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