people, who are not medical doctors seem to have the final say. It is an old argument but a valid one. Some folks like myself simply cannot take Suboxone!!! I have been on Subutex five years - it clearly works and the quality of my life post cancer and chemo is 100% better due to but try telling the insurance people this. They absolutely do not believe me and therefore will not pay for my medicine. It is really disgusting.

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Suboxone really does gives me really bad headaches and I have noticed when I get up and take it, I also have a little harder time breathing. Has anyone else had a little harder time breathing...

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Suboxone Always gives me migraines, so my dr switched me to subutex and it works perfectly! No headaches, No nausea... I still Stay constipated but as long as I take senecot every day, that helps me go, not every day, but about every 3 days... I am going to see a Gastrointerologist and maybe they will be able to prescibe a medication that I have seen advertised for patients that take opiod or opiod like drugs for chronic constipation...

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Someone needs to mention to you all. Its the buprenorphine that constipated u not the naloxone

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Cherie,
this may help you out a lot!!! some one I know did this in order to keep their white ones, she works at a place were she haves to use
a really powerful oven cleaner, put it on your skin and let it break you out..
tell your doctor it started making you sick and headaches started really bad and your skin started breaking out after all this time of being in your system.. tell them that you fear you will just turn back to the hard stuff if you can't take something you are clearly allergic too. hope this helps.. she went through hell and back to keep the meds she feels comfy with.

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Chris,

Mmj? Uncertain what that is. If you mean Mary J then I can't smoke right now because I'm about to go into pain mgt. I'm coming off the subs. I dose about a half every 1 to 2 days now. I'm glad that progress is happening now towards pain management with workers comp. They are terribly slow about doing anything! I have a total of 6 herniated discs in my back. Three in Cervical and 3 in Lumbar. I'm constantly in pain. All if these new regulations about pain medicine is quite aggravating. I stay at a pain level around 9 with no relief EVER! I'm now lying on a heating pad at the Physical Therapy office.

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Hi if your on the 8mg try cutting a little off of it like maybe an1/8of inch an try that I'm opiate dependent as well an one sub will last me 3 days hope this will help my name is Chris if you want to get back @ me another thing has helped is mmj you know thay a lot of bad things AB it but it has REALLY helped me

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Hmmmm... That'd be hard to say!!

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Hi. I know a Dr who will prescribe u the suboxone and Klonopins for nerves. Methadone ranges from 77-90 bucks a week depending on what u take, liquid which is cheaper or wafers which are called disk are higher. I was on Methadone for many years and you do NOT want to go to Methadone. The withdrawal is 100x worse than suboxone..

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Baker,

I'm certain others could benefit from what you have extra. Uncertain how you would manage that though?? What is your ACTUAL daily dose?

Anyone else on here live in the Knoxville, Tn area? Any help and support I can find will benefit me (and you) more. Other folks who struggle with similar battles as myself are able to better understand the difficulties we all face. I don't have much of a support group yet. My wife is my greatest help. However, she has never struggled with opioid dependance or any other drug addiction. I'm really blessed with a good Godly wife and a wonderful Church family.

I've been prescribed Suboxone for nearly 2 weeks now. Still yet after 8-10 hours it wears off and I'm stuck suffering withdrawals from the evening throughout the night, until my next daily dose (16 mg ). I don't sleep well at all. Every couple of nights the medicines I take at bedtime help me sleep. I know Valium would help knock me out, but my dr will NOT prescribe any Benzodiazapines. I do wonder if my withdrawal symptoms are due to the Naloxone in the Suboxone films??

Does anyone know of a Suboxone dr in or near my area (Knoxville, Tn) that will prescribe the medicine I need to help me sleep at night? Suboxone does also help alleviate my pain in my Lumbar spine (lower back, one or bother legs/feet, butt) and it doesn't relieve the pain in my Cervical spine (neck, right shoulder, elbow, and hand). Any suggestions on medication that I can take with (a few hours after dose) Suboxone to ease my pain?

