The Benefits of Suboxone for Chronic Pain Management
When people are undergoing chronic pain management they want help stopping or relieving their pain symptoms. What they may not realize is that some pain medications can actually cause or increase the pain that they are using the medication to manage—this is called hyperalgesia or pain re-bound. That is why it is crucial for people undergoing chronic pain management to educate themselves and learn as much as possible about their chronic pain condition as well as the most effective treatment options.
Buprenorphine is one medication being used very effectively by some pain management physicians for people living with chronic pain that is less likely to cause this re-bound effect. However, it is important to remember that medication is only one modality for effective chronic pain management. It is also crucial to develop non-medication based treatment interventions as well as learning to address the psychological/emotional components of chronic pain. A multidisciplinary team approach always gives the best treatment outcomes.
For someone with chronic pain who has developed an addictive disorder Suboxone (Buprenorphine combined with Naloxone) may be the best transitional intervention possible along with concurrent addiction treatment modalities. In addition, it is important to help people differentiate between the physiological and psychological/emotional components of their pain. Once that is done then cognitive behavioral approaches can help people manage the psychological components more effectively.
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November 9th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
In 1983 I crshed the disc at L4/L5 and fractured L5 and S1 while weightlifting (powerlifting workout). I had 2 surgeries to clean up the mess, but lived in constant pain - sometimes crippling. I had many spinal injections over the years, but refused narcotics. In 2007 my lowerback gave out totally. I have now had 3 additional back surgeries including an ANS stimulator implant. None were effective in even reducing the now cripplig chronic pain in the low-back, left leg (sometimes right) and both feet. After trying every neuropathic-black-majic drug, they settled on methadone - now at 100mg/day, which at best cuts the pain by 25%. I am foutunate in that I am not an addictive person and the withdrawls of methoadone are nothing compared to the pain, so I have periodically reduced my dosage to test this re-bound theory. I was told by a professional drug chemist that I have known for several years, that “suboxone” might give me a break from the methadone for a while. Please advise! I would trade 5 years of life for a week on no pain.
February 6th, 2011 at 7:16 am
Update: Starting Christmas eve, I gradually redeuced my methadone dosage to zero (0) for 5 days and then started Suboxone. As I was comming of the methadone, my pain was becomming unbearable, but I stuck with it. Starting the 3rd day of Suboxone, I was in so much pain that my wife took me back to the pain clinic on an emergency basis. My doctor could see how my pain had progressed and told me (counter to her pervious statements) that Sunoxone was not going to work for me and put me on morphine. This was not what I was expecting after being urged to give Suboxone a try. I was expecting just an increased dosage. Does this make sense? Is Suboxone erally only for addiction and re-bound pain and not a pain reliver in itself? I went to “Hell and back” to try this and want to know more about why it suddenly was not going to work after such short period of time.
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