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 | 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 | 3 | Opiate addiction | Weight gain, loss of energy and motivation, dental problems, excessive sweating, dependence, sleepiness (I have to nap during the day.) Sugar cravings, poor hygiene, zombie-like, fuzzy thinking, poor short-term memory. Comments: with all these side effects you are probably wondering why I rated this med a 3. Due to the fact that I suffer from bipolar, ocd, GAD with panic attacks, I must say I've had to weigh out the benefits and which were the lesser evils of the two. My cravings are 100% gone for 6 years so that has been a relief. Ill be honest, if I can go back in time I would not have started methadone. I am completely dependent on it and am extremely scared of coming off. Liquid handcuffs is right. I am a 30 year old educated woman and sadly on my way to what we here in the clinics call a "lifer." It has taken the sharp edges off my depression and gives me a peaceful feeling but if I was being honest with myself the peaceful feeling is me being high. My days are in a haze. I have barely any motivation to even get my behind out of bed. I wish I was strong enough to just get off. My advice, Don't get on in the first place, the methadone withdrawals are a lot worse than anything you're scared of getting off now. | F | 30 | 6 years 40 mgs | 7/16/2012 | 2 | Heroin addiction | Extreme sleepiness, nodding out when in any sitting position for more than a few mins (reading, smoking, etc.), body jerks when sleeping, nausea, sweating, tremendous weight gain (20+ lbs in 3 months!!!!!), crave sugars, no motivation, no sex drive, headaches, severe constipation, laziness | I was on 75mg at my highest and started tapering after 2 months. i can't wait to get off this HORRIBLE drug. Another s***** thing is you HAVE to taper SLOWLY or else you'll have withdrawals 100xs worse than coming off heroin cold turkey. | F | 30 | 5 months 60mg 1X day | 7/15/2012 | 1 | for drug abuse | i been on meathadone for 17 years now at oatc canada i went off for 3 months after coming down 5 mils a week it made my bones ach and everything smelt differnt head aches all day thats why i went back on it i hate this meds wayne newmarket canada | M | 50 | 17 years 130 1X day | 3/11/2012 | 4 | addiction | Lack of energy, weight gain, increase in appetite, sweating, body jerks while sleeping, loss of memory | F | 36 | 2 years 110mg | 2/27/2012 | 3 | Severe drug addiction to opiates | Severe lethargy..horrible mind blowing constipation. Sever weight gain(50lbs). Zero sex drive. At it saved my life then it tried to steal my soul! I am done to 53 mgs from 115. Not so terribly hard, but it has taken me six months to get here. Have lost 20 pounds and feel great! Continuing to come down slowly. Plan to come off in 5 months!! | F | 39 | 4 years 115 | 2/11/2012 | 3 | pain/addiction | I have constipation, severely tired, sleep all the time, at first couldnt eat and now eating everything with sugar, no motivation, depressed. Numbness and tingling in hands. Hard to concentrate. NO SEX DRIVE. I feel that this is a medicine created by the government to control people who have addictions with no where else to go. You will be made into a zombie after taking this for more than a month or two. | I got on this in hopes to get away from taking pills. At first I was taking pills as prescribed by my DR and then I got into a relationship with a guy who was addicted to oxy and I started to take what he took and I became addicted. After we broke up, I had no connections and started to withdraw but couldn't handle it. So I ended up at the methadone clinic. I dont fit in there. I should have just beared it and quit cold turkey. I can say it has helped me get over having to take pills all day. Im starting to detox and have been even more tired but I have a feeling its going to get a lot worse. | F | 26 | 6 months 55mg 1X day | 1/15/2012 | 4 | heroin addiction | Sometimes constipation,depending what I eat, profuse sweating like clockwork, between 2-3pm. Finger numbness, just one finger, totally turns dead! Just the end of it. Couldn't sleep at first. Took about 3 weeks to get used to being really high from