hello im from Portugal, Lisbon i take 120mg i apreciatte your video , is important it helps, now i need to go work to Angola and as a head chef and i dont go, good by oppotunity of job, i m gonna trie take 5 every weeks , tankyou once more for video
I take about 30- 60 mg a day, max i take is 90,been on oxycodone for 5 years keeping it at 30mg a slight high by only taken it once daily. some times ill take it twice but i try not to. it started with perc fives and vikes, now i take 8 vikes to get high and the high sucks. i only take pink 10 mg x 3 or 4 , up to three green = 15 mg or 1 and a half blues or two which are thirty mg each. the yellow percs known as bananas, i need four at one time to get high or 3 for a slight buzz, any hope 4 mee
methadone is worse than brown it fucks you up way more long term and does more harm to your body just quit cold turkey because once you start taking methadone your life is over and your a lifer METHADON'T!
IM on 50 mg, i was 120 mg and then i flipped one day and stopped after a week i was dying, and my clinic didnt wanted me to take methadone, they said i abandoned the threatment witch i did, but seeing a guy like me suffering, they didnt give me anything for days, then i started with 20 mg witch was like heroin at that point... i really didnt imagined that methadone was like that, worse then heroin... stupidest thing i ever done, but im tired i want out of drugs, really want out
Do I have protracted withdrawal syndrome? I feel like shit and want to die every day, sweating, bones hurt, thinking crazy shit, and I have to take care of a 2 year old....I don''t know if I can make it really. Do yourself a favor and get off whatever you are on NOW before it's too late...
Well, I'm fucked. I'm 31, been on and off opiates since 13 when I started stealing meds from anyone I could. I took the hydro and oxy for years, eventually shot dope on and off for a few years, was on 120 mg of methadone for almost a year, have an issue with benzo's as well, now I'm on Suboxone and I'm about to just fucking kill myself because I am SO FUCKING TIRED OF FEELING LIKE SHIT ALL THE TIME! I can barely MOVE right now and all I did was take benzos for maybe 3 days...withdrawals already?
Rick, more videos/advice please! I was addicted to heroin until I was 19. Now I'm on methadone. Was on 160mg/day for 8 years & have been slowly tapering for the past three years. hoping that if I go slower, the post-acute withdrawal/readjustment period you speak of won't be as severe. Am I being realistic? What do you think I should prepare for? I'm down to 40mg now. Also, I completely agree with the views you alluded to about the clinic system being (badly) broken. Thank you for providing hope!
5 mg a day is actually much faster than what I have heard is a comfortable detox rate... 5 per week and even 1 per week when you are coming to the end are the detox rates I have been told to use to avoid withdrawal. I did 1 mg per day to go from 180 to 100mg ... then had to freeze it. I now am trying to get from 100 to 0 and am very concerned about being able to make it.
@emilshere I'm on 40mg now. Was on 160mg for 11 years (got on it as a pregnant 19 year old). At first, I went down 5-10mg a week. When I hit 70mg, I stopped for a few months. Now I'm doing the 2mg a week thing. Feel free to message me anytime. I'm concerned about making it through this, too. Don't mean to use a cliche here but knowing there are others struggling to become free really does help. Best wishes!
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@natas666971 I'm in a similar situation. I've been on methadone for 11 yrs & have Addison's instead of lupus. I've done two 3-day inpatient detoxes back in the first few years I was on, but... yeah. How to stay off has proved elusive. I wish I had advice for you. Sent you a friend request. Maybe we could support each other through this & find some answers? Feel free to message me anytime. May peace be with you!
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i was on methadone for 4 years straight,,, i was clean.... butt when i came down to a low dose the withdrawl was worse then oxys it was brutal... now im back on the methadone and feel like ill be on it for life
@UnderTaker1279 If it is completely effective at controlling pain for you, and the side effects are manageable, just stay on it I reckon bro. It's when the side effects etc become worse than the pain itself that you might want to think about getting off it. Maybe try getting onto endone or something instead.
PART 2:With these relapses,i have got back onto methadone only for 2 to 3 month stints max and i reduce straight away.I have jumped off doses of 20mg,15mg's and my last one was 13mg's,i see know difference weening down to 1mg(but everyones different) With each relapse i've learnt why i use and as they say you don't always succeed on your first kick.Keeping busy,having interests is the key as well as eating healthy with exercise(push yourself).So look to the future and try to be a better person
afriend of mine was on methadone , he tried to lower the dosage and ended up back on the brown , injecting , it turned my stomach , its unclean and disgusting
PART 1:I was on drugs 22yrs + and 15yrs of that was on methadone.My first jump off meth after 15yrs was when i got down to 40mg's.I was on 120mg's,buying and shooting up extra 200mg's meth+ big amounts of benzos.I was determined to get off this crap,i smoked pot,had a few beers and had valium when anxiety heightened.I also had an interest in gaming and online chat which helped.I eventually moved interstate 6mnths later for the better.I was 2yrs clean before i relapsed back onto heroin 10 times..
