Switching From Suboxone To Oxycodone

Switching from a year of mild opiate treatment to suboxone.

Okay so a friend was addicted to 30mg Oxycodone for about a year. Her daily dose never exceeded 5 pills. She recently stopped taking the pills and started herself on Suboxone. It's has been exactly 81 hours (almost four days) since she has taken any of a pill. The first day she spread out an 8mg Suboxone strip. The second day she spread out a half. Yesterday she spread out 3/4 and today she hasn't taken anything. So total she has taken 2 1/4 of 8mg Suboxone strips. She knows that the best idea would be to consult a doctor, but she is trying to avoid having any of this recorded and would like to do it on her own. She has read so many blogs, medical posts, and personal stories and it just seems like everyone is different. Like before she took a piece of the suboxone she researched...

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new to suboxone for pain

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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