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methadone: Methadone/Methadose has been a life saver for me, also. It's affordable for us that have no health insurance of any kind. It does allow me to work, part time again. I can do what I need to around the house again. It's not all-inclusive in taking away pain, but does work pretty good especially for the chronic pain I have and apparently will have for the rest of my life, as no Ortho MD considers me a candidate for the surgery I need to repair my shoulder/rotator cuff (a "reverse total shoulder repair") since I have osteopenia; even though I am on Fosamax to stop its progression.
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methadone: It's the first medicine that really helped my Fibromyalgia. Very happy it - it's nice to have the pain go away. For me, it was much more effective than Norco or Lyrica.
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methadone: This is the only medicine I've found that helps the pain inside of my bones. Doesn't do much for muscles and such, but it is the ONLY thing that relieves the (I guess you'd call) arthritis.
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methadone: This drug has changed my life. I never thought I could get my life back but Methadone allowed me too. I can do everyday activities that I wasn't able to do before. I am able to focus on everything around me now instead of the pain. I have not had any bad side effects. The only thing that I noticed was when my dose is increased for the first 2 days I am a little sleepier at the end of the day but after those 2 days I'm back to normal. It's so good to be able to say that now, I'm normal. This has been my miracle drug, the people who say bad things about this are the people that don't know anything about the drug.
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methadone: I take methadone for severe back pain and before that I was taking Oxycontin which when I ran low due to insurance making
you wait too the very last day, where I come from. I would start feeling sick like I had the flu, but with methadone that does not happen.
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methadone: I have many injuries sustained while in the Military. One of the medicines I use for pain is Methadone. It does a great job when taking with the other medicines prescribed. However; at night I itch all over. This happens sometimes in the day when taken too close to last dose.
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methadone: I found this medicine very, very helpful. I was on Hydrocodone for years and it never took the pain away...not even a little... But thanks to my doctor I'm on something that actually works.
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methadone: I live in a small town in middle Georgia. Last year my doctor put me on Methadone 10mg twice a day, to take along with Lortab 10/650. After 9 years of pure agony from a car accident I am back to work, just got re-married and actually live a normal life again with a very tolerable pain level. I number one thank God for my doctor who prescribed it and to the person who discovered this miracle drug. I don't care what other people think about what I am taking. They are not the ones that were in agony 24/7. Thanks to METHADONE I now live everyday with optimism and vigor.
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Methadose (methadone): Methadone is a life saver! I am a 42 yr old woman who has experienced severe migraines/head bangers since I was 15. My life was miserable. I could not function as a normal person. I could not laugh, stretch, yawn, or anything that made blood rush to my head. The pain only lasted for 3-5 minutes, but made life difficult. I have tried all kinds of medicines, OTC drugs and even Vicodin. About a year ago, I saw a doctor who ask me to try methadone as a preventative regimen. Well, after being on it for awhile, my life changed! I can laugh, scream, yawn, and even stretch without suffering consequences. I will be on methadone as long my doctor says I can't take it anymore! This is one miracle drug!
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methadone: I have had chronic pain all over for seven years. I have taken all kinds of different pain medicines from herbal remedies to narcotics because of all the when my pain doctor put me on methadone, I burst into tears. Little did I know that I would get the best pain relief I've gotten in years.
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methadone: My pain was so severe I was literally going insane and no matter how often I expressed to my pain management doctor that the lortab he was prescribing was ineffective he would not listen. If I hadn't found a Methadone clinic for help I really do not believe I would be alive today. My quality of life has improved so much and I am beyond Thankful.
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methadone: I use to be on 800mg of morphine instant release. Withdrawal was immediate (4-8 hours) if I ran out or missed my doses, usually it was the latter. As it was easy to increase dose without major side effects, I was always taking more rather then less and having to lie to my doctor about why I was always early. Finally went to detox 3 times and then started methadone. My highest dose 120mg, now 105mg, which works well for my pain.
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methadone: After suffering a back injury and having two surgeries, I have had chronic back pain for the last 10 years. I have used many narcotics to try to relieve the pain including hydrocodone, percocet, vicodin, demerol, morphine, darvocet and oxycontin. None of these worked for my pain and I thought I would just have to live with it. Then I tried methadone. I could not believe the way I feel since changing to it. I have almost no pain anymore and can function relatively normal again with no side effects at all. I have been on the same dose for the last 6 years and don't foresee it changing any time soon. Methadone is the best pain reliever there is as far as I am concerned.
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Dolophine (methadone): Used lots of non steriodal drugs, to fight back and leg pain. None of them seemed to work anymore. Doctor put me on Dolophine 20 mg 3x a day. It gave me my life back. I was at the point that I could not get out of bed in the morning.
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Methadose (methadone): I have used several types of pains medications before and never had the actual 10 to 12 hour relief that they promised as I have found with Methadose/Methadone. Long lasting relief and completely affordable for anyone paying cash for their prescriptions.
