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| 5 | chronic back pain | none | Best medication for moderate to severe chronic back pain. I have tried everything, morphine, Kadian etc. No high if you are not Niave. I take 10 mg twice a day, morning and late afternoon. It has changed my life. It works best when taken with a muscle relaxer. I take 350mg of generic soma, and after tolerance to that builds up I rotate to flexeril. Works best with the Soma. This is a great combination for people with no insurance, all three of these drugs are cheap. The problem is finding a doctor that will prescribe it. | M | 44 | 3 months | 7/7/2008 | 4 | Opiate addiction/pain | Constipation, sweating, weight gain other minor problems. | I had severe knee injury when I was 14 tore everything, broke my growth plate and lower leg in 2 places. Anyway I started out on regular old vic's, then norco for the about 2 yrs after. Then I was ok for awhile with all the extensive physical therapy I did 4 times a week 4 hrs day. Then when I hit about 20 I started having pain again, Im an avid golfer and good also but I was pretty sure the golf had caused some sort of injury, so I went in got some norco took it and it worked for about month. At that point I didnt have insurance, started with the oxycontin big mistake. It took away my pain, and my life, pretty much made into a zombie. I got up to 3 80's a day along with other drugs.I wanted off so I did my research found methadone was used treat opiate addicts. I started40mg 2yrs later was at 140mg sometimes more to get that little high. Then i started to wean myself down to 80mg, finally got insurance found a doctor to help me, im now down to 30mg, and I take a benzo, and clonid | M | 26 | 3 years | 6/12/2008 | 3 | addiction | severe lower back pain mostly in my butt almost like my gutts were stoping up and swelling. the pain gets so bad sometimes i can't move i think i am going to die. I get severely constapated (Miralax helps a lot)but if i go to the bathroom #2 it almost takes all the pain away but if I don't take Miralax all the time the pain comes back. My penis is also desenseitized it is much harder to ejaculate sometimes not at all. | need help with ejaculation problems and with back pain. please i need help with these problems. I miss alot of work because of the pain. I am fixing to loose my house if i don't get help very soon. Thank you | M | 26 | 4 days | 4/20/2008 | 5 | Fibrose Dyspalsia (Bone Tumors) | Constipation and profuse sweating at high doses 60mg or above. | I have had this bone disease since birth and have had two tumors removed. One from my leg where they removed my fibula and put it in my femur and one tumor scraped off the outside of the back of my skull. I have many other tumors located in my arms and head. I started with the painkillers at 19 when I had the 1st operation and they gave me morphine IM for 14 days then sent me home with 100 Tylox with a refill. Needless to say I was addicted by the end of the refill. I finally started hitting doctors and have taken Lortab, Percocet, Demerol, Fiorinol #3, Tylenol#3, Oxycontin 40mg x3 daily with Lortab X3 forbreakthrough pain, morphine 30mg and 60mg X3 daily with percocet for breakthrough. You name it I have been on it. In 1998 I went to a Methadone Clinic and finally found the relief I had been seeking. Methadone was the cure from the beginning! THey staRTED ME OUT AT 40MG DAILY AND i GOT UP TO 120 DAILY UNTIL i COULD NO LONGER AFFORD THE $110.00 PER WEEK FOR THE MEDICINE PLUS T | F | 46 | 10 years | 4/16/2008 | 3 | Lyme Disease/Chronic Pain | 65 pound weight gain that is impossible to loose. Mild constipation. Tooth decay (not related to poor hygiene). | I unfortunately and probably am an exception that I do not experience 24 hour pain relief. Methadone's pain relief is most effective 1-1 1/2 hour after I take it and lasts for about 3 hours. I split the dose to help distribute pain relief. | F | 37 | 6 years | 4/14/2008 | 5 | Opiate addiction and Fibromyalgia | Its hard to tell which are side effects of methadone and which are from the Fibromyalgia so I'll do my best to list them. 1. Sweating and being hot - the summers are nightmarish. I used to be cold natured, not anymore, 80 degrees starts feeling hot. 2. Mind Fog - Caused from Fibromyalgia and made worse from the methadone? I don't know but it seems worse since I've been on Methadone and also since I hit my head in a wreck where I flipped my neighbors suv. 3. Constipation - I go regularly now, pretty much every morning BEFORE I dose but after I dose it's a rare thing to have a movement. Every time I go up on in Mg. on methadone I usually cannot have a movement for weeks or longer. Also, my poop no longer comes out all in one chunk, It kinda breaks off into little balls, weird. Sorry for the awful mental picture :( 4. Tiredness, nodding off - I nod off a lot, especially if I don't get enough sleep at night. With Fibromyalgia I notice that I do not sleep very deeply and rarely dream | I got onto Methadone primarily to help with my Opiate addiction. I was having to take at least 1 pill/hr. to keep the sickness at bay.I felt so sick when I didnt have any. I suffer from Fibromyalgia which is why I started taking