Author: 5fredjones
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 2:01 am
Great Post!
I have always had a sweet tooth and had been pretty good for the last few years (pills)? but now, I crave candy like crazy.
I don’t have any sort of appetite whatsoever, but if there are cookies or sweet-tarts I will plow right through them.
Crazy, but good post.
Author: Goinstrong
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 3:48 am
Hello there, I am not sure if this is what you are looking for but "The Thomas Recipe" has had mad high reviews! For any and all opiates. Just google it. Hope this helped.
Author: Goinstrong
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 6:28 am
Hello. I just wanted to tell you that I have been following your progress and just wanted to say GREAT JOB! It’s so good to hear a story of someone doing well off of sub. Take care!!!!
Author: Goinstrong
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 6:44 am
At the risk of some crazy mofo knocking on my door I’m gonna say this anyway….I need a doctor fast in the Lehigh County/Northampton County/Carbon County/Bucks county/and Monroe County area. Bucks and Monroe is a stretch. Hope I was specific enough to get suggestions, but vague enough to remain annonymous….LOL! Would prefer a GP if possible…
Author: hatmaker510
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:24 am
Kelly, I’m so sorry you’re going through this. Studies show that when addicts have untreated pain they are indeed at risk of relapse. Your dog damn doctor should know that. But as you made clear, he doesn’t seem to know much about suboxone. (Like it doesn’t work for pain? What does he think buprenorphine has been used for over the last previous decades before they added naloxone to it for suboxone? ARGH).
I completely understand your frustration and your anger. It’s a normal reaction and I would be crying too.
It sounds like you have all the bases covered (first try your PCP then a PM doctor to see if they’ll rx sub for you for pain) and unfortunately, I can’t think of anything else you can do. However, that doesn’t mean others won’t come along and have more ideas of their own. Give it some time and I’m sure others will be by with their ideas soon.
Hang in there and please know we’re here for you, to support you through this. (((((HUGS)))))
Author: glen bee
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 4:11 pm
Hey Joe,
How are you feeling now? I just noticed its 2 months now since your first post, how are things? Progressing? All good?
Thanks,
-glen
Author: amber4.14.11
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 4:24 pm
I wouldnt think it would cause you to go into withdrawl, but I really have NO freaking idea. I mean ,,, if the dr. doesnt think it will, it shouldnt right?? (lol, I know, even the ones that THINK they know about suboxone, DONT)
why (if you dont mind) are they wanting you to take these meds???
I mean, if it DOES affect your suboxone therapy, would it be an option to just NOT take those other meds???
sorry Im not more help
Author: finallyachance
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 7:51 pm
| Goinstrong wrote: |
| Hi Jonboy!! I always smile when I read your posts! Thanks for that. I know absolutely nothing about coffee and depression except to say that when i used to have depressed episodes, i actually did feel better with my morning coffee. I wonder if there is some correlation between the two. However, caffeine has been around literally forever, so I think science would have found evidence to make that determination by now. Interesting observation though… |
Makes you kind of wonder though would they report it….????……That would crash the antidepressant market…lol.
I was afraid to read this thread when I saw the title because I was afraid it was going to be a bunch of post about how coffee was a cause of depression and I wanted to stay in the dark on that if it was going to be a scientific proven matter. I love coffee. I hate to admit it but I drink it all day. I am sure it should not be consumed to the level I drink it but if I can’t have the opiates for energy I will settle for the coffee. lol.
Author: Romeo
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 8:54 pm
Winningduhepic said, "Coming off suboxone/opiates and expecting to be normal soon after would be like loosing a loved one and expecting to be how you were before they passed soon after."
That comment reminded me of something my addiction counselor said to me when I first got off of Suboxone. He told me that I was going to grieve the loss of my drug. I didn’t quite understand him at first, but the more he talked about it, the more sense he made. For a lot of us, our drug use had consumed our lives. Our drug use was the first thing we thought about in the morning, the last thing we thought about before bed and it filled our thoughts during the day. Once that drug was taken away, we lost something that we had been deeply dependant on and it’s just plain normal to grieve that loss.
If you feel like it, you can look up the 5 stages of grief and see if any of it applies to you. I know I went through them all. BTW, you don’t necessarily go directly from stage 1 to stage 2, etc., you may bounce around, you skip some stages altogether.
Like DoaQ said, recovery is a process. The 5 stages of grief I went through were just part of the process for me. Once I got to the final stage, Acceptance, that’s when my recovery really started taking off. I believe recovery is a process that has some general similarities for all of us, but I also believe recovery to be quite individual. We all come into and through recovery in our own unique way, the important thing is to continue to strive to find what works for you, then apply it and make a habit of it until it becomes second nature.
FYI, I have found DoaQ’s attitude and words on recovery to be most inspirational in my own recovery. She’s my hero…..even though she called me a wise-ass!!!! Bee-aw-tch!! 
Also, I wanted to make sure I mentioned this to you again, when I got off of Suboxone, I was positive I had buggered myself up beyond repair. I was sure I had permanently damaged myself, but as time went by, I found that I just kept on getting better and better. Have faith that you WILL get better. If you don’t expect to get better, you probably won’t or it’ll take a lot longer to get better.
Author: scruffy
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 8:55 pm
I guess I am not sure what you are trying to do. A Dr. who can help with some sort of medication as long as it is not
a narcotic in any way?
There are the drugs Dr. Junig mentions on the mp3 tape for sale on the site. The new Dr. may be more
comfortable prescribing something from a tape by another doctor? It is better than your coming up with a drug
you say you think might help.
Is thing right?– You are long off subs and need some help from some sort of drug that is not suboxone or anything like it.
It is good advice, given earlier, to check everything out with a doctor or two, since everything is not for sure PAWS or related to the quit you did. And these doctors might come up with something you did not think of when in the process of eliminating other things.
Since you are taking amino acids you might want to have a look at an excellent book titled The Mood Cure.
Forget the author just now– Julie something. Just look at Amazon books and it will be there.
good luck.
S