I'd like to share MY experience with Suboxone.

I'll just point out the main points for brevity but I will expound on any of them if asked.

1. Suboxone saved my life.
2. Because of a long term chronic pain problem I was on many different narcotic pain
relievers for many years.
3. My tolerance level got very high.
4. Wound up becoming a comatose vegetable basically.
5. Wound up losing a lot .
6. Prescribing Dr. one day disappeared.
7. Lost " connection ". Now I couldn't get anybody to resume my treatment and dosage for oxy that high or ANY amount. for that matter.
8. Now not only was I starting to detox , I also was in horrific pain. Both of which almost pushed me over the cliff.
9. Luckily found a pain doc who would said I had to get off the meds. I said ok but what are you going to give me for my pain ? (All conventional treatment did not help.)
10. He said I'm putting you on Suboxone. I never even heard of it before. So I Googled it and found out what it was.
11. Wanted to go in-patient to do this but wound up doing it alone at home.
It took about 8 weeks of hell. He started at 12 and titrated me down to 2mg/0.5
12. I did it ! ( Only God knows how) *I was now CLEARER than at almost any part of my life.
13. During this time I got the usual injections in my lower back which may have helped a little. ( Spinal fusion L4-L5 , L5-S1 back in 2000 ).
14. So now I was just on the lowest dose which basically just took some of the edge off some of the pain. We talked about different procedures down the line. Meanwhile he decided to keep me on the Suboxone as a " MAINTANENCE " pain med until ? Had no choice , what else could I do ? Now it's important to point out a couple of things here.
-----1. Not all Drs. agree on using Suboxone as a "maintanence" pain med. It does have a small amount of a narcotic drug in it but the other half will stop drugs like oxy from attaching to your brain cells. If you have legit pain chances of this stuff getting you " high " is very small if not nil. If you use it for recreation purposes the you probably will get some kind of high off it..
15.You can become addicted to it so they were going to lower me until I was off of it which scared the crap out of me because what were they then going to give me for my pain ? No answer.
16. I tried to get off it myself and believe me you don't want to try that. I have also been told that even detoxing off the 2mg one( @ 2-3x a day ) is HELL. Definitely would have had to go to a detox under medical supervision.

So there you have it.
The short version.
Hope this helps somebody.