Author: tearj3rker
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 1:46 pm
I don’t want to trivialise everything you’re going through, because it sounds like it’s a fair bit to say the least, and it’s hard for us here who know little of your overall story to come up with any solution.
All I can suggest is maybe do a really careful pro’s / con’s list with the help of either a psychiatrist or a counsellor to help you devise a plan of action. There are so many variables in your treatment at the moment – birth control, natural hormonal variations, suboxone etc, that’s it can be difficult to tell what exactly is causing what.
I will shed some light on something though. I also get jerks in the evening, and I highly believe this is associated with Suboxone. I almost take them as a sign that I’m starting to enter the early phases of sleep. The only difference between you and I is that I actually quite enjoy the jerks. For some reason I get a very mild pleasure hit when I have them! Freelapse!
Have you tried washing down the Suboxone with OJ after letting them dissolve for 30-45 mins? I’ve been doing that for years. Sure it might not give you as much bang for your buck, but IMO it’s worth the lack of yuck factor. OJ is the perfect dissolver of the taste of Suboxone as Subox itself is flavoured OJ. As far as I can tell, Suboxone doesn’t actually contain any sugar, unlike many methadone preparations, so it may be possible the cavity has come from other means? Perhaps it has eventuated from the lack of saliva Suboxone can cause, in which case chewing gum helps a lot. Chewing gum is recommended for all kinds of meds which inhibit saliva, like methadone, other opiates, anti-depresssants etc.
Given that you’ve said yourself that hormones may be playing a role, first things first I’d suggest you give it time and see if things improve naturally.
I have suspicions that Suboxone causes a slight degree of irritability. In fact, I believe that all opiates cause a degree of irritability, the only difference between subox and the full agonists is the agonists wash it out with a strong stoning euphoria. You know when you see junkies crack the proverbial and whinge on the streets. IMO that’s equally the effect of the heroin as their learned behaviours. Also the extreme crankyness an opiate suffers when given Naloxone to rescue them from an overdose is DEFINITELY pathological, and caused by the naloxone’s effect when it hits the brain. So there’s a link there, somewhere, imo.
