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Originally Posted by SandyRI
. . . I take 1/2 a perc at a time when I feel I need one, and probably take a total of 3-4 percs by the end of each day (I don't count, I just bite a pill in half when I want one).
I may need to eventually increase the mg of methadone I take to eliminate the need to take so much perc for the "break-tru" pain, or get a better break-thru med. But for now the methadone is much better for pain relief than what I was trying to use a few weeks ago. This has had a huge impact on the quality of my life - it is so much better than what it was. Of course, it would be even better if I could get rid of the RSD altogether.
I've noticed that Methadone does make me feel much more tired than percocet did. I am OK driving, and working, but I fall asleep most evenings by 9:00 at the latest. I get up and walk around a lot when I need to at work to stay alert, and drive with the windows open in the car if I feel I should. . . .
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Dear Sandy -
Your Percocet use with Methadone sounds exactly like my ongoing consumption of oxycodone, for what it's worth.
And we are both having similar responses to Methadone, except that (at least initially) mine is more extreme. As in, "you know those four brownies I had an hour ago, they did have a funny taste to them . . . ."
Major kudos for hanging in there and working through all of this.
I had to give it up after a year and a half. At which point I exchanged the world of being a busness bankruptcy lawyer for my neighborhood meditation sagha in Santa Monica, something I was introduced to by a pain psychologist, specifically a "Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)" class, set up initially at the Univ. of Mass by Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD to bring the insight that could come from meditation and very gentle yoga to people in chronic pain. Since then we moved to "the Valley" so that one of my son's could take advantage of a great high school opportunity, but little is happening locally in terms of buddhist communities, etc. To say that life's quieter than when I was working a a litigator would be something of an understatement.
so hang in there,
Mike