Switching from methadone to suboxone ***NEED ADVICE***

[DaynaDo]

PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!
Need methadone switching to suboxone advice!!
I have been going to a methadone clinic for a little over a year now. I have been on 55mg daily for that long. I took my last 55mg dose of methadone this past Saturday. (3 days ago) I've talked to a few different friends that have walked off the methadone clinic all of them on at least 60mg daily for 9-18months, from everyone of them I have heard nothing but horrifying stories of not being able to sleep, having bad anxiety & depression, and just an overall horrible withdrawal.
    Today I think I'm really starting to feel the early stages of the methadone withdrawal. I have an appointment with a suboxone counselor (@ a local hospital, using medical insurance/ not a clinic) tomorrow morning, although I won’t be able to see the doctor for the actually suboxone prescription until the following week. Therefore, I will at least be at Day 8, ((if Mon Dr. appt.)) possibly even Day 9 or 10, ((depending on how early in the week I get in with the doc)) without taking my normal 55mg methadone dose, or any methadone at all period....NONE! I just completely stopped coming to the clinic without taking the medical advice of the clinic, of doing a slow progressive tamper to come off the methadone, or even doing a rapid 7 days methadone detox.
   Until this morning/today I haven't really had any seriously bad withdrawal symptoms (possible b/c I’m only @ about 65 hours without anything besides smoking a little pot). The passed 2 nights however I haven’t been able to get much sleep at all, even though my body is exhausted, I've only slept a few hours each night (& I’ve always been a gReAt sleeper!! L0L) & haven’t been able to eat much at all either.  After getting out of bed early this morning I started feeling anxious, like I couldn’t sit down, couldn't concentrate or focus long enough to get anything done. When I sit down my heart starts racing, almost feeling like it's going to jump out of my chest. I described it to my husband as "having ants in my pants" and not being able to sit still. I tried doing several different simple task today like straightening up my house, unload/ load my dishwasher, do homework, shower, take a short walk or drive, all different things and every time I attempt to do thing I'm just really shaky, my heart races and the weird way I've been feeling intensifies so much I can't complete anything I start, not even something as simple as vacuuming my floors.
I feel like I am just having a lot of severe anxiety and I don't really understand why. Is this normal for just coming off of methadone after one year?? Is this maybe just the beginning of the methadone withdrawal? What do I have to come, and is there anything I can do to help make this weird feeling go away??
My reason for quitting the methadone clinic is to switch over to suboxone to hopefully soon be free of any type of withdrawal medication. I thought going to the methadone clinic was just what I needed to stop using Oxy's (opiates period) but the addiction to the methadone was 100X's worse! I’m now hoping that suboxone will be my answer because I HATE living with the addiction, and the withdrawal of having to go without.

Has anyone been through a similar situation?? If so, can someone PLEASE give me some advice on what I should do about quitting the methadone and starting on suboxone, or anything I can do to help the methadone withdrawal??
*** I'm worried about how soon I should begin taking the suboxone after taking methadone. I've heard taking them while you have the other still in your system can cause you to feel worse and bring on withdrawal. Anyone know how many days after taking methadone would be safe to take suboxone?

Thanks a lot!!

[GreenButterfly906]

wtf, that makes no sense, he justs wants your $$$$ with every visit! INSANE

[GreenButterfly906]

can remain in fatty tissue for 7 years! This all is good but sounds like an ad for narconon, lol!, sorry! been there done every trick in the book, surspisingly most people say subs are easier, on here it is meth, METH IS A LIVING HELL I I could never get off of if it is 99.9% impossible to kick, what makes some so special!

[GreenButterfly906]

i have never heard of that, lol! Depending whether on subs, which like i said never seen, or methadone being on a ridiculous dose, which one doesn't need to slip away from life perhaps or mixing will other pills, Methadone would make me nod all day long, almost burned house on fire! Yet methadone is NOT the same as it was 10 years ago, and i have talked to hundreds of people throughout the years that would describe the exact same thing! I kind of like it the way it was, besides nodding, i had energy, now i feel like **** despite methadone everyday, so if you dont enjox subs, go back on the meth, no big deal!

[GreenButterfly906]

NOPE was clean from methadone for two bloody years as her post said had to go back, now i am switching to subs as well, currently on half, so 30 mgs then have to me off meth completely for 48 hours to switch! I assume 24 hours since last dose or i will really be an unhappy camper, also I am on codeine for pain so that was my issue with subs, now he and pharmacy said i could take both! Thought it would put me in withdrawal. Confused! SUBOXONE IS VERY NEW AND VERY $$$$$$$ in Canada, we don't get month scrpicts for either also! Which *****! Clonidine and any Benzo, 3 times a day plus plenty of vitamins and minerals, making you wait a week is freakin torture!

[jumangi]

Thank You Henry! I went to this site to get some hope, however I couldn't see any, everybody saying the same thing that both drugs are Hell to get off of. I m going to be taking my last dose of 31 mg of methadone and in three days I m planning to go on suboxine to finish my detox. Thank You for giving me some hope, I was pretty scared about the whole process  

[gbaby987]

what you said was that a joke? ive been on both subutex or methedone for 10yrs on and off. subutex is the best without a doubt. methedone makes you sweaty, anxious, rotton toothed, over weight, lazy, and as you said it "zombiefied", you may aswell stay using opiates if your on methedone, infact people who take methedone usually do use aswell (clinics normally give methedone to the end of the road junkies). i know each person is different but methedone *****. its so difficult to cut down on, where as subutex is just a nice and easy flow, you dont even know your going down. subutex gives you a zest for life again, metedone just masks it! im currently on 20 mls of meth and i wish to god i wasnt i hate the way it gives you a false sense of security one minute and then withdrawls the next. im hassling my key worker as much as i can about swapping over to subutex and compared to how meths making me, a small withdrawl to feel alive again is a price to pay...sos if i went a bit over the top (im de toxing and i remember it being less difficult with subbies)....thing is also subutex are dearer and in the uk we have the nhs so they like to dish out meth more x