SUBOXONE Reviews (BUPRENORPHINE HYDROCHLORIDE; NALOXONE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 3.2 (174 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare SUBOXONE with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SUBOXONE | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | M | | 6/6/2009 | 1 | A gp told me I had tom | 1X day | 7/26/2014 | 1 | Fibromyalgia pain | severe nausea, severe drowsiness, cold, pale skin, lowered body temp., dizziness, extreme weakness, vomiting, nervousness, | After taking the first dose of only 2mg I ended up in the Emergency Room. This was prescribed for my fibromyalgia pain..not opioid withdrawal. I felt like I was going to pass out and never wake up. | F | 44 | 1 times | 11/2/2009 | 1 | Depression | Intense dizziness, profuse sweating, within an hour of taking this medicine I was on the floor in a pool of vomit. severe nausea and disorientation. I was unable to get up off the floor by myself and had to call for help and paramedics. Spent 4 hours in emergency room. Severe abdominal cramps and chills. Symptoms eased after receiving a shot of morphine. All this from a 2mg dose! | ER doctors did not believe that this drug was prescribed for depression and I had to wait for blood and urine tests before they gave me the morphine to counteract the suboxone. The wait was agony. This was clearly a time when I thought I was going to die. IF THIS DRUG IS OFFERED TO YOU FOR SOMETHING OTHER THAN DRUG DEPENDACY-- GET A SECOND OR THIRD OPINION. IT MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE. | M | 57 | 1 times | 9/23/2009 | 4 | for pain and to get off opiates | In the beginning i had the nodding and that was about 5 yrs ago , but now I've been getting so sleepy and I can't stay awake for very long, could it be the subs doing this ?? | F | 36 | 3 times 24 | 9/6/2014 | 3 | Pain Management? | None yet | I have terminal Lupus and fibromyalgia and a bunch of other diseases that comes with those. Ive been on different narcotics for 7 years. In July I was rushed to the ER with severe stomach pains, it turned out I was so constipated that my bowel was twisted and it caused all my stool to go into my small intestine which caused that to be the same size as my large intestine. I spent 2 and a half weeks in hospital getting 'cleared out' The Gi Dr told me I had to come off all narcotics, and I was tappered off morphine when i got home. I have been in agony since the surgery with the surgery pain plus my chronic pain. I went to a pain management dr and he wants to put me on suboxone, i have found no info about it being used for pain management. Im worried that he thinks its all in my head and that im trying to get narcotics and taking this will take away any 'craving' i have. I don't have a craving, I have pain and want relief. If anyone can give me any insight on this i would appreciate it. Ive been narcotic free since August and in extreme pain. Im not a junkie, Im terminally ill and need something for pain. Please email me with any info you can give me Thank you | F | 31 | 0 days | 10/25/2009 | 5 | Wanted to itch my nose off of my face, very loopy, vomitting | F | 19 | 1 days 8mg 1X day | 10/19/2011 | 5 | Getting of Vicodin, oxycoti after s | 1 days | 9/16/2015 | 4 | ,, methadone doesn't help me | I haven't been on it long enough | ,, I haven't been on it long enough | F | 48 | 1 days | 5/29/2015 | 3 | 6 years of using opiates.. | I have been taking opiates for 6 years after 3 surgeries. I was prescribed narcotics and then I eventually got hooked on them. I have been to 3 diffrent rehabs but when I got out each time I would start back taking them again. So today 6/7/2012 I went to see a doctor to get me off of these pain pills. So he put me on Suboxone ( 8 milligrams/ 3 times a day) well I just took my 2nd dose of the buprenorphin pill and I have got severe sleepy and I am very nausiated . I got real weak and jittery. I hope that someone reads my post that maybe of some help to me. I want to get off of the percocets for for good and I want my life back just be normal again. Will these side effects go away ? I am praying so !! I spent $ 230.00 for my doctors visit today plus my suboxone prescription was $ 180.00 to get it filled. It is worth the money to me if this Suboxone treatment helps me. I just want to be normal again and off of the pain pills. If anyone out there reads this please reply. This is the first time I have tried the Suboxone treatment so I'm praying this helps me. I have put it in my head over and over that I can and will overcome this addictition. If someone reads this post please do reply. Any help, comments, etc; I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you so much for taking the time to read this and please do keep me in your prayers !! | F | 40 | 1 days 8 mgs. | 6/7/2012 | 2 | chronic pain/opiate dependence | Horrible "idiocyncratic" and "highly unusual" (my doc's words) reaction to first and only dose--extreme sleepiness and dizziness, combined with extreme anxiety (I would stop breathing while falling asleep and then gasp for air--leading to no sleep for over a day despite extreme sleepiness), plus profuse vomiting (I think I threw up at least 2 dozen times over 36 hours) and bad headache. | Aside from boards like this one describing personal experiences, I could not find information about extreme adverse reactions like mine online -- EXCEPT for case reports where people took benzos, drank alcohol, or otherwise did stuff totally contraindicated. I did none of those things -- and did everything according to the doctor's orders and the patient information on Suboxone -- and yet felt like I was going to die. I have chronic pain and depression, and my psychiatrist (I'm in treatment for depression) said Suboxone would be a way to control the pain without the neurotransmitter