Hello. I'm starting to feel a little desperate and I'm on here hoping to get answers regarding other's experience in this matter. I have Been on suboxone since October of last year and I'm currently down to 4 mg a day. My dr lost his license last week and is no longer taking patients. I've been 3 days without and want to crawl into a hole a die. I made an appt with my family dr for this afternoon. I've read that any dr can prescribe subs for pain but not detox. I want to be brutally honest with her hoping she will sympathize with me and write a script for a couple weeks worth so I can taper the correct way instead of jumping at 4 mg. I've called every sub dr in a 50 mile radius and everyone of them has a lengthy waiting list to get into their program. I've missed 2 days of work so far and can see myself going in anytime soon feeling this way. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
-
H&R Moderators: streaM Freak
Suboxone withdrawal
- Thread starter Terrified
- Start date
THECATINTHEHAT
Bluelighter
- Joined
- Oct 17, 2005
- Messages
- 8,186
If the law is that they need a special licence to prescribe for detox and you go in saying you want bupe for detox you're going to flat out get refused, they're not going to risk their licence prescribing buprenorphine especially when a local bupe doctor has just lost theirs. On the other hand, you're not going to be able to fake a pain condition that will result in your GP prescribing bupe as a first line response.
Now, I would never condone lying to a doctor, but here is what I would do:
1. Get yourself on a waiting list for a sub doctor.
2. Is this new doctor you are viisiting going to have access to your medical records? I don't know how things work in the US but if you are relatively sure they won't, tell the doctor you got rear-ended in your car the other day and your neck is in lots of pain. It's almost impossible to prove or disprove whiplash as a condition so with a bit of luck they'll script you enough opiate based meds to at least take the edge off for a while.
3. Hope you get enough meds to see you through to seeing a sub doctor.
This is not without risks though, if they have your records and they can see that you've just been cut off from a bupe script you're likely going to be in some sort of trouble, even if it's just having DRUG SEEKER written on your records. It could be worse, I don't know. You could allso end up paying for x-rays and stuff that you know full well you don't need.
Also, if you're going to go through with this plan, you're going to need to really tidy yourself up before going in there. Go in there looking like a junkie in wd saying you're in pain and well....you aint going to get shit. Go in there looking like a respectable member of society and you could walk out with god knows what given the way docs in America prescribe.
I realise I'm sailing close to the wind with the post, but I feel it's acceptable. Mods change if necessary.
Now, I would never condone lying to a doctor, but here is what I would do:
1. Get yourself on a waiting list for a sub doctor.
2. Is this new doctor you are viisiting going to have access to your medical records? I don't know how things work in the US but if you are relatively sure they won't, tell the doctor you got rear-ended in your car the other day and your neck is in lots of pain. It's almost impossible to prove or disprove whiplash as a condition so with a bit of luck they'll script you enough opiate based meds to at least take the edge off for a while.
3. Hope you get enough meds to see you through to seeing a sub doctor.
This is not without risks though, if they have your records and they can see that you've just been cut off from a bupe script you're likely going to be in some sort of trouble, even if it's just having DRUG SEEKER written on your records. It could be worse, I don't know. You could allso end up paying for x-rays and stuff that you know full well you don't need.
Also, if you're going to go through with this plan, you're going to need to really tidy yourself up before going in there. Go in there looking like a junkie in wd saying you're in pain and well....you aint going to get shit. Go in there looking like a respectable member of society and you could walk out with god knows what given the way docs in America prescribe.
I realise I'm sailing close to the wind with the post, but I feel it's acceptable. Mods change if necessary.
Specterchild
Bluelighter
Methadone clinics are now offering Suboxone at least where i live, in the mean time get your self some good quality Kratom along with Phenibut.
Your dose is low enough that Specterchild's advice might work. CATINTHEHAT's advice is terrible. If you've got a family doctor you have a relationship with be honest and she might take sympathy on you by giving you something to at least make you more comfortable. (10mg Valium once a day and Clonodine)