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 Posted: 06/01/07 - 21:53 Post subject: methadone weight gain |
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Hi,
Like a couple others who posted here, I have been on methadone for a while and have gained about 10-15 pounds. I am now 5.8 and weight 160-165 pounds. I have a Britney Spears stomach (you know when people thought she was pregnant?) Nobody has thought i was pregnant but.. I tried exercising and nothing happened. One week I got sick and didn't eat for a week.. guess what- no weight loss there either, which is very wierd for me, since before, if I had done that pre-methadone, I would have been 5 pounds lower.. at least temporarily! What is going on? Help!! I saw somebody else posted a question like this but no experts told them how to fix it. Thanks,
-tired of getting rude comments from fat people who are happy to see me getting bigger |
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| Posted: 01/19/08 - 01:13 Post subject: methadone weight gain |
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Hi, I too have gained an enormous amount of weight since being on methadone. I have been on it for almost 1&1/2yrs. now. Highest dose was 165mg. in morning with 50mg. at bedtime. I am now down to one 60mg. dose in the morning and have not lost even one lb., in fact have even gained! Not sure exactly how much I have gained in all, as I do not own a scale, but I have gone up from a size 3 to a size 11!  I am sooo depresssed about this weight gain, feel so crappy about myself and I didn't even get to enjoy getting to this weight, ie., eating yummy fattening foods and all.  I just started gaining as soon as I put this crap into my body. I am slowly getting my dosage down to where I can go cold turkey off it. My question is this, will I lose this weight once I am off it? I surely do hope so. Has anyone else gone through this on this medication? |
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| Oh yes I feel your pain. I have been taking methadone for 2 years. I never weighed over 97 pounds in my entire life ! Now at 154 ! Good news is that you will lose the weight when you stop taking it. I was on 95 mg and dropped down 10 mgs a week until I was at 10mg. Throughout that time my weight went down to 119. I looked great but I started to get use to it and forgot what it felt like to be 154 and I kept increasing and increasing my dose again. The weight (All of it) came right back. |
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| Posted: 03/12/08 - 14:27 Post subject: methadone and weight gain |
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I myself have now been on Methadone now for 3 1/2 years, but to tell the truth I started to get high! My best friends mom was selling them to her daughter and I was off work with a new baby and very bored since I have been working since I was 13. Well, anyhow, fun turned into addiction very qwick! Two years into it I relized that I needed help and had to qwit seeing my friend of 20 years. I called a methadone clinic and I am now into it for a year and a half. For the last six months I have been on detox. I go down one mg. every four days. I started at 130 and am now at 96(mgs). And about my weight gain I am 5'2'' and my whole aldulthood I have been @ 102 lbs now I weigh 171 lbs and I hate The way I look. The only thing I know is that I am VERY constipated and I have gained most of my weight in my belly. I look prego and my son is four. My husband deals with it but I know he wishes I were thin. I guess what I am saying is I think once I get off or get low on my dose I SHOULD get my tummy working normal I hope to start to lose weight. I have quit gaining weight but I have not yet lost any weight. But like I said before I'm at 96mgs. so that is still a very high dose and I don't expext to lose weight till I get off. I hope I have not done permanut damage to myself so wish me luck. If I do hear more I will repost but I found this on google under "weight gain and methadone"  |
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| Posted: 04/22/08 - 00:27 Post subject: methadone weight gain |
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| I was on methadone for 5 yrs and gained about 40 lbs in those 5 years, I was on a 95 ml a day docage when I first went on it and weaned down to 55 mls a day the last 3 years I was on it. I went off it cold turkey 2 months ago and was in detox for 11 days. I have lost almost 30 lbs in those 2 months! Yeah I still feel withdrawl [minimal] and have to take sleeping meds or I wouldn't sleep, but do I ever feel better! My personality has come back 100%, and I feel alot better physically and don't want to sleep all the time! It's a tough road, but you can do it when you are ready you will know, I did. Good Luck it will happen for you! Much Luck, Sandra |
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