February 22, 2009 - 2:51am
Hello, I was recently prescribed Suboxone for Oxycodone addiction. I decided to stop taking Oxycontin and the withdrawls were horrible, so a doctor has prescribed me to Suboxone which is great. This week was my first week taking it. Two days ago I had a few teeth pulled and was given Hydrocodne for the pain. As far as I know Hydrocodone will not work when taken with Suboxone so I paused my Suboxone treatment and started taking the Hydrocodone. I haven't taken Hydrocodone for years but its effects are very weak to say the least. Anyway, I'm starting to feel withdrawl symptoms 2 days since my last dose of taking Suboxone. My question is; is it OK to go ahead and start taking my Suboxone again? I'm worried that since I've taken Hydrocodone (as recently as an hour ago) that my Suboxone will put me into bad withdrawls but then again I'm not withdrawling from Hydrocodone, I've never had an addiction to it, only Oxycodone and it's been well over a week since I've had any Oxy. My tooth really isn't hurting anymore so I'm wondering how long I should wait until I should start up my Suboxone treatment again. I'm having problems sleeping tonight because of the withdrawls so I'm wanting to take it right now, just don't want to put myself into horrible withdrawls. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
February 22, 2009 - 1:01pm
#2
i know that if you take any
i know that if you take any opiate while on suboxone you will go into w/d....wait 24-48 hours then take your sub.
March 28, 2009 - 12:57pm
#3
What dose of hydrcodone were
What dose of hydrcodone were you taking ? and for how long ? In my opinion you are probably feeling the withdrawls from the abrubt cessation of the suboxone, And I feel that you should resume your suboxone asap. That's my opinion, Suboxone is a partial opiate antagonist but mainly an agonist, and if you were on fairly low doses of hydrocodone for a period of a few days you should be ok, I'd say your body is crying out for it's suboxone, Good Luck either way.
All comments are the users opinion, and are not to be taken for professional medical advice, all medical advice should be sought from a medical health professional. I am merely a student.
March 29, 2009 - 9:21pm
#4
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What did you end up doing?
Still taking the suboxone?
March 30, 2009 - 3:12am
#5
But I thought....
Wouldn't the hydrocodone still work as a pain reliever, even though the "euphoria effect" is blocked?
Could you keep taking the suboxone and take the hydrocodone for pain?
Is it unsafe/dangerous to take the 2 medicines together? (except for the fact that taking a full agonist opioid could trigger a relapse)
.......or isn't that already a relapse? LOL
March 29, 2009 - 9:47pm
#6
If you take the suboxone
If you take the suboxone first it has a average half life of 37hours, so you cannot use any other opiate for two to three days to get the full effect of full opiate agonists. It is dangerous to take a full opiate agonist while on suboxone because you wont feel the effects of the opiate and you think you can take more and more until it over powers the suboxone and than you get a huge dose of the full opiate agonist all at once and possibly overdose. Now if you take a full opiate agonist first, you have to wait 24hrs before initiating the suboxone otherwise if you are opiate dependent it will send you immediately into withdrawal.
March 29, 2009 - 10:13pm
#7
in regards to dental pain
my spouse an I at the time was on hyrocodone 10/650, when it came time for dental extractions, we had to get dentist to call our pain management dr , so that he could document the procedure, an pain management dr would write perocet 2 times daily to deal with immune effect of hyrocodone, it would be like hyro be working fine for back pain but when novacaine wear off you be in killer pain, i used to keep a few extra perocets an take 1 before extraction, just in case, don t do that no more, have to abide by the pain management code book
Did you tell the Dentist that you are taking Suboxone? I also take Suboxone and know that you have to be in w/d's before starting Suboxone. Since your tooth isn't really hurting anymore, wait until you are pretty uncomfortable from the w/d's from the Hrdro's and then start up the Suboxone again. If I'm wrong on this, someone pls correct me.
KK