Methadone Treatment Report
Most Popular Brands: Methadose
What is Methadone?
Methadone is an opioid analgesic used for the management of moderate-to-severe pain; detoxification and maintenance treatment of opioid addiction (if used for detoxification and maintenance treatment of narcotic addiction, it must be part of an FDA-approved program).
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Pain | 57 |
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13 | |
| Other | 22 |
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4 | ||||
| chronic pain | 8 |
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3 | ||||
| chronic intractable pain | 5 |
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1 | ||||
| Peripheral neuritis (neuropathy) | 3 |
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2 | ||||
| Leg pain (both) | 3 |
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1 |
See all 109 patients currently taking Methadone
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Methadone. See all 33 dosages ►
| 10 mg all the time (24/7) | 10mg as needed | 10mg/mL as needed | 40mg as needed | 5mg as needed | daily | 10 mg monthly | 5 mg weekly | 2 mg daily | 4.5 mg daily | 5 mg daily | 7.5 mg daily | 10 mg daily | 15 mg daily | 20 mg daily | 20 other daily | 25 mg daily | 30 mg daily | 35 mg daily | 40 mg daily | 50 mg daily | 52 mg daily | 60 mg daily | 65 mg daily | 66 mg daily | 70 mg daily | 80 mg daily | 90 mg daily | 100 mg daily | 110 mg daily | 120 mg daily | 150 mg daily | 160 mg daily | ||
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Other
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10 | 40% |
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Did not seem to work
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7 | 28% |
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Side effects too severe
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7 | 28% |
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Doctor's advice
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5 | 20% |
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Personal research
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4 | 16% |
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Expense
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2 | 8% |
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Course of treatment ended
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1 | 4% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
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Patient Evaluations
See all 29 patient evaluations
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- cokeseal
- Sex: F
- Pain: All
- Fatigue: All
- Sleep: Most
- Stiffness: All
- function: None
- external_stress: All
- Stickman: all
- Description:F39y
- FM:5y Dx
- See profile
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- cokeseal
- 80 mg daily
- since Mar 21, 2009
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Other
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Side Effects
Moderate
- Advice/Tips Methadone is used for pain management, most people think its only used for heroin addicts, that's not true. It worked much better when taken in a wafer form ... See full evaluation
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- djk
- Sex: M
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Mild
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: mild
- Swallowing: mild
- Upper limb: mild
- Walking: moderate
- See profile
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- djk
- 60 mg daily
- since Apr 24, 2009
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Other
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Side Effects
Moderate
- Advice/Tips It works as a long term pain management method that in truth is really not all that invasive in my life but i have no, none, not one bit, of desire to get hi... See full evaluation
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- porcelain1
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: none
- Swallowing: mild
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
- See profile
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- porcelain1
- since Jan 11, 2009
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Efficacy
Can't tell
for Pain
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Side Effects
Severe
- Advice/Tips The only thing I would say is to remember that each medicine affects everyone differently. So, just because it was horrible for me, it may be wonderful for you. See full evaluation
See all 29 patient evaluations
Report created on November 21, 2009.