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round white pill numbers 5721 one side 93 other side is it zubsolv pill ## No its generic suboxin. 8 mg. /2 mg.Zubsolv is 5.7 mg./1.2 mg. The Zubsolv are ok but the 5721/93 have more medicine and are better in my opinion. ## Just to confirm for other readers, post #1 is correct about the pill ID. The company who manufacturers these is Teva, who actually lists this pill description on their product page (with a national drug code of 00093-5721-56). Regarding Zubsolv, I too have heard on many accounts that it was significantly less potent than generic/brand name Suboxone. Hard to say if it's the different binders/fillers they're using that may be hindering absorption or if they really did add less medication in there. I suppose a lab analysis would be the only way to know for cert...

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Been on suboxone for 4 1/2 for oxy addiction. Funny enough I now have lupus. Doc put me on norco even though I said I on subs by different dr. He said switch should be fine but im taking twice recommended amount to ward off w/ds. 3 days in and wondering how long I will icky?? ## I switched from around 20 mg of suboxone to to 6 10 mg norcos a day about 25 days ago. I was on the suboxone for about 6 months. And even after 25 days I still cannot sleep, I go through withdrawels at night and the norcos still do not work as good as they should. I am also wondering how much longer it is going to take for my body to get back to normal-my opiate receptors to be completely open and to start sleeping. This had made many negative effects on my life the last few weeks. My new doctor also prescribed ...

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ive been on suboxzone for well over 4 years and have been experiencing not being able to sleep. I will not come to bed i end up sitting upright in a chair all night and waking up every 1-2 hours. Has any one else experienced anything like this while taking suboxzone for a while. Please let me know. ## Yes I experience the same effects. I've been on methadone maintainence for about 9 years for heroin addiction. I do the same thing...sitting up all night with fitful sleep.Only recently,since I started a long slow detox, have I been resting for longer periods. I even lay down for a few hours sometimes at night.But what did you expect. When you were in the midst of your opiate addiction you did the same thing between highs didn't you? Suboxone and methadone are just basically pharma...

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I have been taking either suboxone or subutex for a little over a year now. I started taking it because I have a bad knee and my line of work causes a lot of pain (CNA in nursing home). I ended up getting hooked on it. I only take 2mg a day and I do sometimes skip a day. I recently found out I am about 5 weeks pregnant unexpectedly and I am terrified. I refuse to have a baby hooked on anything but I have read that stopping can cause miscarriage. I am already scared because I had a miscarriage 6 years ago. I do not know what to do. I want to stop taking it but safely and I'm scared to tell a doctor due to the fact I do not have a prescription. Please Help! ## First of all, suboxone and subutex are NOT used for pain. They are used, wrongly, for withdrawal symptoms associated with opia...

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Hi all. I'm really hoping someone here can help me. I suffer from a protruding disc and degenerative disc disease in my lower back. I've been in pain management programs since 2011. At one point, my oxy use got to the point where I was using 100+mg daily. Once I realized that I couldn't continue on the path that I was on, I voluntarily got myself in to a suboxone/subutex program in Jacksonville, Fl. Right away, I realized that I couldn't take the suboxone because of the headaches that it gave me, but the subutex worked amazing for withdrawls and does help to make the pain more manageable. Now that I've been on it for nearly 8 months months, I've been considering methadone as an alternative because my insurance only agreed to pay for the subs for up to one year. I...

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I need a subutex doctor. I have hep B and need some help. Thank u ## Hello, Samantha! How are you? What is your general location? That would make it easier for someone to recommend a doctor for you, if they know of a good one in your area. This website is open to people worldwide, so if someone in Seattle knows of a great doctor, it's not going to be of much help to you, if you live in Rhode Island. The FDA classifies this medication as a narcotic analgesic, so it has the potential to be habit forming and may cause side effects, such as nausea, dizziness, drowsiness, dry mouth and constipation. ## I Need help Getting off Norco pills and need a Dr in Tupelo MS. Please help.