I'v been on it since 2000 i'm on 110mls my partner has got down to 23mls i can't it's awful. But i don't think it's something that should be rushed that stuff saved my life i haven't touched heroin for 3 years.
instead of pland parent hood get rid of this shit if we had pland parent hood most of these stuck up useless M-F-ers wouldent be on the goverments pay role anywaysss.
I just got on methadone 2 months ago, 55 mg's. I want to get off now . I wanted to take to so I could get use to not feeling that rush everyday. Needed some opiate. But Im really, I have to admit getting scared that i'm for more than I bargained for. Someone please tell me that 55 mg's is easy to get off. Lol or something, any advise? thanks
PLEASE GET OFF NOW BEFORE ITS TOO LATE!! I was on it 8 years,the longer your on it the worse it will be for you,and it really doesnt matter what MG'S your on get off now. I been off it 1 year this month,but still sustituting just to frigging do dishes.
@Slickychick420 You really got me scarred now damn :O That sounds brutal. I just dont want to go back to my opiate addiction. Thx for the help, if theres anything else you can tell me please do, but you already made it very clear. respect.
tempstress,You need to calm down,and not be scared,I can tell you detailsof my 1st 2 weeks off of methadone. IT WAS PURE HELL,and NO morbid pills,and methadone W/D's are2 TOTALLY different W/D,symtoms.
Tempstress email me @ pagarne8@aol.com as I have a hard timeposting on you tube,andI was thinking,maby we can help each other?? SERIOUSLY!!!I am still battleing, but my opiate tolerance level is so low now.my nameis Pam,and after you email me,join my FB page K?see u soon
@temptstress666 hey, its definately possible, that was the dose i was one for a few years but i abused this shit outta em. i was doin bout 50 -60 mgs a day illegally so it broke my wallet as well. but today i got down to bout 7 mgs a day and planning to lower it to probably nothing.. but i already feel the happiness of bein sober again. which is awesome, cus when u get down to a low dose like that ur not getting "high" anymore your just feeling"normal"again ya know.butyaucandoit
my boyfriend of 11 years was on 180 mg a day he was detoxing and he killed himself i myself was on it i stoped cold turkey i was on 165mg a day i was sick as hell for weeks but i got over it i was great when i was trying to get off the pills but they dont tell u u get just as sick on the done........
I'm on methadone, plus they give me concerta which i abuse, its like speed, i get a weeks worth and i take them all with in 2 or 3 days, then i jones like crazy all week, feeling irritable as hell. i wonder if its the methadone or the concerta making me feel like this. i went up on my dose but i still feel like shit.
Methadone is a great drug. I was dependant on it for years, it helped me stop my herion use. I detoxed over a 18month period and it was not uncomfortable. I use it occasionally now for pain but i am not dependant on methadone or any opiates.
I've been a Registered Mental Health Nurse for 20 years and worked extensively in addictions. I have listen to many a lecture and read many books on this subject over the years but no one has described these issues better than you have. The pharmceutical industry makes millions from methadone maintenance programs which are promoted in the health service. I agreed with everything you said and i think you are an inspiration for anyone wishing to overcome their addiction to methadone.
Alas, my friend has been addicted to methadone for many decades, as have others I know [England,where the heroin was very strong, and pure/private prescription] but no matter how HIDEOUS opiate/opioid withdrawal is, it is not fatal. That is a myth. alcohol 'drawals and Barb 'drawals CAN be fatal.
Pharmaceutical corporations originally marketed diacetylmorphine (heroin) as a cure-all for morphine/opium addiction in the early 1900's. Duh. Same thing with methadone. What happened to to methadone patients in New Orleans in the wake of Katrina? They died.
Pharmaceutical corporations originally marketed diacetylmorphine (heroin) as a cure-all for morphine/opium addiction in thge early 1900's. Duh. Same thing with methadone. What happened to to methadone patients in New Orleans in the wake of Katrina? They died.
I was on 80 ML and i tempered down to 2 real slow ,take me like a year to go down from 80 to 2 ...i have 2 weeks clean and was so easy to quit , i was on meth for 5 year and was a live saver for me, i was afraid to quit because i was reading a lot of negative people, but i said, that it for me .....thank to God the Help me to..
