Methadone / Depression Issues?
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I have been taking methadone tablets,15mg-3 times a day, for back pain. I also have some depression issues as well, The methadone seems to make me in a good mood as well as taking my back pain away. I do have many mood swings lately where I go from very good feeling to very bad very quickly sometimes, This usually happens when the methadone starts wearing off. I think I may need to see a psyhciatrist about this. I do the methadone for pain, but maybe I need something else for my depression, I also have suicidal thoughts sometimes too, I have heard of mood stabilizers, Do these work? If anyone could suggest a medication , It would be appreciated. Also when the methadone is wearing off, I will feel very tired and weak, Without the metadone, I really cannot function that well due to the combination of back pain and mental issues. Thank you for your time and help.--Mike

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I was first started out on Percodan in 1985 after my first of many knee & hip/leg surgeries. After decades of some form of oxycodone, with no abuse on my part, I only have two options for my choice now. Suboxone or methadone...both of which make me feel horrible in many ways. I often think of suicide. I'm so angry, I know if I do commit suicide, I won't be going alone.

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Re: Elizabeth (# 20)

I am really suffering with my emotions since being on Methadone. I've never used drugs or alcohol. I take it for chronic pain. I'm at the point to where I can't handle all the emotional distress. I'm very depressed, have no energy or appetite, don't want to leave my home and I have very low energy. I hope that someone will have answers for both of us.

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Re: Scott (# 11)

there is a book called curing chronic pain and the doctor rober t cochrane talks hilghly of methadone in helping mood instability check it out on web

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My boyfriend has been in the methadone clinic for about three months and his mood has changed for the worst. He has talked more about suicide and his depression has increased. I fear that he will commit suicide if he continues being on it and watch him get more irritable. His weight has dropped and he has trouble sleeping and he is drowsy more than usual. He's just not himself, how so is that his behavior is different like he is a totally different person than the man I met 6 years ago and I am afraid.

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If the methadone helps you go back on it man I was in your same boat do whatever makes your quality of life better.

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Hi it's Deborah again I'm on 80 of methadone I can go up to a 100 or down I've been on it for 30 years I'm still wanting to get off it but don't know have much it is helping the pain , I hate done in sick all the time years ago it used to make me talk a lot get a bit high kind off it's change a lot over the years now it does nothing I get really tired if I take it to late it's ruined my health I had a drinking problem I've stop drinking I thought that would kill me but now I think methadone will they say it doesn't have any real bad side effects but has any one done any research on how methadone effects the body and mind over 30 years or more I don't think so why because they don't care !

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I feel ya, I know depression and anxiety and was on methadone in the past and it helped everything, it helped my depression better than any anti depression, anxiety, made my life in general happy, that was years ago, now I'm a mess, suicidal, hate life, tried every anti depression, nothing works, I want to go back on methadone, but I really don't want to go to a clinic, I don't know what to do, any suggestions, thanks.

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Hey Mike I know ur post was written in '09' but I was wonder if you got the help you were looking for?

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i would like to talk to you, very important the methadone works like antidepressant for me where no antidepressants work

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Agree totally with bad medicine I have been on it for 30 years I was only going to be on it 6 months but couldn't get off it it's destroyed me and my family too .I was a talented person winning many awards 6 months after Done I was doing nothing it's ruined my health

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Dear sir i have been on this methadone now for 12 years at 89mg and intell this feb i seemed ok but now i am in bad shape health and mind i feel all the things you have said and i feel traped from all these brain problems.did you get help and what worked i am in a lot of pain mentally and always feel so so weak.please please help

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I've been on methadone now for 2 year's. I was given it as a mood stabilizer. I still have the same mental health issues and I'm 2 stone heavier. When I had a pinched nerve in my back the hospital thought I was drug chasing! I told em I have more drugs in my bag than u or any doctor in this s*** hole could ever prescribe me, with that I walked out in agony went home and cut my arm to release my anger. I hate being judged by people who are so ignorant. My experience on methadone is hell. I would urge anyone thinking about going on it, that it could be for life!

