Lost in space?

[Guest guest]

Hi all,

I am still wanting to get others experiences with Methadone. I write questions

and ask for replies but never get any answers. I'm beginning to feel a little

paranoid. Maybe I don't have the " reply " thing down pat. I've tried to contact

Lori without success. I've written to the whole group without success. I know

the subject has been discussed recently but I have other questions. One is how

sleepy it makes you. Or if it makes you itch. It seems the doc started me out

on a dose of 1 or 2 10 mg, twice a day which seems kind of high to me. I have

been taking Vicodin 7.5 Q 4 hours prn for nearly two years.It has not been

holding me but about 2 1/2 3hrs. I moved away from that doc and the one I' m

going to now is a pain management doc who seems very knowledgeable and caring.

He also gave me Vicodin 10 mg 1or 2, twice a day. I don't want to sound

unthankful as most of us know most docs don't want to give any pain meds and

make you " feel " like an addict for asking!.

Well, I

know no one can make you feel anyway but when you already feel guilty because

your family (in my case grown children) do not understand and you can't see

pain). I did consider suicide in the beginning before I got any help. I have

real bad back problems and at the age of 69 will have to think long and hard

before considering surgery,. I have chronic pain in my rectal/vaginal areas and

peripheral neuropathology from the knees down. AND lots of other stuff I won't

bore you with now. (not a ploy for sympathy, I know many many people are lots

worse off than me.) I take Neurotin which is very helpful.

Just the thought of Methadone is frightening to me even though I understand it

is a good and viable treatment for what I have. I don't want to take any more

of anything than absolutely necessary and would have a fit if any of my kids

found out. They already have made up their minds and don't want to be confused

with the facts. I dread to think what would happen if I fell or something and

had to appoint an attorney. I just quit work last May, a year ago, and am fully

able to take care of my own affairs. I was a medical secretary on a geriatric

mental ward and know in some cases (mostly Alzheimer's disease) the patient

loses most of those rights,. Some justly due to the progression of the disease,

some because their kids/family want control of their money or decision making.

I didn't mean to start rambling.

Sincerely,

Joan

[Guest guest]

Joan,

You are the very first person I've ever heard of that has vaginal

pain. I've had it for yrs (along with all my other pain), but guess

I've just been too embarrassed to mention it. I did recently start

taking an estrogen " pellet " called Vagifem that you insert. My pain

is somewhat less because I guess some of it was from dryness &

thinning. I'm only 55, but had a total hyst. at 40. Have had many

problems from it. I don't have the anal pain. That sounds terrible.

Thanks for sharing.

Take care,

Bev in

sunny Santa Cruz, CA