Author: samswife2000
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 7:30 pm
Hello to all.. I am so glad to be back on this forum. Between you all that were kind enough to help me with my fears on getting on Suboxone, I am happy to say, I have been off of all narcotics and on Subs for a year and 2 months.. I wanted to let you know, that I had to have a surgery while on Subs, and I almost freaked out beyond, I was so scared of the horror stories of not getting any relief and experience the whole surgery awake, etc… I will tell you this is how I did it, and it worked well..
First of all, I wrote to Dr. Junig. and asked him to help me figure this out. So he sent me two different emails, for me one and the other one so that if the doctors wanted to read on their terms they could. So i went to my surgery prepared with papers.. About five days prior I went down half my dose. The day of surgery I didn’t take my dose.. When I went in, I explained to everyone about what I was on, and they acted clueless, so I was glad to have the paperwork on hand.. They took time to read it, and I made sure any nurse or whoever walked by and said they were on the team of surgeons, and they all read it, and told me, they would give me any amount of narcotics I needed, as long as my blood pressure wouldn’t bottom out.. So they did just that. It took a lot more I guess cause they were laughing with me afterward.. But the SUb’s didn’t mess with the meds that were to relax me at all. It just was a multiplied amount of narcotics.. After the surgery, I took what they said to take, pain meds, then I did my own, counting till I was in moderate withdrawl then started Subs again, and I did great.. The only thing is, the pain meds after seemed not to help, when I got back on Subs I realized how much Subs helped with pain, for me that is.. And If I take like Advil about 800mg, it does a lot of good… So no worries, just be prepared, do your homework, be your own advocate, and don’t assume anyone knows anything about your situation. And get documents from a doctor that is your sub doc, or the doc on here, cause it seemed to help, instead of saying, ‘my doc recommends this or that.." Having the documents straight from the doctor, made it valid and they worked with me. I just don’t like when you say your on suboxone most docs i have ran into says, oh your an addict, why you asking for pain meds..etc…. For me, I am on Subs cause i have a heart condition and when I was on Oxy’s anytime I would try to get off of them, I would get extremely ill from my heart conditon also, so they put me on subs to make it easier on my body to taper off of subs when I am ready instead of ending up hospitalized with heart and withdrawl issues… SO, my next step is tapering off of the subs.. when I am uncertain.. THanks for reading.