Methadone and nausea
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This continued for several months with the attacks of nausea occurring weekly. When I quit smoking pot the attacks stopped and the nausea only occurred occasionally.
I finally tied the attacks to most all street drugs and some prescription and over the counter drugs. So as long as I was very careful of what I took for minor pains and cold symptoms I was ok. Until now. The attacks of nausea have returned, almost daily and the nausea never stops. I don’t know what to do.
I am one month into the process and I taking 1/3 of my prior methadone dose. I am now starting to have increasing sweats, chills and nausea. I can only hope that I will see this through to the end.
I had tried gabapentin years ago and found that I was so sleepy I could not function. I think the physician had not considered a low enough dose of methadone and probably too high a dose of gaba and the combination resulted in me sleeping 20 hours a day.
As with heroin and all other opiates, methadone tolerance and methadone dependence usually develop with repeated doses. Tolerance to Methadone administered in a pain-control program usually occurs during the first few weeks of use; whereas respiratory depression, sedation, and nausea can be seen immediately.
I do know that being cirrhotic may bring on nausea, loss of appetite and other symptoms. When you add that to not having energy and feeling run down it could feel a bit ugly and may even resemble withdrawl in some ways. If you've already tried a dose increase and you didn't notice an increase in more energy then it could be that you will get everything back after treatment. Are you going thru a clinical trial or are you going thru the SOC treatment.?
I've had hepc for 39 years and nausea was never a symptom. Perhaps in the acute stage nausea may be occur but with chronic hepc people don't generally complain of nausea unless maybe cirrhosis is present. I do not think hepc is causing the nausea. I would consult with a doctor to rule out intestinal problems and request something for anxiety.
ve been in withdrawals now for 5 weeks. I was taking 20 to 25mg of methadone per day. He changed me to morphine and then to fentanyl patches 50mcg. He now has me wearing 2 at a time. He says it withdrawals. I don't know. I've never felt this way. I don't know if that's it or I'm having side effects from the new drugs.
Hi Usertolong:) When I was on methadone I did a long and slow taper. I didn't have a bad withdrawal experience at all. I was a heroin user before so I like you worried about the detox being like that. I was taking methadone for pain at 30ml. I tapered long and slow over years and had no withdrawal symptoms. I also talked with my doctor she prescribed clonadine and nausea medication. My psychiatrist has me taking a antidepressant, mood stabilizer and a low dose benzo.
GoingTo MakeIt is correct it can be mild or severe, from my own personal experience during my detox from methadone, it was bad during the first two weeks, but I still functioned, as best as I could anyway, I tapered down from 90mgs down to 2mgs then stopped, my symtoms were like many who stop methadone, no energy, depression, bad anxiety, couldnt sleep, sneezing, etc. It has been 2 1/2 months since being off methadone & I am back to my pre-methadone days, & very happy about my success!!!
Hi everyone, I posted on the weekend and only got one response so I am posting again, I know that the weekends are slow, people are out and about doing their thing. I am on methadone and have been tapering since the summer of 2010 and now down to 22mgs. I am dropping my dose by 1mg/week. I am starting to get withdrawal symptoms which scares me because at this rate I still have 5 months to go to get off, that is if I am able to maintain dropping one mg/week.
It went away for a short period along with the ear infections and other infections however now kits back and worse then before. Sometime my stomach and surrounding area is sore to the touch and my voice has been gone for over two weeks now not to mention the pain. Please help. Ive had several labs, catscan,stool testing all which came back normal a few times. Did I mention I hate needles!!!
Good for you for making it through the methadone w/d.I am tapering off methadone and am at 12ml. Doctor offered me sub,but said no.The way he described it to me a person must be down to 30ml of methadone for sub to work because it has a low ceiling.Meaning that no amount of sub can work for someone at 50ml of methadone.
Hope all goes well for you,methadone is a piece of Sh#%@#.
the clonidine helps a lot with the sweats, chills, and blood pressure fluctuations, the benzos are extremely helpful in stopping the insane anxiety, insomnia, muscle cramping and spasms, and restlessness. then i would get OTC immodium and an anti-diarrhea, and a OTC anti-nausea medicine. i also had some ambien for sleep as well. my detox was done in a hospital supervised but you can do it on your own if you think you can handle that.
We want to get off sooner than later because after December I wont have the money for methadone anymore. My father was paying for it and he is retiring and just does not have the money any more. He had given me til the end of the year before I knew I was pregnant. I was already tapering when I found out I was pregnant, and I just asked my clinic if I could keep doing it, they said ok, just get an OB to monitor you and the baby.
Hi there, I am tapering down from methadone, was at 130mgs two years ago, and am currently at 41mgs, now tapering 2mgs/ week. I know this is a low and slow taper but still I am not feeling so great. I keep getting hot flashes, nausea and going hot and cold, it's uncomfortable. My methadone doctor suggested clonidine for these symptoms, I know some of you have tried it and I was wondering if it helps much, and is it worth even taking? Thanks for your responses...
At this point, even with serious pain medications - elavil -50 milligrams 3 per day, Methadone 10 mg/2 per day, and Percoset 5 mg/6 per day - the pain is overwhelming and the weakness is getting worse. These symptoms are understanding, but I'm also having bad nausea. Could the disk problems/meds be related to the nausea?
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