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