Pain medications for Chiari and associated syndromes

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This is a delicate subject and many do not want to answer due their

own privacy issues, so responses can be private or posted here.

I have been decompressed and fused to c4, and still have pain issues,

some symptoms have reduced or eliminated, but one of the biggest

symptom, pain, still remains.

I take oxycontin, and oxycodone for b/t pain, but my PM doc is

suggesting methadone. I also take zonegran for burning pain and HA's

and it does seem to help.

Has anyone here been prescribed methadone for pain, if so, how well

does it work to cover your pain? If you were on other pain meds how

does this compare?

Anything else in regards to methadone, I would like to hear. While

it's not mandatory for me to change meds, the PM doc thinks changing

around to something different would be beneficial. He says something

about the brain and how pain meds will not work as well since one med

hits the same part of the brain, and to change it up might bring more

pain relief.

Thoughts on this? I do the other things to make my life as palatable

as possible, but I don't do change well.

Thanks all!

Kathymichelle