riverhaven
Bluelighter
- Joined
- May 1, 2008
- Messages
- 45
I know I must sound like a weenie, and compared to withdrawing from a far more serious Dilaudid/methadone and heavy kratom addiction doing a buprenorphine withdrawal complaint probably sounds pretty lame to a lot of people and it does to myself too LOL. But here I am, I am a chronic pain patient who lives half the year up north ( where my pain doc is ) and half the year down south. My doc just informs me he will no longer be calling in my Belbuca patches down to FL, of course lying that it isn't allowed anymore, but since I am a retired doc myself I know that is nonsense. The office's first idea was that I get my kids to go pick up my Belbuca at the IL pharmacy and mail it to me in FL ... LOL oh yea, let's all get arrested for mailing narcotics!! I said, how many snowbird patients do you have that you are telling to do that? Then they told my to just get a FL pain doc to write for it. I have been there done that running around like a chicken with my head chopped off trying to get some new pain doc to PUHLEESE write me the same narcotic script this other doc has me on so I don't go into withdrawals and it NEVER ever works. So, I figure I am on the lowest amount of narcotic pain meds I have ever been on in my life, and I swear something about the Belbuca kind of flipped a switch in my addict brain-- I don't feel the NEED for anything anymore. It is really nice, I have been on it a solid two years and I think it sort of "fixed" addict brain for me. Anyway, I decided to take what's left of my supply of Belbuca and taper off the 450mcg patches I was on twice a day for pain- the sublingual kind. I took a week to taper. I am now maybe 80 some hours out and when I keep thinking the peak is over.. it isn't. I have clonidine, some gabapentin, a wee bit of clonazepam ( which I really do NOT want to use much of as that was a problem in the past), lots of CBD/THC dummies, and every damn herbal remedy they suggest LOL. Stupid long half life.....But to see if life sans narcotics is a possibility is so close!!!!