METHADONE HYDROCHLORIDE Reviews (METHADONE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 3.8 (261 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare METHADONE HYDROCHLORIDE with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR METHADONE HYDRO | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | bone disease (avascular narcrocis) | constipation is a problem but with some extra fiber,water and prune juice or over the counter laxitives things work pretty good. | I use 30mg every 6 hrs. (120mg) daily. I've had 3 hip replacements and I'm in need of of 4th. Both shoulders also have been replaced. Both knees have (narcrocis) in them and will have to be replaced. So as you can see I'm a bit of a mess, but methodone has allowed me to live a life that is somewhat normal. I am thankfull to my doctor and this medication for this. I also use cataflam (anti-inflammatory) for pain control(very immportant) | M | 12 years | 8/17/2005 | 5 | Chronic neck pain | None | Wonderful pain releaver! I have tried Duragesic patches 150 mcl with very little help and alot of sore skin, plus patches falling off becase of sweat. Ihave also tried oxycontin 80mg three / day which m,ade me wacky. Now on Methadone which while I had no insurance was $28.00 for 120 10mg pills as oppopsed to $1000.00 for 90 pills of 80mg oxycontin!!!! The docs dont tell u howe expensive some of these drugs are w/o ins.Methadone makes me think alot more clear, I only need to take it twice a day, and i feel i have alot more energy than any other pain reliever I have tried. | M | 2 months | 11/1/2003 | 5 | Be very careful using this drug, the detox is months, not days and is horrendous. Morphine is a better pain reliever, however you must keep increasing the dosage to relieve the pain. Everyone I know who is on methadone eventually has a change in metabolism and gains weight. Long term use also leads to noding off in the daytime, and a lack of REM sleep at night. In some ways I wish I had never got on it, but in other ways its a life saver. As with every thing else in life it has 2sides | M | 30 years | 8/22/2002 | 5 | chronic pain - parasthesia | nodding off is the only side effect that I am aware of. As a 15 year paraplegic and trying many prescribed pain killers this is the only one I can find that is effective and still allows me to conduct a life. | Really an effective pain blocker, I take it per Doctors orders and that is 4 times daily at 5 mg. | M | 1 years | 8/29/2002 | 5 | | 6/20/2002 | 5 | FBS severe chronic pain | When taken at the dose the doctor advised, I nodded off all the time, but pain management was the best of anything I have used. (MsContin, Oxy, etc.)Reducing dosage and spacing it out, I have no drowiness and pain management is still good. It is a balancing act between pain and drowsiness. | There is NO buzz with this stuff. It is not to be taken lightly - getting off is a very difficult and protracted. In my case there is no choice - it provides the best (only) pain relief and it is very inexpensive. DON'T drink alcohol. | M | 120 days | 7/23/2002 | 4 | Addiction | | 12/3/2002 | 4 | Chronic pain | Sweating all of the time, noxious | F | 6 months | 12/9/2015 | 3 | pain chronic | 1 days | 6/5/2015 | 3 | Heroin Addiction | | 1/26/2003 | 3 | M | 3 years | 11/8/2006 | 2 | back injury | none. taking the medicine affected me as much as taken a baby asprin would have. I got no relief fron it. I hope it does work for some.. | M | 21 days | 6/4/2003 | 1 | dizzy itchy felt high energy felt sick | i don't know how u can give this to a herione addicted when u still can feel high off this methadone unreal doctor's need to get with it there are non narcotics that work just as good for pain ask ur doctor's about them | M | 3 days | 9/16/2008 | 1 | twenty yr habit on methadone | Thinning beard as messes with albunim hormone I think is name mastitis years ago. | They don't prescribe in europe apart from uk and holland nasty drug thats has messed with my heart and bones as high dose and was on three four 50mg amps a day at one point but I gave the needle up as my heart is a lil f...ed . | 1 days 100plus | 11/10/2014 | 4 | dilaudid addiction | Sweating bad!, weight gain maybe 5-10 pounds, Munchies alot, sugar cravings, nodding several times a day (kind of like a roller coster i go up then down then up then down ect.), Penis won't get hard (and if it does it's a mission to get it to stay up. and if it does stay up i won't ejaculate even after hours of intercourse), sever acne, horrible constipation!! (i can bearly ever piss or shit)(and when i do i have to push sooo hard) | I started taking methadon because that was the only option left for me. I went to rehabs, programs, NA, AA, i tried everything and i came to the conclusion if i was going to get off the pills i would have to go on methadone. I've been on it for 3-4 weeks now and honestly even after all the side effects i am very glad i discovered it. It saved my life as far as im concerened. it totally stoppped my cravings (wich i am really surprised cause that's all i would think about before i started the methadone. I am just scared i will never get off it. It's like im scared to be off it. i know it too soon to think about getting off but it's like i dont want to. i like it alot. but i dont really understand it cause i nod off and on all day. it fucks me up olmost worse then the pills??? (wtf) but i find myself not stealing or robbing people to get money for pills. i am in a safe enviorment. Iam not shooting up anymore (IVing).