BUPRENORPHINE FOR CHRONIC PAIN

[@ExjanaH]

I've taken Bup for many years because it helps me with depression and motivation to maintain my life. I started taking pain killers when I broke my foot, way back in the early 2000's. It was so easy to get refills and no one really worried about saying no. And to be honest, I feel better, function better and am more motivated to run my life in a super better than normal way when I'm on even a basic amount of opioids vs. the Bup. Many of us just are able to function and build our lives in a better way with a real opioid. The Bup is good for making me not crave the real thing. However, the real thing is my super power. I have always and only taken pills - never been to the point of wanting to go to street drugs, never stolen money or done anything that would make me a criminal. I would rather go thru withdrawal than do any of the typically bad behaviors that would land one in jail. I just wish the powers that be would understand that not all of us are crazed lunatics that will land on the streets. I have too much pride, knowledge and self worth to allow myself to go down the bad route. The real thing makes me wake up with a certain excitement for the day. I do things that I would normally allow my pain to make me NOT do that thing. For example - digging holes in the garden, waking up early and excited for the day etc. It makes my brain mostly turn off the pain pathways in my brain. My hips, back and butt don't hurt to the normal extent that keeps me from enjoying my days. I own a business that requires me to lift, move and pack truck loads of furniture, fresh floral arrangements, lift heavy buckets of water etc. Taking just 60 to 80 mg. a day of something like a 10 mg. Lortab makes my life and my days enjoyable again!!! Please tell congress!!!! We are not all criminals or junkies!!!!

[@jdl2180]

I hate to tell you but every addict who's ever lived has felt the same way about their drug of choice at one time!

[@brendapcmt]

@@jdl2180 so you subscribe to the garbage that every person who takes pain medication is an “addict”…

[@glenbearh9109]

the point is the bupe worked on pain and depression. I have been sober since 1987 and use bupe for my pain. No one in my circle feel I am not sober because i must use a medication. Most importantly is I am true to myself on using a medication. The "purest" in recovery can cause harm and ought to not judge others.@@jdl2180

[@donkeyballs3307]

Buprenorphin is an opiod ,40 x times stronger than morphine

[@donkeyballs3307]

Taking a drug because you like the way it makes you feel ,is the definition of a junkie & your without a dought ,one of them

[@karmaxxl7945]

I was diagnosed with chronic non cancer pain 5 yrs ago and have been on most opioids so not to become dependent. Also talking about opioids with my doctor was very tense and uncomfortable. I've been on buprenorphine now 2 and a half yrs and my life has never been so good! This medication is more effective than any opioid and my pain is gone. There's side effects but they are minimal and worth having my life back. Sincerely, David Potter 🇨🇦

[@vickifrederick2934]

Have had genetic pharmaco testing done and cannot take opioid! This was recommended by genetics. Am a ultrarapid metabolizer so the buccal film wears off after 8-9 hours. Feel I need sublingual dose between. Kicked out of practice because I was two doses short on film patches. Hate!hate !really hate being treated like I am a child and an addict when I am only trying to get someone to work with me to achieve better pain control. I am a 71yo masters prepared nurse practitioner who have taught many of the nurses in our community. I hate being treated like an addict. Thankfully there are many other providers in town. Our patients need to be treated as people first and need to know they will not be abandoned without cause..was also told my drug screen showed I was using marijuana!have not in 50 years! Yes, I did take some drug store gummies.,. Just needed to vent!

[@jdl2180]

You really should find a new doctor, I've never heard of anything like what you described

[@joshuaolander201]

That all sounds terrible, I'm on subs To treat opioid dependence and I smoke pot every day. And my clinic doesn't give me a hard time at all.

[@davidkruse4030]

Drug store gummies have thc in them

[@user-xg1zp6lw5u]

@@davidkruse4030 because we have pain mostly severe pain..people can’t see it so sometimes I feel they look at me as just an addict.

[@sallypettit7156]

What about acute pain, that needs opioid, but gets blocked, so the patient has severe, severe pain?

[@Scorcher-ii1ty]

Try Kratom..if it works for me it works for everyone. Plus it makes you feel like a normal person

[@BisBoss]

This is a great presentation. Could use an update in terms of no x waiver needed anymore, no need to go through early withdrawals if using plain buprenorphine, etc.

