suboxone and antidepressants

Typically, taking downer drugs, and opiates are downer drugs, make people feel better while they're on them and more depressed when they're not. It's not like taking an antidepressant, which once your brain gets used to it and it works, it keeps working all the time. You don't say if this was prescribed or you're using it on your own.

You/we are not meant to be unhappy and miserable and I believe there is a solution out there for you. I was not aware that Suboxone was used for depression. I know you have pain and I am wondering if medically if there is a better medication to treat your depression. It sounds like you have been on a lot of different meds. Have you ever saw a Depression Specialist. Sometime or Primary Care doctors treat depression with a shot gun approach.

I have been on some form of opiate for nearly 25 years. I was prescribed Darvon in the late 80s with Ritalin for ADHD and depression along with Vistiril to help sleep. In the mid 2000s I had a number of significant injuries to my hand, then knee, then both shoulders. I had a left roto-cuff repair, but they told me my right shoulder and bicep tear was inoperable. From 2006 on I started on Percocet 10 mg , 2 per day and Ultram for pain associated with these injuries.

Chances are they will be able to fit you in sooner and hopefully give you some samples to start. But, antidepressants take about 2 weeks to reach full effect, so it's not going to be any quick fix. Starting something will help in the long run. If you can get to some AA/NA meetings in the meantime, it may help your mood.

My question is whether switching to methadone would perhaps help my drug cravings and depression better than suboxone?I am willing to be on a maintenance dose for life if that is what it takes for me to live a normal life free of depression and drug obsession.

Are you off of sub too? If so that's great, and about zoloft, I know some antidepressants (like effexor), you have to ween off on but I don't think so w zoloft. I have taken it for years and stopped with out any problem before. A shrink might tell you to taper.

To be honest with you the wd i suffered from after sub was a good 20 days or so. Now with that being said, everyday got better and better and sleep finally came and the anxiety lessened and before you know it you feel great, it takes time and as addicts we tend to want immediate results. I did go lower than 1 i went to half and that was under the care of a doctor, i did it in rehab.

How much Suboxone where you prescribed. I am 1 week in to being on Suboxone and compared to being on the Oxy and the Withdrawals, I feel pretty normal. I am at 16mg but I think I have heard that is sort of high so I am going to taper down to 8 as soon as possible. I hope you get to feeling normal soon. Are you going to meetings and getting aftercare? How long are you planning on using Suboxone?

Many pain patients do not know the effects that Suboxone is capable of and I would like to inform opiate users of the dangers associated with Suboxone and how it can effect those of us taking opiates. It's a myth that if you stop taking opiates within a 72 hr. period and replace it with Suboxone, you can stop the withdrawl process. In reality, it will only speed up the withdrawl process and send your body into severe withdrawls.

There would be withdrawal symptoms left after stopping the sub, so this would probably only serve to delay any withdrawal, not prevent it, and Two of the side effects of subutex/suboxone are mood disturbances and depression. She might be lucky and not experience these, but it would be a risk.

ve tried so many antidepressants over the years. none do what the suboxone does for setteling the whirl wind in my mind and to think more clearly and to sleep normally. I hate remembering what it is like!! I don't want to go there again. suggestions????

Even the safer Opioids like Tramadol, Ultram, Suboxone and Naltrexone that do not fully bind to the Mu opiate receptor in the brain are still very addictive. I tried Suboxone for my resistant depression several months ago. I failed to take into account that I had no Opiate tolerance at all and I took 1Mg for my first dosage. OMG! I got high as a kite! It was not a good high either.

There is also some evidence that some depression sufferers can suffer from EDS (Endorphine Deficiancy Syndrome) this can trigger and cause VERY severe depression and anxiety that is cronic and does not fully respond to traditional AD meds. The verdict is still out on that one, but many people have found relief for the first time by taking drugs for Endorphan Deficiany such as Suboxone. I am trying this now, but I screwed up my first dosage and did WAY too much.

Since I was diagnosed many years ago with this illness, I have been on over 20 different antidepressants. Occasionaly my Psychiatrist will hit on a powerful combination of antidepressants and mood stabilizers that will give me some limited relief, but never a full remission of my depression. At best I may get 40% relief depending on the combination. My depression is cronic and completly Non-situational, as I have never suffered a tramatic experience in my life.

d regardless and will probably need to be on an antidepressant or something the rest of my life( which the suboxone in some states is used for, antidepressants and pain). Also you can get a shot of vivitrol, it lasts a month and it takes all the BS from the dope, cravings, withdrawals ect..... away. But there about 400$ a shot. Anyways there's lots of government help for suboxone(money wise) if you don't have insurance and the website has coupons and help as well.

I remember one member, look up dhodge2000 and read his posts and his experience with suboxone. He was a strong and adamant advocate of suboxone (while on it) at first and criticized everyone for giving sub a bad name, even became rude to others who have never been on sub but warned people against it.

I was able to get into a pain clinic in my area (there are hardly any resources where I live in Canada), and soon we will start alternative therapies also, like injections and nerve blocks, and maybe i can go to a lower dose of suboxone. The reason I am telling you this, is because I would not have gone on suboxone for any shorter amount of time...because it is very hard to get off of. I just feel like I am on a safer type and amount of medication now...

I used many types of opiates for pain (primarily hydrocodone and oxycodone), plus soma, plus MANY different types of antidepressants, plus benzos (like Xanax) and also gabapentin and had a 28 day "experience" with subutex/suboxone. Soma was re-classified in Jan 2012 and all the pharmacies now treat it as an addictive med that is considered a controlled substance. You may know all of this....or maybe not even care.....but Soma was one of my "favorite" drugs while using.

I have had terrible side effects to antidepressants (citalopram)..lasting two weeks and from there they were fantastic and really helped..but I wasn't pregnant. They do take up to around 6 weeks generaly to kick in neway..I know its tough..if you are concerned I would speak to your Dr..

My tsh finally got to normal and then went up 3 point and anxiety and depression hit and now some panic which I have been able to control. Anyway I called my holistic doctor and he wants me to see a psychiatric nurse who will be more available to me but I am going to a Christian counsellor and don't want to many sticks in the fire. My question is I am also going to a Christian psychiatrist to get a regular antidepressant.

It is a concern and I am glad that you have been lookin into it. However I have seen some type one 1s and type 2s be able to take it without going manic. Also depending on how depressed when I come into treatment, they do take the risk of letting me go manic. It is almost the only way to come out of a deep depression. They try to recognize the mania symptoms as soon as they appear and start tapering me off of the SSRI.

Help please, I have to take trycyclic Antidepressants and I really want to have a baby, I need to know the safest antidepressant and anxiety medication to use?

I too am on Propanolol. Alongside this I am also on Buspar. I haven't had any side effects at all such as weight gain and it doesn't make me feel like i am on drugs such as lexapro and xanax did. Have you tried buspar before?

I read in one of the threads that you can't mix tramadol and antidepressants. Is this true? What are the risks? My Dr. has me on both - I am trying to very slowly cut back on the Tram. I pill every week. I know it is painfully slow - but it is all I am able to do right now. I am working on alternative pain management methods, and getting the courage up to dump the pills once and for all.

anti depressant but I strongly suggest talking thoroughly with your doctor and pharmacist about the side effects. I was prescribed a different anti depressant and upon looking it up and talking with the pharmacist that they didn't know what effect it would have on the baby so I refused to take them.

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