Suboxone And Adderall (Page 4) (Top voted first)

I started Suboxone four days ago. I am taking a whole 8 mg Suboxone twice a day. I also take 45 mg of Adderall a day for ADD and I need the Adderall because I am a college student. Is it harmful to take them together? The Suboxone has done excellent for me, and has kept the Oxycontin out of my mind. I got addicted to tabs when I was playing college baseball in order to play through two broken fingers and bum shoulder. So instead of doing a gut check time dealing with the pain through an ice bucket or taking some time off to heal up, because I was just a freshman and I was battling it out for starting spot with a all-conference senior. I became immune to the tabs, so a player introduced me to Oxycontin. I was taking 80 mg a day. This continued into the fall season of my sophomore year until I tore the ligaments of my throwing hand and had to have surgery. It was a career ending injury and rehab was nine months, during which I received Perocets. I began to stack them with Oxycontin and Adderall. This addiction almost destroyed my life.It almost cost me everything and put my parents through hell, not only physically but also financially cause I used the money they sent me for living expenses to support my habit. They continued to be my rock and never gave up on me. The Suboxone made me feel like life did before Oxy. I am now a junior and with the help of the Good Lord I am getting my life back. I would like to know if the 45 mg of Adderall is safe with the Suboxone? I am having to buy the Suboxone, is there a clinic I can go to that is not rehab to get prescribed or a doctor? What are my options? I went dry for a week but quickly relapsed,but this time I don't care how hard it is. So please any help with my options would be appreciated.

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Re: Halaluani (# 1)

Hello Hala,, I've had ADHD since I was a little boy but managed to get through grammar, high school and College with a degree in Electronics without Ritalin and Adderall because no one new what it was back then. Also in College I actually made decent grades. I'm not trying to brag but you might get by without it. As far as your pain, I understand about that but one thing I found out is that I thought the more pills I took the better. But in all actuality it was making my pain worse. Doctors will prescribe Subs for pain because mine did it and it helped somewhat. If everything is healed for you and you feel no pain at this point, please try to get professional help such as an addictionologist. It is hard to get off of it by yourself. It seems that you are young because you are in school. If you stay on it for a long time you may develop problems. I think it rotted out my teeth for one.So good luck, I hope the best for you

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Re: Verwon (# 2)

From my experience Suboxone was the hardest for me with withdrawals. I've never been as dope sick from any opiate as I was from Suboxone; going without it is immediate full on withdrawals like nothing else I've experienced on Oxycontin, Methadone, Oxynorm, Codeine & pretty much any opiates and/or substitute they have available in Australia. Just a heads up - coming off 8mg/ 2 times a day is quite a bit compared to oxy but you build a tolerance much quicker on Suboxone I think. They reduce by half a mg every week or two weeks. From then they normally put you on subutex. It's the same as Suboxone just without the Naloxone. They also make a 7day Transdermal patch you can wear when your dose starts to get really low; pretty much the end of needing to dose that release up-to 20 micrograms per hour for 7 days... I personally left one on longer than that because it was my last patch and I was scared of going through withdrawals!!! Suboxone/Subutex - "Buprenorphine" is the actual ingredient. Just be careful when reducing and make sure you have a Dr that can prescribe and help you reduce. Like I said, the couple days I went without was absolute hell.

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Re: NurseK33 (# 8)

I have been on Adderall 30mg for 7 years instant release and I took them like prescribed for the most part sometimes I would just take one a day other days I would take 2 but I stopped taking them for a bit and never had a withdraw from them I don't know if im lucky or what but I've been on Roxy for years and I have withdraw problem if I don't have them now I'm taking subs that I got from a friend to help with the withdraw symptoms and I'm taking 1mg a day I'm still slightly having withdrawals but want off the hold the oxys have on me I have never been one to do any kind of drugs not given by a Dr all I can say is don't abuse it and try to go a day or 2 a week without it and if there is a chance you will be hooked on it maybe that will lower it I'm A.D.D it don't do nothing for me but calm my racing thoughts down a bit and energy wise it don't seem to help with for me but most people it makes them speed a bit like I said I'm a bit different than most so that is my experience with it and not sure if it helps or not but thought you might get something out of this to help with your decision and question

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Omg u r too young for this! My advice is for u to run!!! Taper off the suboxone and adderall if used long-term they r like poisen for ur body!!!! So so hard to get off Do it now while u r young and have a full clean life to live!

