Posted by Elizabeth on February 15, 2002, at 11:31:23
In reply to Re: buprenex prescription from twilight zone, posted by reese1 on February 14, 2002, at 11:59:25
Reese,
It's important to be calm when talking to your pdoc about something like this. This is strange, since the crying, panic, etc. are probably just expressions of the problems that your pdoc is supposed to be treating, but it's true nonetheless. Being calm makes it easier to communicate what you need to communicate to your pdoc. A lot of your writing is kind of hard for me to decipher, and I'm guessing that you're not in a very calm mood as you write it. Maybe I'm totally off base here, but I think that your pdoc might be having problems understanding what you're trying to tell her. It also might be (and again, this is an absurd attitude for a pdoc to take) that she isn't taking what you're telling her seriously because of your emotional state. If there's anything you can do so that you go in to your appointments feeling relatively calm, rational, and prepared to respond to her objections without getting too distraught, I think that could make a big difference. I don't know if that's possible for you, but if it is, it might make it easier for her to listen to what you have to say if she's not so focussed on your emotional state.
> finally she says i have no problem with you taking it i don't see it working any different from ultram which had no effect on me-
> but even thought she can prescribe methadone,
I'm not so sure about that. I've heard that doctors prescribing methadone have to write "for pain" on the prescription, unless the patient is on a 28-day or less waitlist to get into methadone maintenance treatment.
> anything, she can not and will not write or even call in a script for buprenex.
She's just wrong if she thinks she can't do it. Is it really so hard for her to see that she might be wrong?
Anyway...I'm glad you found something you can do, even though you had to go through a lot of unnecessary nonsense, and I hope that things work out long term.
I take one ampule (1 mL) three times a day, but I started out taking only 1/2 mL (also three times a day). I've found that starting on 1/2 mL and then increasing it after a week or so prevents me from getting sick to my stomach on it.
Good luck to you.
-elizabeth
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