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Getting back to tramadol and suboxone... I was put on tramadol hcl 50mg by my primary doctor. He started me out with 3 tramadol daily, now he dropped it to 2 a day. My question is, he said it was safe to take w/ my suboxone (i've been on sub about 15 years for opiate addiction), and he said Tramadol is the only pain med that you can take (strong enough to give my lower back some relief) and safe to take w/ the suboxone. But i think I'm now dependent on the tram, i get the sweats, body aches, all the same withdrawal as w/ opiates, and i still take my suboxone which don't seem to bother me. But know i take anywhere from 15 to 20 tramadols per day, I'm supposed to take 3 suboxone per day, but i'm only taking 1. Please help, i have a lower back injury and my doctor who l...

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Has anyone else took a drug test while on Zubsolv and the doctor says it's not showing up in your system? ## Yrs! And I'm very upset about. My doc says there is simply no possible way that I am telling the truth about taking my medicine. I have not been taking my full dose but I have been taking a partial. I'm totally flabbergasted and terrified. I have been a good patient. I have really steered things in a good direction for myself but now she is accusing me of lying for years. It's terribly upsetting. This is out of nowhere. My urine was sent to the hospital for a better test bc I had taken a Vale's detox drink in order to hide the Adderall I foolishly ate a couple days before screening. I forgot to bring zubsolv into bathroom with me so it couldn't put any in ...

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I am having the same problem. My drug of choice was synthetic marijuana but I keep getting false-positives for suboxone. I have never in my life taken heroin or suboxone. I was kicked out of substance abuse treatment because of it. This is f***ed up. Example: On 7/10/2015, I gave a urine sample to my new treatment center as well a urine sample to my primary doctor. Treatment center result was positive for suboxone and the doctors result was clean thru and thru. ## Are there any drugs prescribed or otc that can cause a positive for subutex ## Froggie, Yes there are but you will need to google it. Even if you believe this to be true Unless the said specimen was tested via an extremely sensitive lab. ie; GC/MS your fighting an up hill battle. ## AlwaysAwork thanks for your reply would you ...

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I have been taken about 60 mg of methedone a day for the last three day to come off of herion so I don't go thru withdrawl how long would I have to wait to take a subutext after the methedone ## Hi zach, To help answer your question, a lot of patients recommend having at least a 24 hour gap in between switching over to subutex. However this is only intended to be an estimate since each person may metabolize meds differently. If you start taking the subutex too early, you may not feel much from the buprenorphine right away, but others say that it should kick into gear as you continue treatment. Apparently when your receptors are filled with methadone, buprenorphine may take the methadone off of the receptors and cause precipitated withdrawal syndrome; whereas symptoms that are normal...

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Every pharmacy is telling me they do not have methadone inTampa? Any ideas ## I have tried for 3 days to find a pharmacy in tampa to fill methadone.Any ideas please help ## If you have prescription insurance coverage, then the best suggestion I can make, which has helped quite a few other people that have the same problem, is to call them and ask if they have a preferred mail order provider that you can use. The full details of what is going on have not been released yet, but this has been going on for a few months now and in various parts of the country, so you aren't alone. There are many people running into the same problems obtaining their needed medications. Learn more Methadone details here. Does anyone else have any ideas? ## They tell you that when they don't want to fil...

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hey guys, i have been taking dilaudid for about 5 months 4,8mg a day then switched to heroin for 1 month 2 bags a day,now my friend gave me 4,8mg suboxones and told me it would help me get off h for good, i waited 24 hours took half a subox and i must say it works for wd's but when i run out witch i estimate will be in 2,3 days will i just suffer again;like where i left off or will the h be out of my system and the wd's light enough to withstand, please help, im not a newbee to drug abuse had bad h habits in the past and know the nature of the beast, just want this stuff out of my life so i can go back to work and live again, i need the truth or as close as i can get, can i beat it like this or am i wasting my time,maybe i can get one or two more subs from my freind ## yes, make...

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As a brief background - I have very advanced Degenerative Disc Disease, along with bad arthritis/spurs/nerve damage - all in my neck. 5 of the 7 discs are in terrible shape - I've been told by several doctors that it is very advanced for my age (34). I've been through a great deal of pain management including massage therapy, physical therapy, chiropractors, injections and procedures on my neck. Not a whole lot has helped and I'm trying to avoid surgery. For approximately 12 months the pain was managed by my pain management doctor on short acting oxycodone (30mg 3 times per day). Wasn't the best schedule, especially long term, to manage the pain. So I made the decision to get off that dose schedule by switching to suboxone. Exactly 1 month ago I switched to suboxone, tak...