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I do not advise you to take Suboxone and Emma’ I do not advise you to take Suboxone and Adderall’s together it makes you dizzy give you a headache and it makes you want to vomit all over very disgusting don’t do it if I were you I tried it and it was no good

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Re: ParknSons (# 63)

Such a great answer & on point, too!! You are either well educated on this topic or you've done your research!

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Re: Kimberly (# 15)

If you're buying it illegally then you are technically abusing it.

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Re: Larry (# 37)

Hi there! I also had gastric bypass and am taking 24 of subs and just restarted my adderall at 20mg 2 times daily and it works perfect for me. I also have klonopin if in dire need.

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Re: WILLIAM (# 74)

Completely agree and on the same combo.

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Re: Nicole (# 52)

Wish I could help because I’m on that exact cocktail prescribed by one doctor and it’s helped so much

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Hey! So I take 24 mg of suboxone a day and 50 mg of adderal a day.. for the past 4 years with exception to my pregnancy where I wasn’t allowed the adderal only the suboxone.. I’ve never had any problems.. I’d just be careful because there is another chance of a crazy addiction within these two things.. but other than that you should be fine!!

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Re: Jlee (# 16)

I'm in Seattle wa does anyone know a doctor that will prescribe adderall and suboxone. Desperate and afraid to get off suboxone it's only been 3 weeks on suboxone and off adderall

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Stay on Suboxone it’s a life saver please don’t get on adderrall it’s not good for you there is a adhd drug called Strattera it doesn’t have the amphetamine in it like adderrall the strattera you can get from family Dr also you can look up suboxone clinics online in your hometown

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My situation is very much like your's. I've been on suboxone for years, which my doctor should have never let me be on it for this long. I'm also on Cymbalata, just started that so I don't know how it's gonna affect me.I'm also on xanax for severe anxiety order. I take Adderal every once in awhile. For me, it just speeds me up and I like the combo with the xanax. I'm so scared to get off the subs because I've been on it for so long and I feel like the withdrawals will be way worse. And I have to have my xanax, my anxiety is really bad. I'm right there with you, don't ever think that you're alone out there.

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Any amphetamine will break down the opiates in your body. Methadone patients will be thrown into withdrawl symptons from aderal or other less strong amphetamines. Methamphetamine will break down your opiates as well. Suboxone does not stand a chance to do it's job if you are on an amphetamine. Get your head straight and go through some srious discomfort for just 48 hours and then half a strip will be just fine. Two days of that and then go down to cutting your strips into three pieces. After you take a third of a strip for three days you can take a third of a strip every other day. Then after three or four cycles like this or twelve days of very light dosing you need to just get a few valium and take them very sparingly to help get some sleep.There is no true painless detox.There is discomfort and bones are sore and you feel real weak.Look how your life went to the crapper.you will find the strength to do this and walk away when it is time.Don't use the valium or zany to sleep for more than a week.You will be trading one dependence for another.I have been there and i have done this.Any doctor that says you need to be on suboxone for more than 90 days wants you for a customer and not as a patient. Your life will be crap until you get clean. Do yourself a huge solid and just find the inner strength to get this done. It really isn't that hard. You have to want it or you are fooling only yourself. No one else is fooled by dishonesty when it comes to this crap. Good luck with your getting off the crap. The adderol is no good. You won't want/need it after you stay away from everything for 60 to ninety days. Hang in there.You can do this!

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My brothers do not fool yourselves. Yes it feels good, but you got absolutely no clue about suboxone. It's not like heroin or methadone. It is a man-made chemical. I have tried now for years and I can't seem to get down past 8 mg because I have to work everyday, and when you try to drop too quickly you cannot perform.

I've been on it for over 20 years and my brain shut down and does not make its own natural painkillers anymore. If you took away my Suboxone at 56 years old I would go into cardiac arrest even though I workout everyday. I take Suboxone and Adderal with Klonopin. They prescribed me Klonopin because I was getting anxious. I asked for Adderall due to fatigue. No question, they wrote me a script. I've got 15 or so years of documents of all the medications I was prescribed by all the doctors not once ever telling me it's time to wind down. I believe the protocol on Suboxone is after 6 months.

People don't realize once they start Suboxone, if they don't get off in 6 months you're going to spend many many many years. Do yourself a favor and get off this Suboxone. Go easy with your Adderall and get off everything. When you hit 50 you'll realize "I've been doing this since I was mid to late thirties and now I'm pushing 57 I can't get off it". But knowing or no doctor ever told me I think year after year after year after year. Suboxone and Klonopin are downers while Adderal is legal speed balls. God help me find a lawyer to compensate me because I don't know how much strength I'll have left. I cannot live without it or I will die. Now who's going to pay for keeping me on this? Yes I went to the doctor, but they should know better. Goodness gracious.