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Please let me know if anything worked for you as I'm suffering greatly same situation

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I have also been on methadone for about 3 years and am severely depressed. I have never felt like this in my life and I am sure it is the methadone. I am slowly going on my dosage, 2mgs per week, and I am praying that getting to a low enough dosage will start to help until I can get off it completely. I also gained 40 lbs I CAN'T lose. All I want to do is sleep, I can't function enough to work at all. I also have bad anxiety, every day is just misery. I think methadone is from hell. I wish to God I never started taking it, it has ruined my life.

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I know exactly how you feel. I literally stay in bed all day and only get up when I absolutely have to. It's taking a toll on my relationship as well and we also barely speak. Which in turn makes me feel more alone and more sad and more depressed. I have no motivation to do anything. I just don't know what to do anymore. I'm down to 8 mgs a day and I'm just as depressed now as after I started.

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I just started methadone today is my 6th day I am bipolar have ptsd I started on 30 mg then increased by 10 a day until I got to 50 mg which ive been on now for 2 days I have been very sad and keep crying I'm not sure if it's from the methadone or not it is new (the crying ) I have found in order to stay awake all day and not nodd out I have been drinking 3-4 redbull a day I accually crave them every day and this seems to work for me so far...I'm hoping that the crying will go away once I'm more use to the methadone??

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Hi Mike. I've recently started taking wellbutrin and it works alright. Benzos and paxil worked wonders for me. I haven't had any benzos in WEEKS and the crazy feeling is starting to go away but I still feel weird around peope. I took a 'done tonight and damn in was like resetting my brain .

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Hi, I've been reading alot of the posts and the common factor seems to be depression and methadone. I'm a 45 y/o, women who suffers from BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER. I was diagnosed in 1996 following a serious suicide attempt and was sectioned under the mental health act. I was told I would eventually grow out of it!! I think what they meant was after 25 years u would be used as a experiment using shut the f*** up drugs and by the time ur in ur 40's u would be so physically dependent on some drug or other and we can just write u off because everything that could be done medication wise has been done!! I'm currently on 100 mls of methadone, 4,10 mls of nitrazapam and 15 mg of zimovane per day. I collect my prescription rather my emotionally unstable husband collects my script once a week. My source of support is a substance abuse worker at the local drugs clinic. I am not abusing any illicit drugs and haven't for 10 years. My physiatrist suggested I take methadone for my mental health, BPD 1/1/2 years of being on that disgusting methadone I've put on 2stones in weight, depressed so bad that I dont or rather am unable to function as a human should do. I have self harmed through out my life although I do try my best not to now. My life!! My existence is living in my bedroom, I feel no point in getting dressed. My husband will do anything on a practical level but we hardly speak, he sleeps downstairs, I rarely leave my room. I'm attempting to slowly reduce the methadone as I believe it has killed me mentally, emotionally, spiritually. I believe because of the lack of exercise it's a matter of time before I'll start having physical issues. In fact that has started to happen. I cannot comprehend just how unhappy, unmotivated and wish death upon this miserable existence I'm experiencing. Coming off methadone and benzos is he'll on earth but I feel I have no option. I have a rite to live a life to the best I can, I don't agree with how western society is too quick to give drugs. I believe if my family wasn't all dead I would have love in my life and I truly believe that's what my cure for my BPD is, not 100 mls of frigging methadone and a drug worker I don't see or need. Please if anyone is thinking of going on methadone in the belief you will feel better please let it be ur last resort. I wish everyone the best of health, having mental health problems is horrific and still not understood.

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I sympathize for you not being able to legally obtain your methadone. My husband and I have been MMT patients since 8/2012 and as California residents who receive medical our methadone is provided to us daily at no cost. It has worked wonders for the opiate addiction but what I'm dealing with now is severe depression, anger/uncontrollable rage, hopelessness and intense self-loathing. I've never had a history of depression and I have no idea how to begin to cope with this issue. Does anyone who is a long-term Methadone patient have a similar experience? Do I get on anti-depressants or..?? I'm ashamed of these uncontrollable emotions I'm suddenly flooded with and my children are suffering as a result of my mental unrest. I need help and I don't even know where to begin...

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Try looking up methadone clinics around your area they are legal! I go to a methadone clinic and get dosed at 130mg a day as well as I have Medicaid and Medicaid pays for it. If you don't have Medicaid it's only $14 a day!

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