Finally! Someone that address is this particular medication with regards to pain instead of addiction. Thank you!

You should have more subscribers. I put myself into a rehabilitation program because I was tired of my life being the way that it was, it's getting better 8 months in but it's not perfect. I'm on Suboxone 8mg twice a day. I just had surgery yesterday, a meatotomy, I was concerned about pain and was instructed to stop my Suboxone the night before, I gave it a full 24hrs. The anesthetist was amazing, she even came back after my surgery and was very supportive about what I was trying to do to improve my life. People are understanding, not everyone but quite a few. It was a positive experience for what was necessary. Suboxone is a great tool, but it is a tool. Tools are wielded with intention, it's necessary, if recovery is to be had, the patient is set on recovery. Thank you for the videos

I really appreciate you're effort to explain us those questions.. really good explained. You're a symphathiek person. Take care 🍀

This is amazing ! I wish I could find a dr like you.. I live in the boonies! So glad I found this !

I have been on Suboxone for 5 years, and I can honestly say without a doubt it has saved my life, I lost both my Brothers to addiction and certainly was headed in that direction if not for MAT, being a Father of three children & husband I know they are grateful to have me back amongst the living. Thanks Dr. B for everything you do I truly appreciate it, Take Care.

Thank you so much! Just subscribed and very pleased that I found your channel! Take care!

Thank you for answering the question that I had about why we have not been using this drug for so long especially when everyone is screaming about the opioid crisis. I was given Vicodin for almost 20 years. 90 tablets a month at the highest dose for fibromyalgia and carpal tunnel. When I was a probably cut off because of insurance I did not go to the streets to get illegal drugs I just dealt with the pain which basically was ruining my life. I won’t go into other details but I just started the Butrans patch two weeks ago and a 5 mg dose which is not really addressing all the pain issues I have at this stage of my life. I can’t believe I lost so many years because of this pain and his medication was available all along especially considering I have about a dozen doctors that all hear my complaining about the chronic pain limiting my progress with physical therapy and basically limiting my life to the four walls in my flat. I’ll never get that time back.

I have been taking 8-24mg of buprenorphine for 28 months now since my release from prison and it has given me stability in my life and has curbed my cravings for the most part. The one time i quit taking sub for a couple days I overdosed on fentanyl and it really scared me. Suboxone works if you stick to it and focus on accomplishing goals in life to keep your mind occupied with positive thoughts.

Talk about the difference between dependency and addiction. Please educate yourself.

I love this guy

Thank You for this information .. I have had several surgeries in the past few years and have had to be on norco for a few years and I would like to get off of it.

Great info, very interesting.

Good info, thanks Dr! Thankfully, everything you said matched up to what my Dr. said. It's interesting that Suboxone is only on-label for addiction. I was prescribed up to 45 mg Oxycodone daily for nearly two years and my tolerance was building so fast! I'm so glad my dr. and I switched to Suboxone, it's basically better in every way (for me), consistent pain relief and a clearer mind. It seems like it's only a matter of time until it gets labeled for pain relief. I'm never the kind of person thinking there are big conspiracies but I really wonder where are the Oxy money was going..

Do you have to use specifically belbuca and butrans or can you actually use suboxane (pills) for chronic pain ?

Listen to the whole thing

Hey dr b I’m waiting for my health insurance to kick in I want to get of Tianeptine what would work better for that methadone or Suboxone?

I would have never got off Methadone and Roxycodone without Suboxone. It's a wonder drug if you ask me with many less problems such as euphoria, cognative problems.

Hi Dr. B, does Suboxone work for chronic pain at any dose? In other words does a person get the same amount of pain relief at 16 mg vs 24mg? My daughter is on it as of 4 days ago and she’s experiencing a tremendous amount of pain and is feeling very hopeless.

Dr B is there any difference between Suboxone/naloxone the pill and the bupe patch in regards to there effectiveness with pain? Or any other differences?

Hi, Dr. B, I take kratom, half teas., in morning and at night, i have teeth implant surgery soon, what pain meds should I use, thanks judy

Thank you I take it for endometriosis pain

Is Buphenorphine, without the naloxone, meaning straight Buphenorphine. (Subutex) Also known as an agonist, antagonist? I hear it both ways at the local MAT.

I had been fighting drug addiction and pain for 20 years I'm alive at 60 for suboxone and it's ability to kill pain. I do slip up and use 2 or 3 times in a 2 or 5 year sequence but it's mental also I have no support I'm on my own and I get home care but lately my supplies have been not coming and I've been stressed out . I need a helping hand in this Covid-19 nightmare

Question: Can something in nature have a patent put on it ? Maybe this is why government says opioids are bad but big Pharma synthetic drugs are good 🤷‍♂️ Just my thoughts

Does one build up a tolerance to buprenorphine like oxycodone etc does?Also does a higher dose correlate to increased sweating?Thx .

