buprenorphine human dose

Have a bad headache and no pain meds at home. Have a little of the Buprenorphine hcl left from when my cat was neutered. It was given to him orally at a dose of 0.3cc. I looked it up and it looks like a "human" drug also, but am wondering if I am able to take this. I do hae a little chronic bronchitis, but not full blown copd i don't think. What do you think? Could I take this. Should I add to water or put under my tongue,.

Until recently, the only available buprenorphine product in the United States has been a low-dose (0.3 mg/ml) injectable formulation under the brand name, Buprenex®. Diversion, trafficking and abuse of other buprenorphine products have occurred in Europe and other areas of the world. In October 2002, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved two buprenorphine products (Suboxone® and Subutex®) for the treatment of narcotic addiction.

Can anyone help me with some knowledge of this medication????? I have a relative who's suffered badly for years and tried every clinic and therapy and medication and nothing helped till now. He's lately been prescribed this buprenorphine and he swears it's just about given him his life back. My question is it a narcotic, therefore addictive. Does it have the nasty side effects of oxy or other pain meds.

in animal studies and in blinded human studies it is clear-- buprenorphine withdrawal is much milder than w/d from agonists. But it CAN be quite uncomfortable, and last for weeks. Other reasons for trouble tapering off Suboxone: buprenorphine has a potency akin to that of fentanyl. A dose of 5-10 MICROGRAMS is a potent analgesic. A quarter of one tablet of Suboxone contains 2 mg of buprenorphine, or 2000 MICROGRAMS!!

So whether a person is taking one, two, three, or more tabs of Suboxone per day, he is taking a very large dose of buprenorphine--- a dose large enough to ascertain that he is up on the 'ceiling' of the dose/response curve.

the ceiling dose for suboxone(8mgs buprenorphine and 2mgs naloxone per tablet) is 32mgs a day, and if you go higher it will actually become a full opiate antagonist, putting you into severe wd's, so the lower the dose,r gith around 4-24mgs is actually the best and most efficient dose of suboxone. Thats for buprepnorphine, the drug Subutex is just buprenorphine and no naloxone, but the naloxone is ineffective and not active if you take suboxone correctly(sublingually-under the tongue).

But YOU are taking only 1 mg-- and at doses below the ceiling dose, the dose-response curve for buprenorphine is a straight line. This is an important point to understand, because it is at the heart of the issue of why buprenorphine is different from opiate agonists like methadone, which have linear dose/response 'curves' throughout their dose range.

I would wait until your down to at least 20 mgs of methadone, switching to buprenorphine might be harder on such a high dose. DETOX and lower 5 mgs a week of your methadone until you are under 10 mgs then go on a low dose of buphrenirphine for a month and you wont have as much pain.

One was maintained on this dosage while the other had dosage increased up to 12 mg/day, whereupon he developed hypersomnolence but managed to maintain that dosage. The third patient had been inducted with buprenorphine and titrated to a stable dose of 14 mg/day for two days prior to beginning antiretroviral therapy. The next day, the patient complained of daytime somnolence and decreased mental functioning.

I am in medical hospital and they want me to detox off methadone with help of buprenorphine does anyone know about this drug or used it . I am scared and need feedback ASAP.

I tried many different ways to get off heroin rehab/straight cold turkey detox etc but eventually got put on a buprenorphine Maintainance program by my doctor and local drug team so that I could sort my life out first. This worked for me to get off the heroin. I managed to move to a new city and put my self through university. I graduated this year and I am planning to get married to my fiancée next year. But, I am still taking the buprenorphine.

When I saw my pain management consultant a few months ago he put me on Buprenorphine Transdermal Patches, 10mg. ! patch to be put on for 7 days. This is in addition to the Oxycontin. The patch has recently been increased to 20mg. I have recently started reducing the Oxycontin in the view of coming off it totally. I have so far reduced it by 10mg. My Dr hase prescibed me Oxynorm 5mg, once a day, incase I experience withdrawal symptoms.

