You have the right to FIRE your MD as you are PAYING them (for their service)..
And.. you also have the RIGHT to ALL of your medical information...You just have to sign a RELEASE OF MEDICAL INFORMATION...
ALL legit MD's have to honor and provide this information
Hope this helps you on your road to recovery.. NOW.. go GET UM!
Thanks everyone, please wish me luck tomorrow at the doc, I didn't need it at all today, and although I could have used a vicoden ( prescribed to me he knows Ihave them I showed him the bottle so I could have taken one, I did last night after work my back hurt so bad ) for my back and well everything today as I actually caught the flu from a friend, sore throat and he whole 9. I wanted the drug test to show only the smallest amount, if any of the vicoden ( my body is really fast at cleansing itself from stuff) at all. I just needed the help with detox, I am hoping the fact that I am following through with my apointment and drug test ( those comnied will be $150) , even though I am not going to continue the suboxon, he will hopefully listen to me and understand that I just needed help with detoxing, that I was never on them to get high or anything so I don't see a "relapse" as he put it on the horizon. If a real dr ( and this time I will make sure it's not just a pill dr) puts me back on pain meds well thats fine, because then I would be under the care of a real doctor who would monitor me and such.
I'm really glad I came here suboxin is advertised as a miracle drug and it was for me , atleast for the detox, but I was greatly educated, I had no idea about half the stuff I have been taught here.
thanks again!
rain
Sounds to me as if you have a great plan...but I am no doctor so just be open with your new doctor and take his advice. Good luck :) and God Bless :) roxy's bite!!!
WOW, thanks for the info. My old dr would not sign release papers because "releasing my chart to a new pain mangement office is releasing me." basically he is a quawk.My lawyer looked him up and apprently he has has several marks on his record for overuse of narcotics and was put on probation at one point for it. Basically he ***** you in, acts all nice like he wants to help you and then gets you hooked so you keep coming back, if you try to leave you get punished by him makeing it hard as hell for you to leave.
The dose the dr gave me of suboxone was 8mg and it is mixed with 2mg of naltrexone, 2x daily. I really think that I shouldn't need it past next week, I never tried to get high on it, I just took the meds the dr gave me and I took my doses as prescribed, I treated it like an antibiotic or any other med a doc would prescribe. Today I was awake for 4 hrs before I took my first dose ( and only dose) and I mainly took it because I was feeling some anxiety and going back to work for the first time since I started the suboxone, i'm a waitress at a gentlemans club and it made my night hell. I was so sleepy I was chugging energy drinks and eating cookies all night trying to stay awake, I felt anxious and I can't really explaine it , my Peripheral vision was very foggy. I started suboxine on monday and hadn't had anything since around 7-8 sunday night, I am really thinking I am pretty well detoxed and going to try and see if I can go without tomorrow. I have a followup apointment on friday and it's going to cost me $125 plus $30 for a urine test, lame.
I really think at the very most I would need this for a mth ( like I said I think I might be ok now), I'm just not sure how to get the good doc to agree, he's very nice but very set that suboxone should be taken a certain way. I want to restart pain management with a real doctor, so I don't want him writing anything on my records like me not following through with his treatment plans or something that would make a new pain management doc afraid to take me on as a patient or refuse to give me any narcotics, work was hell tonight, and eventually I am going to have to do something besides sit on my couch like clean or go to the grocery store, and hopefully I will be able to find non-narcotic solutions, I just don't see any on the horizon, the pain in my back is unbearable, I can only sit or stand for 30 minutes, it hurts to raise a cup to my mouth , even fix my hair. I would not mind being dependant on a lessor medication through a good doc that would actually do his job, not just sit me in front of his desk and print out RX's, I also don't mind haveing just enough pain meds to get through the 16 shifts I work every mth and for the REALLY bad days in general.
What should I do here? I'm really lost, should I try to educate the dr, beg and plead that he not make me take this for 6 mths? Right him a letter with alll my issues with it and explaine that I seriously never used them to get high. Should I just go in on friday take the urine test so it comes up clean and if he won't listen , just explaine I'm done ( that would kinda deoendon how tomorrow goes, if I don't need it tomorrow, even if I do i'm cutting the pill in half, it's just to much.), that the suboxon helped me detox and thats all I needed, and now that I no longer feel a pysical need for it I need to move on to pain management so I can continue to work.
I just really don't know what to do here, it has been great but I really don't think I need to be on this very long at all, like I said I just needed help through the detox, I tried myself and it was 2 much for me.
Please any suggestions about how to deal with the dr so he doesn't screw me out of getting proper treatment because we disagree on the time frame for medication.
thanks for any help,
rain
Hi Rain,
Suboxone is a very strong opiate. It works by filling the same opiate receptors on the brain that the roxicodone does and it has a much stronger affinity for these receptors, so if you were to take roxicodone, it would not be able to attach to the brain. It does have some pain releiving properties, but they are not as good as a full opiate. I took suboxone for nearly 4 years and was able to adjust to it, but I did find that it would make me incredibly sleepy, more in the afternoons. I suspect that you are probably on a dose of aroun 16mg? The lower your dose, the better it will be for the side effects. You should be able to move down to 8 and even 4 mg within a week or two - you will be detoxed from the roxy in about a week. talk with your doctor about he side effects you are experiencing and work on lowering your dose. Try taking some B6 and B12 suppliments, they can give you some additional energy. Also, you should only be dosing suboxone once per day, some docs prescribe two doses, one in the morning and one at night. This is not the correct way to take suboxone, so if you are taking more than one dose per day, this could also cause excessive sleepiness. As for the sexual side effects, this should go away as your dose is adjusted and your body gets used to the medication. You also asked about how long to take suboxone. Most of us on this site have found that the shortest amount of time is the best - 6 months to a year is too long because you will become dependant on the suboxone and then will need to taper way down when you want to stop taking it. The withdrawal from suboxone is severe and will last twice as long as roxy - many people don't realize this, including the doctors who prescribe it. Best of luck to you - keep posting and let us know how you are doing, there are others here with experience taking suboxone, we will support you. Take Care
Soboxine has a drug that blocks opiates (the active ingrediant in roxy's) so pain meds won't help you but it is also a very high for of opiates if that makes sence to you. If you are feeling sleepy the dose is too high, you need to talk to your doctor asap.
Why won't the other doctor release you? That doesn't sound right to me but of course I'm not a doctor nor a lawyer but I was always under the impression if you wanted to be released from a doctors care you could...maybe someone here can shed more light on the subject, it's kinda early so hang tight someone may come along with better advice. God Bless you now and always!!!!!