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.

Live and learn.

Mike