How Can I Get Subutex Not Suboxone? (Page 11)
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I don't know how to go about this as I am shaking and can barely focus, I need help! Please. I fear that my life is going to end from my abuse of opiates. I am currently taking 250 mgs of oxycontin per day. I have a loving fiance and a stepdaughter that I want to be here for. I sit here with cold sweats, and fear going out just because I may make the fearful turn to the meds. Any and all info on how to obtain Subutex would be much appreciated. This wasn't what I wanted my life to be, and I can not let it end this way..Please help me. I am not a religious man but I pray for help as I am at my wits end with this drug.

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A strip cost anywhere from 13 to 15 dollars a piece. Subutex range from 2.50 to 3.00 My husband only pays 4.90 for ninety with his insurance.

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Actually subutex is prescribed for pain management also. My husband is prescribed for that very reason. It truly helps with pain.

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First off you should understand that someone who IV's drugs can and will also misuse the Suboxone. Burp actually blocks the effects of opiates. Do your research on both drugs. Suboxone for people with no insurance is expensive!!!!! Subutex is cheaper by a long shot!!!! The naloxone affects lots of people in a variety of ways. Me personally gives me migraines and breaks me out. Yes there are probably people on here wanting to abuse Subutex that doesn't mean that applies to every addict in this forum.

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People misunderstand addicts all the time it pisses me off beyond belief!!!! If you have never dealt with addiction then frankly I do not believe your opinions matter much here. We have a disease that is in remission. We strive everyday to beat it another day. I personally ask how I could possibly obtain subutex over suboxone because strips give me the worst migraine!!!! No we do not feel high!!!! This is just like a diabetic taking insulin everyday. Dude you nailed it in your message. I wish people whom never dealt with addiction, and wanna throw in there two sense should do some research on addition. I can't stand because addicts have a past there not entitled to have a great future.

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I am on subutex 16 mg a day and no I do not feel high at all. I take them as directed and it's because I am allergic to the naloxone in suboxone. And I am prescribed neurontin 600 mg once a day with it as we'll. So before you go assuming that everyone who wants subutex just wants to feel high you are so very wrong. Also I'm not gonna lie, before I got help I was on subutex for almost 3 years and when I couldn't find a subutex suboxone didn't help me at all not to mention I would take it knowing I swelled up like a stuffed pig and got hives like crazy but when your desperate your desperate!!!!! Anyways the whole point of my reply was to inform you that HELLO YEAH WE WHO CHOSE TO USE DRUGS DOES NOT AND I REPEAT DOES NOT MAKE US BAD PEOPLE, CAUSE THAT MAY HAVE BEEN BEFORE WE HAD A LIFE AND FAMILY. WE'RE NORMAL PEOPLE WHO HAVE CHILDREN AND PEOPLE WE LOVE, AND THINGS WE CARE ABOUT. DONT DEMEAN EVERYONE WHO DOES A CERTAIN THING TO BE ONE SPECIFIC TYPE OF PERSON!!!!!

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Have you gone on this website? You put in your zip code and a list of suboxone docs will come up. That's how I found my wonderful doctor 6 years ago.

suboxone.com/treatment-plan/find-a-doctor

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Where do u live ?! Looking for a doc in my area ?! Having trouble. Thx I'm in md
I went to treatment and they recommend sub maintenance but having trouble finding a doc. Also did the baby have any complications while on this ?? Thanks

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you are 100 percent correct, what works for you is different than what works for someone else. its a shame that these methadone clinics charge so much. 13k for 3 years of methadone is a damn shame. my methadone pills cost about 15 dollars a month, and 30 for the doctor visit. so 45 a month total. those clinics are a business, and they certainly have a vested interest in keeping you hooked on methadone. i wish you luck in getting off of all opiates. i wish i had the strength to do it. stay strong.

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I no all about opiate addiction. I've been to 5 methadone clinics n every detox/rehab clinic at least twice. I no what works for me n for the first time in like 15yrs I don't want methadone or opiates or really suboxone or subutex. just want to stop it all. I've paid over 13k on methadone for 3n a half yrs. I'm done with the methadone. now I need come off the opiates that I've only been on for a month. Subutex works for me. If I have 6 or 7 I can wean myself off. What works for one does not work for everyone.

