Re: Methadone
From: cathy:- (anonymous@medispecialty.com)
Tue Apr 30 11:53:32 2002
I'm really not sure... I would guess that each particular drug is
different as far as the risk of becoming addicted during that window of
time when you are still dependent upon the drug but not in pain. One
thing that works in your favor if your cure is surgical is that the
natural course of the surgical pain would be for it to start out high
and then gradually disappear as all of the cut tissue heals up. So that
if your opiate dosage just followed your level of post-surgical pain,
then normally that would mean that you gradually wean off of the opiate
perfectly naturally. A couple of people here have remarked that they
had adhesiolysis surgeries that left them pain-free for a period of
months and they had no troubles weaning off of the meds. I suspect that
this was just that they gradually reduced the drugs in reaction to the
fading away of the post-surgical pain, and it just happened naturally.
At Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Sally Grigg wrote:
>
>Dear Cathy, Thank you for the information. It was indeed enlightening. At
>this point I have been taking opiates. If my pain stopped, could I switch
>to methadone to get off the opiates and then get off the methadone? Love,
>Sally
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cathy :-)