Thank you Dr. B I am just starting induction of Suboxone and with all the videos I was watching I was Terrified to take my first dose cause I didn’t know how long after my last Oxy I could take it. Was 15hrs after too soon?? Thanks for your help

Great video but what I am wondering is if there is a limit to the amount of pain it can treat.

I use this to treat my Chronic pain.. from Crohn’s and colitis works so good. It’s unreal .

I was on 3 -30mg oxycodone daily for several years. Then pain clinic closed..PC Dr gave me 4-10mg percosets for a few mos but never got a new pain clinic .New Dr put me on 12 mg suboxone 2xdaily 3 weeks ago..im still living in chronic pain,just not as bad and having headaches as subx side effect. No withdrawals tho. Does Dr need to increase MG of subx to help pain issues? I cant live like this,quality of life is very diminished..i refuse to go back to oxys because of the hassles of trying to find a Dr .i was driving 5 hrs round trip to another state just to get my RX. Any advice is appreciated. Im 62 yrs old and cant face the rest of my life like this.

Just stopped subutex…pain management would not increase dose.. taking 8mg a day was no longer helpful…Chronic pain issues

I would have to disagree because I am a chronic pain patient and I have tried suboxone and it doesn't work at all

Yes it does and helps my anxiety better then any other med lve ever been on.

Can I use this to get off of tramadol and does it dull your senses like tramadol and is it constipating?.

YOU ARE SO AWESOME! I wish you made helicopter interstate house calls! LOL Excuse my rant below please!

Thank you for doing these videos. Back injury in 2001, L3,L4,L5 herniated/ buldging discs that effected sciatic nerve. Now 2020 scoliosis, nerve damage etc. About to turn 50 and don't want next chapter to be guided by pain meds. After all these years on Percocet I was never told Suboxone could ease pain. Definitely will discuss with physician. You've brought so much clarity to my situation

dr b is it safe to take gabapentin zoloft and suboxone together ?

This was very informative I would love to have a one on one conversation with you. I'm in need of some advice

Hi Dr B. I am currently at the ER and have pancreitis and I am in so much pain and they know I'm on Suboxone and they want to give me a small dose of Morphine I just wondered if this is safe is it going to put me into withdrawal?

Can you talk more about the knee replacement please because I’m having a knee replacement and I don’t want to be under anesthesia and be filling in my bones off

will suboxone interfere with the anestisha while i am having my knee replacement

Thank you.

when Suboxone is prescribed for cravings and there is a mg found to help with cravings will there ever be a need to increase or will the same mg continue to work or will cravings eventually break through again and will there be a need to increase the dose ? Thank you

Hi Dr, I've been on 18mg for about 7 years. I've got degenerative discs in my neck, mid back and low back plus bone spur in neck, fibromyalgia. I struggle with pain on active days. Should I ask my Dr to go up on my dose? I'm on disability now at 59 yrs old but need to go back to work. Income is too low to live on. Thank you

Proof of the perception of pain increase hyper sensitivity to pain medication ??

How strong is buprenorphine if, for example, I take heroin every day and can’t find heroin so I take Vicodin and still in withdraw well as bup will subside all withdraw, so it Hass to be a very strong opioid

How does this md work for chronic pain patient?

Hi Dr B. I just wanted to know if you could do a video about jumping from a full agonist to Buprenorphine back to full agonist. I found that every time I go back to Subutex it gets harder to get used to. It gets to the point that the Buprenorphine becomes less offensive. The Buprenorphine seems to take away the physical withdrawals but the mental withdrawals tend to drive you insane. I cant find any videos in this matter. Jumping from one to the other is a problem that a lot of people have problems that they can't seem to get used to. Thank you Martin.

Hi dr B., can I take cbd oil with ( is it harmfull) the butrans patch (10mg).. bless you🙋🏽‍♀️🍁🍃🍁

makes me wonder if big pharma just didnt want a less addictive pain killer out there

Ur a great man.18mg.a day.no pain

Is suboxone doesn't work can you go back to your pain medication? I'm thinking about going on it because I've grown tolerant. However I'm scared if it doesn't work will I be able to go back on my pain meds? Also I heard you can have trouble sleeping on Suboxone that worries me.

