I am wondering if there is any other kind of medication like methadone? I have chronic pain. Methadone helps, but i cannot take just reg. pain med. like percocet,oxycontin, and lorcet,hydrocodone catch my drift? I am trying 2 find out if there is anthing like methadne that really woks. I have heard about suboxone or buprenorphine. Please somebody answer if u know. U don;t know how much this will mean 2 me. Thanks, ????
2006-11-05 17:45:17 · 6 answers · asked by gaylon e 1 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Pain & Pain Management
Hi gaylon e,
Please don't listen to the first 3 answers!
I've been on methadone for over 5 yrs. now. It's the ONLY thing that keeps my pain manageable.Yes, it's physically addicting,but it is the only narcotic that provides relief without getting a "buzz" from it. I had brain surgery 9 years ago and had metal inserted into my aneurysm to fill it up.The neck of it reopened causing the metal coils to compress, and the result is "systemic vasculitis". In layman's terms, it means my cerebral arteries are inflamed.It's inoperable at present time, but I keep hoping for a miracle!
I was sent to a pain clinic and the doctors there offered this drug. I had complained that drugs such as vicodin and oxycontin didn't work unless I ate them like candy. They also made me feel "high". My quality of life sucked back then. Now, I am finally able to manage my pain and my quality of life is much better. Also, being on disability, it is hard to manage the newer medicines because of cost effectiveness. Methadone has been around for years and it's cheap. There's a pain medicine called fentynal that comes as a patch and you change it every 3 days or so, but the cost is astronomical without prescription coverage.
It is simply not true that methadone is unavailable outside of hospitals and that methadone's only use is for withdrawal from heroin. Please get your facts straight before spreading these myths.
The doctors at the pain clinic changed my life for the better. I no longer suffer in silence. If methadone is working for you, stay with it. From experience I can say the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks. Check out the link below for more info. Good luck to you!
2006-11-06 01:49:43 · answer #1 · answered by auntgnu62 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, it depends really on your body and how it responds to treatment. If you are on methadone specifically for chronic pain, then switching to suboxone won't help you.
Methadone is what is called a full-agonist medication; that is, it fills the opiate receptor in the CNS. This will numb the pain. Suboxone, or subutex, is only a partial-agonist. It does not completely fill the receptor and due to its chemical properties, other narcotic pain relievers cannot be taken. This is causing problems currently for people being prescribed suboxone who have to have surgery. The patients are being switched to another narcotic or synthetic narcotic (i.e. methadone) a week prior to surgery so pain relief can be administered. The issue right now is when a patient comes into an ER with a serious medical emergency requiring some kind of narcotic for relief.
Now, if you are taking methadone through pain management for past addiction issues, the pain is more of a by-product of the past addiction, and you are taking less than 40 mgs daily, then it's worth a look if you are interested.
There's information that you can get on both methadone and suboxone that can give you much more detailed education on the two medications: www.methadone.org and www.naabt.com. Be warned, although the NAMA site is run by a non-profit group of advocates, the NAABT is a pharmaceutical-sponsored website. There's plenty of information, however not everything is rosy, if you catch my meaning (it's a medication, all meds come with their own set of side effects and possible adverse reactions).
Hope this helps!
2006-11-06 01:52:02 · answer #2 · answered by rikaros 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It could influence them, nevertheless it could be very damaging. Methadone remains within the method lengthy after its results have worn off, so it is awesome-handy to OD on it. It might engage with alcohol and/or one more therapy they are taking. I shouldn't have any main points on how a lot methadone it takes to get top, and I do not advocate medicinal drugs but when any person used to be going to get top besides, I'd inform them to stay with a more secure drug comparable to marijuana... and make certain you do not ought to do any using even as top. :-)
2016-09-01 07:59:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
isn't methadone a controled substance that you can only get if you are being treated in a hospital setting and there is no drug that I know of if you are that far along on the pain meds scale that will work like methadone...you must be hospitalized to get stronger meds...I have a illness that is terminal and I am on several drugs but methadone is a in house drug as far as I know.
2006-11-05 17:50:40 · answer #4 · answered by cat-cat 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I hope that you are under a doctors care. Methidone is used to wean off of drugs. The problem is that you have to get off the methidone.
There is a place in Arizona that I heard of that puts a person in a semi coma so that they go through withdrawls while sleeping. I don't know the name of it. Look around the internet.
Hopefully you will get over all drug use
2006-11-05 18:37:48 · answer #5 · answered by clcalifornia 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
methadone is more potent and addictive while available from the govt nothing else meets those criteria however for your purpose i suggest you inquire to pain clinics with qualified anesthesiologist
2006-11-05 17:55:35 · answer #6 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