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 |
| 4 | Severe chronic pain | Involuntary twitching, dizziness, nodding off, sleeping alot | I was previously on Oxycontin and Oxycodone and no matter how much I took I could'nt get rid of my pain. I have been to at least 15 doctors and have taken every pain pill there is and nothing seemed to work very well. About a month ago I had pain in my mid. back so bad I could'nt walk, So my doctor put me on Methadone 3-4 pills 10mg every 6 hours. I don't need to take that much more like 4-5 pills through out the day and it works just fine. I can now deal with the pain and i'm up and around doing the things I like to do again. For people with | F | 32 | 25 days | 11/28/2003 | 4 | Back Pain/Opiate Dependence | Fatigue, drowsiness during the day, mild insomnia at night. | Good drug for someone in my situation (pain and history of opiate abuse.) This is the first opiate I can take without taking more than I need. I get very little euphoria and if I take more than I am prescribed, I just get very tired. It does a good job with my back pain as well. For the first time, my prescription lasts me the whole month. That is unbelievable for someone like myself who loves opiates so much. | M | 29 | 3 months | 11/24/2003 | 4 | Chronic Pain from FMS and Lupus SLE | I have gained over 60 lbs. over a period of 15 months. I have never had a | I believe this is the most difficult medication to come off of. I was on Duragesic several years ago and I took myself off cold-turkey. The withdrawls were not pleasant. Methadone is even more unpleasant although I am coming off with my doctor's help. Otherwise, as far as a pain med goes, methadone has helped me to function every day, by getting the things done that I couldn't do once I had entered this latest | F | 43 | 16 months | 3/11/2003 | 4 | Chronic pain from fms and lupus sle | This is an addendum after reading from William's experience. I too have had less interest in sex (libido). Also, for the first 5 mos. I dealt with continual constipation. I did not menstruate for a year. I was up to 120 mg. before I made the decision to stop taking this medication. Methadone is a commitment-if you have any trouble with titration (doasage) you MUST keep your doctor informed as methadone tolerance occurs over a period of time and dosage must be readjusted accordingly. | F | 43 | 16 months | 3/11/2003 | 4 | Chronic Pain | Minimal amounts of skin itching, moderate constipation and mild anxiety (sleep difficulties) | I am taking this drug for chronic pain resulting from an accident I sustained two+ years ago involving spinal compression fractures and a host of other seriously painfull conditions. I had taken Oxycontin (as prescribed) in the beginning for eight months which was grossly over-prescribed by my Orthopedic Surgeon and finally put me in the hospital with severe withdrawl symptoms and sincere hopes for a quick demise. (Withdrawl from Oxycontin is like being drug naked by a mule team through death valley! Great pain releiver - dangerous medication) Tried every pain reliever imagineable for just enough pain relief to be borderline functional with little success. I have read all that I can find on the negative side-effects of Methadone. I am now up to 10mg X 4 daily and think that I am finally on the right path. Pain levels are down to a +/- 5 on the richtor scale and I am finally breathing sighs of relief. This drug MUST BE taken strictly on time and over the "24 hour clock" (as close as possible) for me: 7:00am, 12noon, 5:00pm and at bedtime-+/- 11:00pm. Start off super slow with dosages: 5mg X 3 daily for 1 week, 5mg X 4 daily for 1 week, 5mg X 5 daily for 1 week, progress to 10mg X 3 daily for 1 week, etc., etc. until you get to where you need to be. Methadone apparently has a somewhat unpredictable (everybodys biochemically a little different) RESIDUAL EFFECT and to get to where you need to be (not want to be!) takes time but will pay off in the long run. BE SMART! Pain management for most of us is "forever". Dreams of "no pain" or levels of "1" or "2" are unrealistic. We must learn to be tough, realistic, think in moderate terms and bite the bullet and hold in there for the long run so this crap we take for pain will keep effectively working and