Thanks diverdown.

I can attest to your point on stopping Suboxone. I had been on it for a few years with a surgery pending. My Dr had me stop, and was going to have me take oxycodone to offset the absence of the Suboxone and be available for post-op pain relief. First thought wrong.

Do not do this, even if a Dr recommends it. On the third day and ahead of the surgery, I had vicious, vicious w/d symptoms - nausea, diarrhea, sweating one minute and freezing the next. I immediately went back on Suboxone, but I was sick for most of the next week.

I was fine by the time of the surgery, and managed post-op pain with Toradol for five days (the max # of days it can be taken), and then diclofenac for a week (I had laminotomies at S1/L5/L4 - a pretty tame back surgery as opposed to fusion, and it worked just fine).

I'm now on the lowest dose of Suboxone without any w/d symptoms. I'm still very reluctant to try and stop, and probably never will stop.

Joe