Methadone Maintainance & Weight Gain!!! Help!!! (Page 11)
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I AM A METHADONE MAINTAINANCE PATIENT, CLEAN FROM OXYCONTIN FOR THREE+ YEARS & I HAE PACKED ON 40 POUNDS! I AM RETAINING WATER & EXPERIENCE HORRIBLE CONSTIPATION...ANYONE WITH SIMILAR ISSUES OR TIPS TO HELP ME OR FIND THE CAUSE???

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i've been taking methadone high doses 100mg now 80mg daily for back issues. my doc wants to ween me down to 50mg which is one problem which i'll handle by switching doctors. but now i've gained 50lbs im only 4'11. im always constipated, but take milk magnesia, vitamins,eat fruit, wheat cereals,water,walk 20-30 min. daily but nothings working yet. i'm thinking of switching back to oxy's but didn't like the addiction. any thoughts???

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I am a "Chronic-Pain patient" .. I've been taking methadone 150 mgs a day (Split doses of 100mg when I wake-up & 50mgs in the late afternoon) for over 6 years now.. My doctor used to have me on several different highly addictive opiate medications.. Morphine extended relief 100 mg pills // 200 (Or 2pills) twice a day// dialiud 8 mg tablets for breakthrough pain between 4/5 pills a day// fentanyl lollipops 1200 mg each 4 a day. I was so drugged all of the time that I couldn't function. I couldn't drive my car because I was always "Impaired" I rarely cooked because I was impaired & my husband was afraid I'd burn the house down. The quality of my life was horiable.. I lost my sex drive & when we did make love usually I was unable to reach an orgsam... So my husband & I went to my pain doctor voiceing all of said problems... He told us about methadone & offered to taper me down off of all of the medications he had me on & then start me on the methadone treatment.. It was the best thing that happened to me ever since the motorcycle accident that was'nt my fault & it changed my life forever.... I now no longer take any morphine or fentanyl lollipop's... I still have the dialiud 8 mg tablets for the breakthrough pain but I normally don't need to take them very much.. I'm able to enjoy life again. I take my Harley Davidson out almost every weekend & enjoy the wind in my hair & the beautiful scenery of the coast.. We've got a great sex life again... I didn't gain any weight at all... Yes the side-effects of the constipation are there but my doctor has me on a stool softner & mirulax powder in whatever beverage I want twice a day & it's worked fine... I wish you the best of luck....

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I've been taking methadone for about a year now & im intrested in what you said. i would like to know more about the hearbalife & stuff and maybe how i could start losing weight ... im desperate

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I also suffer from HORRIBLE constipation. The one thing (after trying nearly every perscription my GI cld think of, all the while discovering that they did little to nothing towards alleviating it*---i discovered accupuncture. Seriously, it is unbeliavbly amazing at relieving this persistent problem for methadone patients. It is great for many reasons (mainly how well it helps/stops the problem) and it is a natural solution that slowly starts to work and will continue to work and work (does have some to do with still going on occassion for a session).
Unlike western medicine which is all about the quick/band-aid fix (taking a medication to quickly alleviate the affects of a different medication), accupunture works !with! your body to get it back into balance. As i mentioned above, though it takes time to fully reep the benefits, they are long lasting and extremely beneficial for your physical and mental inner workings (without adding anything foreign to the mix).

TRY IT! you will be amazed after a little while how great your body will start to work (and during your session[s] the accupuncturist can work on more things than just, say constipation. It is great for nearly anything. Pain, depression, a sore knee, asthma. It has has also helped me with the nightmares i suffer from nightly (PTSD). you have nothing to lose to try it (well hopefully a lot to 'lose'-not trying to be crude;)

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You all sounds like your lives revolve around drugs....these drugs are not meant to be used over long periods of time. Drs are WAY WAY overprescribing. The withdraw is the most awful thing in the world but the freedom from drugs is worth it in the end. Drs have made people slaves to these drugs. If you want to know how I got sober I will share.

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Methadone can cause weight gain, you have extreme sugar cravings and feel tired always. Your ambition and energy is literally sucked out of you. I have been on it for over 4 years now, my max dose was 180. I managed to drop to 140 by Dec. of 2011 and I finally decided I am sick of this controlling my life. In March of 2012, I had enough and decided to detox, I have gone down 5 or 10 mgs every week since then. I have not taken any in 2 days now, and I feel okay. I think it may be a mind over matter thing with me, though. I do not on any way recommend this, as this is my personal experience. I hope that I am done with it for good. I started MMT after having a 10 year long oxy addiction and it did help me beat it. There is a vitamin specially formulated for methadone users called vitadone, it helps with the sugar cravings, sweating and constipation, among other things. Anyway, I hope this helps and good luck.

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Methadone is very different for differnt poeple but to say it doesn't cause weight gain is a stretch, yes it makes you lazy in the sens that for me and anyone i know on it just sucks the life out of you, making getting moviated one of the hardest parts and if you get motivated withdrawls are great at "sapping" that motivation right away. WHEN YUOR ON METHADONE YOU HAVE TO BE STRONG MENTALLY AND FORCE YOURSELF INTO ROUTINE OR IT WILL GET THE BETTER OF YOU ONLY COMPOUNDING THE SIDE EFFECTS!!! Every person here i just as valid as the next but on the flip side it is easy to blame methadone. Bottom line is if you want to beat it you will and that starts with a responsible Dr. that will compromise between what you want and what the Dr. knows is best! I am still on it and have seen multiple Dr. to try and get on a SOBOXINE regiment to hopefully bet off for good but this is much easier said than done. I feel for all of you, i really do. For me though i do the best when my routine is consistant and diet is responsible. Methadone is very very strong nut we are stronger! Remember that the next time you want to take an extra dose or raise your dosages!

