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Detoxing off methadone
Hi new here have been reading alot over the last few days....I've been on methadone treatment for about two years, was on 70mg most of it started tapering over the last 6 months, took my last 10mg 5 days ago and feeling really bad!!!! Havnt slept or ate much, chills ect....any tips im desperate...thought about doing the subox but then would be back here at some point...anything that will help me sleep??? HELP!!!
HEY congraats on day 12 but now you see what a monster this stuff is getting off but you can do ity it just takes some perseverance once your threw the first month the wirst is over then its just a waiting game till you start to feel like yourselff again.....I never detoxed off a drug that took longer to leve your system it was around 90 days that I started to feel better the medhelp house record is 60 days done bu a chick with the nic nicolblue sghe did it in 60 days and jumped from 120 it was an amasing recovery not to say she dident go threw hell bet she made it out quick all in all just be pacent this battle is one by baby steps every day is a victory good luck and God bless......Gnarly
day 12...feeling a little better well best day so far hope each day gets better...got out of the house went shopping,came back put up grocerys ate some fruit for lunch. Had to push myself but feeling ok guess exercise is exercise whether its walking around walmart or around the block....just wanted to let you know im still going and at this moment im doing ok....post more later!!!! to Jewlz-hope youre having a great vacation drink a margarita for me!!!!
good morning all....well cut back on the melatonin and tossed and turned all nite think ill stick with what I was taking but from what ive heard sleep is on and off for a while so it might have absolutely nothing to do with the sleep aids just going to take it as it comes...feeling jittery this morning when I get up my heart starts pounding and sometimes my face feels sorta like its "sunburnt"?? Could this be my blood pressure, seems to get better as the day goes on..never been much of a morning person anyway:) So day 11 been a very long time since I had 11 days free of anything,im proud!! Well going to try and start a exercise plan today try to build some strength back up im still so weak at times but everyday gets a little better...post more later thanks everyone!!!
Congrats on your clean time! I'm 138 days off methadone. YOU really are doing great- this is not easy and a positive mental attitude and the support of a great boyfriend are good things to have and sounds like you have both. "Fake it till you make it" is exactly what you need to keep doing. You WILL make it !!!! Sleep is overrated anyway. I still only sleep 3-4 hours at a time but I'm more used to it now and it seems to be enough. Be gentle with yourself-don't push too hard-but definitely take advantage of the times you feel like you have energy. You are doing a great thing for your body, mind and family. Posting really helps! PEACE..TEENA
ok so thought id try to end the day on a better note....took the advice put on some music danced around with the little one, did some abs ,folded clothes and wiped counters some thinking of vacuming...feeling a little better..my man will be home soon going to try and talk to him and tommorow start fresh and try to at least "fake it till I make it"....have to say im still very glad i chose to stop the methadone looking forward to a better life with my family I know its all up to me and that I never want to go thru this again...again thanks for all the support and encouragement....on another not how much melatonin should I be taking I have 10mg tablets but they are time released, ive been taking 3...im sleeping but feel very tired the first(most) of the day wondering if some is due to the melatonin bc toward the end of the day I feel better???? scared to not take it and be up all nite...going to start to reduce let you know ...good nite all and god bless!!!
I know nothing about methadone personally but it's posts like yours that make me know I won't go there (even for pain management and they're trying to tell me it's different when it's pain management ... hah!)
Vicki posted about something called Alteril for sleep. It's all natural and non-addictive. It has a lot of the same things in it that Jewlz mentioned. It's not expensive. It took me a while to find it at a pharmacy but I tried it last night and it really helped.
Keep up your good fight ... I can't imagine how hard methadone is. You have great support here!
Vicki posted about something called Alteril for sleep. It's all natural and non-addictive. It has a lot of the same things in it that Jewlz mentioned. It's not expensive. It took me a while to find it at a pharmacy but I tried it last night and it really helped.
