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Opioids MMT and colds

somnilicious

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Has anyone else who has been on methadone notice that you don't catch the flu or get a cold? My entire family would get the flu but I seemed to avoid it every time. I have heard the same thing from other patients time and time again. I was on methadone on and off for almost a decade and I don't think I ever had the flu or even the common cold.
 
I was on MMT from July 2012 to July 2013 and now that you mention it, I never got sick at all. That's not to say that I necessarily WOULD have gotten sick. I tend to go long periods without catching the slightest bit of a cold, and when I do it isn't that bad or doesn't last that long so maybe I'm not the most helpful person to answer this.

But I do think that MMT could possibly have some sort of affect on the ease with which someone catches the cold. Perhaps the virus is intolerant to it? I don't know.
 
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