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Hey all. If I'm on high dose full agonists like oxy for pain post surgery and theres evidence for it and I want to switch to suboxone e or buprenorphine at high /equivalent dose (not belbuca ) , do you think there are docs who will prescribe that for pain or a diagnosis different than opioid use disorder ? For ex I obviously have dependence or tolerance from being on oxy , its plausible that theres an icd code for dependence that's not for addiction/opioid use disorder
My concern is wanting to try suboxone, not wanting to get inaccurate dx in my chart, and also not wanting that to limit choices of what to try for pain on future.
The reason I'm interested in suboxone is this: it can be very effective and potent for pain while having a ceiling effect where you dont tend to need to double and triple and quadruple your dose to get same effects on pain t ht at happens with oxycodone or dilaudid or whatever full agonists. Those are all good in many circumstances but I've read studies showing suboxone working great bc it's long lasting and had this dose ceiling effect. But I want it prescribed for PAIN, not addiction which I dont have.
And I know a pain doctor who uses suboxone , should I contact him, or is it too forward to ask about this ? And maybe he cant prescribe it for pain specifically
My concern is wanting to try suboxone, not wanting to get inaccurate dx in my chart, and also not wanting that to limit choices of what to try for pain on future.
The reason I'm interested in suboxone is this: it can be very effective and potent for pain while having a ceiling effect where you dont tend to need to double and triple and quadruple your dose to get same effects on pain t ht at happens with oxycodone or dilaudid or whatever full agonists. Those are all good in many circumstances but I've read studies showing suboxone working great bc it's long lasting and had this dose ceiling effect. But I want it prescribed for PAIN, not addiction which I dont have.
And I know a pain doctor who uses suboxone , should I contact him, or is it too forward to ask about this ? And maybe he cant prescribe it for pain specifically