Hey Rick, My name is Matt and I am currently trying to get off of methadone after being at a clinic on maitinence for just about going on two years now and I must say I am scared to death. I recently had my dose lowered from 149 to 70 (Dr was a jerk ) and I am sufering greatly right now. This video was good to watch and when it was over i was looking for the next one in the series that you said you were going to do and there was nothing. Are you doing any more? We need them and we need you!
what in the hell do you do if you got hooked on opiates due to back surgery, pain, and the went on methadone. I have all but begged my dr to start the taper process but he is dead set against doing so. I am totally at a loss here and very, very depressed about the whole situation. It has been 3 years on MMT, at a dose of 80 mls. Can anyone help me? Please!!!
I would also like to warn people to watch out for prescribed drugs they can be very dangerous.
@INVU4URAQTOK I personally had succes ( i have been off opiats for around 4 months now) with switching to buprenophine when i was down at 20mg methadone. Then reduced buprenorphine in 3-4 months(some can do this faster btw) before quitting. The wd`s lasted maybe 2 weeks but was minor and there seemed to be a turning point ( things feeling better not worse) after around 5 days.
Methadone is way more destructive to the physical Human body and mental well being than Heroin. Heroin that has not been stepped on is relatively safe because it is semi-natural. It comes from a plant whereas Methadone is 100% synthetic made from chemicals. The 2 main precursors (building blocks) of Methadone are the same ones in many insecticides. They are classed as cyanide "poison". This drug should not be used unless someone is terminally ill or 1-2 week hospitalized tapers only.
In addition once stabilized patients don't experience the highs and lows of short acting opioids and can therefore begin to focus on other aspects of their lives.The main problem is that the stigma associated with replacement therapy makes patients who lead quality lives hesitant to identinfy as patients. Am I saying methadone is the best drug in the world? No but as of 2011 it's one of the medications that can effectively be used in treating opioid addiction.
@Drjjnd Effective Medications? Are you kidding me? Make Heroin legal and cheaply available as Methadone and see which is more effective. To a dependent person, both Methadone and Heroin does the same job...that is to take away the sickness and physical withdrawal pain. The government and Big Pharma choose Methadone simply because of economics and the fact that Methadone is way more addictive. Do you really think they give a damn about the people? Ask any user how devastating it is to the body!
Drjjnd If & when used properly, opioid replacement therapy, currently remains the gold standard for the treatment of patients with a primary diagnosis of opioid dependance disorder. Unfortunately there remains significant differences from state to state. That being said, I've seen patients truly prosper when treated and one thing many individuals don't understand is that longer acting opioids such as methadone have a restorative effect on the brain when compared to short acting opioids.
If & when used properly, opioid replacement therapy, currently remains the gold standard for the treatment of patients with a primary diagnosis of opioid dependance disorder. Unfortunately there remains significq
I've been going down 3 every 2 weeks for the past few months. I'm down to 12mg, my bones don't ache yet but i feel really irritable and depressed. i'm thinking of going way back up so i'm happy again. what should i do? how bad really is methadone? is it worth getting off it?
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and im doing great but dont get me wrong its the hardest thing ive done in my life upto now 20 x harder than heroin for the first 60 hours without it i must have slept an hour out of 60 plus my legs spasming all the time plus diorera and i was pacing my living room but three weeks on ive put on just under a stone in weight im feeling great some peoples bodies react 2 it ok but not mines it ate away at me anybody out there thinking about going on it 2 get of heroin try cold turkey. peaceout
hi everyone just thought id tell yous my experince im away 2 turn 23 i was addicted 2 herion since i was 15 up until 21 i kicked it easy a gd few times but stayin away from it was the hard part so wen i was in prison i got put on methadone i was on 85 ml then down 2 70ml then 50ml then 2 30ml the good thing about it was that i stayed away from heroin but after a while of being on methadone i started losing weight getting really depresed etc so i decided 2 kick it out my system its been 3 weeks
The clinics are a joke now days, the jails out here wont give it to you, I went to jail 183lbs was in jail for like 24 days could not eat any thing for 24 days they kicked me out of jail right before I was going to die, left jail went stright to hospital was in the dam mental ward for a week when i checked in 2 the hospital i was 150lbs... It took me all most 5 months just to start feeling better METHADONE is poison
It was pure hell coming off of it cold turkey i was on 90mg....
