Methadone / Depression Issues? (Page 2) (Top voted first)

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

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

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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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K-Matthew. I know u posted back in January but I just read your regarding the methadone and depression issues. Have you been able to find help? Or a solution to your problem? Your situation sounds very similiar . Please email me if u get this

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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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If it is good for you why you came off of it??
may be this is because of its price? or not so why?
you know swing of mood destroies lifes.
It is important in this site that evry one says about her or his experience of taking methadone without beeing deperessant?It calms me but what can I do with depression ??? please tell we can help each other through exchaging our experience.

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ive been on methadone for like 2-3 years it hurts to think about it, that isnt why im depressed, its the methadone itsef i believe mabye other factors that has me so depressed im nearly losing my job..wouldnt be suprised if i got phone call or text tomorrow.
i had alot of trust in the gonverment and its testing, i now have intensive fear, exitey, real bad depression last 3 weeks not sure if it was mental breakdowns i was having or depression last few days ive been searching peoples stories..some that made it some that never finished the fourm in ansewering questions..now i know alot of stuff on the internet is fake, though for some reasion i know what is real by there words and whats and there actions, when there last post is and it scares me to think about it, im wondering if im boarder line...last 3 days been on my mind, i am nearly sure its the methadone..but i come to realize i think may be more to it then meth though i knwo it takes a BIG role in depression i hate myself for how weak i feel right now i jsut want to freakout my emotions are behond my control but not my actions yet

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I was on methadone for five or six years. Illegally at first then later through a clinic. I can tell u what got me off of it (with ZERO withdrawals) but I'm quite sure it won't be something that you think is a great idea. I started taking speed (methamphetamine) to aleviate my constant exhaustion and depression and quickly realized I had no desire for the methadone when amped on speed. The speed proved easier to get off of. However I am and always have been an addict so I still use speed to self medicate. So for me it came down to chosing between two evils, which gets me lectured quite often, but I just could NOT stand the methadone addiction anymore.

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I take 60 mg's of methadone per day for back pain and fibromyalgia. None of the treatments for fibromyalgia work for me. I can't function without the methadone. My problem is I sleep all the time. Is this from the methadone and is there something I can take so I don't sleep all the time?

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