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Has anyone used Butrans or buprenorphine for chronic pain? I am scared it will aggravate my restless legs.... Any help is appreciatied. This is the patch form.

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It is an opioid and won't make your RLS worse and in fact will help them.

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It will help your RLS. However, if you're on dopaminergic drugs like Ropinirole/Pramipexole/neupro patch, it would be better to reduce them and eventually get off them and the butrans patch will cover pain & RLS.

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