When I detoxed off of opiate pain pills in the past I was prescribed Clonidine and Naltrexone to help with the withdrawals. Clonidine is a drug that lowers your blood pressure and is used in detoxing off of opiates because it calms you down and makes you feel relaxed. Clonodine made me feel very drowsy and I had to take a nap everyday while I was on it. I didn't like feeling drowsy all day especially since I drive a lot and have to work so I stopped taking it. Naltrexone is the other drug I was prescribed. It decreases the cravings for opiates and it's also used for alcohol abuse. If you take Naltrexone you will not get high if you consume opiates making doing them pointless. It give you a psychological edge over using and obsessing over opiates because what is the point if you can't feel them. So now I'm on my third detox off of opiates and I was thinking about Suboxone. I had heard about Suboxone over the years and was looking to still feel the effects of opiates mildly while I was weening off of them. It has an opiate in it called Buprenorphine and Naloxone which is a opiate antagonist similar to Naltrexone. Many opiate addicts take Suboxone to make the opiate detox more bearable . It is a class three controlled substance. As I was doing research on Suboxone, I noticed there was a section on the Suboxone website where you could find doctors in your area. That put opiate addicts on Suboxone treatment. I found a local doctor and went over there for a consultation on Suboxone treatment. After all was said and done the doctor prescribes thirty Suboxone strips to me. The consultation fee was $350 which I felt was too expensive. If I had known it was going to cost that much I probably wouldn't have gone. The doctor prescribed 30 Suboxone Strips to me. The doctors instructions were to take half a film everyday and that the effects lasted for 24-36 hours. I was able to get 15 films with a copay of $48 at the pharmacy. If I had wanted all thirty strips at the time it was prescribed to me it would have cost $248 since my insurance wouldn't of covered any of it. [caption id="attachment_661" align="alignleft" width="225"] Suboxone Package[/caption] When you open the package there is a small film inside that you put under your tongue and wait for it to dissolve. It doesn't all dissolve in its entirety and I end up swallowing some down my throat. It has a very nasty after taste. The doctor told me I'd feel it after thirty minutes of putting it under my tongue but I haven't really noticed any difference in how I've felt since I've been taking it. I have not felt any kind of opiate high from Suboxone but the cravings to use opiates has dwindled. I haven't consumed any opiates since I've been on Suboxone. [caption id="attachment_664" align="alignleft" width="225"] Suboxone strips placed under the tongue[/caption] Suboxone Side Effects The side effects from Suboxone are similar to opiate pain medication. The side effects for me have consisted of constipation, headaches, and a decrease in sex drive. Suboxone Constipation After five days of being on suboxone I haven't had to take a bowel movement. I was concerned about this so I forced myself on the six day to defecate. I was able to defecate but it wasn't easy. I really had to push to get it out and when I did lots of fecal matter came out. It was the same struggle to move my bowels as it was on opiate pain pills. The main side effect I've encountered on Suboxone is trouble urinating. It has gotten better since the beginning but it has been difficult to urinate since I've been on it. Some of the main problems with urinating on Suboxone have been:
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