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Correction. A side effect of suboxone is that it can cause decreased blood pressure or HYPOtension. Only cases of high bp are when it is given too soon to the last use of a opiod. In this case it creates a precipitated withdrawal and can create a DT like effect. Other than that it will lower pressure just like most narcotics/opiod analgesics. Example. A hospice patient receiving morphine. This drops their pressure sometimes allowing the body to pass away sooner.

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I have a question for whoever may have the answer.
I have been addicted to pain pills for 5 years on & off, mostly on; oxys, hydrocodone & then eventually led to heroin use. I kicked the heroin addiction, thank his.. but only to go back to pain pills! About a week ago, I found out I have chronic liver damaged cause by years & years of abuse putting those pills on my body, because everything you put in your body is processed through the liver! Maybe that can be some helpful advice to some of you who are still using, it not only can but WILL lead to larger & harder drugs & eventually you will find yourself almost helpless to stop because your mind has this addiction & it can make you do somethings you never thought you'd do.
Anyway, 3 days ago I stopped taking everything & by the second day, I was literally going nuts.. trying to be strong I decided to go get suboxone off the street, which i dont recommend.. i got 5 strips! I got them in order to slowly bring myself down.. keep in mind, i had already been going through withdrawl for almost a full 2 days so i let myself go through it a little! The night i got them, which was lastnight, i took about 3 quarters, maybe a little less, then today at about 5, took half of a quarter & i feel okay, not great but thats expected. So if someone could please help me if you know how i should do the rest of this so when im out, i wont be sick!

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There are no warnings listed against using them together, but you really need to consult a medical professional to be certain.

As was posted above, this really needs to be used under a doctor's supervision and only one specially trained in the use of Suboxone to treat addiction is allowed to prescribe it for this in the U.S.

You can check out that link to see if there is one in your area.

Your other possible choice is to see if there is a Methadone treatment clinic in your area, it is a lot cheaper, but a very rough medication to take.

https:/­/­rxchat.com/­wiki/­Suboxone/­

Have you consulted a doctor about this at all?

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I think the adderall will help u Matt. I abused opiates for 13 years. My story is like many others. It started out with pills & then eventually lead to herion. I was also on methadone for 2 years. I have been clean & sober from opiates for 3 years thanks to suboxone. I started out at 16mgs a day & I have tapered myself down to 4mgs a day & that's the dose that I am on now. I do believe that I have done some damage to my brain from abusing the opiates. My way of thinking is definitely different than what is was before the opiate abuse. My thoughts are excessive & over analyze things as well. I am very very forgetful too. I cannot stay on or complete a task. I feel as though I am in a "fog". A couple of months ago I took a adderall for the first time. The "fog" was lifted & I did not feel like a scatterbrain for the first time in 3 years. I am able to stay on & complete tasks & I just feel all around mentally better when I take adderall. I have been getting the adderall of the streets & taking 40-60mgs a day along with my 4mgs of suboxone. I told my therapist about the adderall & how I feel when I take it with the hope of getting my own script for it. He said he has had other patients that have had this experience & he agreed that I would greatly benfit from taking it. So when I went to my dr for my monthly script of suboxone I brought up the adderall with him. I was gonna be honest with him about taking it but before I could even do so he told me that I could not take suboxone & adderall together & reminded me that adderall is very addictive. I left his office that day very very disappointed. When I saw my therapist again he was surprised that the dr did not give me a script for them. He seems to think that if I tell the dr that I have been taking them & I can think & function more clearly when taking them that he will listen to me & give me a script for them. My life has taken a complete 360 since I started taking the adderall. I have taken care of some things that I have put on the back burner because I did not want to deal & have even started to make plans to go back to school next year and start a new career. I am slowly starting now to get my life back finally. I have been looking for anything that says you can or cannot take these two drugs together. Yes I do get it that adderall is addictive & I am a addict so therefore should not take it but dam if it helps me & I am not abusing it (which I am NOT speed was NEVER my thing I like the downers) & it is helping me get my life back I see no problem in taking it. I have not found anything that says these two should NOT be taken together. I see my dr again in a few weeks & I am very nervous about approaching him about this subject again. I do not want to keep having to buy my adderall off of the streets because I do not want to get into any legal trouble & I am sure there is going to be a time when I am not going to be able to find any. I am so torn about what to do. Are you getting your adderall & suboxone from the same dr.?? Has anyone ever told you that these 2 should not be mixed together?? Any input, thoughts, or suggestions from anyone would be greatly appreciated.

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