Posted by reese1 on March 6, 2002, at 4:56:49
In reply to Re: sidetrack from Addiction » reese1, posted by shelliR on March 5, 2002, at 18:42:07
> Reese,
>
> I don't know about the question of whether your change in meds has effected your reaction to buprenex, but as far as the dose, why not try a higher dose to see how you feel for a day or two. For me, with opiates and buprenorphine, I can tell in about an hour whether I've taken enough because my after an hour or so my depression lifts. Are you just taking it once a day? If you're only taking it once than you really need a higher dose to get you through.
>
> About your change in meds. First of all it seems strange that your pdoc would change everything at once. But maybe I have misunderstood. And as far as lamictal, she has you on 25mg for a month? :-(
> I know about the rash, but I'm starting it at 25mg for four days, 50mg for 4 days, then 100mg, 200mg, all for four days. If 200 isn't enough then I'll go up as far as 400-800. That's the way my last pdoc also started me. A month at 25mg is unnecessarily cautious. Also why would your doctor start you on topamax and lamictal at the same time? They're both classified as mood stabilizers. Is she working by the subtraction method?
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> Sorry the bupe isn't working for you.
>
> Shelli
thank you so much for your letter. it was really nice. the buprenex i think, or maybe believe might have worked today. i took the dose of .6 in the morning. this was the first time i felt any sort of lift.two things made me think this
1. i have been unable to go on the computer. totally imposible. but i was able to go on the computer for hours today.
2. i can not listen to music which i used to listen to constantly. but today i wanted to which is a good if not great sign
i have tried this amount .6 each time. if i was to try to up it so i could get a reaction how high could i go. is it possible to try .9i am not scared of this, i am scared that i have heard that if you take to much it revereses it's ability and becomes useless. this could be a complete lie but i read it somewhere.
i will try anything at this point.
is there a possibility that trying a dose of .9 would work?
i have a lot of buprenex left so i'm not concerned about running out i have used it very seldomly.
also what time or how long does it take for effect?
i was told fifteen minutes but i find it takes more like an hour.
what is your expierence with this?
my meds have been a real mess
my pdoc is good. she cares. but she really wanted me to get on topomax but for some strange reason my 500 dollar a month insurance (blue cross) doesn't cover it. so they want me to pay 400 dollars. so i sent them the info or my pdoc did right away. this was last thursday. 72hrs. but i found out today it's 72hrs when they get to reading it.
sucks
so the lamactal i will be going up on. the neurontin was a mix up. i was taking 1800-2400 a day and i went to nothing. so this was a bad bad mix up. so she called in some scripts for me today. i'm currently in oakland, ca staying with my maom instead of going back to a hospital.
so she called in neurontin and the clonzapan which i take only when needed. if i don't sleep for a night or two i will take it to calm me down during the day and it does help me sleep.
but yeah the meds are just weird. i am one of those people who the effect of meds has always been for a short period of time. a week or two, with nardil maybe a month- then my body get's used to it and then it does nothing
the adderall i found helpful for a year but then it's effect drifts from day to day. and the dose needs to be increased. for the last six months i was taking the 30mg pills which i didn't even know they made.
so i would say the pdoc did take me off to quickly it was just confusion with the insurance and me being in california and her wanting to try seroquel 25mg for sleep and to stop the constant pacing.
each day for the eight hours i'm alone in the house i pace forward backwards downstairs upstairs to this room to the next room unable to stop, truly unable to stop, not able to read, not able to listen to music, no iggy pop, or anything. i had an image of this feeling earlier today and it went something like this
wrapped to impale
within the luxury
of breath
encased in
skin
that serves
for
perfection
the thoughts
continually move
as the itch
continues to grow
in the one place
that can not
be
scratchedthis is a terrible poem. i actually can write quite well. but i can never write something i've already written once in my head.
if you could answer my question about the IM injection in terms of size of the deviced use for injection makes a difference?
i have two types a small 25g 5/8 then a long one that is 22g x 1 /2
would it make a difference since the latter one is longer and would get farther into the skin.
what do you use?
and if you don't what do you think?
thank you so much
my real name is doug
so i'm doug not reese
reese is my middle name
i return to manhattan/queens on sunday
take care
hope to hear from you soon
thanks
head that can
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