my heart was racing, violent puking and shitting, felt like my soul was being raped violently, i feared heart attack, , i feared the most utmost sickness, felt like a cancer or aids patient to be exact. i fear i will have to be on some sort of opiate maintenence for the rest of my life as i never had the ambition to do any work at all in my life before using. ill have to move to the most friendly foriegn country where opium is legal, then i can grow my medicine and be free
wow... i love how everybody likes to brag about there dosage... you are very right about the dosage margain you mentioned. people do not understand that other psycoligical factors can account for longer length of withdrawal, more severe symptoms and other pottentionaly dangerous things like irrational decision making and pycosis. even know i have brought my dose from 120mg hydromorphone intranassaly to 120mg of codiene in an instant, i went so crazy i ran to the hospital for fear of death
wow I've been on dones for 4 yrs now,no increase in dosage or strength. I usually go a week to 10 days w/o taking any of it prior to my next appointment. 60 to 80 mgs per day. I don't have any symptoms during the 10 days not dosing. Maybe its me,or my body chemistry. I hate that folks are having truoble with it as it really works for my jacked up knees and back. Best of luck to all of you. Peace and blessings.
I'm giving the implants a hard time tho...they do their job, it's just if you are having second thoughts about maybe having a bit of a tickle here or there or your not fully in the mental side of quitting they absolutely don't work cos if your a poly you just use speed and override it with subutex.
Thanks for sharing this video. Been taking methadone and opana 80's for a good 6 months. I haven't used any kind of pills for 2 days now. I'm always cold, and feel very lazy . This is the first time I'm quiting without going to rehab in Oakland ca. I'm doing it all on will power. But ive been smoking weed very little, and it helps somwhat. My goel is to smoke for a month and then quit weed. Is this helping? Thanks!!
was on it 8 yrs, got off it cold turkey...was hell seeing as i was withdrawing from h and methadone. That was 4yrs ago. now ive just started on it again...happytimes...not
I JUST now discovered your video, it was recommended to me from You Tube. I am on 300 mgs a day. I take 180 in the AM and 120 in the early afternoon. It is prescribed for pain. I am supposed to be taking 100mgs 3x daily. EVERY night I have nightmares about loosing or not being able to get to my pills. I am so tired of being married to this drug. I want to travel and stuff. I do not know how to get off of this. I am scared. I am PETRIFIED!!!!! I don't know what to do. I am afraid to tell anyone!
I am in metadon and i was on 120 mgs per day and 10 mgs xanax. I tried the suboxone (buprenorfin and naloxone) , it help me to stop using metadone. But i had to keep a clean day and then i got a 2mgs suboxone. You need ~ 3-4 days that the suboxone be good. The 300 msg is too high. You have to use 40-50 mgs before suboxone. I do not know where R U from. I am from Hungary. We can choose between Methadon and Suboxone. But the suboxone has not got any feeling.
@MichaelinSF You could sell me your script... I'd be happy to take them off your hands for a fair price. Sometimes there's these weird shortages up here in Northern Cali.
@staphinfection I do NOT sell drugs! We are talking about my pian medication. You must've misread what I said. I cannot believe you are trying to purchase narcotics thu You Tube!
It's reallynot that hard... A. got one milligram every 2 weeks (if you have the time), and you won't feel a thing. B. MAKE SURE you have a good councilor, if your sucks, get a different one, if they won't let you switch clinics... a good councilor should get to the bottom of why you choose to use. C. Methadone only works for you if you let it, if you run to the clinic and expect to buy drugs and hang with addicts, your not going to achieve anything.
Thats crazy my methadone clinic has no drug dealers or people trying to abuse the system around there. Ive never even seen someone buying methadone off of another and my at my friends clinic downtown it happens everyday so im lucky in that sense. And most of my generation arent fucking vicodin users. I was a heroin addict like everyone else. I gaurentee only about 20% of methadone users got on to it because of OCs and vicodins. I want to ween but I dont want to feel like shit D:
@IllogikOoNE Damn your lucky. I tried suboxone before I even drank my first dose of methadone and it was HORRIBLE. I waited 24 hours before I let it dissolve under my tongue. I started withdrawaling on an entirely new level. Ive never felt so horrible. Thats not supposed to happen if youve waited the 24 without doing any dope. So I ended up trying to do some H to ease the withdrawals and it ended up making it even worse! So basicaly I will never try that again. Even tho this methadone adctnsucks
@SosoSeth1990 to be safe you should give it three days before switching to sub's because of the naltroxone in it will give you precipitated withrawls Very quickly. Or were you going off of H to subs?
@Manxam1234 Ya i was going of H to subs and I waited 24 hours after my last hit to do the suboxone and the withdrawals were so horrible. they were the orange 10 mg ones and the first one i took was a half under the tongue. let dissolve for 40 minutes in mouth. Then it got worse than anything ive ever felt in my life and I even tried to do a gram of dope to releive the kicks but it made it worse. I ended up doing another 2 pills afterward, one at a time and it did nothing. Thats y im on methadone
@SosoSeth1990 fuck man i would have got some diazapan or something of that nature.... Now that i look back at it heroin is such an easy kick compared to methadone.... one thing i didnt say though
The absolute worst part is the nights where you cannot sleep... i would describe it as..... when you get near sleep..... I had my eyes shut... I could almost see this wall that took me right out of the mode. Bam awake another night.....