I think it works better than full opiates honestly I had back surgery at 17 and I still have pain sometimes and it works great

Hi Doctor, In your experience with this medication, have any of your patients complained of severe sweating and weight gain? I’m gaining weight at an incredible rate. Another side effect I have noticed is that I am sweating like there’s no tomorrow. Not in my armpits, but my face my back and my chest they are the ones that get the worst. It affects me to lay down because I feel like I am in the middle of a flu, I am soaking wet shaking and I don’t know if it’s this medication causing it or something else. Thank you

I have chronic pain associated with multiple sclerosis. It did not help my pain at all.

Hello, I found my way here looking for an answer to a question I've been trying to find out for some time now. I am on Suboxone for pain. I have not had any alcohol in years. I would really like to have some drinks with my husband on Valentine's Day and I'm just wondering if it's safe? I thought maybe I could not take it for 12 to 24 hours beforehand. Idk I just want to have a normal time out.

It helps my pain in my abdomen, kidney I have rare disorders lots of metal coils and stents. I am in no pain w subs, I can’t believe it. The weird thing is it won’t touch my cramps or period pain.

i sure wish i could have you as my doctor.

I've heard Suboxone is used in Europe for Bipolor condition? Is there emperical data that shows it works for the same or is this just from Doctor reports vs blind emperical evidemce type studies? Absolutely true about perceptions of pain by taking opiods. Suboxone did not do this to me..

What ever happed to Demerol ???

In terms of helping for pain, Buprenorpjine helps much more with pain for opioid naive patients than patients who are switching to it from a full agonist. I’m on 24mg of subutex from your practice and while it does help with pain, it doesn’t help with the breakthrough, higher levels, of pain. Butrans is also great, but it’s meant for the opioid naive patients as the dosage is sooo much lower than on 8mg subutex, at the highest dose it’s 100MCG/hour so that’s another challenge, Butrans isn’t made in high enough doses

My drs treats me with pain Butrans, patch but as of recent it’s causes server itching. So she switch me to the pill .suboxon

I have been on buprenorphine for more than 12 years now.. and I am clean. I have a great job, family, friends my own house. It is a real help in opioid addiction. I just feel normal. I used to be anxies and had panic atacks so I have been using clonopin too. For many years. It was not easy but after years of therapies and "being still adict" I realized something chanded. Now it is just a meds i need to use. No more an opioid. Just a medicine

Hello Dr. B...I am a recent subscriber. Really enjoy your videos. My question is how does buprenorphine work for breakthrough pain? Let’s take a person with chronic low back pain. That person takes a 30mg Hysingla daily and Norco for flaming episodes. The Norco could be 40mg/day. What dose of bupe would be required to equal the analgesic effect of 70mg of hydrocodone? Bupe is supposedly 40x more powerful than hydrocodone. If true, then just 2mg of bupe should do the trick. But I find that hard to believe??? Full disclosure, my opinion is that sub/bupe is a wonder drug for opiate replacement therapy but not for real pain. Oxy is usually prescribed after surgery. Not bupe! I’ve binge watched a number of your videos but have not come across this question. I look forward to your response. And if I lived in your neck of the woods I would certainly want you for my MD. My regards, Jim

Been on it since 2008 but took a year off but pain got too bad. I built up to a full max of 32mg day and I divide it mostly 8mg but often cut in half to 4mg. Had elbow replacement and then months later had revision. Both times I used bupe alone except tylenol and some ibuprofen, Works great!

It's helping me with my spinal stenosis. I have moderate to severe. it does help and I'm a drug addict so it really is a good option. Another option would be for me to take chances of dying from powder fentanyl. That's my new drug of choice when off Suboxone. Obviously you cannot get oxy's or percs easily. But fentanyl is readily available here in SD.And I wake up on the ground or get knocked out in my restroom every so often

I’m on 24 mg and I’m still in pain :( even though the fda says 24 mg is top therapeutic is this true? Thanks dr

Suboxone make your teeth fall out! AVOID!

Been saying this for a long time.

I was disabled on duty in a patrol car accident. I broke my neck I broke my back I suffered a severe closed head injury and a severe spinal cord injury that has left me in severe chronic pain. I have been on methadone 20 mg a day for a long time and it works. I mean it really really works I'm not stoned I get up I contribute I have a life I'm interested I'm engaging well today my pain. He's not writing it anymore and he's put me on to Suboxone. I wish I had a choice in the matter it's like take it or fuck off. I have to be off the methadone for 3 days and to be honest I don't know if that's going to be long enough before I take the first dose will it send me into opiate withdrawal because I heard that methadone withdrawal is a real MFer. God has not made a man yet that I'm afraid of but there are a few things that scare the piss out of me als, dementia, Parkinson's, being back in that wheelchair and opiate withdrawal. Truly worried I'm truly scared I mean hell I'm going to be honest I'm terrified! I feel like I've been backed into a corner I had no choice in and I want to do what comes natural and that is to come out fighting cuz I don't trust this doctor they've screwed me twice this year alone. So the question I have is when I take it on the third day is it going to kick me into full opiate withdrawal? Why is it the chronic pain suffers or treated like heroin addicts? In a way it's on it's its own form of an ism. It's enough to make a 17 and a half year police officer veterans start thinking about growing his own opium producing poppies in the back!

