Suboxone Treatment
Just recently I subscribed to a newsleter written by a Suboxone Doctor. When I say newsletter it actually was a 5 part mini course into Suboxone Treatment. The course was pretty interesting and while some of the course was not related to my circumsatnce alot of it was.
In this mini course the doc talked about people’s initial fear and anxiety about entering treatment. Why would there be fear and anxiety, you may ask. Well, most doctors will want to make sure that you are off you opiate of choice for at least 18 hours before even prescribing suboxone. That means that you are going to experience mild withdrawal symptoms, and if you have ever experienced withdrawal syptoms then you already know what type of fear and anxiety the doctor is speaking of. When I started Suboxone treatment the Doctor did ask me, “When was the last time you took Oxycontin.” (Oxycontin along with other painkillers such as vicodin was my opiates of choice.) It had only been a couple of hours since I last did oxy’s, but I told him 2 days and that I was experiencing withdrawal symptoms when i was not. I was ready to start my treatment and I was sick of taking painkillers everyday just to keep my withdrawals to a minimum.
It is a common understanding that starting Suboxone Treatment while you still have opiates in your system may throw you into very strong and uncomfortable withdrawal syptoms. This did not happen to me and I have never personally heard of it happening. Ever person’s situation is different and I have heard of people having negative effects to suboxone. Suboxone is a strong drug, and just like all other drug’s there are chances of side effects from Suboxone. I have exerienced mild side effects from this drug but the side effects are nothing compared to the withdrawal symptoms.
Tommorow I am going to be talking about some of the side effects of Suboxone and will continue with some common mistakes people make when entering treatment.
