Posted by bee happy on February 4, 2003, at 19:37:04
Laura I think possibly my answer to you disappeared..or could be my computer illiteracy at work...anyway here is the note I sent you last night. Laura Look at that Buprenorphine study again. Many of the
subjects were self medicating before the study. I did too. Until
I was 35 I would take what ever opiate i could get my hands on.
And because of the awful guilt i felt, went through a rehab to
stop. For the the next 15 years I was just"ok"...not great by any
means, but functioning. The grey returned with a vengence
about two years ago.I too started 'borrowing' an occasional
pain pill from my husband's rotator cuff surgery prescription
for Norco.(With the same response as your husband) When my
Psychologist told me about the harvard study...she said "Bee,
you present too well. Beg. Cry. Ask the Psychiatrist to use you
as a guinnea pig!" She was all for trying it and told him so. He
was tetchy at first...mostly because of the hell he would have to
go through if the government started scrutiniziing his
prescription writing. But then he read all the literature about
the new program using Buprenorphine for drug dependence, and
that it was a shedule III with little potential for abuse due to
the agonist/antagonist properties). That was it. I found the
pharmacy where it could be compunded to sublingual form and
we were off.(My husband is now totally supportive and
understands now what I was going through). Perhaps you could
try a doctor that specialized in drug dependence..and with the
help of your family doc and your Psychologist...get a trial dose.
The CDR website is
(http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/infopage/subutex_suboxone/default.htm).I
hope this is some help. I really feel for you. You might even try
calling McClean Hospital in Boston where the Harvard study was
conducted....and ask for DR.Bodkin. Someone on this board was
actually able to speak with him personally when he was
desperate to find a doctor will to try this treatment. Let me
know how you're doing. If nothing else...it's good to have
somone you know understands what you are feeing. Believe me
I understand. Bee
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