Can You Be Approved For Weight Loss Surgery While Being Prescribed Methadone Opiate Addiction? (Page 3) (Top voted first)

I am being prescribed methadone for opiate addiction been of all other drugs for 4 years I'm in the process of trying to have weight loss surgery and trying to find out if they will let me have it done since I'm on methadone?

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Re: Kip (# 3)

Hi how did your surgery go I'm In same position were did you get yours done

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Re: Jennifer (# 14)

Hi hope up see this did you have your surgery and can I ask with who coz I'm been told no for. A few places I've gotten onto because of methadone

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I need to find a doctor that will do lap band surgery if im on methadone in the inland empire. My Kaiser insurance won't do it

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Re: Sierra (# 38)

That is 100% incorrect.. I have been on 213 mg of methadone for 20 years okay plus I am a chronic pain patient from a motorcycle accident at age 19 and nearly died. It left me with a multitude of serious injuries I had to learn to walk again, I had 3rd and 4th degree burns (Road Rash) and was in the burn unit heavily sedated because everyday they would “Bre-Braid” scrape the pavement off of my legs with a very sharp instrument and the pain was so bad I fainted once or twice and then they sedated me even more.. I was left with a myriad of different ongoing pain issues in a multitude of different places, and back then (1989) I was prescribed dilaudid Fentanyl lollipops, Percocet for break thru pain and a few more. The problem with that is I was so hammered that I couldn’t cook because I might burn down the house. Can’t drive because I was impaired.. My entire quality of life was deeply affected and I told my doctor about what it’s like for me and he recommended Methadone.. At that point I was willing to try anything and it was the best decision I’ve ever made…
I am having surgery in two weeks lfrom today to have an entire left hip replacement and they are going too have to give me a myriad of different heavy duty schedule to narcotics opiates to be able to control my pain because I have such tolerance levels and for people that have any sort of injury that’s causing l acute it’s going to hurt more than somebody who doesn’t have methadone baseline in their system and whatever else they may or may not be taking..
My surgeon Dr. Moore referred me to a pain management specialist for my “Pre-Op as well as Post Op” Pain Medications.
he’s also an anesthesiologist and I went and saw him because my fear was that there there they’re not gonna be able to control my pain immediately for the first couple weeks after surgery and I had already been to one or two different pain people and they were useless and my primary care physician was giving me #60 (Only giving me #2 a day. 10 mg Norco‘s which for someone like me is nothing (my bones are grinding bone on bone every step I take is enormously painful ) and so I went to see this guy and he is on it OK there are so many ways For them new routes and you know inventions or whatever of how to deliver pain medication to people like us and the only thing he said regarding my methadone was that he wants to break it up into three times a day only while I’m an inpatient at the hospital, so that way it will also have more lasting pain relief or whatever I can say with confidence that I am very optimistic (cautiously) optimistic that this is going to go well…
I have never ever never seen a surgeon or anesthesiologist doctor is going to tell you that have to stop taking methadone because you’re having gastric bypass or bariatric surgery or hell any kinda surgery OK it has nothing to do with whatever type of operation you’re going to be having.. I know this for a 100% fact in 2016 I checked into the hospital to have a routine gallbladder removal and I already spoken to my surgeon advance and he said yeah I’m gonna give you the pain pump every 10 minutes you hit the button and I would get Dilaudid coming in and I was only supposed to be there for two days for straight up pain control but I had severe severe complications and wound up staying there for 27 days and even then nobody they didn’t stop or change or do anything with my methadone they can’t make you abruptly stop if you were realistically going to stop you would have to taper in and detox so I wouldn’t be afraid it’s not gonna happen or affect anything … it has not affected anything for me and I had boy I had my thyroid removed they sliced me here to ear I had my right shoulder shattered rebuilt I had because it gal bladder with all the complications now I’m having an in complete hip replacement in two weeks not once was I told you can’t take methadone while you’re having this so whoever’s giving you that information it is totally incorrect.. I hope that your surgery goes well and that you have a full recovery!! Best regards Lori

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Re: Methadoneuser (# 4)

It is not the methodone causing weight gain. That is a myth. Behavior change causes weight gain after opiods are stopped. Once stable, weight gain ceases.

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Re: Methadoneuser (# 4)

That is not true it doesn't cause weight gain.its because you are not an addict and your appetite is normalized

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Your Methadone is what is making you overweight. If you keep on taking it, you are likely to simply gain it all back again, and be in worse health from the surgery.

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