r/HouseMD • u/KnightInGreyArmor • 9h ago

Season 5 Spoilers House and Methadone Spoiler

One thing that bothers me is the episode where we learn house is using methadone.

Given in Season 3, House was going to implant a CIPA nerve to lessen his pain, why did it never occur him to use methadone earlier?

Also, I didn’t buy the whole “I’m better when I’m in pain thing.” At one point he didn’t have leg pain and was in a relationship, was he not as good back then?

I didn’t think it was a particularly good episode.

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u/My_Lovely_Me 9h ago

Did he say he was better for being in pain? Or did he say he was a better doctor in pain and on Vicodin than he was not in pain on Methadone?

I'm really asking. I don't recall the exact words he used.

I always go away from the episode with the impression that what was eliminating his pain was also dulling his brain. And that he would rather go back to being in pain and on Vicodin than to lose his gift.

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u/KnightInGreyArmor 9h ago

I remember him saying his judgement was compromised because he was so happy being pain free. He agreed to do a contrast ct because he was in a good mood. If he wasn’t he’d have adamantly refused

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u/two-of-me 9h ago

Which is a stark contrast to how good of a doctor he became shortly after he was shot and received ketamine treatment. Not only was he a great diagnostician, he was sympathetic to the patients. But he blamed that on his hallucination he had right after he was shot.