hopefully not kill us! | M | 49 | 4 days | 1/21/2003 | 4 | optate/methadone addiction | tolerance increases over 6mnth period. suffer from extreme anxiety. | I believe staff/counsolors should be working more intensely with with clients,both the clients respnding well to maint treatment@the clients that still seem to relapse, whether it be herion,or other illict drugs. | M | 35 | 5 years | 1/4/2003 | 4 | Addiction | | 12/3/2002 | 4 | Opiate Addiction, | Weight gain that began after I was on methadone 6 mos. I am on a very high does, 130 mgs a day.I have gained 40 lbs. The constipation is the worst part for me. It is terrible. I have to eat excessive amounts of high fiber foods. | I got on methadone after a 8 year addiction to opiates, and 3 trips to prison. I commited prescription fraud over and over to get the stuff. After losing my children, my home, my everything, I ran to the methadone clinic. Now I have a life, I have things, and I keep my things. It saved my life. But like one person said, it has its bad points. I am fat now, never have been over weight in my life, even before i got on drugs, I was not fat. It slows down your metabolism I guess. The constipation is bad too. For you women out there who have just got on methadone. If you don't eat high fiber foods, get ready to give birth so to speak. For the males, get ready to find out what giving birth is all about. Also, at first you feel like a new person, but after you have been on it for a while, you will find yourself slacking, or neglecting important things in your life. I like to isolate myself, stay at home. Methadone is not meant to take like a daily vitamin, everyday for the rest of your life, after you get your life together, and fixed all the things you broke while on drugs, after you get stable, normal, start thinking about slowly detoxing. If your a fugitive from the law, I recommend getting off the methadone before your caught and go to jail, because jails and correction facilities hate methadone, and they will only give it to you for about a week.Like somebody else said, it takes months to kick methadone. I went to prison after being on it for a year, and I thought I would lose my mind. I could not sleep, i was so perinoid, I was a complete wreck, mess. | M | 40 | 18 months | 11/21/2002 | 4 | Opiate addiction/sciatic pain | Constipation, severe weight LOSS, extreme drowsiness | This medication saved my life by putting my cravings for opiates into remission. It also eases my sciatic pain and lumbar pain (2 surgeries, etc.) to the point that I am not disabled by it. I do NOT like the sever drowsiness, but that can be controlled with dosing 2 - 3 times a day instead of one. | F | 41 | 10 months | 6/19/2002 | 4 | BACK PAIN/NECK PAIN | WAS ON MORPHINE FOR 3 YEARS AND WAS NOT GETTING THE FULL RELIEF AFTER 2 YEARS KEPT INCREASING THE DOSAGE BUT STILL NO RELIEF NOW ON METHADONE AND BECUASE IT TENDS TO STAY IN YOUR SYSTEM LONGER AND YOU ARE NOT OUT OF RELIEF BY THE TIME YOUR NEXT DOSE IS DUE IT SEEMS TO WORK BETTER... BE SURE TO EAT WITH IT ORT DRINK MILK AND PLEASE KNOW YOU DO NOT GET HIGH FROM THESE DRUGS WHEN YOU ARE SEEKING PAIN RELIEF... | M | 57 | 6 days | 5/21/2002 | 4 | for back pai | Increased tension | M | 38 | 6 months | 1/7/2002 | 3 | Heroin addiction | The methadone has helped me get thru the withdrawals from heroin, bit ive gained so much weight. When I started taki g it, I asked the doctors if I would gain any weight and was told "not if I ate healthy" well I did gain even tho I ate healthy. I have had an eating disorder most of my life and I'm really having a hard time with all this weight gain. I hardly eat and still gain. The methadone clinic says most people chose to stay on it for years, or the rest of their life and I could too. But I'm so going to start tapering in about a month when I have been off heroin a little longer. I can't deal with this weight...If I had known I'd get this fat I would've tapered a long time ago. I'm grateful this option is available, but the doctors should be more honest about the side effects!! | If you dont mind getting out of this world FAT than its great for pain and heroin withdrawal. But don't stay on it very long. Just get over the w/d then start tapering off. Or else you'll end up like me. I wish I