[@HopeLives2012]

Belbuca changed my life. Thank you

[@user-xg1zp6lw5u]

I’m on my 2nd month with the patch. It is helping me more than anything else has. I’m in my 12 year of chronic pain.

[@moeruss2726]

I was wondering what strength patch you’re on? I’ve been in pain management for 16 years, 12 of which I was on the Fentanyl patch along with Percocet 6x a day the same strength & dose the entire time . My long time pain management doctor left his practice and the new doctor cut me off cold Turkey. I was in severe withdrawal for a few months. I was referred to a new pain management doctor but she won’t prescribe the opioids I used to use successfully. She put me on the Buprenorphine patch , the 5 mcg . I’ve been on it since December and it doesn’t help the back, neck , nerve , and headache pain I have at all. I’ve also followed all her advice about the pain management books , online tutorials, exercises but the pain is intense everyday and it’s hard to be able to do my everyday household chores and sleeping is almost impossible except a few hours during the day. I was just wondering what strength worked for you. Thanks

[@user-xg1zp6lw5u]

@@moeruss2726 it’s 15mg plus hydrocodone 10-325 4 times a day. It reduces the pain enough so I can function. I’m hoping my doctor will increase the dosage next time I see him. I can’t believe that doctor cut you off cold turkey. I didn’t think they could do that. That’s horrible and dangerous won’t your doctor increase your dosage? Hopefully you can find a new pain management doctor to help you.

[@cannymoose]

I'm on butec 10. Same as poster here, 8 years chronic pain. Was on dihydrocodeine which worked but came with side effects. The butec seems to be working.. sort of. On 4th week.

[@MCConfuz]

Wow, there's literally NOTHING negative about this drug at all!

[@bogganalseryd2324]

Yeah it is, when you have taken it for a long long time the withdrawal is ten times worse than day heroin wich is over in weeks, longest I've been off Suboxone is 8 months and even then I wasn't back to normal. The shivers lasts for 4 months atleast

[@brendapcmt]

not to mention the damage to your teeth!

[@gutsfield3504]

Getting off BUPRENORPHINE is nearly impossible for patients who get the euphoria he says doesn't occur. Pain does occur. It is not for post-op or severe chronic pain or any pain that I have had treated by BUPRENORPHINE. It's withdrawal can kill similarly to amitripyline 20:24 20:24 20:24

[@glenbearh9109]

I went off bupe in 2010 and it was not that bad. Why? I didit over several months and reduced to tiny bits. i was in no hurry so why suffer? I was on about a 16th of a milligram when I stopped. You cannot stop even at 1mg because it is powerful@@gutsfield3504

[@kristaskyangel1965]

Claudia Merandi knows

[@kumarsharma5084]

Nice sir

[@jeeess9979]

bupe does not help w the bone pain this cold weather brings

[@anthonyledington3143]

Anything else you noticed?

[@sallypettit7156]

17:10 scared to change?

[@dorothysingletary4444]

Yes. My doctor just said that she was going to decrease and cut down the amount of hydrocodone I had been taking for 22 years, I seriously thought that buprenorphine was something far fetched that would cause me to go through withdrawal and worsen the chronic pain but this video explained things wonderfully.

[@sigalben-tabi3340]

I am taking Subotex as a withdrawal from OxyContin due to chronic pain. I had hip surgery and a month later I had excruciating pain that they say that was becuse the subotex and not the hip.can it be? It make sense? Thank you

[@jdl2180]

Why would Subutex cause hip pain?

[@brendapcmt]

@@jdl2180 good question

[@hgdjjgrryuihg]

​@jdl2180 the way it affects your tolerance to other opiates

[@andrewcampbell6883]

Best place for suboxone is the toilet bowl

[@truthseekerjen6254]

Why? It’s helping me so much

[@andrewcampbell6883]

@@truthseekerjen6254 wait until you have to withdraw from it then tell me

[@candacesturtevant7139]

Yeah, I thought it was for heroin addicts.

[@wyattcav25]

It was marketed for people dependent on oral narcotics like hydrocodone and oxycodone. In other words, white ''dope fiends' like me. . Buprenorphine, saved my life. It is a miraculous drug.

[@jacobeberhart7739]

Kratom will help you quit suboxone. At least help you with withdraws. Yes it can get addicted but it's much less then other drugs

[@user-kq7wc4kf4f]

This is just crap! It didn't touch my chronic pain!