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I believe it. He can be a friend of mine. Was taking 900 mg of oxycodone a day for months. His tolerance just got so high. That's what he needed to feel its effects. Very sad. He's in prison now for stealing scripts from his Dr n forging them for oxy.

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are you talking to me dr. joey? cuz, ya theres a poster on here named verwon thats going to send someone into a bad rattle telling people that its ok to take subutex with opiates. not cool. now i see theres a poster on another thread named susan saying the same thing. UGH.

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And patients don't know this? Amazing!

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Subtext got me off of OxyContin after 9 years of use. So I know it works. You need to talk to your doctor and you must be honest with him. A pain management doctor would be best. I have been on sub for the last nine years because I am still having chronic pain due to 4 hip replacement surgeries. If you have a history of chronic pain getting the Rx from the doc should not be a problem. Good luck

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The whole reason they give you suboxone rather than subutex is so you dont take the subutex intravenously. YOU CAN NOT TAKE SUBUTEX SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH OTHER OPIATES OR YOU WILL GO INTO PRECIPITATED WITHDRAWALS! gawd, i wish you would figure that out already.

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you need to contact every buprenorphine doctor, every mental health professional, every addiction specialist you can and MAKE THEM HELP YOU! have you gone online to look up the buprenorphine doctors in your area? called every single one of them? you are just going to have to be the squeakiest wheel you can be until someone listens. being in the south may be tough with this...i am dealing with this in california and colorado, where the attitude re: addiction is a bit more liberal. even tho florida is passing out opiate meda like m&ms. good luck to you and dont give up! go on the bupe dr. registry online and call every friggin doc on there is you have to!

btw, what is a "neuron"? forgive me, i have not heard of that one.

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Hello? the naloxone didnt "keep you honest"...all it does is keep you from administering the bupe. intravenously. so again, i ask you, how does taking subutex rather than suboxone keep a person from wanting to get clean? you make no sense.

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I live in Tallahassee and the Tallahassee Memorial Behavioral director said my son, who has medicare/Medicaid is a good candidate for their Suboxone program. So, he was living in the woods in Kentucky where he was receiving his Suboxone, but, said he could come to Tallahassee and he'd be hooked up. Well, they would not accept him and nobody else is either. He was on Suboxone for eight years. He is in so much pain that he will take sometimes 60-90 Neutrons at one time and will still be hurting. He of course blames me, because I believed that director. He is also dually diagnosed. I feel so heartbroken.

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The only reason i had subutex instead of suboxone is because i have liver disease and chronic nausea, and the naloxone made me sick. And the only reason naloxone is in suboxone is to keep people from IV'ing it. Now, if one has a legitimate opiate tolerance, buprenorphine doesnt make you feel high anyway. So how is being on subutex any more "abusive" or whatever, than being on suboxone?

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Most posters are correct....if you want OFF the merry-go-round take the Suboxone and stick with a program. I was taking 300-350mg hydrocodone a day at my double digit year peak of addiction and went to rehab. Detoxed painlessly on Suboxone in 5 days and got out 30 days clean and was back on pills within the week....after that found DR to detox me who had no problem treating my ongoing pain from pancreatitis with the Suboxone....so I settled on lowest amount that managed it (8-12mg day) and 3 years later have not looked back. The Naloxone keeps me honest and how awesome is it to take one pill under tongue each morning and go off with no worries....no pill counting, no manic depressive behavior, no fear and best....no monthly WD nightmares. Subutex desire is sign you are not ready to give up the ride IMHO. Until you are, it will control you and not the other way around. With Suboxone, for a surgery all I had to do was stop 36 hours before and was able to take opiates for pain as RX....BUT....because buprenorphine has such a long half life and binds to mu receptors first, blocking full agonist opiates....there was no high and any relief took 2-3X normal dosages....my guess is all you stand to gain from Subutex is bouncing back and forth until caught in violation of a drug treatment agreement and back on the street.

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really?? i had no idea. when i was on buprenorphine, i was on subutex rather than suboxone, and yes it was fairly inexpensive. (i could not tolerate the naloxone and was switched to subutex after about 10 days) so its the naloxone that must be pricy, since my subutex was less than 20 dollars a month with insurance. thats a shame. what is the price difference if i may ask?

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