It doesn't seem like very many people respond. I've found this site to be very helpful in answering my questions and encouraging me to press on towards recovery. I recently found out that my insurance won't even cover Methadone for opioid dependence even if I found a clinic I could afford. They will pay for Methadone if I'm prescribed it for pain. How expensive is it?? Thanks to everyone that is reading this. All responses are welcomed and encouraged.

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Methadone can easily get you high Gomer!!!

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I don't know if Subutex would be right for me it not. My Dr will NOT prescribe Subutex though unless you are pregnant or an allergist proves you are allergic to Naloxone. I have only been taking Suboxone for a week now. I take 16 mg in the morning. I've still been having withdrawals in the evening (8-10 hrs after dosing) and all night long. My dr checked me out 2 days in a row before dosing and had be dose in front of him and see how I reacted. It brought me out if withdrawal but only lasts 8-10 hours approx. he upped my dose to 20 mg daily but my insurance will NOT cover more than 16 mg daily. My dr says I can appeal and he will go to bat for me and prove that I really do need a higher dose. I'm going to try to find a pharmacy today that will let insurance pay for 16 mg a day and I pay cash for the other 4 mg a day. I really need my medicine. I take 100 mg Seroquel, 4 mg tizanadene, 50 mg Diphenhydramine at night and still can't sleep. I do wish the Suboxone helped more with my chronic pain. I see folks recommending Methadone as an alternative if Suboxone doesn't work. The problem though, is that I live an hour away from the closest Methadone clinic and I can't afford driving there daily to dose. Also it is very expensive. It's difficult enough to pay cash for my office visits every 2 weeks for Suboxone. I Had to do something when I went to the Suboxone dr. My family dr stopped prescribing Oxycodone and say they are referring me to a pain management dr but they are SLOW! I bought Suboxone from the streets to come back from withdrawal (day 4) and thank The Lord Jesus Christ that I found a Suboxone dr so quickly (48 hrs after calling) and they continued Suboxone treatment, but legally. This did buy me some time to get Marijuana out of my body before seeing a pain management dr. My Suboxone dr didn't stress the Marijuana too much. Haven't had any in 3 weeks now!! I will be having 2 surgeries in the near future so I know opioids will be what I need for a while. Then I'll go back to my Suboxone dr unless I can find someone to try Methadone for pain management, which will hopefully have a dual purpose - pain management and less opiate cravings. I'm in Knoxville, Tn area. Any help or advice is encouraged. My wife say I need 30 mg Percocet daily max when I have surgery. She just doesn't understand chronic pain. I took 60 mg Oxycodone daily up until 2 weeks ago and it still wasn't enough to sir press my pain. I'm trusting The Lord and letting him decide. I have Tenncare and am out of work on workers compensation due to a lumbar spine injury at work. I hurt all the time!!! I get overwhelmed, anxious, scared, and nervous all the time. I hide (or rather try to hide) my emotions from my wife and our church family because I don't want to appear weak. Thanks for reading my ramblings. It's now 8:30 am and I didn't sleep lastnight. My wife is up now so I'm going to spend time with her. I wish everyone the best of comfort, hope, and help in your recovery.

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I have 30 extra Subutex a month what should I do

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Hello. i am allergic to sulfa as well, and i too have lupus. My doctor had me on soboxone, then switched me to subutex, and when I was on soboxone it was hell! I had terrible side affects and it kicked my lupus into full gear hell mode. The subutex didnt, well the docotr decided to quit giving me subutex again, refuses to put me on anything but soboxone, so I refused to take it and now no doctor will listen to me they all say NO SUBUTEX, and I really dont want to ruin my sobriety and ruin my life again and go back to doing drugs, but I dont think I can do this CLEAN LIFE, and with lupus its hard enough to get through each day and have energy and be free of pain. The subutex helped me so much. I was off drugs for over a year. I live in Indiana. Is there any help that you know of or anything I can do ar any place to go that will listen to me? Even the pharmacist states that the side effects I was having arent good, and that I shouldnt feel that way on soboxone, and thats its probably the sulfa in it or possibly just that my body cant handle the naxalone.

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