Uses For Methadone

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Some doctors have prescribed methadone to my aunt as part of her pain management for cancer treatment. Is this a common practice for tjis drug?

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what amount of methadone helps with severe cronic back pain?

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Yes, this medicine is good to take away pain when a person is hurting from having cancer. My boyfriend is on Methodone 10mg and while it's very strong to where he talks to people who are not there it does take his pain away and he sleeps alot of hours. He also suffers from Hep C so combined with the cancer and the hep c he gets relief so yes, it's good to take when someone is suffering so much which he is. He tried Loratab but it has something in it that isn't good for his liver so yes let her take it because there is no reason for someone to suffer so bad when methadone just might help her. I'll keep your aunt in my prayers. Debbie

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Methadone is a great way to manage pain. I was on pain management for 4 years taking methdone. I had ruptered my L4/5 disc while lifting at work. I took 10mg 4 times a day. The only thing I hated most was trying to come off it after my surgeon fixed my back by placing a fake disc in and putting metal rods and screws to stablize my lower back. I had to come off it gradually. This medicine is not a joke, and only should be taken under the care of a medical doctor. And you should never try to come off it on your own!

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my friend went into the hospital about a month ago for pneumonia conjestive heart failure he was given thruogh I.V. methadone,morphine,& versade? he was on a venalation tube he was a healthy man and said he felt like he had heart burn (he is 37 yrs. of age) they gave him 5mg. twice a day.There is the assumption that he had been doing methamphetemine 1 wk. prior to admitance to I.C.U. but the doctors found no drugs in his system.please help me to understand or suggest another drug that could help his recovory

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My father was a cancer patient whom was put on methadone for pain managment! They stated this drug would help him cope with his pain! two weeks later he died after he was forces into a coma from the methadone. He had alotof complications and was still a very strong man. He had alot of life to live until this drug was brought into our lives!! there is hope out there other drugs are available!!!!PLEASE if you choose this drug make it your last desprate attempt to relieve you or your loved ones pain.....

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I think doctor are to busy and people are not getting the right medications for pain. there are that get bottles of pain meds every month and don't use them and the people that need them don't get them.

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My husband has had 4 major back surgeries. The doctors kept him so doped up that he didn't do anything for years. He finally went to a methadone clinic and got off the many pills he had to take daily. When he is not on the methadone his blood pressure sky rockets from the pain. That has caused him to have 3 heart attacks befor the age of 40 and he now has congestive heart failure. He still has to go to the methadone clinic daily to get his medication. So many doctors in our area have written pain pills and methadone to people that only wanted to get high that they will no longer take new patients. My husband shouldn't be a new patient, he has been on methadone for 11 or 12 years. Before that he was on Lorcet 10 , percocet , darvon, darvocet, lortab, you name it and the doctors wrote it. Plus while in the hospital he was given demerol and heavy doses of valium. He went through physical therapy and had weekly shots of steriods and saline tearing at the scar tissue "trying to break the scars up". The only doctor that will "help" him is the one running the methadone clinic. He can't get insurance to pay for it because it is to expensive. It would cost about 1/4 to get a physician to write a prescription that he could fill at a pharmacy. But that's Alabama for you.

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You are so right! I just moved 3 months ago from Phoenix to Orlando. I had been seeing a pain management dr who prescribed Lortabs, Soma, and Clonazepam. I went to see a pain dr here, several different drs and not one would help me saying that my herniated discs aren't bad enough to justify my pain! They also wouldn't prescribe Clonazepam for me so instead I am supposed to have seizures instead? I had a MRI from 2 years ago but can't afford another one. I ended up going to a Methadone clinic every day for a dose of methadone! It is ridiculously expensive but can't find a dr out here that will help with my pain! I was actually getting better before I left AZ doing exercises to strengthen my back and now I can't. However, I have gotten to a dose of Methadone that should help me function, but this is ridiculous! I can never sleep in again! I am back to being depressed and have no one here to spend time with. I have to go every morning to the clinic! How will I ever explain this to my kids or ever be able to visit them when I have to be near a clinic every morning?! So miserable in a place that has so much to do! Please help!

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Hope u didnt vote for trump. Single payer system is what we need. Methadone did nothing for me, but hv keep trying stuff to see what works for you

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Agree wth people who voted for any gop who blocked Obama & dems from better healthcare pkg, like meficare. People love their medicare, why do others not get it

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