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Old 08-07-2009, 11:48 PM
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Originally Posted by bobber View Post
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how did switching from oxycodone to methadone cause your hernias? does it weakin the stomach walls or cause more constipation? Thats a notable thing to know, it will keep alot of us from running into the same problem,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,bobber
I was started out on what I understand was a fairly hefty dose of Methodone, 30 mg./day. Unfortunately, my pm doc. didn't know that I had discontinued the use of Naloxone HCL, taken orally 1/mg. every time I took an Oxycontin/oxycodone, due to the extreme cost issue, when I had found that Senaokot-S, a good over the counter stool softener that he had also reccommended, did the trick when I just took 4 tablets at bedtime. Turned out, that was nothing against Methadone, which completely shut me down. Then it was just a matter of straining to produce results, and that's all it took. That said, I was later advised by a pharmacist that I would have had better luck taking the Senokot-S with the each of the three daily doses of Methadone, as much as 8 tablets a day.

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