Can someone PLEASE read this and IF you have experience with it please reply???
I am & have been going to a Methadone Treatment center for 101 days as of today...I was told by a childhood friend of 30 years (we just found one another on facebook, haven't seen him since 2008) that is now clean n sober from Roxy's and others meds, that methadone was going to be WORSE than any white knuckling I tried while addicted to my pain meds! WORSE????...I told him I was informed by the center that they allow YOU, the patient, that WHEN you are ready to start coming down, they will do so at 5mg a week until you reach 30 mg then that is when you are considered to be in what they call "the Detox stage" I will do this until I am at 2mg a day ...My friend says that is BS & he knows from experience other wise! I am & have been at 40 mg since day 35 out of 101 days....I looked into the Suboxone way and going to a doctor that will prescribe it so I don't have to drive EVERYDAY-as of now I have spent $1,500.00 in 101 days including the GAS. So to go down in Mg's and pay the same amount even at 2 mg, still pay $14.00 a day ??? This is WHY I am THINKING about contacting my old "GOOD" doctor not a pill writing doctor & see what is the process since I am on Methadone. I just do not want to live on either one...I see people at the clinic and listen to them talk in line that they have been coming for 20 years??????? OMG!!!
Does ANYONE have any ADVICE for me OTHER than "Go cold turkey advice" I have tried it and I was so sick I tried suicide, doing so also has made my nervous system a complete wreck SO, Yes, I admit it, I am WEAK I need help to get through this and get clean once and for all.
Is going the Suboxone route make any since??? I can not continue Financially to go to my Methadone clinic...I thought it would be for a short while, long enough to get the DRUGS I put in my system to get out, allow me to function with out being so SICK which I do have to say that has been the best thing from going to the Methadone clinic, is the ability to spend time with my family everyday, go to the beach, plan lunch dates with friends, no more chasing pills has been such a relief I feel like a normal human being again. I just know it was another one of life's little (BIG) lessons I had to learn...so for that.... I am thankful...
ANY & ALL ADVICE will be appreciated more than you'll know....thanks for reading and if YOU DO reply Thank you in advance......
Kimberly-In Florida