Posted by bulldog2 on January 24, 2009, at 14:15:41
In reply to BUPRENORPHINE, posted by sunkistcat79 on January 7, 2009, at 15:04:01
> Hello,
>
> In the midst of a severe depression, I was prescribed oxycodone for pain. The results were an almost complete lifting of an almost 2 decade depression - I was left alert, calm, stable, happy...NOT manic, drugged, or "high" feeling.
>
> I read every article I could find on opioids and depression (and comprehended the academic/neuropsychological texts better than I have ever remembered comprehending anything) and started taking Burprenorphine (subutex). At the time, I had also been taking wellbutrin and lexapro. At first, the bupe. offer the same exact results as the oxycodone.
>
> So, I began my slow tapers from wellbutrin and lexapro. All my problems began to slowly return... along with other typical lexapro withdrawals symptoms (brain zaps, nausea).
>
> However, after the withdrawals should have stopped, the Depression was back in full force.
>
> So, after a while, I went back on the wellbutrin and lexapro, thinking I needed to replicate the exact circumstances of when the opioids worked.
>
> Nothing.
>
> After months and months, I finally weaned off the subutex.
>
> Again, I find myself in a place of total despair. I can't help thinking about the NORMAL way I felt when the BUPRENORPHINE worked and that I need that feeling back (I'm not looking to get high...never was...never did.). I took oxycodone for 2 weeks before being switched to subutex (so I did not have the typical experience of an "addict").
>
> I know people wrote on here about taking bupe. for years and it working wonders. It worked wonders for me....but only about a month.
> And for those of you who don't know, they prescribe bupe. to people trying to stop being addicted to opioids for 2 basic reasons:
> 1. There is a ceiling effect - you don't build up a tolerance and need more and more for the same effect.
> 2. It does not provide you with a "high" feeling
>
> I just put in my order to LDN(naloxene sp?)...but past that....
> HELP?!?!
> Does anyone have any idea why the bupe. stopped working??
> I plan on trying it again because I believe that this is the chemical my body needs in order to function.
>
> HELP!
>
> (I been on over a dozen regualar psychotropics and I could have bought a small country with the amount of money I spent on supplements. On a scale of 1-100, the greatest relief I ever got on a psychotropic or a supplement was a 9. On buprenorphine...99)
>
> thanks,
> sunkistcat79Sounds like you might do well on oxycodone. The irony is doctors routinely prescribed narcotics for depression before the advent of modern ads.
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