methodone and Norco

I have been on methodone aor a long time. I have severe chronic pain. The menthodone works fantastically, however, I think the dose should be increased. The reason I say this is simple. I also take Norco 10/350 incunjunction with the methodone. I don't feel beeter when I take the Norco, in fact it does very little. I am on 10mg of Methodone every 4 hours. Even the fact that Norco dosent do much, I feel backed into a corner. I have been through more nerve blocks than you can imagine. I do everything my pain doctor tells me to do. I am not a drug seeker, thou many of us in the clinic get treated as such. I want to find out if there art higher dosages of the methodone I can go on and eliviate the Norco all together. I am only 40 years old and used to have a very active life. I have 4 children and a husband that is trying to be as supportive as he can be. He's the type that won't even take a tylenol for a headache. He's working 2 jobs because of my condition, I can't hold down one. I wasn't approved for disability, even though it is service connected. I am on the PDRL (permanent medical reitred list at a total ot 50%. I also have bipolar diseas

As I understand it and I listned very closely....A long time friend of mines step daughter DIED from methodone saturation. The medical conclusion was that she had taken it as perscribed for much too long of a period. It was NOT an accidendal or deliberate overdose, and she should have been wiened off of it long ago. Doctor screw-up? Maybe! Methodone eventually accumulates in the users system too a toxic level, and the result at times is DEATH (they said). The question is...Is It Worth Dieing For????

Im down to a (Norco 10/350-One in the morning when I Awake and One at bed time) for more than two years. I've been taking it for almost five years now. A much larger dose in prescribed for me, but I'm sceptical about upping the dose thought most of the time I could use more of it to manage the pain better.

This Methodone DEATH incident has me on edge and makes me seriously think about getting off of even Norco, and somehow coping and managing the pain in a different way. Norco is not worth dieing for either and I am looking into the long term effects of it.