Re: Methadone/PJ

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P G wrote:

> I am not taking this medication, but I know some people who are.

Yesterday we (a friend since junior high school) were chatting and she told me

she had just seen her doctor about getting another epidural and he ended up

cautioning against it because they discovered some heart damage that has been

caused by taking methadone, which had been prescribed by a different doctor some

time ago. This new doctor told her to stop taking it immediately and gave her

something else instead.

>

> From what I've learned this is not an uncommon thing with prolonged methadone

use. The bad part is that her prescribing doctor knew this could happen and

never told her. Now she has heart damage that is irreversible.

Hi PJ

I just can't find cardiac problems listed anywhere in the literature caused by

Methadone. Was your friend assessed for any heart condition prior to taking it?

One thing may not have anything to do with another. If you do have any

professional information please send a link to the group.

Thank you very much

Kaylene

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Kaylene wrote:

> I just can't find cardiac problems listed anywhere in the literature caused by

Methadone. Was your friend assessed for any heart condition prior to taking it?

Hi Kaylene

Recently, a handful of cardiac deaths have happened to be people who

were taking methadone. From what I have read, these folks were taking

methadone as a treatment for long term heroine addiction. The latest

upshot is that they were already damaged from all the years of heroine

(and poor life choices) abuse.

So far, it looks like it was a tempest in a teapot.

Lyndi

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I looked as well and never saw those risk factors, but maybe it is newly

discovered and not yet in the lit?