@SosoSeth1990 One thing i did even though i was withdrawing still is worked myself ragged with walking and running as i could stand it. OHhhhhh so cold the whole damn time i was doing it, cold sweats like no other.....
@SosoSeth1990 Main thing on top of that is the problem with eating... The less you eat the harder time your body has maintaing its temp.... so chills get so bad..Shit i couldnt even force anything down for at least 5 days at the start, puking ect..... was drinking juice just to stay alive
@SosoSeth1990 shite man that sucks sounds like you went into rapid detox we have a mad scientist of a doc over here in west Oz who experiments with naltrexone implants (the foulest things ever invented you can't use, have a tickle, anything for 9 months)...I fucken hate the taste of it too. yesterday I took my first dose of it after getting down to 30ml of done missing a day and dosing on 4mg of subbies. Went back 6 hrs later and dosed again.
I been on methadone for 5 years. i was hooked on morphine for only a year and a half. i'm coming off slowly 3 m every 2 weeks. will i be able to handle it?
O yeah anyone out there that wants to get on methadone think twice because it's ten times hard to detox for methadone than heroin. If you can detox from heroin do it because the chances are you will be on methadone for the rest of your days. But saying that methadone saved my life! The day i started methadone i never used heroin again and i got my life back in order. I would prefer to detox from heroin 5 times than methadone once. So make sure methadone is right for you.
I had heard that before. I looked up this video because I have a friend/room mate who is convinced that methadone is somehow less addictive than the oxycontin that he was once dependent on.
I'm worried that hes deluding himself in regards to the addictive nature of this drug and he's just going to end up addicted to this stuff instead.
@kmsabia oh god oxycotin withdrawals are THEE WORST. I used to do em before I got into dope because of financial reasons but I just remember the withdrawals just the OCS were so much worse than the H kicks. I remember getting tunnel vision and only could see pills. Horrible sun burn feeling all over my body. Skin was so uncormfortable had to wear silk blanket everytime I kicked. With the heroin, it was just like major flu symptoms. Still got most of those same withdrawals just not to that degree
@SosoSeth1990 LOL you gotta be a opio noob. Silk sheets? All i can think of is lying in a pool of sweat. Never have i puked more or shitted more then the many times kicking gear, Methadone is a whole new monster, i hate to even remember it.... OC's.... serously?
@Manxam1234 ok you must be and have been a broke ass fuck then. If you didnt have bad withdrawals from heroin than you obviously never did enough to feel withdrawals in the first place. And I was saying my withdrawals from the OC were way worse than the H kicks and thats when my skin felt so aqward I had to wear a silk blanket. Oxycontin if you dont know what OC means bud.
@SosoSeth1990 No you misunderstood me... Heroin has the worst acute withdrawls imo.... unless 1. you have been doing methadone for 10 years, or have found an even better opiate then these. OC half life can make it hard. but from the many opiates i have withdrew from OC is down there... methadone being my worst withdrawl ever.
@Manxam1234 No I've just only been on methadone a year and a half at 95 mg the whole time. I did about 120 - 150 mgs but I had a street dealer so I had to pay almost a dollar a milligram where I live. After two years of that I got broke and moved onto smoking 1 1/2 - 2 grams of dope for another two years. Thankfully I havent missed a day yet to get to the clinic. I would fuckin walk the day my car broke down before that fuckin place closes at 11:30 am. So thank god. Im sure they are horrible tho
@SosoSeth1990 I didnt mean to come off as a douche man, what you were saying disagreed with what i have went through....The scientific aspect also came into play when discussing half life of drugs..... I didnt take the human factor in to play either, because i have heard of a couple free rides getting off of 100mg+ after 2 years.... a fucking mystery for sure.... cramps kicks shits pukes... bad thing is it lasts forever... i have heard of people withdrawing after 10 years
@Manxam1234 No I understand where you were coming from, I would have said the same if someone went through something way differently. My mom was a H addict before me and she used to say everyday to me how I kicked way worse than she ever did off of everything, especially oxycotin. Your right about the half life of OC compared to H thats true. I think because the oxys were so much stronger and cleaner than the dirty heroin it was worse. Omg that horrible! After 10 years and still D: Holy shit
No you misunderstood me. Heroin has the worst acute withdrawls imo.... unless 1. you have been doing methadone for 10 years, or have found an even better opiate then these. OC half life can make it hard. but from the many opiates i have withdrew from OC is down there... methadone being my worst withdrawl ever. Gear= Heroin... OC's still laughing at that one. There is no question on this, this is well accepted. But i am not judging you, just what you say.... I dont know how long you were on OC's
I had naltrexone rapid detox and it works. The withdrawals lasted 4 to 5 days after having the detox but the naltrexone helped make it much easier and less pain. For me i did all my hard work while on methadone so i was 100% ready to stop forever and i was extremely confident and still am. I was on methadone for 8 years and it took me a year to drop from 140mg to 5mg. I hit a brick wall at 20mg. I wasn't pleasant. Detox still sucked but you need some pain to appreciate being clean. Its 1yr now!
