Posted by Andy123 on October 19, 2001, at 18:19:05
In reply to Re: California Rocket Fuel+++ ?Peter S., posted by Elizabeth on October 16, 2001, at 18:09:45
Why don't you try milk of magnesia for the bup/des side effect.
> > If I might ask: what's your current regimen? What are the side effects that are so disturbing? Are they primarily from the bup?
>
> Yes. I'm taking:
>
> buprenorphine 0.3 mg (1 mL) t.i.d.
> desipramine 200 mg b.i.d.
> trileptal 150 mg b.i.d.
> clonazepam 1-2 mg p.r.n.
>
> plus some propranolol, bethanechol, Metamucil, and several antihistamines to counteract side effects.
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> The side effects are mostly caused by bupe, although some of them are probably exacerbated by the desipramine. Constipation is the most difficult one: I have to take Metamucil several times a day (kind of a hassle because
> and even then it's still pretty bad sometimes. There's also some really bad dry mouth. Antihistamines don't seem to work very well for the pruritis ("the itchies"). I think that something (not sure which) is causing some sexual problems, and I sometimes get carbohydrate cravings which might be from taking large doses of antihistamines.
>
> It's just so much stuff to manage, you know?
>
> -elizabeth
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