Great video. I wished doctor's will watch this video & help people. Chronic pain is heck. Suboxone is the key to help. I mean yes it's a norcotic. But the effects you get & don't should be enough for a doctor to help you , with a possibility per month pill check

So why wont they prescribe it for me? They will only prescribe it if I say I’m an addict.

Dr B, If you see this question 🙋‍♀️ please respond. Does Suboxone cause a women to stop getting her period?

Of course this addictive drug that he sells absolutely can help your pain! If you ask real nice, I bet he'd even sell you some.

Prescription medication did not fuel the opioid epidemic. Please again, educate yourself. I’m available as an educated patient advocate.

Nope! Don’t take it for pain. I did and it destroyed my guts and brain. Just shuts them down and then ya get Leakey gut and that takes a year to recover from. Plus coming off it long term is really hard.

I agree with others that say that it does Not work for chronic pain.

What happened to personal responsibilities? I don't mean to sound callous but if you use this crap for recreational purposes and you overdosed that's your problem. They had opium dens in the cowboy days and it was legal and if you overdosed or you didn't go to work you didn't eat it was your problem. That is the whole problem as our society we try to let big government handle everything instead of just letting nature work its way out I think we all can agree there are certain people in this world that don't need to be here!

How about all the artificial ingredients they have to have some kind of a result in the throw line artificial components natural components saw crazy thank you Doctor B always learn something

Thank you Dr. B. My pain medicine Dr just prescribed me Suboxone today (4mg strip twice per day so a total of 8mg per day) for my extremely severe pain (bilateral cervical radiculopathy and bilateral lumbar radiculopathy) from my severe cervical, thoracic and lumbar stenosis. In the next 10 days, I will be having to have a 2 level cervical fusion (C4-C5 and C5-C6), a single level lumbar fusion (T11-T12) and a 2 level lumbar fusion (L3-L4 and L4-L5). I pick up my suboxone prescription tomorrow from my pharmacy, and I am very excited to start the suboxone. Thank you so much Dr. B for this informative video !! I subscribed to your channel !!

Not really I don't need more and more I've been doing it for years all I do is a hole one that's it

The real answer is no! the doctors all have a crush on Suboxone because it lessens their liability. There are a few cases where with extreme Adickes Suboxone can save their life but for the most part it is extremely over prescribed it’s almost impossible to get off of and there’s almost no addict on this planet that needs more than 2 mg of it a day but yet the doctors give huge doses.

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Suboxone does not at all help pain. Maybe psychologically, but in reality, buprenorphine does not help real pain. I've been on it a long time, and tylenol is more effective for pain. I take buprenorphine for migraines, because its safer than staydol, and more effective. But as far as pain, no, I'm still in a lot of pain, it never helped with pain, but I'd rather not have migraines and deal with the pain, than have migraines and take a full opiate. On top of that, there are a lot of issues with suboxone, and a lot of beneficial medications you cant take because of it.

It doesn't help nothing for pain especially Chronic Pain

What an interesting video, it is nearly unbelievable , Suboxone has helped me stay sober for quite a number of years but not in a million years did I realise it helped for pain but now that I think about it it actually makes sense .......

No it doesn't

The perception of pain. You make me sick

Well...at least he showed what drug he is pushing fast...and didnt waste my time with false medical info. BTW bupanorphine is what my cat gets for mild pain....just saying.

Suboxone did NOTHING for my back pain. It is a horrid med.

No. The answer is NO. I've took it for 3 years, no pain relief at all. Ask any pain doctor, they don't prescribe subs.

I hope you get this message and reply. I have been dealing with back pain and was unable to get any meds. I am meeting with a doctor tomorrow and I don’t know what to tell them about this medication. I heard about it through a friend and she explained how it helped her. My question is, what should I tell my doctor so they can look into prescribing me Suboxone?

I just got on 8mg buprenorphine 2mg of naloxone generic so 8/2 for spinal pain

I've been taking it for pain management for 13 years. We moved out of state and I can't find anyone willing to prescribe for pain anywhere. My quality of life has hit an all-time low. I can't work, I can't do yard work or even everyday tasks.

