New here, detox May 18th Suboxone(sp?)

[cutiebootz]

Hi I am new here. I am going to be going into detox, on Suboxon(sp?) What should I expect.. I am scared of the MASSIVE withdrawl that I am going to have... I am on 75mg of Fentanyl patch change every 72 hours, I had my last vicodin 10mg this a.m at like 5:30am. For the last month after my doctor changed me from Morphine extended release 30mg 3 times a day  with Vicodin 10mg for break through. I was going through 60 pills in 7 days of Vic's. I have built up such a tolerance and its making my fybro pain, back, neck, etc all worse because I have done some much damage to me my brain and all.. The only thing that I and him have come to the conclusion is to detox me and get me back to normal, well my brain.  I know that I have to have therapy, I have a addiction, I am scared and thrilled at the same time that I will not be a slave to these pills. They have made my depression, anger, anxiety, and pain sooo much worse. I will stop the patch on the 16th of May. They say they want me to be out 30 something hours without any, the intake gentleman at the hospital said that it would best if I hold out as long as I can, the more in the withdrawl the better the Subox will work for me. I have a feeling that I will not make it to the 18th at 11am. They said that they will have my information down in the Emergency room and that they will take care of me and admit me at that time. They seem really nice. The gentleman is a recovering addict for 32 years now. He is 62.. He was telling me like it was for him, being addicted to opiates since 11.. I had a dabble when I was 16 but it didn't get me started then, I think I started when I was about 26 or so? About the time that I had my Gastric Bypass.. Anyways.. I don't mean to ramble. Thanks for listening to me..

[Iwant2Bclean]

I am 216 days off Suboxone. When you start taking Suboxone you will NOT have Wd's. Now coming off Suboxone can be a different story. For me I didn't have Wd's really  but some ppl have horrible Wd's from it. If you have any questions about Suboxone feel free to ask. I will try to help if I can.
Best wishes
Krissy

[mellie4]

It's so hard when you have pain.  When you have detoxed, do you know how you're going to handle your pain?  I don't have a plan for that yet.  I took the Neurontin and Lyrica before but I didn't really care for it.  It caused me to have a really bad time communicating.

There's a lot of stuff on here about suboxone.  The reviews seem to be mixed.  My NP friend treats a lot of chronic pain patients and has used it to bring people off opiates and has never had a problem with it.

[cutiebootz]

We have tried the taper thing in the past with just the Vicodin years ago. As you can see that didn't work and got into pain management where they did injections, epidural steriod, then they got me hooked on MsCotin which is the Morphine er. I am on cymbalta for my depression and anxiety, lamictal for that as well. I was on gabapentin but weaned myself off of that. I never took as much as the pain med doctor told me to take. So it was easier to get off that. I was also on Nortripolin(sp) as well got off that myself. I got sick of taking all this crap and went to my primary and that is how we tried the fentanyl to try and get me off the other crap and we ran into me going through withdrawls for the last 4 weeks now. Being pumped with all these opioates over the years and getting my brain and body used to them and needing more and more and more as time goes on. Its time to get clean. Reclam my brain and body, and take dang control of it! Maybe its not fybro pain after all. Maybe its my body saying hey I need of the opi's we won't know.. My doctor has faith in me more then I do at this point.I have looked into Subox, and hope that its the right thing for me.. That is why I ask on here if anyone went through this and how they are doing. Thank you for your input and I still have a couple more weeks to research and hopefully get more answers and guidance on here. Take care

[mellie4]

I don't know anything about suboxone, except for what I've read.  I have a friend who's a NP who told me I should try it; that it works great if you only are on it for a very short time to get off the narcotics.  Personally, I decided against it.

Like you, I'm a pain patient.  I'm not addicted mentally.  I've never taken more than I was prescribed.  I am just very uneasy about being on so much medication.  I was on a lot more than you.

When I was taking everything prescribed, I took 75 mcg. Fentanyl every 48 hours, 30 to 45 mg. oxycodone every 4 hours for breakthrough pain, 90 mg. Cymbalta a day for nerve pain, 800 mg. ibuprofen every 4 hours, compounding creams, .3 mg. Clonidine a day and 3 mg. Ativan a day.

I got off the Fentanyl by going on a taper.  First I went to 50 mcg. and didn't notice much.  I then tried to drop to a lower dose.  I ended up not being able get a lower dose at the pharmacy.  I switched to morphine er and I did have mild withdrawals.  Then I got off the oxycodone by going to a lower dose of morphine IR.  I came off Cymbalta cold turkey, which probably wasn't a good idea.  Also the Ativan I came off CT.

Tapering is hard but for me it's the right way.  I wish you the best with your detox.  Please, please research the positives and negatives of suboxone and know what you're getting into.  There are a lot of pain patients on this site, some who've become addicted and some who've just decided to get off.