Finding Subutex Dr? (Top voted first)

I am really having a hard time finding a doctor who treats with Subutex and not Suboxone. I have chronic pain syndrome and relief-seeking behavior soon became drug-seeking behavior. My psychiatrist put me on Subutex, and my pain was reduced a little, but I wasn't so much into drug seeking anymore. I was treated for 5 years. Then I moved, and I can't find anyone in Ohio who does this. I might have to move back to Chicago! Any suggestions?

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can some1 give me a name of doc in pa that gives subutex no1 will give me names and numbers i cant afford wv they make you go once a week and pay tooo much heard pa you pay monthly

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Are you an addict? It is hard getting off subs ...even taking them as directed and staying clean. Dont judge. People are supposed to find help here not be criticized ..

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need a dr to precribe subutex in central indiana or eastern ohio. im allergic to naloxone and prime healh group in cincinnati gave me the films and had to go to er even after i told her in initial visit that i was allergic. dr. andrea holigna is her name and she refuses to change script. she got my 250.00 and thats all she wanted. can anyone help. i have 3 kids and am tryin to do the right thing for them

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I have been on subutex for about 1 1/2 years. My doctor just recently retired and now I'm having a hard time finding a doctor to prescribe me subutex. I was on prescribed pain meds for 13 years. Ive had several surgeries and after my last one I started to feel so much better. I went to a clinic to get off of my pain meds and at first he prescribed suboxne. I was constantly throwing up and feeling horrible. When my doc put me on subutex my life did a 360 and I've been doing wonderful. Well at least I was. Please help me find a doctor in or around PA that will continue my treatment. I'm feeling hopeless and so depressed.

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I was on subutex for pain control as well, and yes we all know the only difference between the two is the narcan but obviously you haven't experienced chronic pain or you wouldn't be using these judgmental statements and words "abusing" and all that other nonsense about being able to use narcotics with the subutex... Blah blah. Try having chronic pain, being in a almost fatal car accident.. Having spinal stenosis, herniated & bulging discs, joint dysfunction, sciatica shall I go on?!?

She asked a question, she is seeking help and I have done so much research that the only thing that makes sense is the naloxone blocks and fills a lot of the receptors in our brain ESP pain receptors and not as much bupe will reach those receptors!!!

So if it's just the bupe going to those receptors there is going to be a difference!!! Rocket science?

I wish I could help you Hun but this world is terrible and I am in your same boat!

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Dr.cipriano in norristown pa if no luck there is a website specifically for this search ill try to find it.

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I need Subutex because I take Xanax and have for 20 years, and you are not supposed to mix the two. I am in Nashville, Tennessee and it feels like I have called a million doctors and nobody is willing to prescribe Subutex. It is bc people can take Subutex to get thru their week and then use their drug of choice on the weekends. You can't do that with Suboxone. I have ZERO desire to ever take Lortab again. It nearly killed me. But the very few docs that have actually called me back just flat refuse to help me when I tell them I take Xanax. It's not like I abuse Xanax, I take what I have been prescribed for 20 years for severe anxiety, so now I have to be a criminal and find it illegally. The girl I get it from failed her drug panel, so she doesn't have any and I can't find anything. I feel like I am dying. It's amazing to me how that little pill makes me feel HUMAN!! :)

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I'm having trouble finding subutex in chicago actually, all i'm finding is suboxone! Any suggestions? Sorry I'm doing the exact opposite of your request :/

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A very knowledgeable doctor once told me that if you get headaches from Suboxone, it means that your dose is too high. I have had the same problem myself and my headaches were relieved when I gradually cut the dose.

Two other things that helped with my headaches are:

1) Drink 8 glasses of water a day. It helps flush the metabolites out of your body.

2) Try to walk about a half hour each day. It doesn't matter what speed you go. If you can't walk, I have found that riding a recumbent bicycle can be easier on the joints. In any case, regular exercise is essential for general health. It also cleanses the blood and increases G.I. motility. Too many physicians are quick to prescribe drugs to treat symptoms that can be relieved by simple changes in lifestyle.

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Hi. This is for anyone who can help me find a Dr in Pa who will prescribe Subutex. I have a serious allergy to phosphates. That's the orange substance in the suboxonne's . When I take it I get extremely sick. Lucky me... I have been batteling this addiction ever since I had surgery on my back. I could be prescribed pain killers if I wanted because my condition is so severe and not treatable but I would rather not. They don't work unless I take very very serious ones like dilaudid and fentanyl. I would prefer to stay somewhat functional as I try and beat my disease. I can't find a Dr anywhere who will help me. Most of them only care enough about themselves and don't really care about anyone else. I don't know why there is such a big problem with prescribing subutex. Drug addicts will abuse anything so trying to keep certain drugs away is ridiculous. It's not really about that. IT's about the money. Plain and simple. They get kick backs from the pharm companies for prescribing suboxone. I read a lot about this and the company that makes suboxone took the drug, at one point, off the market to keep any other companies from being able to manufacture it. They are greedy greedy greedy soulless people that run these corporations. They have kept suboxone from being able to be made into a generic that isn't so expensive. All I want is some help finding a Dr who will help me. Any help here would be greatly appreciated. I am drowning here and need a life line. I can be reached at {edited for privacy}. ;) If someone out there knows of a Dr near Pittsburgh pa who is accepting new patients I would be forever grateful. Please email me with the information. I have been searching online for over a year with no luck. There are simply too many sub dr's out there and I can't afford to go to every single one until I find one to help me.

