Maximum Dose Of Suboxone/subutex & Chronic Pain (Page 7)

What is the maximum dose of suboxone or subutex when you have severe pain?

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You are simply stupid.

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Not sure where you received your MD but I beg to differ with you! Suboxone is very helpful in treating debilitating chronic pain. I have tried several different opiate pill regimens which should have given superb coverage. All which haven fallen way short of the help that I have received from Suboxone. Suboxone was first used as a pain reliever way back in the day before they found it helped people addiction problems. I for one am very happy to have found it.

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to "killthepain" have you tried adding magnesium to your list of pills you take? I'm sorry I'm not answering your question but my mom, grandma, great-grandma, a couple of aunts and uncles and myself all suffered from migraines. Magnesium was like a blessing from heaven when my great-grandma grandmother told me and my mom about it. Mine were not add bad as my mom's headaches but she, my mom even found relief by adding magnesium please try if you haven't, it might be just what you need. Good luck to you my prayers are with you.

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I was on 3-80mg oxy's per day for years. didn't think I would ever get off of pills.
Suboxone works better than I could possibly have imagined. All I can say is I wish everybody knew how easy it can be to quit. Good luck

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I agree with you. 24mg is a rediculous huge dose. Problem is my doctor is the only one not 200 miles away. I am just continuing my taper slowly. And for me, maybe not you.., it causes hormone problems in men and did screw me up and added to depression and anxiety after a few years. I'd bet soon we will see those commercials by lawyers "have you or a loved one taken suboxone and xyz happened".

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Ugh, I sit around spaced out, far from realistic reach all day on any amount of subs.

Can't wait for my life to kick start after getting off this s***.

I've been weaning for six months, I believe, and have around four to go. Hopefully it all goes well and the slow taper helps with minimum withdrawal. I wasn't explained any of this in the beginning and still haven't by my physician. 'Magine that.

Anyways I feel if I had tapered from the half a strip (I took 4 mg instead of the prescribed 12) in the first few months I would've been better off then compared to using it for so long, building it up in my system, spending God awful amounts of money (a monthly script plus doc visit is still not comparable to my daily usage/cost of dope, so really shouldn't even complain) I'd been out of the clear a year ago.

It's quoted as medical fact that discontinuing suboxone maintenance before two yrs time comes with a hefty 85% chance relapse but I feel every individual case is not the same, and doctors should have more training required when medicating with suboxone then the gross minimal training they have now, especially when it just reinforces the addict mentality of 'needing something to just get through the day'.

I would give my right arm, left leg, and my breasts to have made the choice of not using opana and to have my life and family back the way it was beforehand...but it will never be the same because I said yes instead of no to what seemed at the time such a mundane issue and I became an addict.

It's ridiculous the stigma that comes with addiction, the shame you inevitably feel because of it and thus how hard and demeaning it feels to ask others for help in just CONTROLLING YOUR LIFE.

That's why I snap at the term junkies. Realize you haven't even woke up to how far addiction of any kind has reached into your neighbors, coworkers, families etc lives, do you want them knowing how you feel about addiction when the time comes that they ask you for help and thus avoiding you entirely because your an uneducated, ignorant nobody that doesn't have the intellect to help solve an issue instead of contributing to it further.

My rants done but my point being use your words carefully and wisely in this matter, for when the time comes that your child needs your help, and eventually it will, you'll be left in the dark wondering why no one bothered to come to you for aide.

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Were you talking to me? I'm just curious, I promise I'm not trying to start trouble, just wondering? if so, what makes you think I'm stupid?

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Cessi?? Me or someone else??

Agggghhh I'm connnnfuuused.... :P

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I like what you say. So much truth and wisdom. Thanks

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I take 1 half of s 2 mg strip in noting and other half in afternoon for pain management which works very well for me

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can anyone tell me of a dr. in indpls, in. that will prescrib 6 suboxin a day

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I also take one half of a 2 mg 2 times a day which also works very well for me.

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Thank you for straightening this out. I have been on suboxone for over 5 years for chronic pain, not withdrawal from opiates. It is very frustrating when wrong information goes out regarding medications.

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U don't need to wait that long. U have detoxed five times and u only have to wait 6 hours.

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Maybe you should go to med school. Suboxone had been used as a pain killer in other countries for years. Why would they make subutex without the blocker? It is a painkiller. I have scoliosis, 3 herniated discs, arthritis, disc deterioration, spinal stenosis. Suboxone is giving me my life back and I have never been addicted to opiates. it also has taken away my painful, awful withdrawal/side effects of Effexor. I've been trying to get off the AD but when i do i experience awful brain/body zaps and my pain comes back ten fold. Suboxone has cured both, I feel like a new person. It is a painkiller. Look it up.

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Yes many docs here are now utilizing suboxone to treat pain and avoid serious opiate addiction that comes with using other opiods. I don't know why people continue to believe it's not used this way when a simple Google search proves otherwise.

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Really? Have you had chronic pain where you can't get out of bed, make your child's lunch, Get her to school on time, participate in anything that has to do with life??? Then taken a sub and yr pain melts away and you feel like taking a walk, going back to work, going to a PTA meeting? Its used in other countries for pain and it will be here as well. Don't talk without experience.

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Who the heck are you talking to cuz if it's ME, you obviously need to READ what I wrote!

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Your Story Sounds Exactly like My Story , I was also Injured at Work , And Had a Bone Removed from my Back with a L5-S1 Fusion , and Also Had Cervical C5-6 Fusion they Call That ACDF, I was on Workers Comp and Disability , I am now 56 Got hurt when I was 41 , 8 months ago I decided to go to a Detox and Get off the Prescription Pain Meds , Morphine 60 mg -3 a Day , Plus Hydromorphone 4 mg -3 A day , Any way I went through the Withdraw and Have been On Subutex 8mg for 8 Months Now , Still Suffering with the Chronic Pain , I now Have Severe Panic Attacks and Depression , I am Stuck , I feel I need to go Back to Pain Management .. I Didn't Know any Doctor can Prescribe Subutex , if they say its for Chronic Pain , I was Getting all My Dr. Visits for Free , Plus My Meds..

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ourselvesyone that hasn't bothered to educate themselves bupenorphrine has sooo many possible uses, not merely opiate addiction. Its moderate mu receptor activity does make it a valid option for pain management for some, and its high affinity for saturating but not stimulating the kappa receptors make a wonderous drug for depression.... it is the combination of these actions that make it practical for opiate addiction. That being said we still don't even know everything its useful for, only time and study will tell. Keeping an open mind and avoiding instances of judging others seeking help for themselves will help us make these discoveries. Lets keep negativity to ourselves children and keep in mind we are all in the same boat.

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