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I am just curious about what a methadone overdose does to your body in the long term?
What I mean is that my brother in law took WAY too much methadone and had no pulse and was not breathing and he is now in ICU and I was curious about what shape he is going to be in now
Mumtaz Ali Cheema, dob: 2.3.48 (Ex Lord Mayor Faisalabad Pakistan )
Transplant for HCV cirrhosis + HCC (2 lesions 2.5 cm and 3 cm in the right lobe, and 0.7 cm in the left lobe) 26.8.05
Re-transplant 8.9.05 for hepatic arterial thrombosis, portal vein thrombosis and recurrent hepatitis C in the graft
Trial of anti-viral therapy 2.10.05 P egylated Interferon 180 µg of Pegasys (Pegylated Interferon alpha 2a ) on 2nd October.
T-Tube removed in jan 2006 in China .
In the second week of jan 2006 he had a biopsy in Willington hospital London , which shows that he has a chronic ductopenic rejection due to interferon therapy.
Unfortunately his condition did not improve and he underwent his 3rd transplant on 28th Feb 06 in China .
This time we had to do ROUX.EN Y LOOP anastomosis. And also put a stent inside.
His HCV RNA is negative before and after retransplant uptill today.
CMV infection or any other infection is negative post transplant presently.
He is looking well, taking:
Tacrolimus 0.5mg once a day, 250 mg Cellcept twise a day., and ursoflask.
Before the third operation he got the hernia under the wound so during the opration they put a patch under the abdominal wall.now the patch is removed long ago but hernia is reoccuring.,his liver fuction tests shows normal but only his alkalain phospate and gamma GT were constant on high levels.,pls advise advise me if he take alcohol what are the side effects.,
kind regards
nadeem khan
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I was just reading that you are not supposed to take a diuretic when you are in a methadone program and I wanted to know what happens if you do.Thanks.
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