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methadone: I was born with arthritis and have been on many of the narcotic based drugs in my 20 years of being treated. I noticed someone saying that methadone makes them feel tired when they sit. I know that is a normal side effect but I urge ALL men that are taking ANY narcotic pain medication to get your testosterone checked! Narcotics lower the level of testoserone and that makes you feel very tired. I was feeling very tired all the time and didn't really have any get-up-and-go and would have "Hot Flashes." I got my levels checked and my testosterone was almost at female levels. Now I get testosterone shots and feel much better. If you are on medicines long term, get your levels checked!
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methadone: I have two degenerative discs, a pinched nerve, arthritis, and I also have a lot of trouble with my sciatic nerve. I also have pain in my left leg and hip. A couple of different doctors tried Lorcet and Lortab but they did not help me at all. I started going to another doctor and he prescribed me Methadone and it seems to be helping. I only take one three times a day. It helps to ease it and I think when I go back to the doctor I am going to see if maybe he can up the dose, not a lot but enough to really take the pain away. All in all the Methadone has helped me a lot.
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methadone: I broke my neck after a fall from a bridge in 2000. After many failed surgeries, an ANS spinal implant that didn't work, pain medications were my only option. Like many of you, I was prescribed Hydrocodone, Oxycodone, OxyContin, MS Contin, Fentanyl, in varying orders and dosages, and then Methadone. While all of the previously named medications have their pro's and con's, I did experience one side effect with Methadone that I haven't seen listed or heard of anyone experience before. After 2 or 3 days on the medication, I started having very vivid and disturbing nightmares. While I understand this may be a "wonder drug" for many of you, there are some of us out there that disagree.
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methadone: I was just put on methadone less than a week ago for severe pain related to a recent, failed back surgery. I have degenerative disc disease and spinal stenosis. I need to have fusion surgery, but am not ready for surgery again just yet. The methadone has been great. I can sit with very little or no pain at all. I still use percocet as needed for breakthrough pain. The methadone is allowing me to push the surgery off a few more months so I'm not bedridden all summer. I can still function at work and be there for my kids without being doped up. Definitely recommend it.
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methadone: METHADONE IS THE BEST FOR NEUROPATHIC PAIN BY FAR, SO AS LONG AS YOU ARE TAKING THE RIGHT DOSE AND REMEMBER IF YOU ARE IN INTRACTABLE PAIN SUCH AS RSD/CRPS,IT'S EVEN BETTER.
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Dolophine (methadone): I have been taking methadone for about a year now. I was on Oxycontin for way to long and although the transition was a bit difficult but I made it through. I take between 3 and 5 10mg tabs a day and I do have relief from chronic back pain but I do feel as if I need more as it keeps feeling as if it gets less and less effective. Might have to up the dosage.
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methadone: I take 10mg x 3 a day and take Percocet for breakthrough pain. I have to say Methadone is a God send. My life has improved so much since I started taking it.
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Methadose (methadone): Excellent at times for preventing pain rather than removing pain that's already occurring. Has helped me regain parts of my life again, like walking.
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methadone: I have chronic knee and ankle pain. I've tried Norco, Dilaudid and Oxy's. None work as well as Methadone 10mg's ,3 times daily. I'm very impressed that it works so well.
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methadone: I had a fusion 30 years ago. This has lead to degenerative disc disease. I am only 52 and have the spine of a 100 year old person. I tried every pain reliever in the book over 9 years. I was recently put on the methadone and it has saved my life. I can now walk, stand, sit through a movie with no pain and no side effects. It is a God send for chronic pain.
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methadone: I was on roxicodone30 270 and lortab10 200 for severe low back and neck pain. I asked my doctor to take me off the lortabs and give me methadone for the breakthrough pain. I now take roxicodone and methadone for the breakthrough pain and am almost pain free.
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methadone: Had surgery on my head 6 times. Methadone is the only medicine that keeps my life together. I can function like a normal person, not all drugged up. The bad thing - other peoples inability to research the medicine and learn that it's not just for junkies! Gives us with real pain that " methadone, he must have been doing heroin". I would love to go in front of congress and tell them that methadone is probably the safest, least side effect medication I have ever taken. You need to get with your doctor and ask him to let you try methadone. The doctor would probably feel a lot better giving you a script for just methadone rather one for 'Oxys'.
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methadone: I started taking methadone for back pain last month. I had been taking morphine for the 10 months prior and after dwindling funds and no insurance decided to go through the withdrawls from the morphine on my own. After about 2 weeks of HELL and the pain I went back to my doctor. She decided that methadone was a better less expensive alternative. SHE WAS WRONG. Methadone has placed me extremely on edge and the pain in my back is barely touched. I would not recommend this medicine for pain.