side effects of the oxycodone (1-3 tabs per day) that I have been taking for a couple of years. My depression is better but not completely resolved, and my psychiatrist thought my oxycodone use might be playing a role in that. By comparison, he said your brain cannot down-regulate your neurotransmitters in reaction to Suboxone treatment like it can with regular opiates. I don't know if there's any way to know whether you'll be in agony like me, versus helped like other patients, but this seems related to a horrible experience I had with Stadol spray once, which is also apparently a long-term opiate. I also have a bad "dystonic" reaction to Reglan and compazine (anti-nausea drugs). Also, I was very nauseous and tired with both my pregnancies throughout term and am motion-sensitive/get sick easily on rides, in cars, etc. My doc said the nausea area in the brain is close to the par | F | 40 | 1 days 2 mg 1X day | 3/29/2012 | 2 | addicted to pills for 2 years | Fatigue | Suboxone was great for me, at first anyway. I ended up taking it for 2 years (maybe more) and I jumped at 1mg. My withdraws were so uncomfortable. I never knew I'd feel bad from a drug that was supposed to make me feel good. I've heard you shouldn't be on it for longer than a month. Maybe that was my problem, I was on it for too long. Even at the smallest dose, you're still going to withdraw coming off suboxone. Would NOT recommend!!! | F | 22 | 1 days 2 | 1/31/2015 | 1 | mild withdraws | hiccups, vomiting, nausea, cold sweats | this drug is ridiculous, I am now certain it is a ploy by pharmaceutical companies to get people to purchase more of they're products. I have taken it once and now 17 hours I am still vomiting. I was a opiate addict for 1.5 years using somewhere around 120mg per day when I was done I sweated it out on the couch and was just fine. this time around I'm barely using and only for about three weeks. I took suboxone, and my experience is way worse than any opiate withdraws. If I were looking to get off opiates, I would seriously consider all other options before taking this. at best this is a good diet pill as I have violently, projectile vomited everything I have put in my body. | M | 33 | 1 days 7mg 1X day | 8/9/2014 | 1 | To get off opiates | It's harder to get off than opiates y'all are a bunch of lice end Drug Dealers that should choke on your profits and every Doctor prescribing it should get Life in prison without the possibility of Parole and they should drop a nuclear bomb on the place where it is maid ...anyone that takes this drug and try's to get off of it will fill the same way I do | M | 60 | 1 days 8 | 3/2/2014 | 1 | I was given it against my will and | This is most evil thing you could take. It is known as the junkie killer. This is designed to addict quickly, and has a 30 day detox, the longest of any med. | Thevdr had the audacity to tell me I will be on this for life. I told to go f herself, that people CAN CHANGE. EVIL BITCH DR | M | 55 | 1 days MASSIVE 5X day | 8/5/2020 | 4 | to treat opiate dependence | nausea, considerable itching, tiredness, dizziness. | Suboxone works! It does not give you the intense buzz of a normal pain pill but rather a consistent low level euphoria that seems to last for several hours. So far, it has been working well. I've been taking 1 8mg pill per day and just 1 pill lasts a while. Yes, it is a narcotic itself but it is much better than spending a ton of money on abusing oxycodone... The other drug in it Naloxone is an opiate antagonist which deters abuse of suboxone itself. | M | 21 | 2 days | 3/18/2008 | 3 | Opiates | Severe nausea | F | 53 | 2 days 8mg 1X day | 8/18/2020 | 3 | Opiates | Severe nausea | F | 53 | 2 days 8mg 1X day | 8/18/2020 | 1 | Addicted to OTC opiates | I was a healthy 37 yr old female with a mild codeine addiction. I took suboxone 6mg on the first day and had no side effects. The second day I took 10mg and I was admitted to hospital with liver failure later that day. Then my kidneys failed. Then a few weeks later I got a bad headache and suffered seizures. I was hospitalized then I had a cardiac arrest. ALL BECAUSE I TOOK SUBOXONE. Think twice about taking this drug. It ruined my life and I have nightmares. | Think twice about taking this drug. It nearly killed me. | F | 37 | 2 days 6mg 1X day | 8/13/2015 | 5 | Opiate addiction | This saved my life and stopped me doctor shopping and filling myself up with pain killers. I've been tapering down from 24mg over the last year and am now down to 4mg, I haven't suffered withdrawal doing this. But I've been a few days without my proper dose and the withdrawals are horrible, it's like your whole body is creeping and tickling in an uncomfortable way where it's impossible to keep still while induring it. I'd recommended this to anyone who is serious about getting off drugs. | F | 37 | 3 days 24mg-4mg | 3/9/2014 |
SUBOXONE (BUPRENORPHINE HYDROCHLORIDE; NALOXONE HYDROCHLORIDE): This medication contains 2 medicines: buprenorphine and naloxone. It is used to treat opioid (narcotic) dependence/addiction. Buprenorphine belongs to a class of drugs called mixed opioid agonist-antagonists. Buprenorphine helps prevent withdrawal symptoms caused by stopping other opioids. Naloxone is a narcotic antagonist that blocks the effect of opioids and can cause severe opioid withdrawal when injected. Withdrawal is less likely when naloxone is taken by mouth, dissolved under the tongue, or dissolved on the inside of the cheek. It is combined with buprenorphine to prevent abuse and misuse (injection) of this medication. This combination medication is used as part of a complete treatment program for drug abuse (such as compliance monitoring, counseling, behavioral contract, lifestyle changes). FDA Approval Date: 2002-10-08 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)