What happens if you take other drugs while taking methadone?

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ANSWER:Quite simply, it can kill you. Doctors are not allowed to perscribe anything to people who are on methodone because of adverse reactions that can occur. Not even acetiminophen. When your body is on the methodone program, its defenses are so limited that any foreign drug can have dynamic adverse side effects. It would be advised to ask a phisician as to whether any other drug can be safely taken, some are much worse that others. Good luck on your program and I hope you decide to cut the dosage down as quickly and finally graduate off of it. God Bless.

Not true. I was prescribed 8mg Hydromorphone 3x daily as needed 5mg Methadone 3x daily and 5 mg Valuim Diazipam 1x daily at night!! I did not like the Methadone at all!! I mean it did the job pain wise very well, but i didnt like the side affects. i even quit the Hydromorphone and Valium to see if it would matter and it did not it still did great for the pain but made me sick and feel really off. I am now on MS Contin and the hydromrphn and vluim Hope this helps

I was on methadone for almost 10 years at one time was off for almost 5 and am back on. I am getting a triple back fusion next Monday and I fear them giving me the wrong medication as 2 hospitals have done in the past. When I gave birth to my son I was given a drug called "Nubaine" (opiate)that put me in immediate methadone withdrawl while having labor pains 3 minutes apart and they left me like that for 3 hours until they found 80mgs of methadone throughout the entire hospital. They were supposed to be ready for me when I arrived, for I called ahead, and they were not prepared whatsoever. Another situation, went to a hospital for the back injury I spoke of getting fixed earlier and they gave me demeral, once again I was put into immediate withdrawl. After each happened I went back to the clinic on my next dosing day and they actually laughed about how sick I must have got while giving labor from the "nubaine" (my son almost died when being born, he was under complete duress and had speech problems for years, now is fine at 10 years old), this showed how incencitive the clinic was towards my well-being at one of the most beautiful moments of my life and the suffering I went through, they just didnt care, ugh. So far I know they are two and I do know there are 3 more that will definetly put you in withdrawl but the names of them are so hard to pronounce let alone remember but I do believe they were a type of opiate (not many I havent taken from a broken back with herniated discs....tired of pain management, time to get it fixed. I hope my experience helps someone else not go through what I did.....ever and would love for someone to share with me also any other drugs that cause withdrawl. I had been on many benzos, depression, and bi-polar meds when on the clinic and none of them caused withdrawl, something happens with certain other opiates that kicks the methadone out (dilaudid, as mentioned above, was fine when given those on methadone).