Thank you. I appreciate that.
I came off Morphine 30 mg 2 daily.
Got put onto this Suboxone and it just doesn’t work for me to have more of a normal life.
I was doing a lot better on the morphine twice a day relief.
You're most welcome. Bluelight and its members have been of so much help to me over the passed 15 years and I'm always happy to give back in the way of helping anyone in need be it replies with advice or indeed the offer to DM me should they wish to confide or vent with someone - an offer which I extend to you also so do please feel free to do that any time you please
@Painful One. I typically back that day unless I've having an off day as I'm tapering off codeine (prescribed) and benzos myself at the moment. Again, you're most welcome.
While I've had no experience with Suboxone, I do know a few people who have and they make the very same claim in respect to it being no use as an analgesic. Have you said this to your new GP? Surely they can put you back onto the Morphine considering this isn't working for you. Apart from your previous doctor retiring, I wonder why they took you off a medication that was working perfectly fine for you. I mean thats is exactly what morphine is prescribed for where as Suboxone is primarily prescribed as a means of MAT as a substitute for people who were addicted to opioids or in the process of weaning off them. Even Methadone would have been a better alternative as that has better analgesic properties than Suboxone however the withdrawal process - while not as intense as opioids or opiates - is quite a long and drawn out process.
I would have a serious sit down with your new GP and tell him that the pain is having such a dire effect on your life that you simply cannot function. Have you done this already?
I have had to use a few more clonazepam then prescribed due to the stress and pain flare up while having to plan and execute funeral and daughters wedding all at once.
I did way too much the last few months and I am hurting bad.
Now, I am in benzodiazepine withdrawal for a few days and Holy Hell it is bad!
I completely understand what you're going through with the benzos. So too have I had to use more than usual due recent stresses. I was the victim of an attempted mugging in October where I was assaulted from behind the assailants fractured both my jaw and cheek bone which aside from the intense pain prior to and following the operation I had to undergo to correct the damage, left me with even more anxiety than I had before hand as it was very traumatic for me.
On account of the pain I was unable to sleep for a week before the operation and a further week afterward to the point where I was in a state of delirium in hospital. They were perfectly willing to give me as much oral morphine as I requested (and I requested rarely) but were very hesitant to give me anything for sleep which I would have taken over the pain medication because I was literally losing my mind).
The worst part was that I had sleep medication at home but the hospital was over the other side of the city and I had no way to getting to it. I would have brought it with me but when I went over initially I thought I was just going for a consultation but they said the fractures were that bad that they would need me to stay over for surgery and I was completely unprepared.
As a result, I've been using more than usual and ran out last Friday and while I wasnt on the verge of a seizure, I didn't get a wink of sleep all weekend and I was crawling the walls with rebound anxiety. Thankfully I was able to get some last Monday so I'm much more at ease now. I had also ran out of Tylex so the pain came back big time so I had nothing to even knock myself out with while I was miserable with the pain. Fortunately, I just received my Tylex prescription so I'm off to the Pharmacy to get them now.
When are you due to get your Benzos next?
Yeah, plus now I am alone.
I lost not only my mom but my best friend and companion too.
I had the best mom ever.
I do have my brothers and sister though and they have been good to me so far.
Thank The Good Lord that I have a bit of an inheritance and my brothers and sister.
This is really hard.
I have no doubt
at all its likely much more than just 'hard', it must be verging on impossibly overwhelming for you. Hopefully it won't be long until you get your next benzo prescription and that will take the edge off your incredible stress levels because if ever there's a time you need stress relieve its
NOW.
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*Reason for edit: Issues with quoting last paragraph (now resolved).
you all so much
