as you all may know, I thought buprenorphine was causing some pain issues so I quit taking it and went back to 5 mg of oxycodone three times a day. I gave it a solid month to be sure.
this was a terrible terrible mistake.
it appears the buprenorphine has changed my body. The oxy was not only mostly ineffective, but in the four hours after it wore off I went into immediate withdrawals with increased RLS. It was worse than at any time in my life.
I drifted off to a nice medicated sleep only to awaken at 2, 3 and 4 AM in the most agonizing pain and discomfort. For some reason, it was really bad in my hands.
I returned to buprenorphine this afternoon and evening and all is right again.
I’m glad I performed my experiment because I learned that this is now the only drug the controls my symptoms.