Clear up my methadone usage

[elke]

i had written a post the other day about how i am taking 140mg's of liquid methadone on a daily basis from a clinic and my ob/gyn prescribed 7.5 vikes for my period pain....so i asked if there was a way to intensify the effect of the vicodin. But not to get high ..i asked only becuz i need to rid myself of the pain from my cramping and also my fibromyalgia flares...i know being on methadone u cannot get high from taking vicodins! And i don't want to. --- the only thing that does breakthrough the methadone is dilaudid..i know this becuz when i had to go to the er a thousand times for my mirain/fibro pain that is what they gave me knowing i was on the 140mg's of methadone. Another thing i need to clear up is that the reason i am on the methadon was under the advice of my doc when i became pregnant. I was taking percocets for my fibro pain..which somedays i couldn't get outta bed at 29 years old! The pregnancy went well and i gave birth to a 7lb2ounce baby girl..and healthy as a horse! I was in a program called m.o.m. (mothers on methadone) and was under the care of a super caring nurse! Other than that i am still on methadone because it does help a bit with my fibro pain a bit but i need to get to a pain clinic for that becuz i want off the methadone...but everytime i start to drop my fibromyalgia flares up and bad!! I think the docs at the pain clinic can help me with all that...i hope and finally be totally out of pain for good! 10 years of this is enough to last a lifetime!! Talk atchya's lata! Elke=d

 

[Lolie]

Both the period pain and the fibromyalgia will probably respond better to a different class of drugs. Have you asked your pharmacist what they'd recommend for the period pain - some of the OTC NSAIDS are pretty effective (naproxen springs to mind)? What pain docs often do is combine different classes of medication which have different actions.

Ask your pharmacist what OTC medications you can safely take with the methadone. Sometimes a drug from a different class will provide far more relief than additional or stronger drugs from the same class.

 

[K'd-OUT-in-AZ]

Narcotics aren't the first choice of medication for fibromyalgia. In fact they are the last resort treatment. Most people with fibromyalgia don't respond well to narcotics at all, as it is "nerve" pain. A good medication to try would be Pregabalin.

Other narcotics aren't going to help you anyway if your on methadone. Methadone blocks the effects of opiates so take as much as you want, they aren't going to work. If at all just a placebo effect.

Take a risk with something that's not a narcotic. Vicodin and Percocet aren't going to help.

 

[elke]

THANS FOR THE REPLIES! I HAVE AND DO STILL SOMETIMES TAKE IBUPROFEN600-800 FOR THE PERIOD PAIN AND ALSO THE FIBRO PAIN. I HAVE BEEN ON ABOUT 10-12 DIFFERENT MEDS FOR THE FIBRO..LYRICA..CYMBALTA...ETC,,ETC,,AND SOME ARTHRITIS AND NERVE DAMAGE MEDS..NOTHING (AND THIS IS NO LIE!) WORKED AS WELL AS THE PERCOCETS...LYRICS MADE ME SUPER DROWSY AND CYMBALTA MADE ME SO SICK I WAS RUSHED TO THE ER 7MONTHS AGO...IT RAISED MY BLOOD PRESSURE...AND I ALWAYS RUN NORMAL OR LOW IN THE B/P CATEGORY. ANYWHOO..I HOPE TO GET THE PERIOD ISSUE SETTLED AND ALSO THE FIBRO AS WELL. I WAS ABOUT TO GET A PARTIAL HYSTERECTOMY 1 WEEK BEFORE I BECAME PREGNANT! GO FIGURE. EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON!!! AGAIN THANKS FOR THE REPLIES AND I HOPE TO B CHTTIN ATCHYA SOON! LATA! elke )