Suboxone side effects

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Specializes in Infusion Nursing, Home Health Infusion.

Has anyone had any problems with sweating excessively or any face lesions or breakouts with the use of suboxone????

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No. I have only experienced one patient c/o SOB.

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Specializes in geriatric.

Have you been on it long and when you started it where you in at least moderate withdrawals also what dose are you on as far as the sweats go you may be on to little or to Strong of a dose.There is a web site where you can go and they can answer all your questions. i am not allowed to mention the link last time they removed it from my post. but if you put in NaABT you will find it has a link for frequently asked questions and a support forum on it. Good Luck.

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Specializes in Infusion Nursing, Home Health Infusion.

No its not me.......a patient with skin issues and the sweating that we can not attribute to other causes..but I will check that site out tx so much

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Specializes in Psych ICU, addictions.

Sweating is listed in my drug guide as one of the common side effects. Also, I've had a patient on suboxone who kept running hot flashes and sweats while they were with us...though we were never able to definitely rule the cause of the heat wave as the suboxone. It could very well have been the massive withdrawl itself.

The manufacturers of suboxone have an official website: the URL escapes me but I'm sure Google can find it for you.

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I usually use Medline plus as my patient education website resource...

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Specializes in geriatric.

That seems like a great website with all kinds of health information. the website i mentioned has a forum where others post there own experience, I know I got allot of information and support. It is like a on line NA meeting.They also have a on line eve chat and are starting a Wednesday morning chat. It is of course free and confidential(I sound like I am doing a commercial) I cant help it though I have been going to that website since 2007 and it really helps.I would suggest it to your patients. It also has a place where you can post your story or I guess it is a journal where you can go back any day and post how you are feeling. you can also read others which is where I really realized I am not alone.Do you have many patients on suboxone?

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Specializes in Infusion Nursing, Home Health Infusion.

Just one patient and I did not know a lot about it...so that is why I started here//most of my nursing experience is in infusion and home care

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Specializes in no experience yet.

My sister is taking it and she gets severe anxiety and sweats when the dosage runs out. As she has tapered off of it much less so.

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Specializes in ICU,IV Team, Endoscopy, CM, LTC, Homecar.

does anyone know if they use it for chronic pain patients. My pain specialist said she did not

think I was a candidate for it, since I'm chronic pain, but I wonder if it would be better than taking other narcs for life?

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Specializes in LTC, drug and alcohol rehab.
does anyone know if they use it for chronic pain patients. my pain specialist said she did not

think i was a candidate for it, since i'm chronic pain, but i wonder if it would be better than taking other narcs for life?

most of our pt. are prescribed, lyrica, diclofenac, or gabapentin for pain

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one of my pt said that its almost the same with heroine and other narcs w/d but its worse

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