Posted by barbaracat on April 8, 2005, at 12:45:15
In reply to Re: My doctor can't help me, posted by reefer on April 7, 2005, at 18:45:43
> > Have you tried any opiods for your depression? I take non-prescribed buprenorphine at 0.2/mg 3x daily and it lifted my depression from day one. I've been on the same dose since december. So tolerance doesn't seem to be a problem with this drug.
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** Do you take bupe sublingually? I hear that's the optimum way.There was a regular poster to this board, Elizabeth, extremently brilliant and offered very helpful advice to all who asked. I think she left for medical school. She is sorely missed. Anyhow, she had very treatment resistant depression and the only thing that truly helped was buprenorphine which she took on an ongoing basis. I think at last count she was looking at taking it as a nasal spray to cut down on tolerance issues.
I have a source for buprenorphine and am going to give it a try. I found oxycontin and hydrocodone to be very helpful in lifing depression and I've heard that buprenorphine is even better for this. Plus, I just like how opiods make me feel and I have never, not ever developed any addiction problems or otherwise when I had a ready supply for fibromyalgia pain. I doubt I'd abuse it because I never have before. Now that I've got better health and wits about me, no need to now. I doubt I'd do it more than infrequently and when needed because the constipation thing was always a self-limiting factor - but I've got a better understanding on how to deal with this.
In short, I find it distasteful to allow a med to have control over me, as long as I use it and it doesn't use me. I had an addiction to methedrine 30 years ago. It was bad and nothing like that has or will ever happen again.
For the ocassional rough spot, there's nothing like a nice opiod soothing glow. It is immediate relief and not sloppy or damaging like alcohol. Pain is pain, psychic or physical and I'm grateful we have substances that can take the sharp edge off it. I also know that I'm not always in pain and those are the times I don't want or need a pain med. I realize not everyone can take it or leave it and that seems to be the important deciding issue.
Like others who take it, it's rarely prescribed by our docs. It's usually the maveriks who decide to just try things and not seek permission. Im finding I need to explain myself here because of the criminal seedy element people associate with taking opiods 'on the lam'. I figure it's my life, I'm not hurting anyone, I have good common sense, and if I played the nice obedient girl who let her doctors make all her decisions, I'd still be a very crazy girl with no chutzpah. - Barbara
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