the pills in the 1st place. So I got onto methadone and was very amazed. I didnt have any withdrawal symptoms that night or the next day. I had found my wonder drug. I did get a rush off of the methadone for the 1st month or two but that went away and left me with a medicine that helped my pain very well & also freed me from any withdrawal symptoms. But over time I kept having to go up and up on my doses and now I just don't feel well anymore. I hate this because I really believe in methadone and know that it saved my life but its either time for me to come off of it which I dread doing because it fills that hole inside of me that NOTHING else has ever been able to fill for very long but I am starting to feel like a junkie which was why I got on | M | 32 | 4 years | 4/12/2008 | 4 | Ruptured c3+c5, migraine, arthritis | Constipation (completely cured with Miralax), dental problems, reduced sex drive and fatigue. | Compared to other chronic pain meds like Duragesic patches and extended release morphine, Methadone is the best way to go. I am taking 120mg/day due to a high tolerance to most pain meds and I don't get any euphoria from this medication. It just takes the edge off of the pain in a big way. Duragesic patches work about the same, but I get extremely sleepy with them. The patches cost about $50.00 a piece also. I also don't experience withdrawl symptoms if I stop taking methadone like most other opioids (contrary to most other people who've posted here). I have noticed that any other meds used for breakthrough pain don't work as well when I take Methadone. I will be getting 5 cervical discs fused with titanium plates soon and I will probably use Methadone for recovery. | M | 41 | 5 years | 3/14/2008 | 2 | Fibromyalgia | Just constipation but let me tell you I was able to #2 better with this medicine than Morphine. | I am right now taking the 5 mg 3x a day and vicodin 8 tabs in a day. The methadone is working very little. I am going to have her increase it. | F | 26 | 10 days | 1/6/2008 | 5 | heroin addiction chronic back pain | weight gain, swollen hands and feet, excesive sweating, lathargic, and freedom from heroin addiction | I have pretty bad side effects but nothing compared to living life as a junkie. I can proudly say methadone saved my life as well as gave me a new and dramaticly better life. Thay said, please first Try na try rehab let methadone be a last resort for many it's a lifetime commitment. | F | 29 | 7 years | 1/3/2008 | 3 | Osteo Arthritis/Pre and Post OP | Get really itchy sometimes, speeding heartbeat, mild constipation. | I had a para acetabular osteotomy last year. I was on the Fentanyl patch for a couple of months but my surgeon said he wouldn't touch me if I was on that patch so my doc switched me to Methadone. I have to have ANOTHER surgery to fuse my bones together and they want me off my pain meds. I'm very scared for the side effect because even if I forget to take one methadone, I start feeling horrible withdrawls.. | F | 32 | 1.5 years | 12/27/2007 | 5 | pain/opiate dependency | I had loose bowel movements all my life. methadone stopped this immediately. night sweating at first during constant increasing which has stopped. Lower back pain (sciatica) and kidney pain has stopped. I do not experience fatigue as I work which is a big plus. My concentration increased,basically, everything in my life has changed for the better except for sex which is almost non-existing. | I`ve been on and off opiates all my life, including long battles with heroin. I`ve overdosed on opiates three times (hopitalized) The last time my heart stopped and I was "paddled" back to life. I no longer experience any depression or any anxieties or other emotional disorders as I have had before taking methadone. At this time in my life I feel without methadone, I would not be alive. All the opiates, self medicating, along with chronic pain mostly all the time, leave methadone as a life saver and God send for me. I`d be in severe misery without it and probably will be on methadone for the rest of my life. | M | 58 | 3 years | 12/14/2007 | 5 | Severe back and hip and neck pain | Constipation, choking when drink or eat due to slowed motility of gut, Itchy skin,Weight gain, crave sugar and chocolate, Menstuation stopped,sweats,fluid retention ie swollen legs and arms, suppressed personality,constantly feel fatigued. | Have suffered pain for 16 years from being run over by a vechicle, been on numerous pain medication and drug trials but methadone has given me pain control apart from numerous side effects and some break thru pain. This has been a miracle drug that allows me to get thru the day and get some sleep!100mg/day | F | 39 | 4 years | 11/18/2007 | 1 | Rupture disk | immediate nausea, vomitting, sweating, swelling, itching, constipation, confusion, spacey, insomnia | My experience was awful. It took 3 days for the constant vomitting to stop. I couldn't even hold down water. The nausea was persistant. I wanted to rip my skin off, the itch was so bad. I swelled up like a balloon animal. I was dripping in sweat non stop. I couldn't sleep, I couldn't think. And the relatively violent nature of the vomit and swelling, we'd say this goes down in my records as an alergy. It's been 2 weeks, and the constipation is only NOW starting to return to normal. It probably did it's job killing the pain, but I didn't notice as I was far to busy dealing with the side effects. | F | 34 | 1 days | 11/5/2007 | 1 | chronic pain/ kidney | tired all the time, could sleep for days straight | I have to say this drug was the biggest mistake of my life. My doctor put me on percocet for pain but it would make me so drowsy and nauseas that he then switched it to methadone. I would take apprx. 