methadone, cheap is what coints.

[railroaded]

I think it is a crime that every doctor is pushing methadone for pain relief, due to pressure of the costs of other available, less harmful methods.  Is there a panel ANYWHERE looking into this epidemic for the pain SUFFERER?  I am NOT going to become a methadone addict because it is SO CHEAP!  I have several family members on methadone, much to THEIR chagrin, and now they can't get off it.  Yesterday, i found out my sister in Kentucky was also given it for headache pain, 3 times a day for LIFE!  She was not given any bad press about it, and although we have heart disease in our family, I am on blood pressure medicine and have heart palpitations and I am 56, none of these issues were considered before, during or after I saw the pain management dr. from the insurance company last week.  He has big plans to switch me from my high priced oxycontin, which I had no side effects from, to methadone, with no end to the usage in sight.  I am disgusted with the insurance companies only concern being money, and not the effects of a drug as long as it dirt cheap.  Methadone is the cheapest drug I have personally ever heard of, check it out.  I am between a rock and a hard place, and it is VERY hard to convince a DOCTOR he may be wrong.  But I will refuse the methadone.

[Dee1956]

Sorry I answered you twice, your question popped up and I answered, again, sorry
I do not think it is fair as all, when my husband was on the higher priced pain meds the ins decided it would no longer pay and we were in a bind, at the same time we lost a doctor.  So sorry for what you are going through.  I don't understand what is going on
Dee