@Oldskool01Hakken When PAWS ends its like a whole new high on life.... While i have withrawed in the past I would watch tv and i couldnt understand why everyone was so happy... even taking into acount the clean time in my life.. but at that very instant PAWS ended The dopamine rushed in like tidal wave. Felt good for days after that.
I was on it for years, then tapered down to 5mg..and did cold turkey ontop of a mountain. It was the most painful experience ever. I was off it for 4yrs,but im now back on. But in the 4yrs I switched to subutex.Which I think is a great drug for those ppl really serious about never using again,, but for me I ended up drinking a bottle of vodka a day! So now im back on methadone and will see how things go...
when i quit i keeped a methadone pill and a loaded gun so that way it was a choice not to shoot myself and a choice to not take that pill i quit for me and still have that pill
Ive got addicted to Methadone for around 18 years ago. Had one remarkeable easy buprenophine detox 10 years ago - followed by 3 years cleantime. Now im detoxing again. A few tips: first - go LOW. Prefereable lower then 1mg buprenophine.
2: Keep your mind busy- read books - the absolute worst thing about detox is the relative time. 1 hour feels like 10. 3: Try showers - you hate them while addicted but they can ease light withdrawel symptoms. 4: jerk off - it provides a few mins relief.
@lilbro209 So true - but it might give you just the pause to make you sleep:) Forcing yourself to excersize allso helps alot - just jump on the spot for 5 mins maybe. All the mentioned above only applys if you reduce as much as possible before quitting btw.
@temptstress666 Well if you go look at any of the forums related to opiat addictions, you will se threads emerge about how to deal with rls, anxiety, insomnia etc, on a dayli basis. It might be common knowledge for some, but when you sit in a ct you are usually filled with heavy doubt and might need to hear that something, anything really, actually might give some relief.
I should have put in clonidine, blood preassure med, btw- ive been told its incredible helpfull.:)
@Zhqrxt Yeah, I took Clonidine too man. It is just a blood pressure medication, but for me, it took a GREAT deal of the pain away, all the opiate addicts in my detox were all in agreement that they felt 90 percent better when they took it. Its not over the counter so you will have to go to a detox center or a hospital to get it, tell them you are withdrawing.
When detoxing from methadone try and remember the saturation point. It's typically 20mg a day. I have watched hundreds and hundreds of people go through detox at their clinic and it's always right around the 20mg marker when shit gets uncomfortable . Detoxing from tar is a walk in the park compared methadone---and beware !!! Clinics all around my home state have been caught watering doses. The staff in these clinics are sometimes worse than the dealer himself. Scandalous mother fuckers- stay aw
Methadone is not a drug to use to get off opiates.Many years ago my clinic started me at 20mg and i abused that clinic until i was up to 240mg with take-homes.It took a while to get clean but you must want it,& realize alot is mental.Methadone is extremely hard to break,harder than other opiates when tapering.I truly suggest try switching to oxy or hydro if u can,but only if you really want to quit,and taper off that.Way easier.Do not let your mind torture your body.I REALLY know how hard it is.
You cannot escape the withdrawel symptoms no matter how you cut down. I recommend subutex or suboxone if you have insurance. Also if you cold turkey from methadone the withdrawels can kill you!
im on day 5 coming off the done. i jumped at 2mg. think it helped that i tapered down low. i couldnt sleep for a couple nights and have some aching and some anxiety. but im starting to feel better in my head,still in a fog upstairs a bit.
my cloudy head seems to bother me the most. hope the light at the end is coming soon.
