Wow, all these post are really good. It's amazing how long suffering we can be, and we thought kicking Heroin was tough! Someone posted that when your playing with Methadone your in the Big leagues and that couldn't be said any better. Methadone is the last ditch effort for any opiate addict, and for me, the most intoxicating when mixed with benzo's and other meds. I've kicked Methadone and Benzo's together many times and usually it's forced by incarceration. I am currently 40 days clean and it's 3am and I just woke up after an hour of sleep with goosebumps running up my back and neck, gotta love it, gotta respect it. I was taking 120mgs a day for the past two years and of course Xanax and clonazepam daily. I couldn't Do it anymore, so when I got my months script I downed the whole bottle-3600mgs. I was found 12 hours later still alive, rushed to ER, where I woke straight up when my unconscious mind heard "give him 6.5 of Narcan" Fell back out woke 24hours later on a Narcan drip that lasted 5 days. When I was taken off the drip I fell back out- 5 days later, That's Methadone. I didn't Even start Detoxing until day 8 and the real deal kicked in around day 10. For me detox is a roller coaster. Feeling good one minute than super bad the next. At day ten I was shaking and quivering so much my eyebrows were even trembling. Reality is, nothing but an opiate is going to take away the pain. Valium, ativan, clonadine, zefra(stomach) seem to help the detox suck just a little less. It is what it is and for me I noticed in the past that weening down from Methadone doesn't help that much. That's just for me. I can usually track my symptoms by the amount of sneezing that I do. My sneezing peeks at 7 in a row than starts to lesson as the days and weeks go by. When I get to 3 in a row I know i'm on the down slope. Stomach cramps go away after a week or so, but the cramps in legs and back and chills stay for a good 30- 50 days.
If I were to give advice to someone planning to detox from Methadone that doesn't know what to expect I would say take a good 30 days off of life. Plan this out because it's gonna be tough. If your on 20mgs or 120mgs, it's gonna be rough. Go to a doctor and be honest or get your A** in a treatment center.
Suboxone and methadone dont mix well. The risk of going into precip. WD's is way to high. I took suboxone 10 days after my last dose 5 years ago and went into unbelievable withdrawl within 15 minutes. I thought I was sick enough to take it, but boy was I wrong. If you take sub's to quick you will know within 10-20 minutes and theres no coming back from that one for atleast 15-24 hours-probably more than that. so be warned.
This is all personal experience not something I read. So if your reading this you know someone that is going through this or your doing the thing and it does get better, than worse, than better, than worse, than better! So Hang in there guys. The real test is when were done the detox, right? We can forget the pain so easily.
I was addicted to oxycondone for years. I went through a 5 year period constantly taking drugs or going to the methadone clinic. I finally got clean and beat my mental addiction. About 3 years ago I had a set twins via C-section. Two months after that I started devolping cyst on my ovaries and the after two months of dealing with that my Doctor put me on percocet. I took it for 7 months while dealing with cysts forming going away and coming again. I had developed a physical dependence so I went back to the clinic. I was on 50mg Daily and when i detoxed I went down between 2 and 3mg a week. It took a lttle over 4 months to get down to 1mg. And the first week was very hard with withdrawl. I was blessed to be sleeping at least 4 hours a night. But had no energy and had 4 kids to take care of. Let me tell you I have no mental addiction so going through this yes i felt bad but I thanked God everyday to allow me to breath and for giving me the strength to do this. It has been 31 days since I took my last dose. Dont give up. With time everything thing gets better. I am not 100 percent but I am getting there and still attending celebrate recovery as I have for the last three years. Those of you who that struggle with the depression and wanting to just make the withdrawl go away it helps to have you mental addiction erradicated before you detox.
I have been on methadone for eight month was on 180 and quit cold turkey fourteen days ago how much longer with withdraws some one plz help
I had got to half a pill (5mg) a day and thought What the Hell how bad could could it be to totally quit? Well its been 7 weeks and at least I can sleep about every other day about 4 hrs which of course is no fun,but I won't take any pharma for it.
You mentioned this may continue for a year or two? Gasp! Well nothing worth having is easy.
what......no clinics start anyone at 180 per day. If you have no idea what you are talking about then please don't send a bunch of bs.
I loved your comment about womaning up & just doing it. I'm about to go to jail maybe) and stressing B I G T I M E about just stopping my 12mgs a day cold turkey. I have to say however that if you aimed to inspire, mission accomplished! Thank you