Author: MovieMaker1

Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 10:44 pm

You’ve come to the right place for tons of info on taking suboxone and getting surgery. There is a print out in the doctors blog that you can give to your surgeon and nurses just to inform them of what kind of pain meds you’re going to need.

Aside.

I’m flabbergasted at how again someone can take suboxone every day and see how it’s spelled right on the packaging every day but still murder it’s spelling.

Don’t mean to be… Mean.

Just blows my mind.

Author: MovieMaker1

Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 10:45 pm

I literally just was with a girl that was saying she needed more suboxone because she felt like shit all the time now… But FORGOT she had just quit smoking!

Shows how most are quick to blame the suboxone first. For lots of things that aren’t caused by it!

Author: Amy-Work In Progress

Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 10:48 pm

One of the reasons suboxone works for many addicts is that you do not have to take more over time. Suboxone reaches a consistent level in your body and you shouldn’t need to increase your dose. Most of the reasons that people take more sub over time are psychological.

Are you on about 400 mg of tramadol per 24 hour period right now? Suboxone is a very strong medication. If you take too much you can seriously push your tolerance sky high. I looked up equivalencies between opiates here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_comparison If you are taking 400mg of tramadol, you should only take 1mg of sub per 24 hour period. Because you are dosing for chronic pain, you should take .25mg every 6 hours for maximum analgesic relief. Anyway, that is my opinion. Most suboxone doctors start you on a much higher dose, but, like I said, that can push your tolerance level way up. Then, if you try to go off sub in the future, you’ll find that you need to take much higher doses of opiates than before.

There is a generic pill form of the drug. The patent just ran out on the suboxone pill, so there have been a couple of recent entries to the market. Because the generics are so new, the price isn’t that much lower yet, but at least it’s a start!

We have quite a few people here who take sub for chronic pain, so I hope some of them will post here! Keep us posted on what you decide!!’

Amy

Author: kns67

Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 1:20 am

So after all of that I wanted to say way to go for seeking treatment yourself. This is usually the most effective way for a strong recovery. You made the choice for you. Stay strong, Love yourself, be kind to youself and a huge"GOOD LUCK".
This forum has so much to offer! Keep posting!

Author: doloria

Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 2:44 pm

Thank u rule for ur reply. I must say that I’m in awe of the quick replies and wonderful advice. I have the same fear as u….jumping off cold turkey puts me at high risk for relapse. I like ur idea of printing out sub info for my physicians to read up on. I’m just extremely upset that this is something that no physician themself has done for me so far. I work in healthcare and when a patient is on a med that no one has heard of, we educate ourselves on that med in order to treat the patient properly. I will basically have to start from square one and cold calling physicians. But that still doesn’t solve my pain problem today. Going back to the er, as my Gyn suggested a few minutes ago, isn’t an option. Today I tried again splitting up my sub doses as previously suggested and got no pain relief. Physicians seem to be better educated on methadone than sub. It’s a very frustrating situation. I’m in so much pain and can barely walk. Had I known that sub would be a road block to effective pain management for acute pain issues, I never would have gotten on it. That’s why I’m leaning twds getting off of it completely. There is possible surgery in my future and being off sub would give me better pain management alternatives for post op pain. I’m at my wits end. Today is Sunday so docs offices r closed. I was thinking of going cold turkey and finding a different sun doc if I need to be put back on sub later. But nothing solves my short term pain issue that I’m having now

Author: doloria

Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 2:44 pm

Thank u rule for ur reply. I must say that I’m in awe of the quick replies and wonderful advice. I have the same fear as u….jumping off cold turkey puts me at high risk for relapse. I like ur idea of printing out sub info for my physicians to read up on. I’m just extremely upset that this is something that no physician themself has done for me so far. I work in healthcare and when a patient is on a med that no one has heard of, we educate ourselves on that med in order to treat the patient properly. I will basically have to start from square one and cold calling physicians. But that still doesn’t solve my pain problem today. Going back to the er, as my Gyn suggested a few minutes ago, isn’t an option. Today I tried again splitting up my sub doses as previously suggested and got no pain relief. Physicians seem to be better educated on methadone than sub. It’s a very frustrating situation. I’m in so much pain and can barely walk. Had I known that sub would be a road block to effective pain management for acute pain issues, I never would have gotten on it. That’s why I’m leaning twds getting off of it completely. There is possible surgery in my future and being off sub would give me better pain management alternatives for post op pain. I’m at my wits end. Today is Sunday so docs offices r closed. I was thinking of going cold turkey and finding a different sun doc if I need to be put back on sub later. But nothing solves my short term pain issue that I’m having now

Author: docm

Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 3:29 pm

You can also check with your insurance to see if they will reimburse you if you submit his statement. Find out what your actual out of pocket costs are going to be before making a decision. PAX

Author: docm

Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 3:29 pm

You can also check with your insurance to see if they will reimburse you if you submit his statement. Find out what your actual out of pocket costs are going to be before making a decision. PAX

Author: SqueakyCleanKS

Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 4:38 pm

As far as going everywhere an telling everyone i didnt mean you should be telling complete strangers. In fact I really just meant with family. I didn’t mean to go up to strangers and let them know you’re whole story. Sorry if I was misunderstood.

I also didn’t mean you should be proud to be an addict, but that you should be proud that you had an illness and you sought help for it. Being clean should always be something to be proud of. None of us are proud that we are drug addicts. Just like nobody is proud that they have cancer, but when that cancer goes into remission they should be proud. Look at everything we go through to make sure our illness stays in remission…Medication, therapy, AA, ditching all of our using "friends", avoiding triggers.

Now tell me all that hard work isn’t something we should be proud of.

Author: SqueakyCleanKS

Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 4:38 pm

As far as going everywhere an telling everyone i didnt mean you should be telling complete strangers. In fact I really just meant with family. I didn’t mean to go up to strangers and let them know you’re whole story. Sorry if I was misunderstood.

I also didn’t mean you should be proud to be an addict, but that you should be proud that you had an illness and you sought help for it. Being clean should always be something to be proud of. None of us are proud that we are drug addicts. Just like nobody is proud that they have cancer, but when that cancer goes into remission they should be proud. Look at everything we go through to make sure our illness stays in remission…Medication, therapy, AA, ditching all of our using "friends", avoiding triggers.

Now tell me all that hard work isn’t something we should be proud of.