LSDiesel
Bluelighter
Hello all,
I've been on methadone for a few weeks, less than a month. Anyway, I have read numerous reports on BL about people gaining weight from being on methadone. I definitely do not want to gain weight.
I certainly loved the side effect of keeping my weight down from being a dope user. However, I do admit some of it was because I would spend money on dope vs on food. So my weight was kept down, not from the dope per se, but as a result of the lifestyle of being a junkie/dope user. I also think that part of the reason other people experience weight gain from methadone is because as drug addicts, food definitely fills a void where the rush of doing drugs was once working.
Does anyone else find that methadone works really well with excercise? I can get the runner's high quicker when I take my methadone, and I run everday, at least .5 mile everyday and 1+ mile every other day. Heroin and exercise probably goes really well together also, but I couldn't even think about exercise while I was sick before getting my fixes.
BTW, I have always wondered if exercising while on any opiate is in any way less productive exercising? Because of the saying "no pain no gain"? IE you should "feel" it hurting a little bit when you exercise to make sure that you are working your muscles and burning fat, so by taking any opiate, methadone or not, i definitely feel that I can run farther, longer etc with it hurting less, as you might expect, since opiates are painkillers, but does this diminish the effect that exercise has on getting you in shape at all? Meaning.... will the painkilling effects of opiates cause exercising to work less? Will I get into shape any less quickly by being on methadone?
I've been on methadone for a few weeks, less than a month. Anyway, I have read numerous reports on BL about people gaining weight from being on methadone. I definitely do not want to gain weight.
I certainly loved the side effect of keeping my weight down from being a dope user. However, I do admit some of it was because I would spend money on dope vs on food. So my weight was kept down, not from the dope per se, but as a result of the lifestyle of being a junkie/dope user. I also think that part of the reason other people experience weight gain from methadone is because as drug addicts, food definitely fills a void where the rush of doing drugs was once working.
Does anyone else find that methadone works really well with excercise? I can get the runner's high quicker when I take my methadone, and I run everday, at least .5 mile everyday and 1+ mile every other day. Heroin and exercise probably goes really well together also, but I couldn't even think about exercise while I was sick before getting my fixes.
BTW, I have always wondered if exercising while on any opiate is in any way less productive exercising? Because of the saying "no pain no gain"? IE you should "feel" it hurting a little bit when you exercise to make sure that you are working your muscles and burning fat, so by taking any opiate, methadone or not, i definitely feel that I can run farther, longer etc with it hurting less, as you might expect, since opiates are painkillers, but does this diminish the effect that exercise has on getting you in shape at all? Meaning.... will the painkilling effects of opiates cause exercising to work less? Will I get into shape any less quickly by being on methadone?