@TheMistermuppet last tuesday (so 28th of oct) i went down to 2mg from 3mg (i had been doing the slow taper from 75mg whenever i was allowed to) but basically i was going down 1mg every 3 weeks from 10mg (is what they let you at my clinic) anyway, i decided to stop last tuesday and for the first 2-3 days i had loose bowels and all the typical symptoms associated with opiate withdrawal. my question is, how long did the symptoms last for you? also, my metabolism is pretty fast. reply if you can ty
I've been off methadone for 4 months now.Making it through the detox was hard but to me it seems the hardest part is trying to go on living a normal life.I'm constantly depressed,I have bad anxiety and migranes that never seem to end.I was on 205 mgs a day.Even after 4 months I dont know how much longer I can go on like this.
I think that methadon is an amazing medication! I want to know: i am 2 month of use methadon and i want to gett off, because i don't want to be a methadon addictive. Now i am on 10mg a day. Should i gett off ?
Was on 150Mg a day for 9 years. In 2008 I decided I wanted off the crap. I dosed myself down over a 3 month period tilI I got down to 10Mg a day. (Clinic wanted me to go down 1Mg a month,yup that's right 1Mg a month, asses). Anyway, once I got to 10Mg a week I stayed at that dose for 1 week and then kicked. Was very, very very sick for about 6 weeks. Then had ongoing light shakes for 6 months. Now totally clean & been clean for some time, feeling awesome, and living a full life. It can be done!
@JudistMarshalCrews can you honestly help me? ive been on methadone only for about 2 years on the liquid and ive never gone higher than 95 mg. I just feel im going to withdrawal crazy just from going down 1 mg. i already feel like im gaining a tolerance to the dose ive been taking every day i go into the clinic but I dont want to go any higher sincce the higher you go, the harder it is. So let me know what you think about how i should even start this process. Im scared D:
@JudistMarshalCrews Awesomely done dude. I've been on Methadone for 3 years, was up to 120 mg. I have been tapering for over a year and I am down to 26 mg now. My clinic sounds a little better then yours, but still I'm tapering slow. I am willing to though because I don't want to relapse. Although I've been clean for 3 years I don't want the prolonged withdrawals that you get when tapering fast because I was a serious addict. Should be dead. Congrats on your clean time!
@JudistMarshalCrews Aww man!! what do you mean by sick? like aching joints and craving for dope? I been on methadone for 6 years., i've been weening off , now i'm done to 12 mg. i feel really uncomfortable and cant stop thing about dope, but i dono if that's considered sick . Do you mean throwing up all the time and shit. aww man i hope this doesn't happen to me.
@JudistMarshalCrews Yep i was at 95mg and my counselor and everybody in the clinic told me to go down by 1mg every three months!!!!!! so 23.75 years to get off this $H!T NO WAY so what ever they told i did everything against them, and so they got pissed off that i was not listening to them and put me on 21 day detox from 40mg and so i left cold turkey from 40mg.
@JudistMarshalCrews similar with me then subutex so then suboxone but methadone is methadone i now don t use methadone or suboxone ok sometimes i use methadone but still BRAVO MY BROTHER I KNOW WHEARE U VE BEEN THROUGH HELLLLLLLLL !
ive ben on methadone for going on 4 years i went up to 90 mgs i only got on it for oxy contin ....but anyways ive ben coming off it alot lately i went from 50 to 11 in 2 months and ive ben on it for going on 4 years and i feel like it brought on to me alot of anxiety and it drives me nuts and i also have NO enegry and it sucks because i have to work, any help ? i also live in canada and im not sure i can get anax but i need something before i take a heart attack
Yeah, The Fatigueness is the worst symptom right now at 20 days off. I wonder what causes the fatigue?I guess from no sleep and the fact that the body has been under siege. I have taken Milatonin last couple nights and I have slept 8 hrs. I still toss and turn but resting. Methadone is way too strong!!! Never take methadone!!! Methadone is meant for certain people..make sure your that people!
So my boyfriend had his last bit of Methadone on July 4th, since then he seems to have overcome the physical effects of the withdraws. Now he has become very distant, and educationalist, I was just wondering if this was a typical effect of methadone withdrawals? He also seems to keep his distance from me and his family(basically everyone who knew about the addiction), is this a normal reaction to withdrawing from Methadone?
@markmcali Bro... you're gonna feel fatigued for a long time. I'm on day 74 completely clean and i still get fatigued and it's still hard to find things to look forward to. There are gonna be times when you don't even feel like talking. But the good thing is, those symptoms are a lot easier to deal with than withdrawing, haha.