would have known!! Oh and to all the other entries on here talking bad about junkies, go F* yourselves!!! | F | 42 | 2 years 95 mg 1X day | 2/12/2022 | 3 | Heroin | Very sleepy,nodding out.weight gain wanting sweets madly. I'm off, it was a nightmare to get off and I wouldn't go back. if u get in an accident or need surgery,your f*ed being on methadone bc nothing will work. Think before I do it. | 42 | 12 months 80mg 1X day | 9/2/2020 | 3 | Opiate Addiction | Hot flashes that come from no where. Just start sweating. Sugar cravings. Falling asleep at work, standing up etc. Others. | I wish I'd just quit using cold turkey. I'm so scared of detoxing off this stuff. I'm bout to start going down slowly and take as long as I need to to get off completely. Pls before you start on this stuff talk to others already using it, get info from local methadone clinic. Thank you and I hope everyone gets through their own path safely. | F | 36 | 3 years 120 mg | 3/21/2017 | 3 | addicted to oxy | EXTREME HOT FLASHES!!! Naususa puking no ambition dry mouth weight gain constipation | I was fine for da 1st 6 months then started getting really sick on my period then at least once a week I get extreme hot flashes so bad thAt I puke I'm sick evry morning not from withdrawal but nauseous just feeling not myself run down n bbllaahhh I was so against goin to a methadone clinic it's liquid handcuffs so sick cuming off it I used oxys bout 300-400mgs a day I had a high habit n I was neva sick lik dis yes withdrawals wen I didn't hav ny but not sick lik I am now wish I neva got on it now saved me bout 1000.00$ a day dats it I'm starting to taper right off can't stand it anymore just sick all da time | F | 27 | 10 months 110lmg | 10/2/2016 | 3 | Addiction to Suboxone | Constipation, Extreme weight gain, sugar cravings, the worst SWEATS ugggh , No sex drive, lethargic, no interest in doing more than I have too.., the list is endless to me. Hair loss, etc..... SUCKS hate IT! | I was fine on Suboxone until a relative of mine told some of my other relatives, whom are my parents, needless to say they insisted I go get off of the Suboxone as they felt I was not the person they remember from the prior years without it. And of course the hospital, put me on this F____ shit, which has no good side effects at all. Suboxone was an uptick for me, it kept me happy, thin, never depressed like this!!! Sucks, sucks, sucks. Women especially menopausal women take my advice and go with Suboxone or Subtexone if you need something for dependency of this nature!!! | F | 48 | 3 years 73 mg | 8/24/2016 | 3 | I have lyme disease neuropathy arthrit | Falling asleep while drivibg dozing off and talking to my self. Arms legs and even head falling asleep. Charlie horses | I know it works wonders for addicts | F | 51 | 4 months 53 | 6/8/2016 | 3 | I was diagnosed with cancer in 2010 | Dry mouth, constipation, really tired to the point that if I sit down for a moment I fall asleep. I get so tired my whole body aches alot, my body jerks, my joints hurt and I feel real stiff. I've woke myself up doing things with my hands in the air. My daughter told me once that I feel asleep with my hand in the air and just held it there for a long time. I start to fall asleep while driving, so now some one else drives me or if I feel a little bit tired I pull over and rest. It really scares me because I have 3 young children. I'm on 20 mg of Ritalin twice a day to keep me awake so I can care for my kids and function during the day. My memory is real bad and many times I feel like I'm in a fog. I forget things. They kept me on the methadone after the cancer because the radiation therapy gave me neuropathy. But at least I'm alive to raise my beautiful children. It can be hard when you feel like you're fighting with your body every day just to function to do what you need to do and do right by your kids. | Also on gabapentin and oxycodone for the neuropathy. On meds for thyroid, acid reflux, and Lisinopril for my kidneys. | F | 53 | 5 years 70 mg/day | 3/28/2016 | 3 | substitute 4 heroin | Im not sure if i were having any side effects id like sombody to let me knw if they had side effects then id b able to know thanx | F | 42 | 10 years 65mg daily | 8/17/2015 | 3 | pain chronic | 1 days | 6/5/2015 |