Author: JoshuAble
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 6:10 pm
I would just like to add a little bit of info from my experience, and while there’s no definitive proof that suboxone causes these things we are all different, may have slight allergic reactions to either the buprenorphine or even the naloxone.
When I was on 8mg-16mg of suboxone daily I would often experience a difference in my breathing, as well as an elevated heart rate, with a feeling like it wasn’t "pounding hard yet was at a high rate". (a shortness of breath). While it wasn’t extreme to the point of feeling like I would pass out (and if I did it’s mostly a source of smoking weed for 10 years and smoking those nasty ciggarettes for a long time), and trying to get back into shape.
But I will definitely say in MY experience, once I got down to 4 mg of suboxone a day (and now at 2mg a day) that "shortness of breath" or the high heart rate yet it felt like it was barely "pounding", feeling when I went jogging went away (and yes I still smoke those nasty ciggs), but am still able to run multiple miles every other day or so without experiencing a light-headedness or breathing problems.
Now I never had tests done my doctors on my heart related to this, but for me, whether it was an allergic reaction to higher doses of naloxone or buprenorphine, I do know my body, and do know that at 8mg or higher of suboxone I had some weird side effects, such as not being able to run more than a mile (and doing it in a very slow jog type of manner, very moderate workout) without feeling a shortness of breath and all around lethargic feeling as well. As a result I stopped working out for the most part and stopped running/jogging entirely (stupid choice, haha, this was about 1.5 years ago). Recently i’ve been working out and playing basketball, as well as jogging 1-3 miles a couple times a week without any problems (other than normal effects of having been out of shape). But I’ve also been on 4mg or less (now 2mg) of suboxone since I started working out and running again. On this lower dose I have not once felt the "shortness of breath" or other side effects.
That’s just ME though, and while it COULD BE suboxone at high doses with some individuals, it could also be a vast array of many other things. But I still do believe that the higher doses of suboxone (8mg+) was part of the problem. I want to enforce it’s simply my OPINION, with no scientific data to back it up whatsoever. But tapering down and now stabilized on 2mg (much lower dose) and being able to control my breathing while I jog (and I’m still out of shape trying to get back into working out), and also feeling my heart rate go up when I jog/run I no longer have that "weird feeling of my heart barely pounding", rather it feels much more natural and I feel much more comfortable jogging. While I still smoke my ciggs (shame on me), I feel like being on the lower dose had definitely rid of all the "weird effects" I had felt while trying to workout on 8mg-16mg of sub.
(Now of course it’s entirely possible that tapering and eating better, along with other productive things in my taper, could be why I no longer feel any weirdness while working out or jogging, I still strongly feel that for ME, the high dose of suboxone had something to do with the shortness of breath and high heart rate that was uncomfortable because it felt like it wasn’t really "pounding" or beating hard like it should.)
Purely my subjective experience and opinion, I can’t enforce that enough.
