Posted by Lindsay Rae on February 2, 2004, at 11:46:58
In reply to Re: Drug Interaction??, posted by Lindsay Rae on February 2, 2004, at 11:31:09
You know what, Twain, I am starting to feel like I want OFF Methadone. Every time I hear someone else say they've gained 40+ pounds, it makes me cringe. I keep telling myself it's the junk food I ate late at night, or all the cereal, but with my lack of eating during the day, the weight just doesn't add up. I could understand gaining fifteen pounds. But the first year I was on Methadone, at 80 mg, I didn't gain an ounce. Then I got pregnant, and by my eighth month, the clinic doctor insisted I go up to 115 because my blood volume doubled or something. I don't know if it was the increase, the amount of time on Methadone, or the change in types of liquid...or a combination of all three, but after I had my baby, I gained an additional 30 pounds! This happened while I was eating a box of special K every night, but nothing during the day. Then I got so depressed about being fat, I started eating ice cream at night to sooth the sugar cravings. Once I did Atkins and was losing 3 pounds a day, but my sweet tooth took over (I never had a sweet tooth before Methadone) and I gained it back plus ten. I went to try on clothes at Ross a couple days ago, and I was there for three hours. I left with two shirts and cried all the way home while my stomach growled. I desperately want to lose some of this weight--I never got fat on Vicodin or Darvon, and Propoxyphene is a derivative of Methadone, so why now? I'm no longer at a clinic; I see a pain mgmt doctor now, and I get the diskettes, so it's tough to taper that way since they are dispersable but only break into 10 mg each. I can't count each mg. But I skip family stuff and hide out in my house because I'm so embarrassed by the way I look now. I wonder how I'd feel if I jumped off Methadone at my current dose? It would literally take years to do it slowly like everyone suggests. Those last 20 mg are nearly impossible. If I could just go back to taking two or three Lortabs a day...hardly a deadly addiction, and not even close to the amount of medicine I take now.
I post a lot at We Speak Methadone:
http://members.boardhost.com/SPEAKMETHADONE/
It's a good place to get a lot of different opinions by others on Methadone. For off topic stuff, I like this board:
http://b4.boards2go.com/boards/board.cgi?&user=undun
Take Care,
Lindsay
poster:Lindsay Rae
thread:305481
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/subs/20040130/msgs/308500.html