Keep up your good fight ... I can't imagine how hard methadone is. You have great support here!
thanks think when he gets back ill suggest we take our daughter and go do something fun together tommorow...hes been soo great I feel im letting him down...as far as exercise goes ive done some not much some situps its been hot (thats an understatement) so not so much outside going to try to start some type of "plan" tommorow maybe start a 10-20 min walk and just increase...we did get out for a bit today went to eat..havnt put any makeup on or did my hair since i started all this maybe make myself get up in the morning and "get ready" maybe will help me feel more attractive because I feel I look like death...my oldest is 7 shes been at her grandparents didnt want her to see me like this she starts school in a couple weeks and the thought of having to enroll her shopping ect. just overwhelms me right now..missing her want to be a good mother want them to be proud..I know I can do this just venting here seems to be helping..finding it hard to talk to bf about what im feeling how im doing when he asks i usually just say ok wish that was true, did tell him I wanted to get high so bad yesterday that I just rocked in place for a while but I didnt get high and although a small victory, a victory none the less...thanks for reading and repling to my ramblings feel like a lune at times...thanks again!!!
It's totally normal not to wanna be around people right now that you dont know, I was the same way, and I knew the people! You jst want to feel better with yourself before you entertain others, and that's perfectly normal! It will pass in time. You have to kinda relearn how to do alot, but in time, it all will :) I am about to go on my 1st vacation tomorrow with other peopl, this is my 1st adult vacay sober!! So I am excited/nervous, but mostly excited cause it is HOT! I need some wate rto splash around in! lol
IH hey your doing well it was all I could do ust to get off the couch at 10 days try a little light exorsize like a walk around the block it does help you can build up your walks from there but if you move around it dosent seam to bother you as much .....this is a traumatic experience your putting your brain and body threw you dont come snaping back like on pills methadone is in a league by itself you just gto to take the good with the bad and it can take a wile to get to the good....remember attitude is everything my wife use to force me to walk and run errands with her so I would get out of the house im so sorry you passed on the fishing it would have doney you good to get out in the fresh air and a balll cap is all you need to cover a bad hair day try your best to run your life as noramal as possible just dont sit around and wait to get better you may be waiting a long time you need to function as best you can fake it till you make it cheer up your are better then day 2 keep posting for support I know just how lousy this stuff is coming off in a word it su cks
hang in there it will get better good luck and God bless.....Gnarly
hang in there it will get better good luck and God bless.....Gnarly
ok made it through day 10....trying to stay positive but really want to feel like me again,whoever that is??? My bf left to go fishing a bit ago with a good friend and his girlfriend I told him I didnt want to go I could tell he was disappointed keeps asking if Im mad...I am mad just not at him..I just dont want to meet anyone new right now..I feel like **** I look like **** and not the impression Id like to leave...im sorry for sounding so bitter would like to tell the ones on day one that 10 days in you feel ok but not there yet...but got another day under me and hoping tommorow is better...
good morning hope youre having better days as well...I slept better I woke up a few times but went backto sleep...day 10 and counting hoping by two wk mark maybe at least the withdrawl will be almost gone....but i'll just take it as it comes....just got up a bit out of it will post more later...thanks so much!!!!!
HI good to see you stil moving right along......this can take a wile the first month I felt dope sick the second month I sorta layed in libo not getting better or worst it was around 90 days that I came out from under its spell keep in mind I broke a 16 1/2 yr addiction 6 1/2 spent on methadone so my recovery was expected to be ruff but I find this to be true for many of the methadonians I worl with try not to get discouraged you do get better slowly its like you would just like to speed up the hands of time and get it over with you have proveved you got what it takes now time will be your friend each day is a victory .....Julie is coming off better and faster then anyone I have seen so will see the medhelp record is 60 days since I have been keeping track see if you can beet it good luck hang in ther keep posting and God bless......Gnarly
well 9 days today...still feel pretty crappy but still going...still having moderate withdrawl and not sleeping well is starting to wear me down..I sleep a couple hours then toss and turn all nite...to gnarly you have been in my thoughts and I hope things smooth out for you..trying to stay positive but honestly having a rough time hope tommorow is better..
