swelling feet & lower legs-alcohol or narcotic withdrawa

Have any people on here had a problem with swollen feet or lower legs after starting Suboxone..or maybe from stopping alcohol or pain killers?
My daughter has been in outpatient rehab for alcohol/narcotic addiction. She has been clean about 6 weeks...she has been started on Suboxone also. She had pretty heavy swelling in her feet and lower llegs for a couple weeks...and still has it...but it is less. Anyone ever have this problems from stopping alcooj\hol or drugs...or from starting suboxonee? she's also taking priozac..but has been taking that over a year.]
Thanks

You don't say what dose of Suboxone she is on.
Taking high doses of any narcotic over a long period of time can cause this type of swelling. This happened to me with oxycodone. Is she taking 16mg's or more a day. I didn't have this problem with Suboxone. I tried to keep my doses low. When I first started Suboxone, I started at 8mg's a day. Two weeks later I dopped that to 6mg's a day. If she is on high dose, Talk to her DOCTOR. Instead of looking for answers here.

Wish ya all the luck and GOD BLESS, you both.

I am looking for answers myself on this issue. 2 months ago I started to become very swollen on my feet, ankles, calves, thighs, hips, hands, arms & face. I had liver, kidney & heart labs done & they all came back normal so the only thing it could be is a combination of suboxone & hormones. It seems to get much worse near my cycles but never completely goes away. I've been on suboxone since 3/2008. Took 8mg's once per day for one month then switched to 2mg's split in half & taken twice a day. Maybe someone out there has a solution to this since I will be taking it long term for a chronic pain condition. The er doc did mention I could try cutting down on salt or ask my pcp if I should try diuretics.

Suboxone is listed as a class A (or class 1) narcotic drug, although the properties and chemical makeup of suboxone does not constitute the drug being labeled a narcotic. However, the FDA ruled that Suboxone should be listed as a narcotic drug because of the frequent abuse of the drug. Some users shoot up the suboxone, after melting it down into liquid form. Suboxone contains naloxone, a non-opioid antagonist, which counteracts and blocks opiates from being absorbed by opioid receptors in the brain. Basically, the naloxone is added to the drug in order to keep patients from abusing opiates while using the Suboxone. If a user of Suboxone abuses opiates while on Suboxone, not only can the affects be harmful to the brain, but in 11 cases since the drug's induction into pharmacutical practice, people have DIED from using opiates along with the Suboxone, due to the naloxone counteracting the opiates, and after the naloxone decipates and wears off, the opiates are still present in their original form, and are literally dumped onto the receptors in the brain, causing an overdose. The reason people shoot up the Suboxone is to get the effects of the actual Suboxone in the drug, not the naloxone. When melted into liquid form, the naloxone remains solid because of its non-water soluable properties. The participating user then removes the naloxone, and then injects the suboxone into the bloodstream. The point is, Suboxone is not entirely a narcotic drug, and with proper use, it is VERY effective in helping people who are addicted to pain killers overcome their addiction.

Just some info from an at-home MD.

Take care!

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Suboxone is listed as a class A (or class 1) narcotic drug, although the properties and chemical makeup of suboxone does not constitute the drug being labeled a narcotic. However, the FDA ruled that Suboxone should be listed as a narcotic drug because of the frequent abuse of the drug. Some users shoot up the suboxone, after melting it down into liquid form. Suboxone contains naloxone, a non-opioid antagonist, which counteracts and blocks opiates from being absorbed by opioid receptors in the brain. Basically, the naloxone is added to the drug in order to keep patients from abusing opiates while using the Suboxone. If a user of Suboxone abuses opiates while on Suboxone, not only can the affects be harmful to the brain, but in 11 cases since the drug's induction into pharmacutical practice, people have DIED from using opiates along with the Suboxone, due to the naloxone counteracting the opiates, and after the naloxone decipates and wears off, the opiates are still present in their original form, and are literally dumped onto the receptors in the brain, causing an overdose. The reason people shoot up the Suboxone is to get the effects of the actual Suboxone in the drug, not the naloxone. When melted into liquid form, the naloxone remains solid because of its non-water soluable properties. The participating user then removes the naloxone, and then injects the suboxone into the bloodstream. The point is, Suboxone is not entirely a narcotic drug, and with proper use, it is VERY effective in helping people who are addicted to pain killers overcome their addiction. Just some info from an at-home MD. Take care!

Part of what you said is not really true. The Naloxone is in the Suboxone pills, so that the abuser, if they were to inject the pill, which was disolved in water, would conteract the opiate Buprenorphine and also give the abuser a very unpleasent reaction. The Naloxone most certainly does dissolve and is designed to do so.

It is fully possible that because your daughter is on priozac (or did you mean Prozac?) that she is having a drug interaction. I know that a lot of people react differently to drugs so it is fully possible. Have you spoken to her doctor about the swelling and everything? It's worrisome regardless of whatever the cause is because that is certainly not normal behavior for the body. I wish you the best and I hope that your daughter recovers quickly. I'm glad to hear she has taken this first step.