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Anyone else? Suboxone sublingual severe body pain?

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I need the medication because it does help stop my cravings. It has helped me stay clean since nov12011 the only problem is the severe pain in my joints I have it every morning and I often wake up with this pain in the middle of the night.

I'm talking about Extreme pain I can not walk when I first wake all I can do is take a strip and wait till it kicks in. I feel like I am in severe opiate withdrawal every morning and night. My doc upped my dose to three strips a day but I swear it has intensified the pain.

This medication is fucking ridiculous. Has anyone else experienced this pain?
 
Hi, I am on suboxone as well. 2 8mg films a day. When I was induced into subs my leg pain didn't go away for awhile. The pain you could be feeling is your W/D's. Maybe even at 3 films a day your not getting enough to take away all the W/D pains. What mg films are you on? I would consult your doc and inform him on the matter. Maybe you could even switch to Methadone if it continues.
 
Are you perhaps taking too much?

What was your intake level of your DOC before hand? What was your DOC that you're trying to come off of?

If the pain persists, talk to your doctor - as iSTONED mentioned, Methadone may be more effective for you at this time (however it doesn't block opiate use below ~70mg/day from what I've been reading).
 
I don't really need something to block abuse. I am doing good with that I also take Xanax and I haven't abused that yet either.

Before I was taking however much of any opiate I could find. Even if it meant faking in the we for an iv drip... Terrible.

I was on one 8mg film at first and I didn't feel anything I still had the cramps and withdrawal. So over the course of a few months my doctor has upped me to 8mg every eight hours.

If I do not take them On time I'm screwed. I am in agonizing pain and severe restless leg syndrome I feel like I have live months in this severe withdrawal u wish I had come off of heroin cold turkey then go months of this shit..

My doctor seems to think maybe I'm not getting evough and it wearing off before its time for the next dose. But how high up am i supposed to go. This is getting ridiculous. Ya know?

So y'all think maybe methadone might be better? I did take it in between drugs and it always helped but I am not sure it I can get that prescribed. My doctor only believes in suboxone I feel like I'm his experiment he makes me write in a journal every day how I'm feeling and he just keeps upping my dose. Fuck maybe I need a new doctor but in scared of running out before I find someone this is so stress ful I wish I never got on this stuff it's running my life.
 
It does indeed sound like suboxone isn't working for your pain. If your doctor is completely blindfolded to any other forms of treatment, I would suggest finding someone who is more open to ideas / less set in their own stubborn ways.

Suboxone isn't much of a painkiller in higher doses as it is a blocker for addiction-based drugs. I find that much more than 1.5mg of buprenorphine has no effectual difference, except in how "numb" I am, and certainly no difference on pain.
 
Thanks. And numb I think I know what you mean. I am not myself anymore. I swear I feel like I am a different person. Like my personality is being suppressed. I didn't realize it at first but after a while I realized I haven't been out of my house in weeks and I don't talk to my family as much anymore.

I hate this medication it's changing who I am and controlling me.

I definitely am going to start searching for a new doctor. The one I have is very stuck in his ways and is an asshole.at one mod my appointments he said if you want to act like a slut I'll treat you like a slut just because I said the word freakin!!!!!!! Are you kidding me. I cried and went home. He doesn't even realize I'm allergic to this shit or something.
 
He outright called you a slut? Fuck him - I'd call up whoever the director of whatever is at the facility and file a complaint / harassment charges.

And yes, find a new doctor... even if for no other reason than the fact that you deserve to be respected when you visit your doctor!
 
Thank you. He is an asshole. Every time I go there he makes me cry. He treats addicts like dog shit but he is the cheapest sub doctor and around her they don't take insurance so it is very expensive... I'm sort of stuck righ now. I wish it was cheaper for this shit.....

I wish I was never an addict.

I didn't know I could file anything against him. He owns his own practice and says that if I fuck up he will fire me as a patient and leave me hanging with no meds. And I can't afford to be in withdrawal... I have a lot on my plate right now..
I am freakin stuck I hate this.. I don't know what to do.
 
https://www.suboxone.com/patients/contact/Default.aspx

There is a phone number on there to call regarding suboxone films. You can perhaps find a way to talk to a help line or comments thing and leave a report about his attitude toward patients. It's honestly not conducive at all to helping someone get healthy either... He's just as ass. If nothing else print fliers around town about how he sucks. :D

See who you can find for methadone maintenance. It's a full-agonist opioid, and thus will be more effective in terms of analgesia.
 