it 30-40mg. Should of stayed at 30mg. But the addict mentality wants more. Been basically clean, help my life out 100%. Was jobless,no car, and about to evicted! Got on the methadone program, within a week I got a job, car,money, and caught up with rent! I did a 180 degree turn around. That's me ,all or nothing..... | M | 44 | 8 years 100mg | 12/29/2011 | 5 | Narcotic/Opiod Maintenance | Severe constipation and severe sweating! | F | 39 | 10 years 60 | 12/24/2011 | 3 | pain management | excessive sleep, swelling, nausea, hiccups, itchy body | Plan on calling the pdoc on Tuesday. Can't handle waking in the middle of the night due to extreme itchiness all over body and to the point of being sick. Since I started taking the meds on Aug 25th; I have hiccups at least 3-4 times a day. And the swelling of my ankles, feet, legs - I just look awful and it hurts to wear shoes. I noticed the other day I am starting to get a bit of a rash here and there too. I just can't handle this med anymore. Started taking it because the pdoc says it would be cheaper for me to take since I have no insurance currently - compared to my regular medication which would have cost way too much. | F | 43 | 10 days 5 mg 3X day | 9/4/2011 | 5 | Lumbosacrael Plexopathy,Polynueral, | M | 45 | 12 years 130 Mg. 2X day | 8/15/2011 | 5 | narcotic maitanence | constipation,slight nausea on occasion, but nothing serious | saved my life, i would have od'd without or just killed myself, my wife should take a lot of that credit for this too,. i know poeople hate it, but at least give it a try first and then make up your mind about it, this stuff saved my life and it is extremely cheap | M | 29 | 8 years 135 1X day | 7/25/2011 | 5 | iv user of opiates | severe constipation, sweats, craving sweets | I will say methadone has played a big part in me changing my life but i have to go to a clinic everyday b/c of the call-backs procedure. I have a fantastic job that requires me to travel some and attend very important meetings and the clinic i attend will not excuse me but 1-2 times and it's just a mess then. I am ready to detox due to this clinics rules, which i understand they do have, but when a person does right they should have a little repect and consideration for them and this clinic doesn't. If i file a greivance on them it just goes to the medical director of the clinic and nothing gets done! Very tired of the ball-n-chain with them and my take-homes!! | F | 36 | 10 years 108mgs 1X day | 7/25/2011 | 5 | pain management | Drowsiness, sweat easily | When I first started taking this stuff it really was uncomfortable. There were no nasty side effects other than feeling like I was in the fog. The best part however is that I have not had to increase my dosage and in fact am way down, only 10mg twice daily. In addition to that my pain is controlled quite nicely. It no longer makes me tired it has never made me loopy like most narcotics. All in all this stuff is much cheaper and way more reliable than the usual narcotic analgesics. I have tried, vicodin all stregths, oxycodone, morphine, dilauded and on and on. All of which worked OK but made me loopy and needed more rather quicly, like weeks. Anyone with chronic pain should at least consider this if you are to be on anything long term. The only real big pitfall is it is very addictive physically and getting off it is much more difficult than other opiate based narcotics. For me it has been a real blessing. | M | 50 | 11 years 40 2X day | 5/30/2011 | 2 | Makes me feel AWFUL | I was prescribed this stuff to help deal with my horrific musculoskeletal injuries caused to me by the antibiotic Ciprofloxacin (look THAT drug up if you want to read nightmarish stories!) While it does help with some of my pain, I CANNOT stay conscious on this stuff and it makes me feel mentally retarded. I can't focus or concentrate my mind and I fade in and out of consciousness for up to 12 hours at a time, all the while having odd hallucinatory "dreams." Despite the fact I seem to sleep constantly on this stuff, I'm still completely exhausted once it wears off so evidently the "sleep" I get while on methadone is not of good quality. I finally started cutting my 10mg pills into EIGHTHS which