First appt. to see Dr. 4 Sub treatment in the morning!

So Ladyblueii, how did it go????

I'm going in on Monday morning at 11 for my first suboxone treatment. I have very mixed feelings about it. Did the suboxone give you any relief? Did they sit down and figure out a plan of how long to keep you on the suboxone? I know the place I'm going is VERY intensive (4 times a week you have to go to 3 hr meetings after work).



I've heard some nasty stuff about starting on suboxone, so if you could offer any information, it would be greatly appreciated.



Thank you, and many prayers for your recovery.

My appointment was good. I liked the dr. I found out a few things about the Sub. He dosed me with 1/4 of 8mg. at a time over 20 min. I finally started to feel better after about 3/4 of the pill. He took a pill, broke it in half, then broke the halfs in half and gave me 1/4. Came in asked me how I was feeling. I was sick from not taking anything from 5pm Sunday, and therefore was dissapointed after letting that 1/4 dissolve under my tounge. I was still NOT feeling any relief. He went back out and brought me in 1/2 of pill. Melted it under my tongue, and finally was feeling some better....He asked me were the withdrawl symtomps GONE. I said Not all the way, so he went out and got me the other small piece and I melted it. Withing 20 min of taking all of the pieces of an 8mg Sub, I was so much better. NO WITHDRAWL symptoms. FINALLY....I was getting worried for my mind was just going 50 different places and I went into that mode of thinking "IS THIS ALL"? All I had to do was be honest, and he was just trying to see how to measure my dose to start me off with. It makes some people throw up, so he didn't want to give me a whole 8mg pill at one time. OK, after that was settled, we talked about my use of Norco, Lortab, and the Percocet. I told him I was getting all that a month and of course all my health issues. After all was laid out there he told me he was going to dose me as follows: 8mg (whole pill) in the am for 3 days. After that take 1/2 of a pill 3x a day for 3days, then 1/2 twice a day from now on. He explained to me that since I do have pain issues, that keeping me on it for that reason with no end to the Subutex. SO that I didn't end up back on pain meds from getting off sub's and then ending up with pain. This med, stops the pain as well as gets you thru detox symptoms and just changes EVERYTHING! I feel so much better. I kinda felt like I had just taken 4/ 10mg tabs....and the feeling just continued all day. He told me NOT TO BE MY OWN DR and dose myself. TO CALL HIM & HE WOULD CALL ME BACK! So, I took that med in his office @ about 10am or 10:15 and by 6pm I was starting to feel withdrawl symptoms. So I called and it is Friday and I still haven't heard from them. But, on day 3, of not hearing from his office, and come 6pm started feeling sick, I took 1/2 on my own. Ive made 4 calls to his office over this issue, and all the nurse could tell me was DON"T MESS WITH YOUR DOSE!, I told her I didn't want too but since no one called me back I had too for I can't take the w/drawls.s.  I think for me: it wasn't so much getting off the norco's, tabs, & perc's. It was STAYING off them I fell back into them. With the Subutex, you just feel NORMAL! Just no withdrawl, and not feeling like c**p, with no energy, depression, all that comes with detoxing and how crappy you feel from just being sick for a week.  He gave me SUBTEX, which is a small bit different from SUBOXONE. It doesn't have ONE of the ingredients in it that is an antagonist. I am having a hard time learning about what all this is, and how it works. I do know it is the best I have felt in many years. I was taking so many pain pills that I felt like c**p not taking them, and felt like c**p when I was taking them. SO, I have very high hopes. It is like I have shed my winter coat and feel like a free person again. I am not stressing over PILLS...and what am I going to do if I run out and cant find any.....I can plan things and KNOW I will be able to attent not in fear the plans will roll around and I wont want to go for I have no pain pills for that day  and cant funtion knowing Im in w/drawl. CRAZY! I couldn't make any plans say 2-3 wks down for I never knew if I was going to REALLY be able to do it, ONLY if I had pain pills. I was not a very reliable person. I wanted to do all of these things I had planned, however, keeping it real, was IF I had pills for that day, Id be there. If I didn't have pills, I'd be in bed sick as hell! SO now I feel I have a different outlook on things. I have hope. I have been a little irritated, eating like crazy, and sleeping for a few hrs at a time and then waking up. BUT, the greatest thing I noticed just after 1 day, was that when I woke up the next morning, I felt so good. No heavy, groggy, achy, hurting all over, feeling like c**p until I swallowed 4-5 pills to get me up and going and out of pain. With the sub's, I am feeling my back ache, and the nerve in my leg throbbing, however, it is NOT intense and I am not sitting there obsessing over how bad I hurt and wanting to get back on the pills again, and scrapping the SUB program. OH NOOOO WAY!. Now my fears are that this SUBUTEX method of treatment is  that I hope I didn't step out of the frying pan and into the fire....I couldn't take Morphine or Oxy's. I never liked anything but Lortabs, & Norco's. The Pecocet were not my cup of tea....for while I was abusing them they sped me up way too much and was constipated badly...etc....SO with this medicine, I am scared it may be something harder to get off of with worse detox, and longer side effects of weeks and maybe months of no energy & depression. So, this DR. said he was not going to ween me off but to keep me on to manage my pain as well. SO, I am not trying to look at any negatives at this time, just relieved and thankful I am able to feel as relieved and as physcially and mentally great as I feel now. I am not miserable anymore. Im telling you I feel like the weight of the world has been lifted off my shoulders! Therefore am taking ONE STEP AT A TIME, & ONE DAY AT A TIME! I certainly had a lot to say....SO I wish you great success and hope it helps you as much as I have felt it help me! Any questions get back to me....I am thanking my friend for the encouragement she gave me to do this. I felt so bad Monday morning when I got up and almost cancelled the appointment. I felt so bad I didn't have it in me to drive the 65 miles to his office/. I thought to myself, GET UP & GET GOING, or your just going to continue to feel like this unless you go see this dr. and change something. For how I was doing things wasn't working.. I was already living in hell! So, I can proudly say I havent had any Tabs since SUN. July 30th. & havent wanted any. Good luck to you and I pray you find your way out of this hell of pill addiction. Im certainly not out of the woods yet, but feel so much better I have something good to look forward too now, other than that existance of misery I had settled for. Good luck, & God bless! (Oh, and those meetings after work?) You may look at it and feel how crappy is that going to be...from where you stand NOW. Once you get that Suboxone in you, and you feel SO MUCH BETTER LIKE WITHIN JUST 1 day, THOSE meetings wont look so bad thru your eyes. YOU WILL THINK, "HELL, that ain't nothing....but time....I can do that NO PROBLEM! Don't be like me, and start to discourage yourself before you even get to the appointment! That's the misery in us over where we stood, before the change. DO IT! GO TO THE DOC! IT IS WORTH IT! Best thing you'll ever do for yourself! YOU WILL THANK GOD YOU DID!