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yes i have heard of fibro patients being rx'ed this med...it is also a very cheap medication

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alot of the doctors at kasier are treating fibro patients with it i have not gone on it

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Yes Methadone is a great medication for Fibro when taken properly, because see methadone has a tendency to build up in the body, and u have to be careful not overdose on it. A lot of doc's are scared to prescribe narcotic's for fibro, but when all else has failed it seems to be a good last line of defense. Good Luck

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I take methadone. The official dosage is 10mg 3 x a day but I take 20mg in the morning and no more after that. Narcotics cause insomnia for me. I also take 2 7.5 hydrocodone in the morning as well but none after that. The methadone is what saved my life. It is the only pain med after trying many including the fentanyl patch that worked in the long term. Good luck.

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My doctor offered me Methadone but I refused. Id rather have Dilaudid and Hydromorph-contin (not available in the USA).

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I am reposting this. I just posted it as a comment to someone else's post on pain. Then I saw this one.

I just saw this post and I wanted to comment. My fiance has had FMS for 2 1/2 years. He's had severe, awful, awful pain, couldn't get out of bed, go to work, much less function normally. He did the pain management specialist thing for about a year. There was so much crap to deal with when he was going to this doctor. He would build up a tolerance to the meds, then we caught his own brother stealing his meds as well as a friend. It was a mess. His pain dr did leave him without medications more than once and he did go into withdrawal. He was in bed for over a week solid. It wasn't pretty. Other drs accused him of lying about his pain just to get meds. I knew the man before this horrid pain began and I know him after. I remember going with him to the pain dr his first time and crying to the dr to help him--that he wasn't the same person anymore and couldn't live life like a normal person.

I made it a point to read up on FMS as much as I could. I was in a used bookstore and came across a book called "The Chronic Pain Solution Your Personal Path to Pain Relief" by James Dillard, MD. In the book it talks about methadone being a very effective painkiller for people who easily build tolerance to opioids/have trouble with them. You can get methadone in a dr's office too. The book describes a patient who went on methadone. Because she went on methadone she had much less pain and was able to get up and do things, get moving. All of that helped her pain too. Over time she was able to get off the methadone and take less and less painkillers, but the methadone helped get her started.

My fiance has been on methadone now for almost a year and it has helped him tremendously!! He has been working and has hardly missed any days, and he can function much much better.

I know methadone has a bad association because it was originally made for drug addicts. But methadone has been studied more and more and is a great painkiller. You also do not get "high" from it or loopy (if you have the right dosage) like you would from a pain pill.

I suggest reading up on it, try googling it sometime.

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I have tried Methadone, but have to only take it when the Vicoden and Fiornal aren't helping me on a bad as Methadone gives me a bad migrain. I have migrains a lot but I will always get one within an hour of taking the methadone. I get the migrain with Dilaudid also. Anyone else have this headach problem after taking the methadone?

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snowflurree all opioids can cause headaches/migraines as a side effect. Kinda weird since they are supposed to treat pain but they are the worst drugs to take for a migraine or headache as they actually cause them. The headache/migraines are dose related though. Too high of a dose and youll feel the pain in your head. Even higher dose of the drug and youll feel chest pains(a sign of OD).

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Thank you for that info. I was always wondering why that would happen to me after taking those meds.

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