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YA THERES NARCON IN SUBOXON SO U CANT FEEL HIGH. BUT ON SUBUTEX U CAN STILL FEEL HIGH ON DRUGS. NARCON IS THE STUFF THE PARAMEDICS GIVE U WHEN U OD ON OPIATES. I AM IN THE PROCESS OF SWITCHING FROM METHADON TO SUBOXON. DOES ANYONE HAVE ADVICE?

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Hello, let me first say that this is my first time posting anything online, yes I guess theres a first time for everything, however I am too near cincinnati ohio and in dire need of a doctor that will get me back on SUBUTEX not suboxone, I was on subutex for a long time the doctor I seen left the practice, I went to a local doctor and he would only give me soboxone, its awful it made me sick I could not sleep, I had headaches so bad, and the doctors around here all seem to say NO SUBUTEX when I call them, I finished college and lived a normal productive life during the time I was on SUBUTEX therapy. I also was on pain meds for chronic care health conditions for MANY years, after that treatment your body, and mind and all of you relies on meds to function, you become or see all at once that now your not only a person struggling to get through each day living in pain and agony bit your now a person with an addiction as well. This is something that you deal with now for the rest of your life, and I found the meds that helped my pain and also treated addiction, and it was something that I could afford with no insurance , it was SUBUTEX and now its like impossible to get what you know works best for you , because of the actions of other people that have abused the meds, its not right at all. But its where im at with it, lost basically seeking help. So I know theres people out there and theres people reading this forum that knows a doctor that is prescribing this right now, near Cincinnati OH / Indianapolis IN area and im hoping that you will share with me a place a name and point me in the direction of that doctor, your help will be greatly apperciated.

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That's a lie. Go there prepared and educated. If you have a true case of pain, your family doc can most Def RX subutex. They just don't want to. You have no idea how far being educated will take you. I've confronted many docs after they claimed that they could not do this could not do that and showed them the print out from that website and they were speechless. They think you're dumb and that since they're doctors, they're smarter than you
And that's just not right.

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CHRIS: I know this is old, but you are misinformed. Whether a person is on Subutex or Suboxone, it does not matter. You can not "continue to take narcotics" even on Subutex. The buprenorphine itself is the drug that keeps you from "abusing narcotics", not the naloxone. The naloxone is only in there to keep people from taking the buprenorphine intravenously. Whether you take Subutex OR Suboxone, you will be thrown into precipitated withdrawals if you take bupe too soon after opioids. Whether the naloxone is in there or not. I always had Subutex, WITHOUT the naloxone, and I found out the hard way that the myth about the naloxone is completely untrue.

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Chris: I recently read an excellent paper in a medical journal that confirms your statement. (I wish I had kept the link.) The journal article showed that Buprenorphine itself his properties that bind to the receptor site that opioids need to occupy to produce their desired analgesic effect. I believe the study was published by The Association of Nurse Anesthetists.

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BULLS***. I AM A PROFESSIONAL ATHLETE (SURFER) WHO HAS HAD 37 SURGERIES. I AM PHYSICALLY ADDICTED AS NEVER ABUSED PAIN MEDS BUT WITH NEW LAWS ECT SOMETIMES HAVE TO GO 2-7 DAYS W/O NARCOTICS. I AM GETTING OFF MY PAIN MEDS TO BETTER MY LIFE AND ALLEVIATE THE WITHDRAWALS AS WHEN IN WITHDRAW, IN MY PROFESSION IT CAN END UP IN MY DEATH OR OTHERS. RATHER BE IN SOME PAIN THEN KEEP GOING THROUGH WHAT I AM GOING THROUGH NOW. I AM NOT SEEKING TO CHANGE MY LIFE AS I'M NOT ADDICTED TO THE OPIATES MENTALLY. DO NOT JUDGE PEOPLE W/O KNOWING THEIR SITUATION.

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I'm not sure why my former doctor preferred me to use Subutex vs Suboxone, because he prescribes both of these for different pts. I'm not sure why he doesn't want me to have the Naloxone, except that he feels it would affect my bp disorder or interfere with one of my other medicines.

Anyway, all the doctors here prescribe suboxone, but I think I've found a doctor who will use Subutex maintenance for me. Apparently he rx Subutex for his pregnant pt. So, I'm sure I'll find out more on Thurs.

I do wish I would have asked my former dr about why no Suboxone, but I'd seen him for 25 years, so I guess I trusted his judgement.

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I'm a rapid cycler. I mean, I can swing day to day, week to week, month to month, so when I got this doctor and I stopped all the crazy swings, I did so much better in life and work and everything. My dr was very good at tweeking my medicines to keep me even. I just assumed that if he said there was something I shouldn't have it would affect whatever balance we had achieved. Because besides being bp, I also have high blood pressure, Type II Diabetes and other physical considerations. So, I just don't know what is going on there. But, I'll find out sooner or later. If you really want to research, my bipolar medicines include: Lamictal, bupropion, Straterra, and then my blood pressure meds and meds for diabetes. So, I guess I didn't realize how complicated I was! LOL! I've got an appt on Thurs, so maybe y'all can wish me luck.

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Thank you all for your help and suggestions. I might have found a dr who uses Subutex for his pregnant patients. So, wish me luck.

My IL doctor really tried hard to get me an emergency fill, but understandibly the pharm didn't want to fill the rx. The pharmacist said it might be okay if he spoke to the previous pharmacist who handled the rx, and I told him You did. Well, that flew out the window. So, I have another question to ask. I'll open another thread.

Thanks again!

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i live near cincinnati, ohio and am pregnant and need to find a subutex doctor

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