Well Kudos to you!! You are still so young! I have been struggling with Methadone for about 10 years now, I am 30 yrs old, and took the last year to taper from 15mg all the way to 2 mg and I jumped! I am 22 days clean today & over my last 10 years, this detox was NOTHING like I have gone thru cold turkeying off of 100 mg or even 20mg. The way you taper, along with your attitude & want to wanna change I believe, plays a huge part in recovery. You are lucky to get out, it is tough, but just remember how great it is to not depend on anything! I have heard that meetings/aftercare helps out alot with dealing with cravings, you should look them up in your area!
hi.im new to this site. a bit on myself. when i was 13 years old, never having used any sort of drugs before, i guess i jumped right into the deep end pretty quick,started off sniffing 30mg hydromorphs.started doing so daily from that moment forth.moved cities a year later,and could not get hydromorphs but was very able to get oxycontins,40mg oxycontin pills to be exact.started sniffing those everyday from 3-5 40mg pills a day.of course. as any drug addict knows,eventually what use to give you your fix,get you off, whatever,doesnt work forever, so your tolerance builds.by the time i was 16-17 years old, i was using 7-10 80mg pills per day.
days with the pills were great. was able to function,days without pills,well im sure as most of you know,if there was a rope handy, you would have found a way to hang yourself. atleast thats what i wanted to do to myself EVERY single time i went into withdrawl.
a few weeks before my 20th birthday, i moved back to the city where i originally started using.continued using for a few months.money being low, i was desperate to try anything just to stay from withdrawl. thats when i started the methadone treatment.started at 15mg,went up to 20, then 25, then finally up to 40mg of methadone.now,40mg of methadone is hardly anything compared to people that are in and around the 100mg mark but anyways i stopped at 40mgs.stayed at 40mgs for a year and a half.me living in toronto and my girlfriend in DC.i was about to be moving there and i knew they dont have free health care there and it would cost an arm and a leg to get treatment there.so 5 weeks i went from 40mg of methadone down to 7mg.i can tell you,being on such a low dose such as 40mg, I PERSONALLY never had an issue dropping 5-7mg a week.did not affect me till i got down to about 15mg,had a bit of sweats and restlessness but had to keep reminding myself that its either putting up with that is NOTHING compared to the full withdrawl i have experienced!
finally down to 7mg of methadone. i asked my doctor if he could send me with a weeks carries just to help fight the withdrawl once i am off the program. and he did. sent me with 6 carries at 10mgs each.
i made those last me 3 weeks.
by the time i was done, i had lowered myself down to about 0.5mgs a day.
and yes the first couple weeks coming off the methadone was a little rough, but it was tolerable.nothing like full out withdrawl!
now i got off methadone 3 months ago.i cant lie, i may be fixed physically but mentally, i still have the cravings,maybe not as much and not as strong,but the cravings are still there. so right now, i am trying my best to stay sober, cause i would rather die then have to go through another day of withdrawl, or hunting the city looking for drugs or whatever.so basically, im here to say, methadone does what its suppose to do, it will help you beat that monkey on your back, but at the end of the day it really all comes down to how bad you really want to kick the addiction.
im taking it not even day by day but minute by minute.
im really just proud that i can say i beat my addiction and was hoping maybe my story might help someone else somehow.
and i may be young, im turning 22 next month, was addicted to pain killers for 7 years, but i know the struggle,pain happiness and heartache of just like any other drug addict.
i hope my story helps atleast someone.may god bless you all in your journey and may he find you to the path of recovery!
days with the pills were great. was able to function,days without pills,well im sure as most of you know,if there was a rope handy, you would have found a way to hang yourself. atleast thats what i wanted to do to myself EVERY single time i went into withdrawl.
a few weeks before my 20th birthday, i moved back to the city where i originally started using.continued using for a few months.money being low, i was desperate to try anything just to stay from withdrawl. thats when i started the methadone treatment.started at 15mg,went up to 20, then 25, then finally up to 40mg of methadone.now,40mg of methadone is hardly anything compared to people that are in and around the 100mg mark but anyways i stopped at 40mgs.stayed at 40mgs for a year and a half.me living in toronto and my girlfriend in DC.i was about to be moving there and i knew they dont have free health care there and it would cost an arm and a leg to get treatment there.so 5 weeks i went from 40mg of methadone down to 7mg.i can tell you,being on such a low dose such as 40mg, I PERSONALLY never had an issue dropping 5-7mg a week.did not affect me till i got down to about 15mg,had a bit of sweats and restlessness but had to keep reminding myself that its either putting up with that is NOTHING compared to the full withdrawl i have experienced!