seems to help reduce the mental side effects, but the painkilling effectiveness is significantly reduced as well, obviously. Often I choose to just endure my pain rather than have this stuff blast my cognitive function. Lastly, I'm very concerned with what I'm reading here about tooth decay. Not cool! Why isn't that on the warning label? | M | 31 | 1.25 1X day | 5/13/2011 | 4 | Opiate Addiction | CONSTIPATION. Nothing would work, not even the "wet and wild" I take 4 SENA every night and after I drink my Red Bull in the morning, it's crap city. Also, It has negetively affected my ability to argue or keep from being manuplited. | It's worked great, for it's intended purpose but I'll have to take it for the rest of my life. I am honest with myself and know that if I got of the m-done, I would be rite back into pills | M | 42 | 7 years 100 1X day | 3/31/2011 | 4 | Opiate addiction | Constipation, ZERO sex drive, bad cravings for sugar, sweating, EXCESSIVE weight gain (between methadone & anti-depressants I'm having weight loss surgery in approx 6 wks), tooth problems (need top dentures since going on Methadone) | Methadone does help with drug cravings a LOT!! I went to one of the best treatment programs (addiction to Oxycontin) in the country & still relapsed after 10 months. I've been clean for 3 years on Methadone. I wish the clinic had been more honest about side effects, withdrawal & how hard it is & how long it takes to wean off Methadone (2 years from my dose). | F | 44 | 3 years 120 mg 1X day | 3/17/2011 Patient History | 4 | Fibro, severe spinal pain, esp neck | Tired, fall asleep watching tv or reading. Weight gain, despite hardly eating. Used to have great memory. Now I can't recall the name of anything. | I took Oxycontin which worked great for two years, then it stopped working. Methadone works okay for pain, but I'd feel better if my doctor would increase the dosage. Not only will he not do that, but he wants to cut me down, for no reason at all. I've been compliant, take drug tests whenever he wants me to. I see him once a month, and I feel like I'm sitting in the Principal's office. I have to always defend my pain and beg him not to cut me off. I took my first narcotic four years ago. Never smoked or did drugs, and just had the occasional glass of wine. Still, he's scared of the DEA. He doesn't even deny it. I've gone to two pain clinics, and they wanted me to stop taking pain medication. I'm living a nightmare. My pain is off the charts. I collect disability for my pain. Believe me, getting SSDI is not easy. The drug addicts are making it so hard for people who have REAL chronic pain. Without my pain meds, I'd probably jump off a roof. The doctors believe that I have pain, but say that people shouldn't be on narcotics long term. I'm like, "What happens to the pain if I stop the meds?" | F | 53 | 1 years 30 mg 3X day | 3/10/2011 | 5 | Heroin Addiction | Weight Gain, sweating more frequently, | Without methadone, I dont know where I would be today. Yes, there are side affects but I would take some extra weight and sweating a bit more the usual anyday over withdrawal symptoms, being a drug addict, ect. Methadone has played a HUGE part in me getting my life back together, the MAIN reason it helped me was becuase in my drug addiction it wasnt so much about chasing the high anymore, but to feel OKAY and not be "bogue", which i would NEVER put myself through again! So when I started methadone, i was no longer putting my life in danger, had risk of getting diseases, or dying from a overdose, on heroin i couldnt fuction normally, now i can everything any normal person does.such as have my own place, car, moneyy, pay my bills, have food to eat..on herion i lived in a hotel, took the bus and was broke and severely depressed. Methadone if taking seriously, meaning your truely want to fix your life and get off drugs, can help you tremendously,and it everyone is different, but if you find yourslef there more then a year or two, you need to ask yourslef some serious questions.. | F | 23 | 1 years 75 MG 1X day | 2/16/2011 | 5 | opiate addiction | Excessive sweating, sedation, cloudy thinking, decreased motivation, less anxiety | F | 45 | 6 years 174mg 1X day | 2/13/2011 |