Buprenorphine for Pain User Reviews (Page 5)

• 1Pr...
• Taken for 1 to 2 years
• May 28, 2021

Buprenorphine "I have broken Harrington rods in my back. Surgery's not an option because nerves and scar tissue have grown around the hardware. So... I have chronic pain. I am on a stronger level of the Belbuca and it does seem to take the edge off of spasms and the strong cutting pains, but it just doesn't get you to a decent tolerable pain scale level... (for me that's about a 5-7)."

• Sub...
• Taken for 10 years or more
• May 3, 2017

"Been in for 10 years. Was prescribed Opana and OC before that. I think it's best for me because of how long it lasts. Not as many ups and downs, and if I sleep a long time, can easily go 12 hours between doses. Like a lot."

• JTa...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• June 22, 2019

"I agree with the previous reviewer. After being on morphine for 10 years due to failed back surgery and nerve pain, I switched to Belbuca. So far, the pain relief is better than morphine, with fewer side effects. No constipation. Great medicine."

• lcb...
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• January 5, 2016

"I have had chronic lower back pain after falling through a deck. I lived with the pain as long as I could. I finally found a doctor that would help me, she prescribed the Butrans patch. What a change it made! I started with the 20 mcg but found it to be too strong. I didn't like feeling tired all the time, she lowered the dose to 15 mcg with Norco 7.5 for breakthrough pain. I really like the patch as it has worked wonders for me, I rarely need the Norco. All I can say is thank you to my doctor for prescribing these. Take as directed and avoid other medication unless approved by your doctor."

• Jgr...
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• October 6, 2019

"I have a short leg and scoliosis, along with degenerative disc disease, and I’m overweight. My doctor switched his patients to Subutex when we were all on methadone, etc. Well, I’ve gained 40 pounds, and my pain is so severe I can’t even stand long enough to cook dinner or vacuum my floor. I take two and a half 8 mg sublinguals each day, along with gabapentin and lots of Aleve and ibuprofen. I am NOT pain-free. I am barely living. I lost over 100 pounds on methadone, worked out, and had my life. Now I feel like it’s been taken away from me. I am having gastric bypass now because I can’t be active and need help this time around, and I’m sure that will help a lot. But if it doesn’t, I’m getting back surgery because I can’t pay $200 a month for my doctor visit if my pain isn’t being managed."

• sc1...
• June 16, 2011

Buprenorphine "I started Buprenex for pain 10 years ago, and it has been a lifesaver to me. I tried pain pills, and they did not come close to giving me good pain relief. Subutex and Suboxone are only approved for detox. Buprenex injection is just approved for pain relief. Buprenex gave me back some quality of life. No pain pill lasted long enough or came close to relieving the pain like Buprenex. It does not give you constipation at all."

• Kin...
• July 31, 2016

"I have been managing chronic pain for several years due to a failed lumbar fusion. About 4 months ago, my doctor switched me from Norco to Belbuca. I like Belbuca's ability to control pain over 12 hours, although it is really closer to 10. It is also a huge benefit that it can be renewed via fax, versus having to go to the doctor's office to get a hard copy of the script. Now to the major downside: when I was upped to 300 mcg, I developed a severe nighttime itch. It's to the point where it is limiting me to less than 4 hours of sleep a night. Talk to your doctor about finding a separate pain med for nighttime, otherwise, you run the risk of going utterly crazy from months of long-term sleeplessness."

• Kat...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• February 9, 2020

"I was on 30 mg buprenorphine after having been on high doses of OxyContin. I got no pain relief, and the doctor kept telling me to hang in there. I was in bed for weeks trying to wait for this drug to affect my pain. No relief ever! And that was after reducing the oxy to try this. It was totally misrepresented! Also, as an aside, this opioid epidemic kills fewer people each year than alcohol! And I have no idea about smoking. It's giving pain patients a terrible, difficult time getting relief between doctors, pharmacies, and insurance, it's a hassle every single month!"

