I know that awhile back some of you have taken methadone. I have been on it for years and was just told that I need to stop. They want to put me on a morphine based drug. I do not want to go there.How did you stop? Was it very difficult? If you want you can respond to me by e-mail.
Thanks......Judy
methadone
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Christopher
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- Injury Description, Date, extent, surgical intervention etc: Date of Injury: 12/15/02
Level of Injury:
-dominant side C5, C6, & C7 avulsed. C8 & T1 stretched & crushed
BPI Related Surgeries:
-2 Intercostal nerves grafted to Biceps muscle,
-Free-Gracilis muscle transfer to Biceps Region innervated with 2 Intercostal nerves grafts.
-2 Sural nerves harvested from both Calves for nerve grafting.
-Partial Ulnar nerve grafted to Long Triceps.
-Uninjured C7 Hemi-Contralateral cross-over to Deltoid muscle.
-Wrist flexor tendon transfer to middle, ring, & pinky finger extensors.
Surgical medical facility:
Brachial Plexus Clinic at The Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN
(all surgeries successful)
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
~Theodore Roosevelt - Location: Los Angeles, California USA
Re: methadone
JUDY,
I was on it for 3 years and I hate to say that it was really tough getting off of it. It was one of the worst experiences of my injury. This is not the case for everybody getting off it it by a long shot. I was at a pain clinic at Stanford University while I was weaning off, and there were some patients that had no issues at all with withdrawal because of using suboxone to assist with the process. I was using suboxone to deal with the withdrawal and understand that my experience was unusually hard.
There is better information on the web than I can give you, but I can tell you what helped me.
1. Exercise!!! = natural pain killers / endorphines (can't emphasize this enough. This helped me on all frontiers (physical, mental, spiritual, egotistical
, motivational, etc)
2. Go at it as slow as you need, but keep your eye on the prize.
3. Supplements. (search the web, because I forget.) http://www.dpeg.org/methadone_withdrawal.html
4. Support System. I stayed with family, probably couldn't have done it without them. This could've been a make or break one for me.
5. Ginger Chewing Gum. I had pretty bad nausea along with over all intestinal hell. This stuff got me through the day...
I'll add to the list as I think of more things.
Here's a great resource: http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=68
type in a search for "methadone withdrawal" and lots of discussions come up.
Best of Luck Judy!!!
Chris
PS Like all other BPI related topics, I think it is best if folks post their experiences here instead of emailing you privately. That way it is here for other folks to benefit from down the road. That's half the reason why I ever post to begin with.
I was on it for 3 years and I hate to say that it was really tough getting off of it. It was one of the worst experiences of my injury. This is not the case for everybody getting off it it by a long shot. I was at a pain clinic at Stanford University while I was weaning off, and there were some patients that had no issues at all with withdrawal because of using suboxone to assist with the process. I was using suboxone to deal with the withdrawal and understand that my experience was unusually hard.
There is better information on the web than I can give you, but I can tell you what helped me.
1. Exercise!!! = natural pain killers / endorphines (can't emphasize this enough. This helped me on all frontiers (physical, mental, spiritual, egotistical
, motivational, etc)2. Go at it as slow as you need, but keep your eye on the prize.
3. Supplements. (search the web, because I forget.) http://www.dpeg.org/methadone_withdrawal.html
4. Support System. I stayed with family, probably couldn't have done it without them. This could've been a make or break one for me.
5. Ginger Chewing Gum. I had pretty bad nausea along with over all intestinal hell. This stuff got me through the day...
I'll add to the list as I think of more things.
Here's a great resource: http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=68
type in a search for "methadone withdrawal" and lots of discussions come up.
Best of Luck Judy!!!
Chris
PS Like all other BPI related topics, I think it is best if folks post their experiences here instead of emailing you privately. That way it is here for other folks to benefit from down the road. That's half the reason why I ever post to begin with.
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Judy-T
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- Injury Description, Date, extent, surgical intervention etc: Right arm OBPI One surgery at age 40 Ulnar nerve retransposition
- Location: Florida
Re: methadone
Thanks Christopher for all the great advice. I have been meditating and trying to get exercise.I fell a couple of weeks ago and my knee is still healing.