Author: tearj3rker
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 10:50 pm
I guess it’s possible Scruffy. But it’s wise to eliminate all possibilities.
Suboxone does alter our perception of pain. It IS an analgesic, and it SHOULD be doing the opposite if anything – ie numbing any pain. But if your dose is under that of what you require, you could be having some kind of hyperalgesia – ie feeling more pain than you would normally as a result of withdrawal from having a dose that’s less than what you require.
Does the pain get better when you increase your dose? Do you get any other kinda withdrawal effects?
When I was on the medications that caused me to metabolise my sub really quickly, I started to suffer aches like you describe. Also while I was on methadone, after I’d become tolerant to any dose increase, slowly aches would return and I’d feel like an old man in his 20’s. Our dependence on opioids makes us ultra-sensitive to pain, but the analgesia from the opioids compensates for it. Perhaps you’re not getting enough analgesia from the partial-agonist effect of bupe?
That being said it’d be wise to look into all the other possibilities. RLS, fibro, injury. Try stretches, magnesium supplements, see your doc. All that stuff. Hopefully the medical world will know a way to figure out whether the pain comes from your legs (physical) or from your brain (fibro / RLS or Sub related)?
