Author: sparkyinfla
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 9:50 pm
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…..I tell you, Suboxone does make me fatigued, in a weird way though. Sometimes I just get an attack of exhaustion. I’m finding it harder to work full time hours, and keeping in a routine, unless I spend a day of my weekend sleeping. Suboxone is weird like that. It stimulates me after I take it, and I find it hard to sleep, yet overall I need nearly 2 hours more sleep a night! Strange. I know from personal experience that lowering one’s dose makes us less fatigued, and in the long run. I’m no doctor, but it would have made more sense to me to drop your Suboxone dose a bit before resorting to the stimulants…… |
Thanks for your input….I can attest to your experience….The reason my Dr. supplied the Ritalin was that I am going back to work (after 2+yrs!) and needed something or I couldn’t function very well. If I lower my Sub dose to counteract the fatigue then the pain is too intense, so it is a tradeoff. The Ritalin is not meant to be a long term solution, but something to help me as I go back to work. I start work Monday and its been about 10 days on the Ritalin, fatigue is a little better, but I don’t want to increase the Ritalin dose right now. I’ll just see how it goes the first week.
Speaking of going back to work, I took a UA for employment and was expecting to hear from the testing facility about the Sub and/or Ritalin. But I heard nothing and got called by employer for a start date. So those that say Sub does not show up on a UA drug screening are correct in my case.
Thanks again for everyone’s input.