Okay thank you. For all of talks support and help. :)

Thanks for the website. I remember now that only doctors registered can even prescribe it so there has to be a way to report him.

I'm looking up a method one clinic now :) thanks
 
Of course! My pleasure. I wish you the best.

I hope there isn't as bad of a wait for the methadone clinic as I hear it is for suboxone. Also hopefully you get the pills to take home instead of having to go literally every single day...
 
Ah that would suck. I do think there is a place not to far that my friends dad goes to. He gets a script for huge block pills. He used to break them up an share with me when I ran out of my own opiates... I feel like the suboxone is just suppressing the addiction. As soon as I stop taking it I feel like I need to get high ASAP.. Weird.

I hope I just get a script but I also do not know how they work. Methadone clinics. I have always gotten it illegally when I ran out of something..

Have you been on suboxone and methadone before?
 
Never from a clinic, but I've taken both. Methadone only once, and only 20mg. Enough to get a taste, really.

Used suboxone plenty to get over my recurring oxycodone habit...
 
I'm working with a pain doctor to legitimately manage my pain, so I'm leaving the illicitly purchased stuff behind, but I do still get some oxycodone (30mg IR) every so often. However instead of doing 30-60mg / day, I do 7.5 - 15 per day. The biggest difference is that I now get Tramadol, which does a lot more for my pain than a silly NSAID.

I've had Lyme disease several times, and quite poor joints / whatever. Winter is especially bad for me.
 
Awe that's terrible. I saw line d can be extremely bad on te joints and really painful. I'm sorry. Glad you ate trying to manage it and ur addiction the righ way. I know it's freakin hard.
 
Yes, yes it is. I'm also sick of being more high from the PK's than actually receiving pain killing effects... Ah well.

One thing I've started to do is keep a journal for my pain and medication dosing, and how I feel at the time of taking the meds. It'll show patterns if there are any, and that can open the door to possible solutions. Just another thing you can possibly do to aid communication between you and your (next) doctor.
 
Ok glad I already have a journal of all my med times and how I am feeling that particular day. And when I have trouble sleeping. Which is most of the time. But my doc says insomnia never killed anyone. Fucker. Ahh

I did just take a bunch of herbal stuff to go to sleep and now I feel like my skin is tingling and extra sensitive maybe I took to much...

I took herbal sleep mix with melatonin a bunch of Valarian root and some other weird herbal stuff. I am really funny feeling.. Everyone intake this mix I have a weird sensitivity reaction. Have you ever taken any of these for sleep?
 
I've had valerian root one time, but it was to calm me down during a very hectic time - a kid I was with convinced himself he was dying while on LSD and called police / ambulance. I had to go because I couldn't be around for that and was at that point shaking and freaking the hell out, to say the least. He's fine, and the feelings I had have long since gone so all is well, but damn. Ah right, moral of the story - valerian root is highly effective against anxiety, and is a good sleep-aid, yes. So is melatonin - it'll chill you out and make you drowsy. I don't often take them for sleep, I have my clonazepam (Klonopin) script for that. I sleep okay if I get enough exercise throughout the day (usually, anyhow).
 
Well today I stayed pretty busy. If I hadnt I would have ran out the door looking for something bad. I told myself not to sit down the entire day an I even worked out for a bit I have an elliptical... Imnpretty worn out now but not tired. I do feel weird tho... Ya I guess relaxed. I like it. Not high but not to sober feeling sort of mellow...

Mellow is better than nothing. Also if I take the suboxone at night it is impossible to sleep. That stuff stimulates me weird huh?

Your friend ahhh that would suck. I have never done LSD. Were you on it to when you took te v root and stuff?

I had Xanax for my sleep k pin doesn't. Work for me.. It's like nothing. Anyways inhad Xanax but my mother in law needed to borrow half and said she would give them back and she screwed me so I am in Xanax withdrawal right now. It sucks.
 
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