30 mg a day. i did this for 3 and a half weeks before deciding to stop. I wanted my life back. I felt like I walked around high all the time and had no genuine feelings anymore. After 3 days hell broke loose. I ended up in the ER because my BP was through the roof. They gave me percocet which I took sporadically only when i felt i could no longer stand the withdrawls. Took the percs for 2 weeks during which i would go a few days without any and then break down and take 1 or 2 for relief. IT's been 5 days since i have taken anything. the withdrawls hit me instantly this time given that percocet doesn't stay in your system as long as methadone. On top of this, I have a 3 month old baby and my fiance is currently in medical school and has no time to help out. The bottom line is tha | F | 24 | 3 days | 10/23/2007 | 4 | Treatment for opiate addiction | Tooth decay (had to get bridges for 2 lost teeth), weight gain, very severe constipation to a point where no laxatives work at all and has turned into a big issue, chronically fatigued, the addiction to methadone is a problem as well. If I try to skip a day I go into immediate withdrawls. Numbness from feelings at times. | Other than the side effects, the benefits outway the bad. I have been suffering from severe depression (Bipolar), addiction and suicidal thoughts since my early teens. Surprisingly, since starting the methadone the depression has been lifted. I feel like I was "blinded and now I can see." No cravings AT ALL. My demons are on vacation. If you do still have cravings you might need to go on a higher dosage. I don't consider this a miracle drug. To be honest with you, I would much rather be clear from methadone and be on nothing. Though, for someone like me who has been taking anti-pills my whole life and nothing has worked, you have to do what you can to survive. It's better then overdosing on drugs or committing suicide because you can't deal with the pain of your depression. Now, I am also a better, happier mother to my 3 year old son. I have the energy and peace within. I only recommend methadone for people with chronic relapse and no response to rehab or NA. Basically, a las | F | 25 | 2 years | 10/13/2007 | 4 | hurniated disk L5-S1 | insomnia | WORKS GREAT ON PAIN, CHEAP, EFFICIENT, WIDE RANGE OF USES... very good rx IF YOU DON'T TAKE THIS DRUG FOR A "BUZZ", THEN YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE ANY PROBLEMS. if you take this drug and you are not abusing it but you are getting a "buzzed" feeling, lower the dose. | M | 29 | 8 months | 9/26/2007 | 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 | 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 | Neurapathy, amputation of toes, | constipation, hard time sleeping, increased energy after taking med for about 2 hrs, | Took many pain medicines, all would work fo A few hours then the pain would come back. Have herniated disks, fibromyalgia, severe neurapathy toes amputated from diabetes, psoratic arthritis. Pain was my life. After beeing hospitalized from the 18th time in 12 months from complications from my chronic probles, then dr decided to use methadone.I take 90 mg daily. I can function like a regular person, I can walk a little, I can get into the tub usually without help...can even make dinner if not too involved. I finally feelm likem a contibutating member of the human race. And then prescription nism sooo cheep! I even can go shopping minnma wheelmchair. couldn't even to gom, to a store. The quality mof my life increased 10m fold. | M | 47 | 18 months | 8/1/2007 | 4 | treatment for heroin addiction | profuse sweating, noticeable weight gain, extreme and intense constipation, tooth decay, disrupted sleep | i've been on methadone for a year now, and while it has worked well for me, it's time to get off it. as you can see, i've experienced a lot of side effects. the sweating and constipation are the wost. if i walk for even 5 minutes, i literally have sweat rolling down my face, and the hair on the back of my neck gets drenched. i only have bowel movements once or twice a week, and i often have rectal bleeding as a result of the hard stools. i feel that i'm done with drugs, and that i've distanced myself from dope and rebuilt my lifestyle to include things that i enjoy and are good for me. methadone helped keep me afloat, if you will, while i changed my life for the better. i appreciate that it helped me while i needed it most, but i cannot for the life of me imagine staying on it for years and years. the side effects are too much for me, and quite frankly, i would rather be free of everything- including methadone- so that i can move on and leave that part of my life behind. | F | 25 | 1 years | 8/1/2007 |