withdrawal

[roses07]

On July 20 I decided enough was enough and told my doctor I hate taking these drugs and want off.  I told him I will worry about the pain issues later.  Seven years again I had an accident which resulted in 3 surgeries on my right arm. Then 3 years ago I was diagnosis with Psoriatic Arthritis (PA) in my SI joint.  The pain was worse than my arm ever was.  First it was just vicodin then Fentenyl patch with losengers.  After starting on Enbrel the pain was better and switch meds to oxycondone and norco.  This was long enough acting so we treid Kadium but made me too sleepy. Them  he recently put me on Methodone and have be on this for a few months.  The doses have always been very low but I can't do it anymore/
Friday other doctor gave me clonipin, phenergen clonidine, and lomotil  for withdrawl.  I don't even know what day it is or how long its' been because I have hardly slept. I think the clonidine is lowering my BP too much I have zero energy,can barely move around during the day.  My daughter is here to help me. I  thrash at night don't sleep till around 6am then for a few hours finally.  Can you tell me about Buprenorhine.  my doctor is going to call tomorrow  because it seems it s getting harder . I don't think the meds are working.  I much of these meds can I take safely.  the Clonipin is 3xd, phenergen as needed for nausea, clonidine is 4 x d and lomitil as needed.  Can you help.

[Carebear215]

Buprenorphine for the management of opioid withdrawal
Research report. 2002
How are you doing symptoms are you having?
My hats off to you for taking that step to get yourself off these meds.
Stick around here this is a great bunch of people.

[Carebear215]

Buprenorhine-The Potential For Abuse
Buprenorphine is a schedule III drug and is widely used during opiate addiction therapy. Two formulations of buprenorphine which are commonly used to treat victims of opiate addiction are subutex and suboxone. Subutex is a pure form of buprenorphine and is generally used in the initial stages of rehab programs while suboxone which contains an antiabuse component-naloxene is used later in the maintenance stages of addiction treatment. Both, subutex and suboxone work to block the effects of opiates by reducing the cravings and easing the pain of withdrawal symptoms. It is more convenient compared to other drugs like methadone used in addiction therapy since only buprenorphine can be prescribed by a medical expert while others need to be dispensed. However, unlike methadone buprenorphine is easily prone to abuse. Despite the appropriate safety measures placed by the law to check the illegal diversion and distribution of this opiate addiction therapy drug, several cases of abuse of buprenorphine have been reported in the US.

Previously, before buprenorphine was approved as an opiate addiction therapy drug, methadone was commonly used. Methadone is a schedule II synthetic opiate drug. Methadone also serves functions similar to that of buprenorphine. However, methadone-based opiate addiction therapy also suffers from various drawbacks. Methadone can be prescribed only by qualified medical professionals in licensed treatment clinics. Besides this, many a times the victims also find it stigmatizing to visit methadone treatment clinics on a daily basis. In addition, to all this, methadone is also a major factor in of overdose deaths. While on the other hand, over dosage of buprenorphine does not cause deaths and compared to methadone medications is safer since it has a lesser degree of respiratory depression and its ceiling effects. Ceiling effects in buprenorphine implies that an increase in the dosage, after a certain point does not increase the effects. Hence, buprenorphine is more advantageous than methadone.

Buprenorphine formulations, namely subutex ( buprenorphine hydrochloride) and suboxone (buprenorphine hydrochloride and naloxene hydrochloride) are the only opiate additction therapy drugs that meet the specifications of Drug Addiction Treatment Act of 2000. This enables the physicians with specialized training to carry out opiate addiction therapy in clinics with schedule III, IV and V drugs. Buprenorphine medications are usually employed to treat victims of heroin and other opiate addictions like OxyContin and Percocet.

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[LadySundown]

Hi,
Are you still on the fentanyl pain patches?? They are what I was addicted to. After a long slow taper I am off of them now. How many mcg's were you on?? I started on 100mcg.

I think Carebear gave some excellent info.

Take care and keep posting.....LS

[Ellarose]

I would like to know if Buprenorphine might be an option for my son and is it available in Canada?  My son who is 28 started out with a cocaine addiction which he kicked by taking ocycoden.  This was even harder to kick..suicidal tendencies, black depression.  Eight months ago, he went to a methadone clinic.  He has never been clean long enough to earn any carries, which made it impossible to work.  High does, low doses..none seem to last the full 24 hours.  Recently he got a job and to get himself through the day and the long drive to the clinic, he once again turned to cocain.  Now he is in terrible shape..hooked on both..depressed..not knowing where to turn.  I need to know where to get some info immediately.  Expensive rehab centres and clinics are not an option for us.  If he doesn't get help soon, I know we will lose him.