Suboxone Itch!

Ok I have been on Suboxone for approx. a week It has really helped me out with my Vicodine addiction. But I itch all of the time. Not a rash or hives. Just itchy! Vicodine use to make my nose itch but that's it. Does anyone else have this problem????

[ldt3201]

Just started it 4 days ago and have not had any itching. Talk with your doc or pharmacist. I don't recall reading that as a side effect.

Good Luck!

Hugs and kisses

[werkema4]

I have spoke with my doctor and he said sice I itched with Vicodin then I might itch with this. But it is annoying! :-)

[christos24]

youre going to itch because it is a partial agonists( a partial opiate). It about 30X more potent than morphine so youre definitely going to itch when youre on it because hydrocodone is not nearly as strong. Also be careful on starting sub with a vike addiction, its very strong and addictive as well,  just be very cautious. With an addiction to hydrocodone or anything weaker I would almost try tapering or going cold turkey because high doses and long term use of sub can have some pretty severe withdrawal syptoms (symptoms) that last for a very long time, very comaprable to methadone. Dont get me wrong sub can be a life saving drug and helps lots of people get rid of the vicious cycle opiate addiction creates, but dpeending on your dependance level I would be careful not to get yourself into a worse addiction. It defintely saved my life, i was heavily addicted to heroin and oxycontin about two 80's a day and a gram of vvery pure H every other day.As far as the ithcing goes, theres not too much you can do to comptlely elleviate, but try taking benadryl or a antihistamine along with it to decrease the amount of itching but also be careful because anti-histamines can add to the respiratory dperession/ sedative nature of sub/other opiates and that can be particularily dangerous, not as much as with benzos such as klonopin, xanax, ativan, or valium. Then again everyone is different, I was on 32 mgs of sub( the supposed highest effective dose with the ceiling effect involved w/ buprenorphine, any more and the antagonist effects start to come out more than the agonist effects, which would cause withdrawal syptoms (symptoms) instead of relief), and 4 mgs of klonopin during the day and 6 mgs of lorazepam at night for 6 months. I never fealt like I was going to die or like it was too much. I was also taking xanax at times around 3 to 4 mgs at a time, but I put that to an end when they put me on enough clonazepam and lorazepam.  There was defintely a zombie like feelinga dn at times I was really out of it, but I never fealt clsoe tod eath or had a hard time breathing and Ive always had bad asthma, but once I started smoking pot all the time it seemed to get alot better. I am now tapering down with all of these. I am now down to 16 mgs of sub, 1.5 mgs of clonazepam, and 2 mgs of lorazepam, and am hoping to be off all around three months from now. I have experienced very little discomfort or withdrawals in lowering the doses. I recommend highly going to  NA meetings and continued treatment other than seeing youre sub doctor. The suboxone/subutex is only half of the battle for getting clean, proper counseling and continued after treatment is the other half. It has been 9 months for me and I feel better and ebtter everyday, dont get me wrong I still get some pretty intense cravings, and no matter where you go it will always follow you, and teh fixation of snorting soemthing/anything will always eba  daily stirggle but you msut perservere. Clean life is soo mjuch better than the day to day ******** you deal with every moment during active adddiction. Sorry for the long long post and my rambling... I hope you take something from this..chris m

[flmagi]

No, I've never gotten the itching from the Suboxone and I've been on it for 5 1/2 months. Neither have my sisters. You might have a slight allergy to it. Try a non-drowsy antihistimine.

[BGBG5]

use ceterizine a common over the counter anti histamine in 10mg strength best cure for the opiate itch there is

[willow659]

Yes! Its horrible. I've actually torn my skin from scratching.

[BlueOpiate]

No itching for me, but I did itch from percoccet.  I'm surprised now that I think about it that I'm not itching from sub.