• rel...
• December 5, 2009

"Subutex/Buprenorphine MIRACLE for me! My life was being destroyed by narcotic pain medication. I was switched back and forth between Dilaudid, Hydrocodone 10 mg (Norco), and Oxycodone. My tolerance got higher and higher for the medication with lower thresholds for pain. I was heavily into abuse. OxyContin was the next choice (which I never abused), but I was in a stupor, neglecting my family and experiencing blackouts. Drug treatment alone did nothing to manage the chronic pain I had from an almost fatal car accident. I found Subutex. Four years on Subutex, I'm employed and mending family damage. Subutex has a ceiling and was created to prevent abuse. It works! I have a life again."

• BG ...
• March 4, 2016

"After a long battle with chronic pain and medications, I've decided to 'kick' as I was taking my prescriptions and others' too much and too often. My biggest fear is that I'll still have the pain (lumbar S1-L5 herniated discs) with bilateral stenosis and sciatica, which will be a potential for relapse. I don't want to take their drugs anymore, 'big pharm.' It's cheap and easy to get and get hooked, even if you are using them correctly. Anyway, I had to go to a clinic for help as my doctor would surely just 'cut me off' if I told him I was struggling or just give me more of the same. Today is day 1 on bup and 1 dose: 8 mg dissolvable twice daily. It's been 23 minutes, and I'm finally feeling better. Gives me hope."

• Rea...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• July 28, 2022

Buprenorphine "I tried these patches with an open mind. Having read many reviews, now I see that they are mostly positive. I agree, as they changed my life. I’m no longer in constant pain and am free to live a full and meaningful life again, without painkiller tablets, i.e., Codeine. I haven’t been this happy since the birth of my last child. They have changed my whole life. I feel utterly relieved that I was prescribed these. I am happy again and I feel like my old self again before my pain began-except even better. I have even lost weight since starting them, which was usually mission impossible for me. I guess they wouldn’t work for everyone because everyone is different, but I’m very grateful they have worked miracles for me. I’m a new, better, happier, changed version of myself. My pain used to make me so depressed, which led to a lot of bad life choices including excessive gambling. No more!"

• Anonymous
• Taken for less than 1 month
• March 11, 2023

"I suffer from horrific bone and nerve pain. MSIR for 10 years. Wonderful relief. Took 4 mg of this Rx and became absolutely wasted, had dizziness, double vision, and felt sick. All I could manage was to try and sleep. Then I had a 3-day sick, hallucinating hangover. Never will I allow this awful medicine in my body. Thanks for letting me vent."

• Lau...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• August 23, 2020

"This buprenorphine medication didn't help with pain at all, instead, it made me very nauseated, vomiting, extremely sleepy, and shaky. I stopped it and went back to a low dosage of oxycodone, which helps much better with pain with almost no side effects for me."

• Bup...
• Taken for 2 to 5 years
• February 25, 2023

Buprenorphine "This is by far the best pain medicine I’ve been on for chronic pain. I have severe neck issues as well as lower back issues that I will have for the rest of my life. About five years ago, someone mentioned this drug to me and that it may help with pain even though its use is to help users to get off opiates. I wasn’t a drug user, however, I was able to get onto this drug by agreeing that I took more pain medicine than I should’ve at one point. I’ll never forget the day I went onto this drug. I walked out of the doctor's office with a pain level of two, which I hadn’t felt in years! I am so grateful that I have a life now where I can move around instead of being in pain all day long, as the opiates really weren’t working as well and nothing close to what I’m feeling now. I tell everyone I know of my Subutex journey. I’m glad I found this site so I can share it with you."

• opi...
• April 25, 2012

"A miracle. I stopped taking methadone (60 mg/day for 11 years, then I weaned at 30 mg/day for 90 days), waited 24 hours, and took my first dose (2 x 8 mg). RLS was all the withdrawal I had! No stomach issues, but for the first 48 hours I was out of it but felt fine. Slept 18 hours, woke up, took my second dose, and felt twice as good in minutes. Within 7 days I felt like my old self again. Take it for yourself and your family. It works. I only had to take it for 14 days, and the physical addiction was gone."

• Klo...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• August 20, 2015

"My doctor prescribed buprenorphine in tablet form for pain. Prescribed 8 mg, but that's way too strong. Hard to break into fours. Anyone else take it in tablet form, and if so, any side effects? I seem to have some body itch?"

