Re: Want To Keep Future Methadone Restrictions Out? Sign This Petition!!


"OldGoat" <oldgoatmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Dear Money,

Good work on finding those petitions, but I ma pretty sure this is the
same place I went for the retirement of Dale Earnhardts #3 being out on
any other race car, and at the time they had petitions for everything.
Permanent moon bases to cruise ships with oars to protect the environment,
and everything in between, it's a very cool site and wouldn't surprise me
if you found some direct, very blunt, non governmental interference in
chronic pain treatment petitions hiding in there. And of course things on
the flip side like the outlawing of Oxycontin.
People really should check these out, as if I remember correctly, they
assign you a number as a signee of the petition, and your vitals and
personal info to sign is very minimal.
Don't get a computer-headache from looking through all the stuff there,
but if you find another goodie, give a shout. Always up for a good cause.
Trisha is dead on too about the price. I used to leave the pharmacy with a
grocery sized bag full of methadone and it wasn't enough to get over the
$10 co-pay (at that time) on generics. It was like $8 and some change. The
only pain in the *** (and it's dose dependent) is the normal size tablet
is a 10 mg one, so if your dose is high you'll take a lot of those pills
daily. They make a 2mg tablet, but you're probably beyond that, and they
also make what they call a 40mg "diskette" or "biscuit" that you just
break off what you need for your dose, but usually if they deviate from
the 10 mg generic tablet, you're going to pay more. I felt the relief was
just fine, going cheap.
The action of methadone (and everyone feels it different, so this is just
my case) didn't really feel the same as other narcotics and while there
was no withdrawal in the slightest, it took me 2 or 3 days to get used to
the action, so anything unusual you experience shouldn't be very
noticeable and if it is very short . Just talking about the differences,
now. As far as the drug itself, you'll be hard pressed to find one that
lasts longer or has the pain "knockout punch" of methadone. So since it
stays with you so long, be sure to keep careful track of taking it.

Wishing you lots of success with it--og

When you say there was no withdrawal in the slightest do you mean when you
switch from the opiate to the methadone? I ask because I've read and seen on
TV that methadone is the hardest drug to get off of. I'd switch but I just
don't like all the stories behind it. I guess I would go there if I didn't
have insurance but I'll stick to my ms contin as long as I can. And there's
very little chance that I wouldn't have insurance but I could never afford
the ms contin if I didn't. The OP said his morphone cost $130 well mine is
over $700 but I pay $10 or $3 depending on what insurance I use. I totaled
up all my medications if I had to pay for them out of pocket for the year
and it went over $13,000. Even with the co-pay it goes up to $600 but since
I'm retired from the military I send my co-pays in them for reimbursement so
I really don't pay anything. So I'm real lucky and feel guilty sometimes so
I put some time into our local government standing up for CP'ers.


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