Subutex is the brand name of buprenorphine. Buprenorphine is a thebaine derivative with powerful analgesia approximately 20-40x more potent than morphine. Buprenorphine is a partial agonist and antagonist of the opioid receptors in the central nervous system which means when its molecule binds to a receptor , it will transduce only a partial response in contrast to a full agonist such as morphine.

I see many people who follow a certain pattern-- they are addicted to opioids and lose everything, then they go on buprenorphine and get their lives back.... at some point they try to stop buprenorphine, and blame buprenorphine for their opioid dependence-- even though the buprenorphine was the only thing that saved them. They then struggle to stop buprenorphine, going back to their original drugs of choice to treat the withdrawal from buprenorphine! Crazy...

There has never been much research done on subs, for addiction recovery and especially cross medication research. There is more research on buprenorphine as a pain reliever in low dose for short term use. You won't find the answer to your question, if you do, it will be the effect the combo had on the person who tried it. I have used subs with lithium only. There seems to be no negative effect. I tapered off it as soon as the lithium was working good enough.

i am waiting to go on a buprenorphine maintenance prescription which will be next month.i have some buprenorphine tablets but when i take them i go straight into cold turkey.i have taken the buprenorphine tablets for a few years before but my prescription got stopped so i opted for the above tablets for the time being whilst im on the waiting list to go back on the buprenorphine.

I am currently using 8mg of buprenorphine,1800mg of gabapentin and 150mg of wellbutrin daily as medicine for pain management and nerve pain.Now I'cant obtain gabapentin anymore and would like to transfer to oxycodone 120mg daily as a substitute for buprenorphine and gabapentin.I would like to know is such change possible.

So on Tuesday, I have taken the very first and the only suboxone dose ever. I probably took it too soon after my last dose of drug of choice and that's why on Tuesday afternoon, I got really sick.. Mainly I was really really high and I was throwing up like crazy.. kind of as if I had a mild OD. It's been over 75 hours since that suboxone dose and I STILL DON'T HAVE ANY withdrawal symptoms.. I really don't understand how could that be..

One was maintained on this dosage while the other had dosage increased up to 12 mg/day, whereupon he developed hypersomnolence but managed to maintain that dosage. The third patient had been inducted with buprenorphine and titrated to a stable dose of 14 mg/day for two days prior to beginning antiretroviral therapy. The next day, the patient complained of daytime somnolence and decreased mental functioning.

Mr. Fly1234: First, I'd like to congratulate you on tapering down your Suboxone (buprenorphine/naloxone) maintenance dose. From other patients' experiences, decreasing the dose and discontinuing buprenorphine are not easy tasks for many. Under federal law, DATA 2000 or Drug Addiction Treatment Act of 2000, only qualified physicians can prescribe and treat opioid addiction with controlled narcotics medications, such as buprenorphine products (Suboxone, Subutex or generic alternatives).

I am clean out of methadone now and I have responsibilities i need to take care of and can not afford to be sick now let alone even sicker later. After my last DAILY dose of methadone, 30 mg, when can I take my first dose of subUTEX? is it any different than suboxone if it is not abused?? thank you for your help! PS.

Since buprenorphine has such high affinity to the opioid receptor it will essentially displace, or knock off most other opiates they will try to use during the surgery. Since you already are on a very high dose of buprenorphine your requirement for opiates will be high and most of what they will give will not be sufficient. You might just have to deal with the pain by eating ice cream. Other anesthetics like gas. propofol and muscle relaxants should not be affected and can be used as usual.

in liquid form before being made as Suboxone, which is easier to dose. Buprenorphine is used for pain, mostly in Europe-- a skin patch in the UK called 'buTrans' releases 5-20 micrograms of bupe per hour through the skin. Six years ago, in 2003, Suboxone became available in the US.

Suboxone is very addictive and the lower your dose the better. After a week on your starting dose, you should start to drop rapidly down to a maintenance dose of 2-4 mgs. Your sub doctor will try to keep you at a much higher dose for a long, long time. Cha-Ching, if ya know what I mean. To much Suboxone can make you very tired and is unnecessary dosage. Good luck to you on the Sub. I've been on it for over a year now.

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