• GAM...
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• October 15, 2021

Buprenorphine "I have lupus, and then last year diagnosed with a very rare autoimmune disease that leaves me feeling, on my best days, like I’ve been in a horrible car accident. I had been taking increasingly higher doses of hydrocodone to no avail. I can’t take any type of anti-inflammatory meds due to my DMARDs and biological meds for my disease. I thought my life was just to endure untold amounts of pain. That’s all until I switched pain management doctors and first heard about Belbuca. At first, I was hesitant because I thought there was no way this was going to work. I’ve completely quit hydrocodone and couldn’t be happier. At first, I was still getting the Norco, but I tried a little experiment to see if my relief was in my head and only relied on the Norco and couldn’t make it two days and was right back to that familiar place of excruciating pain with little to no relief."

• Non...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• October 10, 2019

"Severe migraines, my stomach feels like battery acid was poured down it. I can't swallow my food now without choking. I have major concerns about this pill too because I've tried most pain medications and never felt euphoria with any until this one. I think it's dangerous, and they're lying about its addictive abilities. Just like its sister drug. It helps with pain, but the side effects are so not worth it! Pain management won't switch me back to morphine. I'm somewhere between being hospitalized for not eating and my pain. Sarcoidosis, back, and abdominal masses. 94 lbs."

• Dia...
• Taken for 5 to 10 years
• February 11, 2021

Buprenorphine "Belbuca (inside cheek formulation every 12 hours) has been a lifesaver for me. Unfortunately, I had been forced to take opioid medications after a car wreck, which led to 4 lumbar disk surgeries, 2 cervical disk surgeries, a stroke, Sjögren’s syndrome, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, Raynaud’s disease, and other pain conditions."

• SeO...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• January 20, 2016

"I have been taking Hydro 10/325 for about 13 years. This medicine is a life changer! My dosage was at 6 a day with my tolerance. It was just unbearable to the point of asking for help many times due to the way I was taking them. Basically, I took twice the dose I had to really be able to participate in life. I also have taken many other medications like antidepressants, Cymbalta, several. I am still taking my Flexeril and gabapentin but trying to cut back from 1800 mg a day. I'm now sure this is the cause of weight gain for me. But in other combinations, the prior year I lost over 50 lbs not even trying to. Very scary. I have thyroid issues, several biopsies over the years. I have neuropathy, low back to mid-compressed disc, neck pain, and sciatica."

• Luk...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• September 24, 2019

"Luke, my boy was in pain, the doctor gave him a buprenorphine injection, and he had a hard time breathing, couldn't get up, then couldn't stand, rapid heart rate, and his muscles stiffened up, then died."

• Tom...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• November 12, 2019

"Been on buprenorphine for 2 months for pain. Have MS and just can’t find any relief. At first, it seemed to help. 5 mcg. Started now moving up to 50% stronger. Just really confused about all these replacements. Scared to take any of it. Really!!! Will update later this month. Thank you."

• Man...
• November 23, 2009

"I was in chronic pain from a shoulder injury, taking massive amounts of other horrifying painkillers, one to a half an 8mg Subutex a day, and I am 90% better than I was before! Able to work with minimal pain and living a much clearer, cleaner life now! Thanks to Subutex!"

• Anonymous
• July 13, 2017

"Opioid novoice... those patches did not work for me either. Have you tried fentanyl transdermal patches? I have a dislocated disc in my back also. Fentanyl patches are 3-day patches, they work great. They come in 25 mcg - 100 mcg. I take oxycodone 10 mg for breakthrough pain. What a difference! I still have some pain, but it's tolerable. Much better. And ibuprofen, Advil, they are not OTC drugs there (NSAIDs), non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. And with the type of pain you have, they will not work. Just thought I would share with you."

• MP1...
• May 18, 2010

"I was on all kinds of other painkillers prior to Subutex. I was not only in chronic pain from a shoulder injury (and failed surgeries), but I was also addicted and dependent upon OxyContin and Norco for about 5 years. I found a doctor who originally put me on Suboxone, then I switched to Subutex since there was a generic available. I now have been clean and pain-free for almost a year thanks to Subutex. It is a wonderful drug, I have a clear mind and a normal life. My pain doesn't override the other parts of my life anymore. It truly saved my life!"