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Methadose (methadone): I have found the use of this medication actually life saving. Methadose (Methadone) has greatly improved my quality of life. The single factor that I dislike about this medication is all the very negative perception that people have of those who use Methadose. It seems that everyone thinks that I am a recovering junky.
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Dolophine (methadone): I have been on this medicine for 3 years for pain relief for many problems. I take 10mg 3 times a day and I would suggest nothing else. I have been on other narcotics that have done nothing for me and got me all jazzed. This medicine does nothing like that. Methadone keeps you level headed and does not have any side effects.
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methadone: Awesome for back pain. I have scoliosis and this is the only pain reliever that's worked and keeps me comfortable enough so I can work. It doesn't make you tired like all the others and lasts a lot longer. Kudos to methadone!
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methadone: I have been dealing with nerve pain left over from shingles about 3 years ago. The rash left but the pain did not. I tried several different narcotic medications from a pain clinic but I had to keep going to the ER for breakthrough pain. I got tired of this game and and got hooked on narcotics: dilaudid and fentanyl patches to name a few. Then I was introduced to an aquaintence who was recieving methadone from a treatment center. I left the pain center (I was not happy with my treatment there) and started methadone and my life has changed 100 percent. I like this medication because it takes care of the debilitating nerve pain and doesn't make me feel fuzzy and out of it as the other medications did. I am a mother and I can't be out of it.
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methadone: I take methadone and parafon forte for severe spinal and nerve pain in legs and feet. I tried oxy and all the other pain medicines. This combo is the only one that totally eliminates the pain. I tried to get off the methadone and go back to percocet and the pain returned and the withdrawals were horrible. I will be a methadone man for life.
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methadone: It was good for relief but I had an allergic reaction. It made my chest hurt. But if you don't have a reaction, it is good for long term pain relief and is much cheaper than most narcotic drugs.
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methadone: I have used many pain medications and none worked as well as Methadone. I have never been "high" on this medicine and am able to have a productive life. I am on 10mg 4 times a day.
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methadone: I have been on everything in the last 4 years for feet problems. I was up to being able to chew up 2 x 80mg of oxy at 1 time with little pain relief so I got the doctor to switch me to methadone and it works well. Still have some break through pain but can deal with it.
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methadone: This is a great drug. I was self medicating with oxys, etc for a few years spending all the money I had. I decided it was time to stop all that and focus on my life. I got a doctor who perscribed methadone and it has changed my life.
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Methadone Diskets (methadone): I have been challenged with pain management as a result of acute reflex sympathetic dystrophy for 5 years now. Last year I had a spinal cord stimulator implanted and it is working wonders. Thank You Boston Scientific Neuromodulation.
Ive weaned off the need for Fentanyl and Oxycodone and now manage the pain very well with methadone. Its long acting actions are outstanding, and it doesnt leave me feeling high as so many of the other opiates do. Overall an excellent choice by me pain docs!
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methadone: I have suffered with chronic pelvic pain for five years. I had been on a variety of pain medicines with only minimal effect on my pain. My doctor at the pain clinic prescribed me methadone 5mg, three times a day with tylenol 4 for breakthrough pain. It greatly improved my condition and quality of life. Don't let the name scare you. Methadone provided me great relief from 24/7 pain.
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methadone: I have had 2 back surgeries in the last 8 months. Neither surgery relieved the pain that runs up and down my right leg. I was sent to a pain clinic and put on methadone. It has been a miracle. I have tried other medicines with little success. Methadone has worked best.
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methadone: I have suffered from back pain for nearly 20 years and had numerous surgeries and just about every procedure out there. I was on 240 mg of Oxycontin with up to 6 Percocet at a time for break through pain.
When I was prescribed methadone I was leary but it has changed my life. I was prescribed 10mg 3 times a day. I've never even taken a full dose yet and its been over 2 years. I went right from my old doses to 1 mg a day with roxicodone for breakthrough. Pain management has been great.
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methadone: I was on oxycontin 40mg 2x a day but had to increase its strength as time passed. Then the doctor put me on Methadone 10mg 4 x a day. This been effective without any increase in dosage over the last year. I am now trying an additional drug with it called Lyrica 150mg 2 x a day. Now almost pain free, only break through pain occasionally. Before, life was not really anything to look forward too, just pain, pain and more pain. I couldn't even sleep. Not so now with Methadone.
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methadone: Methadone tablets helped me live a normal life, free from the pain that severe arthritis in my left hip and back was causing me. However, my doctor was busted by the DEA for over-prescribing and as a result I had to turn myself over to a clinic. I hate going to the clinic, after 6 months I finally have 1 "take home" weekly granted. It's located 11 miles from my home and having to drive there almost everyday really gets on my nerves. This clinic does not treat people for pain, only addiction.
