Okay, here I am again, I have been taking loratab 10 since 2004 for back pain and now shingles, I have always gone to my dr got my script and said nothing but the outbreaks shingles seem to be more often and worse so I said something to my dr, he started to write me a script for morphine but I can't take that so he wrote me a script for methadone.! It scared and I told him, he told me to try it so Friday I called his nurse and said I was concerned about taking it , she said to try it over the weekend so Saturday I did and it made me so sick , so I was sick and in pain.. I'm being to think that the pain meds are making the pain worse . I was in bed most of the weekend. This is crazy and not the road I want to go down.. Going from loratab to mothadose. I have been trying to quit the loratb for months I take one to three a day, but I want to really quit the pain meds just not sure where to start. And I'm scared I know how bad I felt this weekend. ..