A member asked:

I started the butran pain patch yesterday. this afternoon i started with an upset stomach then vomited 3 times, cant stay awake, headache and weak??

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Dr. Robert Grindstaff answered

Specializes in Addiction Medicine

Butran: if you were on a different opiate just before the Butrans and it was not out of your system you may have been experiencing withdrawal. Buprenorphine the ingredient in Butrans is an agonist antagonist and will displace the other opiate off the receptor thus precipitating withdrawal.

Answered 9/7/2014

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