[leowd]

Among other things, including tramadol and some SSRIs, I CTd a 3-year love affair with Suboxone 4 weeks ago. I was originally put on it to help with oxycontin WD after a hip replacement. It was a god send for the WD symptoms and my pdoc just kept prescribing...kind of the "if it ain't broke why fix it?" nutcase attitude of medicine.

Long story short: I have had excrutiating back pain lately which seems to come on later in the day, and by day's end has me screaming for a 4' x 8' so my boyfriend can whack me on the head and put me out of my misery!!!

Is there some opiate-receptor-rebound thing that's making this relatively old back pain kick back in? Will it subside? I'm having my other hip replaced on 7/7 and the only thing I'm taking for pain right now is 4mg of acetominophen a day (per doc's suggestion).

Please. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!!

[Robert_325]

It's just my opinion but I think after three years on suboxone the pain receptors should have gotten better by now. We are all different and anything is possible, but three years of using a partial agonist like buprenorphine has given the receptors plenty of time to improve I think. Tramadol could be affecting this I suppose. I would give this recurring pain thing a little more time and see if it straightens itself out. It may improve or you may have a pain problem that you are going to have to deal with somehow. Seems staying on a very low dose med like you are doing makes sense right now anyway until you see whats going to happen with the back. Thats not the answer you wanted I know but I think its the only realistic answer. At least you know that whatever pain you have is real as you have not taken opiates in a good while that would make it seem worse than it is. Good luck and God bless.

[leowd]

Thanks, Robert.

I've also begun some abdominal exercises and a little stationary bike riding. Can't hurt??!!

[drewcool]

LEOWD( and anyone else) How long did your withdrawls from sub last. I am on day 3 right now of cold turkey withdrawl from 3 years of sub at 2( sometimes 4)Mg a day. I read on here how people withdrawls start after 6 days, mine started within a day and a half. They arent that bad ( of course id rather not be feeling bad at all) but defitnley not as bad as i expected, but im sure they have to get worse according to alot of posters experiences with suboxone withdrawl. The one thing that sub did for me was alowed me to get that I need to get high feeling to go away, Im not craving anything, I just have in my head " You have what will make you feel better just take it", But I dont want to( I am keeping them because Ill never take anything else for pain and I got bad teeth, is that a good idea or should I flush them). Right now I have this wierd back spine ache, jitters, chills, restless legs mostley at night, and anxiety.

[leowd]

I gave my to boyfriend--who won't cave in to my temptations. But I found one at the bottom of my purse last week. The addict in my said give it to Carl, and the other addict in me said keep it somewhere just in case.

I kept it, but I have not even thought twice about it...until now. If you can give your suboxs to someone you trust, do it. Why deal with temptation on top of WDs?

Also, my WDs from suboxone were nothing compared to the Lexapro WD I stupidly threw on top of!

Good luck.

[Talista]

This doesn't really apply to your question but I just wanted to share my experience with you.

As I said in my post I had both my hips done under a month ago (Left hip is a month old Monday) and prior to having the surgery I was very badly twisted up due to compensating for walking but being unable to properly do so. Are you using a walking aid at all? I actually have my right hip up higher than my left right now as a result from my inability to walk correctly...even with an aid such as a walker. My surgeon took this into account and he fully expects things to even out as I go along and keep moving properly. I can remember now the back pain I had from something as simple as standing in the shower, standing to brush my teeth etc. The good thing is that now I am pain free after surgery even in my back.

I know it's hard to have to struggle through pain. They wouldn't consider upping my prescriptions to Oxycontin with Percocet chasers (which was the pharamcists suggestion because of how much pain he could see I was in) within a month of surgery because they were afraid that it would change all the test results for the doctors to properly plan how much meds I would need on the table etc. so for 3 weeks I just had to hobble along as best as I could and it was agony. My family dr knew this but he didn't want to do anything that could delay my surgery.

Hang in there! 7/7 gets closer with every minute.

Tali