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What multivit do u take to help the weight gain of methadone

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I take methadone for my diabetic nueropathy, and I too have had terrible constipation. If not regularly controlled you can end up having terrible problems requiring a hospital stay and even surgery . By using an OTC medication found in any drug department called Miralax. You can get a generic form at Walmart or Walgreens, or CVS. 1 cap full = 17 grams which is one dose. My doctor told me that you can take as many dosages per day as needed per day, because Miralax doesn't deplete the body of water. Verify this information wIth your attending physician before changing anything in you medication routine. Good Luck.

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please give me the website you found that you avn get the high doses of CLA and Omega 3 " two of the only viatmins you can take to help produce this hormone. I found a website that sales high milligram doses of these vitamins and are specifically formulated to cause weight loss"

Thank you so very much

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Hello I read your article about the methadone and herbalfie. I get it from my brother who has great results but he does the "insanity" workout and i only lift weights every other day and i am not losing fat at all just gaining some muscle so in some ways i look fatter. I am on 65mg of methadone and trying my best to dope down myself (measuring it out smaller per wek) IM still constipated and have extremely low Testosterone. I would really love some help since my brother only knows of the Herbalife not the methadone. Thank you so much.
I take 1 shake in morn w the main four supplements (cell activator, tea, multivitamin, cell u loss, & total control) Another shake for lunch with same supplements expect cell activator. I take only two of those a day, all other supplements are 3 a day. I eat no super no fat pretty much raw veggies or veggie pattie with humus. That is my daily intake

I really want to stay with herbalife but i am hoping you can help me figure out how to make Herbalife work for me like it has for so many others.

Thank you so much for your time,
Look forward to hearing bak from you

-Josh W

p.s. i will be out of my herbalfe in about a week and will start back up a "superfood" supplement diet my hippie mother makes that is really really good nutrients and vitamin wise so hopfully you can help so i can attack this from as many angles as possible

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There is a new prescription although I can't find t online I saw an ad for it but I don't remember the name for symptoms from methadone such as constipation tiredness sugar craving etx... Anyone know the name???

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When you don't eat your body senses it and starts to slow down. The less you eat the slower it gets and stays that way for days. Consuming 500 calories in that condition will cause weight gain!! Look up any good weight loss program and they will tell you the best way to lose is to eat small meals 6 times a day. That keeps the metabolism revving up.

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rei, who's post are you referring too?

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Thats the silliest thing I have ever heard. No. Eating little does not cause weight gain. I gained weight when on methadone. But I started taking a rather expensive multivitamin, and it paid off.

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I was on methadone myself after i lost my insurance after losing a job because of a major car accident which left me with permanent problems and i've been using methadone to treat the pain and obviously avoid withdrawls. After a couple of years i went from 130lbs to 170 lbs. Then I tried every diet there was out there and spend almost 1000$ on diets and pills to lose weight and nothing would work. After taking methadone, i don't know if this happened to you, but i started craving sweets like crazy and that's what lead to my weight gain and other poor eating decisions. {edited for policy reasons}

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Hi I have been on methadone for 2+ years I have gained an astonishing 80 pounds I lost my job and mainly sat around the house all day I ate junk food BUT it wasnt that I ate all the time it was my habbits I would stay up late pass out for a couple hours at 3:00am wake up at 5:30am take my dose eat and pass out at 10 10:30am and somtimes sleep 15 hours Im active now i was finally able to get back to work its been about 2 months ive already lost 20 pounds and am eating right and only sleeping 6 to 7.5 hours a day i feel tons better and now i go to the restroom twice if not three times a day before i was lucky if i was going once every three days not healthy at all anyway i hope this helps an good luck.

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i understand where your coming from but my experience with methadone is different it has caused me problems with my bowels and iv been in n out of hospital and been told its the methadone also my digestion is backed up all the time i rarely use tablets i eat healthy drink fluids methadone for me has not been good. i understand its different for others who use it for pain but for me i hate it. they will chick the stuff at you but dnt give you any info on it. iv never gotten high off it never. iv researched methadone over and over and theres so many different stories out there who knows what to beleive?

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USE Senokot or any other Generic form like Senna-Lax. They are all natural vegetable laxatives and work great and very fast with LITTLE or NO cramping

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unfortinatly it is a side affect. i have put 28lbs on in 2 years because of the methadone esp if on a maintenence dose it gets into your fat cells and is hard to get out. methadone is horrible i wish i had never ever gone on it i am reducing 2mls every 2 weeks plan to gt to 30mls and go on suboxone 5 week course and see ya later opiates. iv had it with this life with this crap the sweats the constipation i dnt have my monthly cycle no more nearly 2yrs 6 mnths thats not normal i have been back and forth to dr's hospitals i had a tmour behind my right eye and had surgery last august they removed it i still get headaches i feel like crap every morning methadone is evil i understand people who use it for pain but to come off of opiates it is the devil most ppl dnt get off it. but i swear if its the last thing i do in my life i will get off methadone. fortinatly for me this christmas i told my parents the truth everything and they are supporting me 100% thats what i needed to realise i can do this. and so can others you just need support and the right doctor. good luck

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