Should I Be On Suboxone? (Page 2)

Hi All, New on here, but I have read several posts and have gained a lot of knowledge through here (I think). So here's a quick rundown of my situation: I suffer from bulging discs and terrible TMJ; my jaw dislocates when it's closed. So over the past year I've been in a ton of pain. I have done everything my PCP has asked of me; mri's, x-rays, etc... After a few weeks, we found the Percocet 10mg 325 were the best fit for my pain and that's what we did. I was on this for about 1 year total. I was never "addicted" to the percocet but by about the 9th month I started having urges of that I needed it and would panic when I was close to running out. So then I knew I was on a slippery slope, so was very honest with my Dr and he knew everything. We decided that by the end of the year (this year) we would start to wean me off by the new year. Naturally, my balance was getting out of control with the practice and I only needed 1 more refill, possibly 2, to wean me off as we had discussed, however when I called to make an appointment the receptionists were incredibly rude to me and refused to schedule an appointment for me. I called my Dr over that weekend, and he couldn't do anything and was now going to refer me to a Dr he knows that specializes in Suboxone. So that Monday, I saw the new doctor and I was prescribed Suboxone 8mg/2mg strips once a day. Now, I've tried reading as much as possible on Suboxone, and from what I gathered it's a very potent and last resort medicine for serious addicts. My question is, should I have been prescribed Suboxone? I was taking 12-14 Percocet 10s a day, only for the 2-3 months leading up to it. Before that, a 120 script would last me 3 weeks - month. I have never had a problem with pain medicine, I've never done hard drugs ever. Suddenly I find myself wrapped up in medicine and programs for serious addicts - and the withdrawal and dangers are insane that go with it. Any advice? Thank you!

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Suboxone was meant to be a short term aid to wean off opiates. It does nothing for real pain. I'm trying to educate the dumba** Drs. in Louisiana about Embeda; Morphine with naloxone. That really helps pain. I have 2 failed back surgeries and I'm in agony. At the correct dose, it IS the solution to the opiate crisis. I sent some emails to my local government. In response, FB threatened to suspend my account for 6 months! lol.

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It sucks your doctor did that to you. My doctor recently stopped Klonopin knowing that I cannot find a psychiatrist with worthless insurance and knowing my seizure history coming off it. My anxiety is very real but it has been critical in gaining my life back slowly. Anyway, I know this is a Suboxone post. I was addicted to pills (Oxys) 10 years ago and I’m STILL on Suboxone. I should have done a 5 day wean but that’s what you get in a rehab. Not genuine advice from a doctor counting on your $100-250 cash every month. I don’t think Suboxone should ever be used long term. There you are just hooked on another drug that will cause withdrawals.

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Your answer, yes you were on narcotic pain medication. So when you stop taking the Percocets you will go through withdrawals. Suboxone will make it so that you don't have any withdrawals. Now I know online it sounds bad and who wants to be labelled as an addict when your not. I was in your exact same situation. I had multiple surgeries. I was prescribed many narcotic pain medications like Percocets and stuff for months and I had chronic pain as well so when it was time for me to stop taking the medication it was okay. Well I don't want to go through any withdrawals and I need something to cover my pain that was non-narcotic so when I found out about suboxone I got a physician and because I didn't have an opiate dependency problem and I wasn't a risk... he put me on Subutex which is pure buprenorphine verses putting me on Suboxone. Suboxone has another medication in it called naloxone and the naloxone is an opiate blocker which blocks the effect of any opiates because I didn't have a history of drug abuse or misuse so he felt comfortable giving me pure buprenorphine, also known as Subutex. It's a lot better and it's also used to treat chronic pain and Subutex doesn't have the naloxone blocker in it so if one day you were to get in a car accident you could actually take narcotic pain meds and actually get pain relief vs suboxone whereas if u got in an accident and was given narcotic pain meds the naloxone would block it so the narcotic pain medication would not work at all....actually it would put you in to instant withdrawal taking an opiate with suboxone.....

Subutex (pure buprenorphine) doesn't do that. It's safe to take with an opiate. That's how I got off my opiates that were prescribed from my doctor was using the buprenorphine Subutex.....not suboxone (there almost the same medication except suboxone has the opiate blocker the other med Subutex or pure buprenorphine does not have the blocker) and I use it today as my pain medication. I've been on it for 8 years and it really is amazing for pain. It doesn't make you feel euphoric at all and it really is just amazing medication. Now my suggestion to you would be to use the Subutex or Suboxone so that you don't have withdrawals coming off the opiates for the first week. I would say after that week is up if you can I would get completely off of the suboxone, because if you stop subs after the first week you'll be fine & you won't have any withdrawals from the pain medication and won't be dependent on the suboxone, but if you go over a week on Subutex or Suboxone then you're body will start to become dependent to the Suboxone.

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