← Return to Living and thriving after 15 years of crippling opioid addiction

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@jenatsky

Are you taking opioids for a specific reason or just addicted? I’ve been using Percocet 5/325 for over 15 gears for pain due to an injury. I wasn’t addicted but dependent, for which I now have chronic pain syndrome due to the injury. I have been able to cut my Percocet use completely by using high dose CBD and low dose THC. My main pain control is with buprenorphine patches that I replace every 7 days. Buprenorphine is used in the pill, buccal film or long acting injection. The doses are different for chronic pain control and opiate addiction. You can try my method, find a treatment center or your PCP who can begin you on this medication.
The other thing I wish to point out that “addiction” has very bad associations with that are no longer appropriate and I suggest you try “opiate use disorder”. The definition of addiction is to seek more and more of a drug and in increasing doses sometimes. But using these opiates for pain is not addiction.

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I have a dependence due to failed fusion surgery and over 30 epidurals blocks etc. I am glad to hear about the patches you described. I have seen pain specialists but they don't seem to go beyond epidural s.

If you could stop percocet with the use of CBD and THC,why do you need buprenorphine? I got very low blood pressure using CBD and delta 8. I stopped both too guickly and got serious panic attacks causing me to call 911. I am now not taking CBD or THC. If I stop Percocet what to do about pain? I am trying mindfulness and physical therapy. I am onterested in buprenorphine.

So true. Dependent is the maintenance of treatment as prescribed. Seems like people are tossed into the “addicted” bucket so quickly - and unfairly.