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[wow600]

HI, I really dont even know if this is the right place to ask this ?? But here it goes first of all I have been a paitent at local doctors office for about a year , I have since been discharged from the practice . my problem is that I was given Methodone for pain management along with lortab 10/500, which normally I have heard isnt the big deal as much as the doseage I was prescribed my the doctor I initally was given 6 10mg lortabs daily and 80mg of methodone then one month in the methodone was raised to a total of 200mg A DAY ... now everyone I have talked to said the the 600 methodone 10mg pills I was taking monthly was crazy and I should have never been prescribed such an extreme amount of this drug ???? what are your takes on this situation , now as you probably expext I am addicted and just signed up today for help at a treatment center.  I was wondering if the doctor was at all liable for this and what anyones opinion of this is
Thank You So Much.............

[sparkie825]

I'm confused.  Why in the world would they discharge you from the practice!??!!  You did absolutely nothing wrong.  Did you show them the scripts or bottles for your medicine?  This makes no sense.  They should have transferred you to a new doctor to treat you, not dump you.  What a horrible group.  Good riddance to those people!  Have you found a new doctor yet?  

[kim715]

I went to a methdone clinic.Everyone there was getting the methodone for addiction not pain management and I'm being completely honest,most of the people there were on hefty doses.The average persons daily dose was up around 150-200 mgs.For some it took 3 or 4 medicine cups for them to dose.Where I went they used the wafers and dissolved them in tang.There were also alot of people there who were still taking prescription pain pills and as long as you showed your caseworker your script or your medicine bottle and as long as those things were the only other things that showed up in your UA aside from the methodone it was ok with them.Again the clinic I went to treated addicts,and I use that term very lightly.I'm extremely anti-methodone ,especially dispensing methodone for pill addiction.I don't know much about the pain management side of it,so I won't comment on that.I just know I've seen alot of people take that hefty of a dose.I never went above 35 mgs,and that was too much for me.I lowered my dose to 30 mgs the second day and thats where I stayed for most of the year,aside from when I did try to taper.I went c/t off of 25 mgs a little over 5 months ago.I agree that 200 mgs is a really large dose especially considering 1 mg of methodone is = to 3 mgs of morphine.That fact that you were raised 120 mgs within a month of going there sounds crazy to me,even the clinic I went to didn't raise people that fast.You raised and tapered in 5 mg incriments but because of the drugs half life you couldn't raise every day,you had to wait 3 days to give your body a chance to stabilize before they would raise you again.Again I don't know much about the pain management aspect of the drug.Just sharing my experience.I wish you all the best.Peace.....Kim

[Dezdon]

You sure on that dose and quanity? maybe, 60 ea?
peace
-Dez

[joann1975]

Well, I don't know much about methadone but that seems like alot. I don't know that many of us know to much about the legal side....the getting discharge question was being asked for background reasons I think...were they giving you this in addition to the lortab? They gave you that much for a YEAR?

I am happy to hear you are getting treatment...and the people on the forum that know about methadone will be very helpful as well!

JoAnn

[wow600]

Im not really worried so much about the fack of the discharge Im just worried about the doseage I was given for nearly a year . when I went to the treatment center today I was told that the had never heard of a doctor prescribing methodone in that doseage ever 200mg a day and 600 10mg pills a month they said was absolutly way out of bounds for pain management

[122 Tactical Fighter Group]

I am not sure about the legal side of this ..... but 200mg of methadone is a really hefty dose - .... most methadone users get 30-40mg for maintenance ..... although some get into the hundreds of mg if they have used for a long time and have a stronger tolerance -

[Flowergirl43]

It is hard to say what his liability would be.  Why did he feel he needed to give you a large amount? Why have you been discharged? I would think he would be liable in some way to help taper you off this much meds. I do not have an answer but did not want to leave you hanging out there. If you could explain more maybe we could give some advice?  Someone will show up who understands more.........

[lucyred68]

that was a huge amount of methadone.  i don't know if the dr. is liable for anything, but i do know that you have a ;long, hard road ahead of you to get off of the methadone.  you can do it, i did, but my dose was minimum compared to yours.  i'm glad you are getting help, as it would be extremely difficult to get of of it from such a high dose.  just hang in there and do what they tell you.  keep coming in here for help, too.  this is a great place.

Lucy