Does it Get Better....

[skippysizemore]

after day five what do i have in store for me? I don't feel too awful just no energy. and i am so angry...why am I so angry? I think....it is I feel like I have lost a best friend (my addiction) I mean the same time every morning there it was.....now it's gone. gone forever. I will never put that stuff to my lips again ever..... and i dare n e one to ask me where they can score anything I swear I won't be nice about it.........

[spacecadette]

it really is...it's the hardest drug on the market to withdraw from...tapering is definately the better way to go and even than most people are tapered one to 5 mgs every two weeks...i've never withdrawn from anything else..but i know that methadone withdrawl put me in a hospital twice... granted i went cold turkey from 30ms a day for almost 2 months to zero....but skippy has been on it for 4 years....that is a lot of storing her body has done...and she too is going cold turkey...that is what's frightening to me...i almost want to send her some clonidine in the mail myself...sigh...anyway...i'm just sitting here shaking my head...i truly empathize with her and anyone else who went cold turkey off methadone....she's a trooper....and i admire her....

[Chi_Chi_Lover]

Yes you will have a really tough time and that is the peaking of WD's. You are angry for me I just cried and couldn't stop and hurt all over for about 2 days it was almost unbearable. Then it gradually gets a little better each day after. It's different for everyone.

[jim811]

wow...that meth is some serious junk...wonder why the cure is so much worse than the ill, i.e. h, opiates, etc.  My doc said he would give me meth if i wanted and said no way...bad image in my mind...

[spacecadette]

it means that you are still in the very very early stages of withdrawl and they will get worse and worse till about day 7.  At day 7 is when you will experience the worst withdrawls all the way through day 14.  than...it VERY SLOWLY started to decrease..with methadone withdrawl it isn't like you wake up one day and are like.ok...i feel better...it's week by week..not day by day like with other opiates (percocet, vicoden, or even heroin.) by the beginning of week 3 is when i was actually able to even lift my arms to tie my hair...until that point my fiance had to help me walk to the bathroom.., i couldn't even muster the strength to pick up my baby daughter...it hurt so much to even uncross my legs.....BUT...it is possible.....i was back to myself in 3 months total.  I'm sorry i'm not sugar coating...but it seems like you are receiving a lot of false hope....it won't be easy...but its very possible......keep posting girl...you'll get there...

[worried878]

And hats off to you!  i have been keeping up with your posts...you wd from a very hard drug and you have stuck with it...i followed along with your posts and I am very impressed.....I didnt know if u would make it this far...so cool that u did....keep posting

[worried878]

Peak means like the worst point....everyone is different tho...I felt better each day during my WD and it lasted about 5 days...each drug is different as well   Mine was hydrocodone....and I think off and on for a while I will have a bad day still and it is over 2 weeks clean...but you know i have always had a bad day here and there even before the pills...I think that is just life!

[jim811]

Hi...cool nic :-)  Cartoon?  

I had the anger during my wd...probaly gave me strength to push through...34 days clean off percs/fentynl patches...I'm usually pretty mellow.

Fatigue is there but I found if you push yourself to do things, the engery is there...

I agree with the others though on the time thing...i was doing for 4 years; proably take me at least 4-6 months to be totally normal...if there is such a thing :-)

Nick

[skippysizemore]

what does that mean?

[Chi_Chi_Lover]

It takes months to get back to a normal place you have to give it time. I know that doesn't make you feel better it's just the truth. The energy will be one of the last things to come back along with sleep. Just hang in there it's tough but you will be stronger for it,

[mintz]

I have never taken methadone so I do not know BUT what I can tell you that has helped me was I went for a brisk walk this morning and working out with weights help tremendously.  

[spacecadette]

Your withdrawls won't peak until day 7-11.  You have taken it for 4 years so it takes a lot longer for the withdrawls to kick in.  it is stored in your muscle and bone mass.  And remember the half life of methadone...I don't understand how people say it lasts 7 days to withdraw......PLEASE DO THE RESEARCH! 4 years on methadone, 7 days to withdraw? If that happens than tomorrow all the snow outside my house will melt and it will be 80 and sunny.  Each day is a step closer for you...but you have a way to go sweetie....it will take at least 3 weeks...I felt ok until about day 7 and than it was tough.  Clonodine helps for the blood pressure....highly recommend it! keep posting

[beebumble]

My day 5 also.  Just remember what it did to you.  What it caused you to do, say, not do, not say.  You can never get time back with friends and family.  All you have is today and the future.  Make it count.  Stay clean.  You will crave, I do, and sure I will for awhile, but I keep remembering my daughters face and she deserves a clean focused mother.  My parents deserve a clean focused daughter.  But most of all I deserve a clean focused me...And so do you.  You deserve a clean focused you.  Stay strong.  Just writing it, makes it better, helps.  Work out, stay busy, do all you can do to stay clean.  Be strong.

[skippysizemore]

that stuff is evil and ruins lives everyday. it had me for 4 long years and i stayed broke all of the time. i am due a spa day and shopping day real soon

[allaboutmary]

Energy comes back very slowly. You must be very patient it will come back,but it's very gradual. I never really had the anger thing. I was more depressed than angry.  Now is the real hard part though. You start to forget what you just went through and start craving.  Don't let it trick you back into using.  Stay strong.