Methadone
Free Defective Drugs Case ReviewConcern continues to grow regarding the prescribing of Methadone in Cardiovascular patients who suffer from chronic pain. Methadone, a synthetic opiate, is used to relieve several types of ongoing pain, especially for discomforts related to ongoing heart problems.
Patients regularly taking Methadone have been most commonly reported to experience:
- Heart Arrhythmia
- Heart Attack
- Severe Valve Damage
- Cardio-toxicity
Those taking Methadone are also at risk for unpredictable allergic reactions, as well as sudden death. Methadone can be found under many brand names such as Diskets, Dolophine, and Methadose. It is similar to Morphine as it is considered a narcotic pain reliever, additionally it can be highly addictive to users.
Additional Methadone side effects that patients have experienced:
- Slowed breathing (even after the drug as worn off)
- Unpleasant withdrawal symptoms if immediately stopped taking
- Cannot be combined with alcohol, can be fatal
- Hallucinations and confusion
- Elevated heart rate
- Lightheadedness or faintness
Methadone also comes with various contraindications, that is those drugs that it cannot be combined with, such as Cardizem, Dilacor, Tiazac, Calan, Covera, Isoptin, and Verelan.
The greatest concern among Methadone users is the risk for unforeseen deadly side effects. Though a history of previous problems with narcotic pain relievers may be a precursor to projecting possible injuries, unfortunately those without a problematic history are still at great risk.
Pharmaceutical companies have a responsibility to the medical professionals and patients they provide their products to that they are safe and reliable for use. Responsibility must been taken where error has been made, this error has unfortunately ended and put in danger several innocent live.
If you or a loved one has suffered the devastating effects
of Methadone use please contact our firm today. You and
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| tracey says: | 2008-01-15 09:06:37 |
| I had suffered from hallucinations after taking methadone but didn\'t make the connection until now. | |
| burlin lawson says: | 2008-02-26 16:20:43 |
| I have been taking methadone for cronic pain for around 15 years on a daily basics 30-40-mg every day.In mid October,07 I had bypass sugery in right leg.Now Iam light headed and have been having a allergic reaction to a number of different things. | |
| Teresa Rocke says: | 2008-04-08 14:49:40 |
| I took methadone for five years. I\'ve been off now for nearly 2 months trading it for morphine. I can feel again, I can feel my body, I can see clearer, although it\'s still been a short while and I am still throwing up,headaches occasionally, and general lathargic feelings sometimes, I know they are finally going away and my family is returning. I lost more than any person can loose in their brain. I mean, I\'ve lost part of my life, messed up my relationships and just didn\'t do well and was very paranoid. Sleeping-ha!what a joke. I still couldn\'t tell you when I\'ve had a night sleep. Mostly I get a couple hours a day. I was prescribed methedone for pain manegement and have a pain clinic doctor. I\'ve got many issues with chronic pain and oxycodone is another drug I take for pain management. I havent noticed any bad reactions from this drug:YET....(i just don\'t trust any of them anymore)but I\'ve always had a problem with methedone. I could never get the right dosage or it was too much :not enough ; just plain too unpredictable and it took my family away as they would call me a meth-head. I lost contact with my brother because he didn\'t want me around him, because I didn\'t act right(he said)Now I\'m on Morphine and it\'s weird because I get tired-I go to sleep(5 or more hours now)and I\'m feeling like I\'m back to me: slowly...I will never take METHEDONE drug again as now because of my place in \"NEVER-LAND\"of confusion I\'m in the pre-forclosure portion of my home that I\'ve owned and lived-in, raised my children in. IT\'S OVER.... and I wish there is someway I can get monetary help so I don\'t loose my home. I\'m lost and don\'t know where to turn....Is there a lawyer out there to help me with my defective drug issues so I can call my mortgage company and not have to move from my life home:especially since my disability will further my monetary loss as I cannot move myself and I\'d have to pay with the nothing left that I have...Please help if you can. Methedone is not a good drug..it\'s not...it\'s not.. made and sometimes still I often think dying would be a way out.,but that\'s so wrong. methedone and the defectiveness it\'s done to me as well as others.This drug needs to be taken off the market as a friend of mine is so addicted to it I\'v watched her take 6 pills of 10mg methedone at a time! I tell her someday it\'s gonna kill her but she just can\'t stop and will pay anything to get Methedone.Forclosure and disability forces sale of my home. Methedone helped with this. I\'m very sure of it.. | |
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