Comments on: Can Methadone Be Used To Treat Anxiety And Depression? Those Suffering From Depression/anxiety Please Read.?

By: Living2D…

Living2D… — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:11:56 +0000

Seriously… stop the methadone now. I don’t care what any website says. Bottom line its incredibly addictive (I work with people addicted to methadone), if you stop it it will cause you nightmarish withdrawal, including excruciating pain (bone pain, stomach cramps). Everything a herion user would go through coming off of heroin. Infact all the addicts I know have said methadone is harder to come off than heroin because of withdrawal. Its only safe because its a controlled drug, you can still overdose on it, quite easily. You say you have kids too, i’m so shocked. I suffer with severe depression, and admitedly I take 200mg zoloft daily only and i’m lucky it works for me. You really need to see this psychiatrist be honest, and get a complete medication review, and combine the new meds with talking therapies like CBT or some sort of counselling. You can get better, but you wont with methadone, things will be 100% worse in the longer term. Oh my god, please just stop it, you can get well without that rubbish!

By: Living2D…

Living2D… — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:19:43 +0000

A LOT of addicts started where you are now. Get off that train. Methadone is a hard core opiate. It is harder to detox from methadone than from most other opiates once you are addicted.
If you can’t afford meds, buy them online. I just bought 200 seroquel 200 mg that would have cost $1800 at walmart for under $100. I got that from alldaychemist, but there are lots of online pharmacies. (Don’t buy narcotics online. Lots of folks get caught.)

By: Living2D…

Living2D… — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:45:09 +0000

Tell your new doctor everything. The methadone took away your cravings for the other meds. So your doctor just might see the benefits. But if not she will know where to start with your treatment. Methadone is habit forming too. I’ve been depressed before and it runs in my family so I do understand. Good Luck!

By: Living2D

Living2D — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:51:37 +0000

I’ve suffered from narcolepsey for over 30 yrs.. I am chronically fatigued and have zero energy. Doctors say I am depressed… No S@*T !!! I’ve tried every antidepressant at least twice to no avail, along w/ numerous other heavy duty drugs doctors ‘try’ me on after meating w/ me after one or two 10-15 min. visits… Lamictal, Abilify, Ativan, Ambien, Zyprexa, Seroqel, Xanax, Lithium – to name a few. I’m SO tired from being tired my whole life that it’s making me crazy! Doctors are WAY too quick to put people on these hardcore drugs w/out knowing the underlying problem!
Anyway, the only times in my life that I can remember feeling ‘awake,’ alert, alive, motivated, energetic, painfree, lust for life… was when I had Vicodin and another time when my mother gave me some of her methadone a few years ago. I accomplished more in one day than I typically do in one month (seriously.) In an average day, if I manage to bathe and get dressed, it’s 2 or 3pm by the time I am ‘ready!’ (ready for what? to go back to bed!) The methadone had the same effect as Vicodin but it lasted much longer. I know Vicodin has acetaminophine in it which causes liver damage if you take too much.
I have non-chalauntly brought this up to a Dr. in the past. The Dr. said if any drug gives you a feeling of euphoria, it’s a sure sign to stay away from it because it will become addictive. (??? I took his advice and steared clear of it and have ‘lived’ a miserable, unproductive, weak, tired life for the past 25 years. I guess that’s better than being addicted to a drug that would’ve made me euphoric!) I was afraid to ever bring it up to a doctor again because they would think I am a ‘drug seeker.’
I have since been to dozens of docs, shrinks, counselors, etc. and spent thousands of dollars on other meds and gotten addicted to pills that have horrific side effects then to have to suffer the even more horrific withdrawls… (but doctors think this is OK, yet GOD forbid we tell them opiates make us feel better! That classifys ‘us’ as drug addicts!)
I got the nerve up to tell a shrink about it a yr. or so ago. He said he’s heard opiates sometimes have an alerting or arousing effect on some people and he mentioned an alternate to methadone called suboxone. He didn’t really pursue the topic and I never had the guts to bring it back up again@ Since then, I have been prescribed all the above mentioned drugs, plus!
I am now seeing a new shrink and I am trying to muster up how to confront him w/ this same ‘treatment.’ I decided to do some research to see if opiates (methadone,) has been successful in treating others w/ depression, fatigue, etc…
I don’t know why I am so ashamed to want to feel better. I’m nearly 50 yrs. old and I know there is a drug that relieves my symptoms but I’d rather spend the rest of my life tired and miserable than chance letting a doctor label me as a drug addict. Wouldn’t anyone want to be addicted to a drug if it gave them a chance to live a better quality life?
Why am I (or you) so ‘afraid’ ? I know damn well over half the drugs I’ve been prescribed over the yrs. are ten times more mind altering and addictive than methadone. The withdrawl symptoms from the other meds are excruciating!
I don’t know… I’d rather be addicted to methadone than sleep the rest of my life away, I don’t have that many ‘healthy’ yrs. left. I want to be awake for them!
So – how do we confront the docs w/ our solution?