8mg Suboxone does nothing compared to fentanyl patches, but the Internet doctor mocks me for being 70 (my parents and aunts and uncles are still alive and well!) and wants to taper me when I have a nerve injury and am not an addict but very depressed. I’ve been abandoned and am learning to use the deep web to find fentanyl to keep from pain-caused despair.

I have been on Suboxone for pain for the past 6-7years . (but its only available thru a "opioid dependency program" as it ls not allowed to be used just for pain in my state). I am technically diagnosed as a "opiate dependent" in order to receive this med... -the IRONIC part is I have never taken more than 2 weeks worth of opiates in MY ENTIRE LIFE. ( after 2 seperate surgeries --1 dental surgery about 25yrs ago when I was very young, and then another week of opiates after an unexpected C-section and hysterectomy about 12+yrs ago). No other opiates. But then I was in a car accident which occurred 9yrs ago --- (that actually killed the other person in the other car who turned left in front of me). It caused severe damaged to my neck , thoracic and lumbar spine... C1-L2 ... the accident caused a spinal syrinx/syringomyelia. I did everything for pain BUT optiates, with Zero success, (heat/ice, nsaids, aspirin, chiropractor, accupuncture, meditation, gua sha stone work, muscle relaxers, diet change, massage, yoga etc with NO relief). Lost my RN job eventually, and couldn't work as a RN anymore due to ongoing debilitating pain, and I was almost non-existent for my kids and hubby. But then my as my MD of 20+yrs retired--he mentioned another MD-- this MD had a small (1day/week) Sub /MAT cllinic besides his nromal PCP practice. This new MD put me on Suboxone strips right away and WITHIN 6 MONTHS I was working FULL-TIME again as a RN, volunteering at ny kids school and returned back to my full life I had BEFORE my car accident. The only downside is that for THE REST OF MY LIFE I am LABELLED as having an "OPIATE MISUSE DISORDER". Just to have a PAIN FREE LIFE again. Its sad. And I often feel embarrassed when i visit my PCP at my MAT clinic appointment every 3months. The social workers have to ask me about misuse/cravings/shooting up etc.... something I've never had or experienced. .bit to be able to go back to ky paon freed life I guess its worht it. I just don't understand why I have to be "labeled" as an abuser/the STIGMA to get access to a pain medicine that has allowed me to go back to workand live a full life, and that has NO addictive properties.

Hello there. 😌👋 I appreciate you sharing. However, as someone who has been “successfully” on Suboxone for 6 1/2 years, I’m going to have to politely disagree in my personal experience.. yes, it has kept me from taking pain pills.. However every single day I suffer in ((((excruciating))) chronic pain. 😢💔 I am a 35 year old female, and for the last 5 + years I have been to soooo many different doctors trying to figure out what’s going on with my body why I’m in such horrible pain. … I was a gymnast as a teenager and I did hurt my back when I was 17 so I always kind of had some back issues but nothing at all like the pain I’ve been experiencing for the last 5+ years! at times it is literally debilitating.😣😔 all throughout my spine and my hips and my legs . Suboxone Does not help at all. Sometimes I wonder if it’s even causing me to have more pain as crazy as that sounds!??!! I am desperate for a relief. I want to try natural alternatives, but a part of me is even tempted to try to go on methadone (wish I never thought I would even consider) but I literally have hardly know quality of life in this kind of pain!!!😭💔 for context, I used to be a model and I used to be a make up Artist. I used to volunteer at my local animal shelter. Now my pain is so debilitating that I am unable to engage in the things that I love and it is devastating to me. I am desperate for help. The rheumatologist diagnosed me about five years ago with Fibromyalgia, but my physical therapist thinks that I might have EDS?! & in my blood work. My CCP count is very elevated a strong positive which usually indicates rheumatoid arthritis, but my rheumatologist doesn’t seem to be convinced that I have RA. I am so confused and seriously at my wits end with all this my pain is so bad it’s literally caused me to feel suicidal.. one cannot begin to understand or imagine unless they are in horrible pain every day. 😔💔 I would love to hear any feedback that you may have.!!🙏🙏🫶💞💞 of course I appreciate all of your knowledge, but I’m just speaking from my own personal experience with buprenorphine. It is NOT helping me treat my chronic pain whatsoever…🥺… I really wish it was. I take 100 mg ibuprofen and Tylenol in hot showers to help control the pain. 😔 any feedback would be much appreciated.!!🙏🙏🫶🫶