How To Convert To Suboxone For Pain Management? (Page 2)

I have been in Pain Management for 15 years. I have the usual round of diagnoses. Herniated discs at cervical, thoracic and lumber spine. Bone spurs through out. I have spinal cord compression in my neck. Pain. I just switched from 16mg of Exalgo (Dilaudid ER) with Fentanyl ir for breakthrough- back to 100mcg Fentanyl patches with 15mg Morphine 3x a day for breakthrough. I feel like a trapped rat. To the outside world I'm a professional woman, mother of 3 grown children. I'm no different from any other junkie though. I wanted to go into suboxone assisted substance abuse treatment. Then I found out that, for quite a while, you have to be at the program every day to pick up meds (and go to therapy/group). I'd lose my job! I can walk into Pain Management, ask for Suboxone and leave with a 30 day prescription. Yet I can go to the local harm reduction clinic and they give me one day supply and 2 hours of counseling. I'm the same person whichever way I'm treated! I'm confused. Has anyone here been through the process of deciding where or whether to seek Suboxone treatment?

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So interesting about how suboxone blocks other pain meds from working. What a horrible position to put someone in that needs surgery. Often pain sufferers have back surgery in almost on a routine basis. The fact that, if you take suboxone, you're labeled an addict for the rest of your life! Ack! What? You have to withdraw from your opiate to get on Suboxone? WTH? It is downright inhumane and unconstitutional the way pain patients are treated. It's just devastating to think of my future as a degenerative disc, arthritis patient. I'm just scared to death! I don't feel like an addict they only craved to be free from pain. I'm in my 50s working on my second back surgery (the first one was botched by hungover Dr who was fired). I told my doctor that I was afraid that they would take me off pain medicine. Luckily she said that she would just do the best to try to keep me humanely medicated. I really think all the Nsaids are killing me. So is the Gabapentin. I think the opiate Vicodin which is the only thing I'm on is probably the least damaging to my kidneys and liver. I'm just scared to death! We need to stand up for our rights. You can't travel when you can only get medications one month at a time. I lost out on a free trip to San Francisco because of the way my medication had to be picked up at the pharmacy nearby instead of one in San Francisco. It's just all so inconvenient and I just feel like a felon half the time because of the way I'm treated with random drug panels, pill counts, lack of freedom to travel, possible misconception of being an addict, strip-searched and forced to urinate, lack of privacy! It's just all too much for a person who's already debilitated go through! Our doctor should also be not such babies and stand up to these people who are making poor judgements because of people who abused the medicine. I think most of the deaths are on heroin in my area anyway..... but they don't care about that. They just want to control all the legitimate medication. I guess they can't control the heroin. But the pain patients are the only ones suffering and it's really getting on my nerves. Actually causes me so much stress I wish I could be on some sort of anti-anxiety medicine like I used to be but they won't give them back. Cold turkey that was fun.

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