finally down to 7mg of methadone. i asked my doctor if he could send me with a weeks carries just to help fight the withdrawl once i am off the program. and he did. sent me with 6 carries at 10mgs each.
i made those last me 3 weeks.
by the time i was done, i had lowered myself down to about 0.5mgs a day.
and yes the first couple weeks coming off the methadone was a little rough, but it was tolerable.nothing like full out withdrawl!
now i got off methadone 3 months ago.i cant lie, i may be fixed physically but mentally, i still have the cravings,maybe not as much and not as strong,but the cravings are still there. so right now, i am trying my best to stay sober, cause i would rather die then have to go through another day of withdrawl, or hunting the city looking for drugs or whatever.so basically, im here to say, methadone does what its suppose to do, it will help you beat that monkey on your back, but at the end of the day it really all comes down to how bad you really want to kick the addiction.
im taking it not even day by day but minute by minute.
im really just proud that i can say i beat my addiction and was hoping maybe my story might help someone else somehow.
and i may be young, im turning 22 next month, was addicted to pain killers for 7 years, but i know the struggle,pain happiness and heartache of just like any other drug addict.
i hope my story helps atleast someone.may god bless you all in your journey and may he find you to the path of recovery!
And that's how it goes! It gets better & better!! I too feel better after my shower & once I get going. You will have days with some better than others, but you remember just how far you've come & like you said you already did, it will make you smile & be SO darn proud of yourself....and rightfully so! It feels great to be clean doesnt it?!?! To not have to wake up & slave your life away to a freakin substance?!?!? Your kicking Methadones a$$ & there's not a darn thing it/he/she can do about it ;) haha! You go girl!!
Hello guys well the day started out bumpy but made myself get a shower, cleaned the house a bit and got in my car and drove actually felt good for a moment even a real smile....jammed out even sang along with my little one I felt good for the first time....
feelings are definately coming back some good some bad but nice to feel something...feels good to know im clean and that life is waiting...thanks for the support guys!!!!
feelings are definately coming back some good some bad but nice to feel something...feels good to know im clean and that life is waiting...thanks for the support guys!!!!
That's good you got some sleep! Definitley makes a difference on how you feel, make sure you are feeding your body your nutrients/supplements, they will help. SO glad things are looking up for you!! I've heard of the "foggy" head, but I never really felt that. My detox taper was super slow & I began my supplements about a week before I jumped, so my withdrawls were minimal. As for anxiety, L-Theanine is a good supplement, and L-Tyrosine helps support healthy glandular function, also valerian root & passion flower may help you relax. The energy takes a while, B12 & a B vitamin complex should help!
morning all...slept some but very jittery still,energy what energy...but dont feel as bad as I have so at least im closer to being back to normal..is there anything you can do for the anxiety??/feels like someone is sitting on my chest at times and my ears start to "clog" like when you are on a plane and im not in a high elevation area what is that about???
how goes it today ///??? are you sleeping yet....? that took me 2 mo to get down hows youe energy?? will check back in the morning hope you have a restful night.......Gnarly
ONE WHOLE WEEK!!! Awesome!! That is simply proof that you CAN take this all the way & you will, you deserve it!!! Today is my 3 week mark!! Me?!?! I never would have thought!! We can do SO much more than we give ourselves credit for, staying positive is a big part & you seem to be doing a great job at it!! This site definitley helps play a part in our recovery, it reminds us that we can be fixed & we are not alone in this. Keep up the great work!! Julie
when i detoxed i found i was able to eat fruit, lots of fruit...watermelon, honey dew melon, blueberries raspberries etc...i found it helped with detox as they all have natural fiber and other goodies to help clean out the system...on top of that i tried all the other stuff suggested, sleep is a pain, but it will come eventually.
HI THIS addy will help you find a local metting and it is the best thing you can do right now it will really help you heres the addy........Gnarly
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thanks so much for all the support guys really means alot!!!! well i made another day still feeling very jittery, TIRED but have to say little better than a few days ago..felt hungry for the first time in a week, thats a good sign. went out on the boat for a few hours today saw a snake and moved faster than I've moved in a very long time:)...So glad I found all of you and this site feels like im not alone in all this. So 7 days free of methadone thank you lord!!! Thinking of finding a meeting...im new to the area is there a number or website of listings????
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