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I need help deciding on the suboxone treatement

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First of I want to say I have the best wife in the world. I thought she would leave me for sneaking behind her back and taking Vicodin and Percocet. Last year around Feb. I quit cold turkey and stayed clean for 5-6 months easily. I was prescribed the Vicodin Es at this time and I just got tired of the ups and downs and quit them after 4 years of 90/month.

The most recent relapse is caused by stress boredom. I thought I could take a few to get through a day and boy was I wrong. I would end uo going through 14-20 Perocecet 10 in 48 hrs(once/week). I wouldn't sleep for that night. I have now beaten the physical withdrawl. I am facing the mental. It has been 4 days since I have taken anything.

I went to my Dr. yesterday and was honest with him for the first time and told him what I had been doing and I thought that may be causing the depression episodes. He wasn't to happy but he said there are ways we can deal with it. He suggested 2 typse of treatement Intesive Out Patient Treatment or the Suboxone treatement.  

The lady said I would be billed at 100% for the treatments and the insurance will not pay for suboxone treatment. I can't afford it. My wife and I think with us as a team now we can beet this by ouselves. The Dr. said it isn't impossible but the success rate is very low.

My decission is a tough one the Dr, said they would put me on suboxone for a year and then tapper it down. I just don't see how that would be fun coming off of. I just went through hell and I mean a hell of a flu withdrawl.  

I know there may be some questions please ask

I am not sure what I should do. my wife did check with the insurance and the said different then what the receptionist said. The insurance said we had to pay the first 500.00 and then pay a 20% co-pay.

Is the suboxone treatment something I want to do. They want me to come in for the evaluation treatment Monday and access how much Suboxone I need.
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495284 tn?1333894042
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Have you thought about an addiction specialist also?  I would try the out patient therapy before i went on sub.  Gotta get to the bottom of what is keeping you down.  The goal is to live life on lifes terms opiate free.  I dont want to see you go thru the brutal wd's again with another opiate........sara
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Ur doseis high...but u stopped before..unless u live on suboxone for life...this relapse thing will happen again when u stop the sub..doing the work on urselfisimportant..have u tried aftercare?  it is alot cheaper than sub,,,strnage how poeeps will resist sumpin they need so fiercely//yt spend alot of money on another addictive narctoic when it is inside urself to get clean
sub will help the wds...21 days or less ata low dose of sub and some can get off without wds from sub...but that would not solve the problem of relapsinglater on ...if u stay on sub 6 months...u will be facing wd and it can become a viscious cycle..peeps get stuck on that sticky drug and can make hydro wd look like a picnic..we r all different..what r ur goals?

90 a month of hydro  is not a sub dose..but u will find a dr to give it to u....14 a day//140mgs - 200 mgs/assuming they r 10s// is alot,,but it doesnt seem as if u have been on this dose for too long..so that is good...also sounds as if u are serious as far a letting go ur source of pills//ie ur dr///but also any other sources...seeking aftercare and cutting off supply..plus a true will to get clean is all u need..and find out whay u r bored...try and correct that factor
If it were me//and its not//its u///i work each day so i gotta get up and go...i would consider having possible 8-10 subs to get me thru the tough part...but no more...i dont want to spend time on another narcotic just to repeat wds i skipped the first go around....i would want access to no more tho...i have used sub to fill in for having no hydros and knew it was not a good idea for me to try and quit with it..being a 100 mg hydro user, 2 mgs of sub gave me a good buzz//a buzz i no longer got from hydro...i kinda liked it and repeated this sickness probably 8 times...my sub dose started going up during my hydro holidays..and it also made me feel tired and yucky last go around a few yrs ago..so i cut it off and shortly thereafter just stopped the hydro//had i been going to a sub dr getting tons of them//i am not sure i coulda said no///or perhaps i coulda cos when i stopped i was just slap over this whole crud
do what u need to do to get clean///know there is no easy way out and doing the work u gotta do it the main thing...educate urself on anything u take to get clean or from here on out...good luck to u
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Hey, I hear your pain.........Couple of things about suboxone; a year on that stuff is too much, it won't relieve the boredom, stress factor.  I, too, took suboxone coming off a long history of percs, fetanyl patches and morphine.  I took it only for 6 weeks.  4 weeks the full amount and then tapered down to a minute amount.  Got off the suboxone without any problems or withdrawals (that's not everyone's story, though).  The problem I had is that I was so used to be under the influence that I didn't know what to do with myself when I was sober.  Too much time alone.  I also got bored and wound up relapsing similar to you.  It's the drug seeking behavior that doesn't change right away.  The suboxone treatment shouldn't cost too much.  I think I paid around $300. at first and then a $100. for each treatment after that.  Insurance will not pay for that.  Eventually, I found it necessary to enter a treatment facility.  That's also no quick fix, but it did buy me some clean time.  Its been about 60 days for me now.  I still have cravings, and I'm still dealing with too much time alone.  But I'm going to NA meetings and trying to make some new friends.  Aftercare is a good idea but is also expensive.  I guess you have to weigh what's the most important thing for you.  My life was a train wreck, so getting better was the only option.  Maybe you can use those other means for you to get better.  I wish you well.  Thankfully, you still have your wife in the picture.  Mine didn't stick around.
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