Hi,I am Dr. Shanthi.E (General & Family Physician). I will be looking into your question and guiding you through the process. Please write your question below.
I have been on Methadone for chronic pain for 5 years. Had I known what I know now I would have never started the stuff. Long story short, my pain specialist dropped me as a patient due to not taking my insurance any longer with less than a weeks notice and only a weeks left of my meds. I ended deciding to get off the Methadone and in the last three weeks have gone from 50mg to 10mg and my last dose of 5mg is tomorrow. I have not experienced any withdrawals that I have noticed expect for the pain coming back which I am working with my doctor on that until I get a new pain doctor. I will not go on methadone again nor anything like Norco or drugs like that. I am asking to be put on Tramadol as that is what I w as on before I was put on Methadone and it worked well but my doctor is giving me issues because I suffer from depression and she says I cannot take it with my anti depressants. So I stopped taking them. I see a therapist weekly along with group therapy and have been doing well since I left a job that was a major cause of my relapse of depression which hadn't reared it's ugly head since my 20's and I am now 40. She wants me to continue the anti depressants and I have tried to tell her that will only make me more depressed because I will be in pain and not be able to work and not be able to pay rent and bills. I see her tomorrow again and she is supposed to tell me what she will do for me then as it is going to take awhile to get into new pain dr. And yes, I had an MRI and she didn't tell me why, which I know I should've asked but I was upset at the time about the anti depressant thing, and it did show reasons I am in chronic pain. I wanna know if I will suffer from withdrawal after tomorrow when I take the last dose of 5mg or if I may be ok since I came down so well from the 60mg my ex pain dr. had me on. Thank you in advance for you help.
Sun, 12 Apr 2015
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