Author: Darken
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 2:26 pm
Hey Everyone,
Although I’m sure this has been touched on these boards before, I wanted to start a thread detailing my experiences with Suboxone as treatment for Depression only. Throughout the web you can find stories here and there of people getting on this medicine to treat their depression, but it’s tough to say if they are true or not. I will use this thread to help anyone of thinking of pursuing this treatment option for themselves. This thread will be 100% honest with no embellishing of facts or attempts to make the med seem like something more then it is. This is only from my experience, your experience may certainly vary.
A brief backgroung on me. I suffer from depression (MDD) with suicidal ideation. I do not have anxiety at all. I was hospitalized 4 years ago after an attempt on my life. This is when the Anti Depreessant med merry-go-round started. I originally was put on the AD Wellbutrin which made me feel great for two days and then it disappeared…a tease of feeling ‘normal’ that never returned in years of taking the med. During this time I was also put on various AD’s including Celexa, Lexapro, Zoloft, Pristiq, Remeron, Seroquel XR, Abilify and others…all which had more side effects to them, then any positive effects on my mood. For four years I followed my PDoc’s recommendations for treatment, only interjecting medication choices at times to avoid nastier AD’s like Paxil and Effexor. Late last year I decided enough was enough and visited my GP looking for new options…
At the time we tapered my off of the current combo which was Seroquel XR, Zoloft and Wellbutrin. Since Wellbutrin was the only med to help…if only a little we decided to try a stimulant (adderall) to see if that might be effective in giving me energy. Adderall was the second medicine to give me a few days of feeling really good…followed by a much diminished effect…Adderall was very effective in giving me energy and helping me complete tasks that would have otherwise been left unfinished.
Coming into 2012 and now knowing two meds that helped briefly..clearly Dopamine is my problem area. I knew about Suboxone for years in reading a few stories(very few) online about people who had the luck of having in prescribed for them…but who knows if they were telling the truth. I asked my GP if he could refer me to a Suboxone doctor….he seemed onboard with the idea but was unable to find colleagues who would prescibe it strictly for depression…they would only see you if you were an addict or in pain.
I went to suboxone’s website and printed out a list of the 100 closest doctors to me who were able to prescribe it. Calling around was little help as the secretaries wouldn’t talk to you if you were not addicted. So I hit the letter route…I sent out letters to doctors explaining that I was looking to have Suboxone prescribed for depression and what my reasons were. I received 8 replies to the numerous letters I sent out and only one actually responded in a way that let me know he read my letter and might help.
His practice was 50 miles away…but I made and appointment and the rest is history. In short if your looking for treatment with suboxone for depression it’s not going to be easy to find a doc…but if your honest and do it legimately….a doctor can be found….I’m living proof. thanks for Reading so far..
My journal of starting the med will start shortly….
