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I am taking prescription medication prescribed by my pain management doc. He gives me the epidural injections and prescribes the methadone for pain and tells me that we are trying to get to the proper dosage. At this time it is 40 mg a day. 10 mg 4 times a day. I've been taking it for a couple of years now and it makes me comfortable to where I can handle the pain. Like I said I'm not so sure the pain is there like it was but when I try to wean myself on my own I have problems. Not so much with the pain as much as the withdrawal. He says I can stay on this the rest of my life if I want and it would be ok with me but if this stuff is harming me in any way or is detrimental to my health, (physical or mental) then I would like to know. I am reasonably healthy physically and mentally but if this stuff shortens my life in any way I want to know. My doctor says people stay on it for the rest of their lives and have been on it for years and years so he makes it sound fine. According to the warnings and indicators on the packet I am allowed to drive on it and I can do all kinds of things just as normal people can. No one I know knows I am taking this med except my wife and she would like for me to get off of it and I would be willing to do it for her but am afraid of the withdrawal symptoms and if the pain should return I would be right back at square one. I imagine most of you would say I don't have much of a problem but I really don't trust doctors that much but just don't know what to do.
To be truthful there is a little more to the story and I have been around the block a few times but this is the worst dilema I have ever been in.
Marvoldboy
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