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Hi I just moved to NY zip 12020 I have acchs from AZ Medicaid Desperately need help finding a doc ## Hi I am in the same situation in NYC and I am wondering if you found a dr. Please let me know if you did..Thank you ## Please in Long Island, need a doctor that accepts Medcaid.

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Hello everyone! I don't drink alcohol as a rule but I had a couple of beers yesterday. I'm on suboxone and was wondering if alcohol adheres to the suboxone or will it be out of my system in a few days? Please, someone tell me. ## Hi Rosie, How are you? If you had say, about three drinks in one hour, my findings suggest that it would probably take your liver roughly 3 hours to metabolize those drinks; even if it's just beer as opposed to hard liquor. Additionally, using suboxone and drinking has also reportedly been linked to severe cases of central nervous system depression, respiratory distress, falling into a coma, and even death. Definitely not something I'd take lightly if you find yourself being pressured to drink when you know you're not supposed to. I hope thi...

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My hubby and I started suboxone 9/9/16. Been taking opioids for a few yrs and have a high tolerance. I waited 24hrs before taking the sub. 8mg starting out. It did not help with the withdrawal symptoms... My husband waited 36hrs before taking his (same dose) we both were miserable for 3 days... Taking one 8mg a day and still no relief. Ended up relapsing bc we couldn't take it anymore. Needing help to get back on track. Why didn't the sub help after taking three doses?? How long should we wait before taking the sub again? After we took opioids again we did get relief from withdraw symptoms... ## It would help if we knew how much opiate you have been taking and what exactly it was. For example.... Like 30mgs of IR morphine three times a day for five years. Sub will start to stack...

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I just had a titanium rod put in my leg with 3 screws to hold it in place. Needless to say it's been a very painful experience. Prior to the surgery I was on suboxone therapy for about 5 years. It's the only thing that ever worked for me and completely saved my life. I am successful now in life, happy and a productive member of this world!!! I owe everything to this medication. The problem is that my Dr's thought weaning me off of the sub's one week prior to the surgery would be okay and it wasn't. The pain medication did not work very well and I had to take way more to have it even touch the pain. Today I thought maybe my suboxone would help better so I took 2 8mg tablets this morning at 6am. Because I have been off of the subs for 2 weeks would I be able to take my...

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Does anyone know a good pain mangement Dr. for chronic pain that can prescribes methadone 30 mg a day & Loratab 7.5 2 times a day? I've got severe Fibromyalgia, back/ neck pain, & arthritis ? I need help. ## How many pain management doctors are in Indiana on Medicare ## I have been diagnosed with auto immune deficiency, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, degenerative disc, pemphigus Foiliacious, a rare adult skin disease since the age of 6. It is so rare that there were only 6 reported cases in the world when I was diagnosed at the mayo clinic. I have been with the same rheumatologist since 2008. I have taken all the biologics, humari, Enbrel, ect. Had the cortisone shots in my spin. I had finally gotten to a place where I had a decent quality of life on a pain regime of 3 ...

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I went to a Pain a Management Specialist for the fist time. I had been seeing a family doctor that was prescribing suboxone for pain. I have Interstitial cystitis, fibromyalgia, chronic migraine, episodic cluster headaches, just to name a few. I have been desperate for months in pain. Trying every nonnarcotic medicine possible, the suboxone, even at 3 8mg-2mg wasn't touching my pain. My doctor told me I needed to get to a pains specialist, he, I believe just wanted the $250.00 cash for prescribing suboxone! In my desperation I had been taking 4 a day, I know the ceiling is 32mgs. The pain doc put me on Butrans 10mcg/hr patch and told me I could take my suboxone with it if needed. I have needed the suboxone 2 or 3 a day. I forgot during my visit with my pain specialist, to,tell him t...

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I need help getting this medication. Where i can get off Methdone? I'm in despression, please help if you can. ## I'd like to know more about this medication, I've been on more than enough pain meds in my time, I'm tired of them & I'd like to get off of them I'd like to find away to get off of pain meds & get my life back & I'd like to find to find a resalution or help in finding out how to. Thank you. ## I also was addicted to pain meds. and I've now been on the Suboxone Strips for about 3 months, what you may no know is that Suboxone is an opiate inhibitor, with means, while you are on the Suboxone, you will not want a pain pill. After you have been on it for a while, you can make the decision that you want to try to get off of the Suboxone,...

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