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Pain relief from buprenorphine

wsoko

wsoko

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Hey guys just a quick question. I'm getting ready to have spinal surgery and I've been on 24 mg of Suboxone for a year and a half. They want to prescribe me Percocets post-op and my Suboxone provider told me just to cut my dose in half the day before surgery to feel the effects of the perks and I'm thinking to myself are you out of your mind? Even if I was off Suboxone for a week I still might not feel the Percocet. My question is this. Is the bupe just as effective on the pain as the Percocet might be? Is there any point in reducing my dosage or should I actually increase it for added pain relief? I really don't know. All I know is that my receptors are completely saturated with buprenorphine. I would probably even barely feel fentanyl at this point.
 
Percocet are even prescribed with pain patients bupe for break thru pain. The understanding they have they say is that the Percocet euphoria will be nonexistent but the analgesia will still be addressed with the Percocet. And this is just what they (drs) told me.

How true this is idk. But when I had surgery they gave me perks as well knowing I was on suboxone.
 
You will not get added pain relief by increasing your bupe dose.


The only way you're going to feel ANY opioid pain relievers, is by lowering your sub dose. If you're taking more than 2-4mg of buprenorphine a day, you're screwed.

If you drastically lowered your sub dose or cut it out completely for a few days before your surgery, I'm sure you'd feel something from the percocet or whatever opioid they give you. If not, then you can always just go back to taking your bupenorephine.
 
The oxy wont work if your on bupe. Also bupe is only for moderate pain not severe pain. For something like spinal surgery morphine would be a better option.
 
paranoid android said:
The oxy wont work if your on bupe. Also bupe is only for moderate pain not severe pain. For something like spinal surgery morphine would be a better option.
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Yeah, for real. My mom had some pretty serious surgery once and they put her on Tramadol.

Tramadol ... seriously? Docs need to loosen up a little bit when it comes to prescribing opioids because some people legitimately have severe pain and need something that's going to actually be effective. I miss the days when pretty much anyone could go inside a doctor's office, tell them they had severe pain and get a script for Roxi 30s; Oxy 40s; Perc 10s — whatever. Doctors were literally passing them out like Halloween candy in the 2000's.

Now days, it seems like you have to be damn-near dying to even get a script of Codeine or Tramadol. Not ALL opioid users are drug-abusers; a good portion of them just want to manage their pain. But acquiring effective pain-relief these days is so fucking difficult. I have chronic pain from titanium rods I have in my body from a head-on collision I was in 17 years ago, and doctors still hesitate to even give me Tylenol 3's. Ridiculous.
 
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