I'm coming out..dom dom dom. Methadone clinic patron 20 plus years....
I guess this is as close to publicly announcing being a methadone patient as I ever have..I have always kept it under my hat as much as I could with the exception of some family ,close friends and a coworker or two thru the years. Just wondering from those who have been on as long as I have what your negative side effects have been. Me for starters, I just got my dentures after a long long wait. I had a good mom who taught me good oral hygiene. I didnt floss every single day but I did floss simi regularly and brushed every day sometimes twice. But I would say about 5 years ago my gums pulled away from my teeth, exposing parts below the enamel that was previously protected by my gums. From there it was a loosing battle, your roots are just to porous to keep all bacteria out. I blame methadone. I had some blood work done last week, I asked the doc to check my T levels. Mine was 50ng, the normal for a man my age is between 300 and 700. I blame methadone. What has the profuse sweating for no good reason done to my nervous system? You sweat to regulate your core body temp to keep it from over heating. All of those false signals telling my body to sweat because it thinks im in the desert when Im actually just chilling in a chair at room temperature. I think it has broken my internal thermometer. I will stop here for now. I stepped in that clinic on my own , I made the choice. But I was not told about, given a pamphlet to read or gently whispered to about the negative side effects years down the road. Are there any advocates out there for us? Im not looking for a handout but I have spent enough on treatment to buy a house or two.
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