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Dolophine (methadone): This has been the best pain medication I have found to relieve my back and neck pain. It has been the hardest to get prescribed. I do not understand why other then the stigma it has for the maintenance use for herion addicts. Unlike other pain medicines it does not get me high and it last more then a day and I can can get by on less then ten mg a day.
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methadone: I have osteoarthritis in my spine, knees and hips, made worse by all the lifting I have done over the years as a nurse.I was prescribed Dihydrocodeine on a long term basis and unfortunatly fell prey to opioid addiction as well as the chronic pain. Three years ago I was referred to pain clinic and opioid dependency clinic where I was put on Methadone 70mls daily. I have never looked back. I now live a 'normal' pain free life. Methadone should lose it's stigma in society though.
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methadone: this little white pill gave me some of my normal life back after knee surgery had affected nerves in my foot. pain was 24/7 and was not going away. pain man. put me on methadone for the pain and i am now leading as near normal life as one can.
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Methadone Diskets (methadone): I was tried on numerous medications for my chronic pain. When I took my first dose of methadone, I was "nearly" pain free for half the day and the dose doesn't need to be increased as often as it did on other drugs such as Oxycontin. For break through pain I only need an anti-inflammatory or another mild narcotic such as Percocet, and only rarely.
I think this is a great drug for pain!
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methadone: In 94' I fell @ work, so the doctor wrote Lortab, before I knew it I was addicted, anything I could get my hands on. After years of this,my sister told me about methadone. In 10 years I had my pn & addiction under control, graduated medical school, married a great man, and raised a beautiful daughter, it changed my life. But as we all know there are "idiots" out there who are stupid, freak out when they hear methadone. Methadone is a blessing. Now I down to 50mg & decreasing,and feel GRRRReat
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methadone: I have fibromyalgia and deal with chronic pain. I have tried almost everything for the pain and the few things that would ease it barely worked and only lasted a few hours. When I tried methadone I was amazed and relieved to find something that actually worked and lasted for 6 or 7 hours at a time. Methadone was a miracle for me. Now I can live my life almost pain free.
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Methadose (methadone): I had never heard of methadone used as pain medication before! But it works. My Doctor gave it to me because my HMO decided to take the pain medication (Fentanyl patches) out of there formulary. I had been on it for 4 years (150 mcg per 72 hours). Methadone has done well so far.
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methadone: I suffer with fibromyalgia. After 10 years of constant debilitating pain and fatigue. Vicodan and fentanyl patches were my last resort, almost enough to overdose on, then a doctor finally suggested I drop everything else and use methadone. I take a very small dose 20mg and it alleviates pain almost completely. I am resigned to my condition but the methadone has given me back my life, I can work, be a mother to my children and my marriage is wonderful again.
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methadone: I've been taking a high dose of Methadone for over 5 years for neuropathy. Without it I wouldn't be able to walk or sleep. I've tried everything and this has been the only thing that allows me to function a normal life. Why have they eliminated the 40mg strength from use in pain treatment? Many drugs are used for purposes other than what they are approved for. As a health care professional I've seen this done on a daily basis. On a personal level I've benefited from this practice when drug used
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methadone: I find methadone very effective and comforting as use as a pain reliever. I have been on Morphine, percoset, vicoden etc, infact I grew an opiate addiction. I did not intend to shed my narcotics for a drug that is supposed to "not carry a high/ or euphoric effect" I was wanting to keep that feeling, yet still I was never really pain free. I could not function on a daily basis with the amount of pain I was in. My Dr. recently switched me to methadone, and I am so relieved. It is very effective.
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methadone: I broke my neck at cervical levels C-5,6,&7, in 1994;. I had tried everything (RX's)from codiene to fentynal patch to everything else associated with chronic pain and nerve damge. Morrphine made me sick ever so often , but when I started on a methadone pain RX program, I was relieved from many of the severe, chronic and constant pain syptoms. It has been an excellent pain relief prescription for my condition now since 1995. I hope that anyone who has severe, chronic and constant pain symptoms try it.
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methadone: I've had chronic pain as a result of a coiling embolization in my brain.I was tried on so many different pain meds I thought about throwing in the towel...the cure was worse than the pain at times.Thankfully,my doctor suggested methadone.I've used this medication for over 5 yrs now with no complications other than having to increase it yearly to accomidate the tolerance effect.I also like it because it is inexpensive and doesn't leave me feeling high or goofy.
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methadone: I have been in chronic pain from a rare spinal muscular disorder for 11 years. For 6 years I took all kinds of pain relievers and still suffered greatly and almost to the point of losing my mind. Finally I was put on methadone and it has relieved my pain far better than anything else. But im afraid the FDA is going to stop usage of it for pain. My doctor told me that we needed to write our congressman and tell how much we really need it.
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methadone: I am taking methadone for my cronic back pain and it has really helped me to be able to do everyday tasks. without it I would be in the bed all the time.
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