(injecting) So overall if you cant get clean on your own and are thinking about methadone, if you are ready to take a chance on being a lifer, go for it! im glad i did!! | M | 19 | 25 days 100 1X day | 8/2/2012 | 5 | mental phisical pain | I have been taking methadone illlegaly for over 5yrs now when i started i knew nothing about it i was a bad kid i would make my money by stealing&selling my fathers pills i started taking it and it just got worse and worse i got hooked i tried geting of it multipul times i lasted three months with no methadone and no sign of the withdraw stoping i quit cold turkey first time then i tried weening myself off im now down to 20mg a day two tabs i could get by with 10mg but if i go to 10mg a day its not enough to get me by it just takes the edge off and now i found out 6yrs after taking it that it attacks yourbone marrow thats why withdraw from methadone is sooo painful i feel i cant move function i dont wanna eat i cant sleep muscle spasms and twitchy feet sweats hot cold i get diarea its horible what do i do now how do i get off im still geting them from a friend my father wants me off um but hes just as bad as me being hooked on methadone hes in the hospital now bad health im wondering if thats gonna b in a hosp | M | 20 | 6 years 2 10mg tab | 11/8/2012 | 5 | Chronic Pain | Constipation, nightmares | I personally think that it is a great drug because it saved me from the deadly grip that the Oxycontin addiction had on me. It works well for the pain but it is sometimes hard to catch a buzz | M | 20 | 1 days | 2/8/2002 | 4 | Multiple Chronic Pain | Sleepiness when drug was wearing off. Usually I can work through it, as long as I have things to do. Addiction can be a problem and withdrawal symptoms are like having a severe flu, but for my pain, it was worth it. I've had severe pain since I was 12 years old and it makes it hard to have a life. This stuff makes it so I can have a relatively normal, pain free life and I don't have to worry about what kind of activities I'll do that might set something off. It does have a side effect that I don't mind... I seem to have an abundant amount of energy and the need to do something. | I have severe pain. This includes migraines, cluster headaches, stress headaches as well as cramps from hell. I have a knee that doesn't work right, and from all the wear and tear, my hips and other knee is going. I have arthritis symptoms in my hands, wrists, and elbows. Basically, I got the crappy DNA, though no one will fess up where it comes from. Auto immune diseases run rampant through my family, so it seems like it's only a matter of time. Every day is a struggle to get through when my pain starts acting up. I've tried many different medications for each problem, but my tolerance level is so high anymore and it seems like the doctors have given up. Unfortunately, being my age I get to struggle to rise above the assumption that I'm drug seeking. While I go from low dose to multiple high doses per day within a month or two with other medications, it's been half a year and I'm only needing 10mg every few days. | F | 20 | 6 months | 8/4/2007 | 5 | Fibromyalgia/Degenerative Disc Dise | Low sex drive, increased perspiration, became less extroverted. | What anyone paying attention to these comments will notice is that for severe chronic pain, this drug tends to be a miracle drug, giving people their "lives back". However, for those who pollute western medicine with false complaints and addictive behavior, it proves to be the "devil's drug". I must admit, as a chronic pain sufferer, I must defend this medication. I have found amazing pain relief from Methadone HCL. Like many other, I spent years fighting the trials and tribulations of Vicodin treatment/addiction. Although I do not want to stay on Methadone for the rest of my life, if I had to the pro's would continue to outway the con's. If I was not put on Methadone when I was, I would have died. I would have died either by my own hand in an attempt to stop the curse that is Chronic Pain, or I would have died from the self medication that was my last desperate attempt TO MAKE THE PAIN STOP! However, now I have found peace within myself and do not blame myself for | M | 21 | 1 years | 9/11/2007 | 4 | opiate addiction | weight GAIN(went from 100lbs to 140lbs in 7months) i should weigh 115 (only 5'2"), sweating (hotflashes), drowsy, no sex drive, tooth decay? (i got my first cavity on methadone) The side effects are worth it, id rather be chubby then shooting heroin. plus the doctors and old patients say once u get off your metaboliziam goes back and you gain or loose that weight. | Unless you are a chronic drug user and other treatments havent worked i suggest trying other methods. this is just my opinions. Ive tried bupernorphine, suboxan, detox none of it worked or if they did it never lasted. ive been clean since august 2005 thanks to methadone changing my lifestyle, keeping busy and staying away from former drug buddies. i just really hate the weight loss bcause i never had to worry about it and my appetite hasnt changed. i heard your metaboliziam slows down. its a long process. the clinic i go to in pittsburg, PA you usually go to for at least 2 yrs. if you drop 1 or 2 mg a week you should be ok as far as any discomfort. im on 78 but ive just started dropping from 80 one week at a time and i havent noticed any difference in how i feel. One thing i hate is that ppl judge and say your not really clean if your on methadone and that bothers me because i dont get high off methadone i look at it as a crutch to slowly detox. if you have anything you would like to t | F | 21 | 14 months | 10/23/2006 |