But dude, i got the 4 sneezes in a row also, so crazy. My pupils were also dialated like crazy, that took about a full month to go away.
hey rick, i am going to school to get my cdl's and as soon as i graduate they are gonna try to get me a job.thats great and all but problem is that all jobs you first get are over the road jobs that you are gone for a few months at a time.now i am on 150mg and have been for several years.i have to be off meth to get a job cause its against the law to b on meth and have ur cdl.and i REALLY do want to get off this.whats ur best advise to this.is cold turkey best?i dont have time to taper so...
hey rick, i am going to school to get my cdl's and as soon as i graduate they are gonna try to get me a job.thats great and all but problem is that all jobs you first get are over the road jobs that you are gone for a few months at a time.now i am on 150mg and have been for several years.i have to be off meth to get a job cause its against the law to b on meth and have ur cdl.and i REALLY do want to get off this.whats ur best advise to this.is cold turkey best?i dont have time to taper so...
hey rick, i am going to school to get my cdl's and as soon as i graduate they are gonna try to get me a job.thats great and all but problem is that all jobs you first get are over the road jobs that you are gone for a few months at a time.now i am on 150mg and have been for several years.i have to be off meth to get a job cause its against the law to b on meth and have ur cdl.and i REALLY do want to get off this.whats ur best advise to this.is cold turkey best?i dont have time to taper so...
hey rick, i am going to school to get my cdl's and as soon as i graduate they are gonna try to get me a job.thats great and all but problem is that all jobs you first get are over the road jobs that you are gone for a few months at a time.now i am on 150mg and have been for several years.i have to be off meth to get a job cause its against the law to b on meth and have ur cdl.and i REALLY do want to get off this.whats ur best advise to this.is cold turkey best?i dont have time to taper so...
Iwent to jail for 7days and Ididnot sleep more than 2hours daily becouse the withdrawals are painful on my joints lower back and legs and Idonwantogo back to jail jejeje esta bien cabron meda mucho miedo Quit erle noway jose
i tried to kick methadone 120 mg day, after the frist week sleeping nothing a day, i went to the hospital asking for morphine almost going nuts because of the sickness, my eyes my nose where dropping water and body was boilling inside a cooking pot, everything in the book i had it like i didnt had with 80%pure heroin, pretty scary ah? never though methadone could be fucking painful, i asked on my knees to go back to methadone and i even had to explain why i wanted out methadone
I am day 3 cold turkey of 2 years of use!! The last 2 days were the hardest most excruciating 2 days of my life! I paced around my apartment like a lab rat for two days with 20 min of sleep per day. I have lost 8 pounds trying to jam food down.I have been taking fish oil and vitamins regularly. The only way I made it because I was going to go on suboxone but once the Doc. Appt. came around I decided to not go on suboxone and continue cold turkey. It is tough but you can do it.!
@markmcali Well i love being able to talk to people about meth because N/A ppl just dont get it and I wanted to thank u and wish u the best of luck in stayin clean cuz i no its hard but like u geting off the meth is just another step in my recover and I no when I do it I will stay clean its what i want god bless
@markmcali Hope its still going well, I dropped from 18 to 8mg 2 days ago & shit it feels bad but about 8yrs ago I went to Ireland and left my methadone at home-Bad move that was unbearable so I think slowly is always best,I been on methadone for 15yrs btw also using heroin on & off but just reading yr txt has helped a bit so thanks & good luck
@markmcali i was addicted for 3 years everyday and quit cold turky i was growing medical weed and went crazy when i quit! i only slept 2 or 3 hours a day with a bullit proof vest on and a loaded ak-47 i was in pain for 4 months and depressed for a year, im just know re discovering feelings like guilt, happyness and all that
You need to be mentally strong. it helps to have family to support you both physically and financially, becuase you may have a tough time getting around and doing stuff for the first little while.
Make sure you talk to your doctor(s) because there are physical risk, (e.g. low blood pressure, fainting or passing out, sleep loss, RLS, loss of appetite and vomitting, complete loss of energy). If you have a spouse, make them a part of your recovery.
Looking at you, and listening to you just amazes me. You conduct yourself very professionally and seem to really be confident in what you're saying. You look very healthy also. I did not think this video would be about your personal experience because you look extremely well. I enjoyed this video and plan to watch more. Thank you.
Hello my names nicky Iv been n iv heroin user for 3 years i have been in and out of rehabs on sobos and now i have met my fiance' who is 4 years clean and still on sobos so march of 2010 i got on the meth i had a 20 pill a day habit so im up to 100mgs and i made sure not to go any higher but any ways now i am starting to get off of it 1mg a week!!!!! wtf should i do thats what my consular suggest and im scared but my sponcer in NA is very strong in my geting off of it. thank you for your post
@afghi420 Thanks Ya its my sponsor that pushed me she had a bad experience geting of the would let her off. But she told im just scared which I am but she thinks that as long AS I AM on mmt then I will always have a factor to relapse. so I dont no I want to get off B/C I nod out all the time . But the are lowering me 1mlg every week thats a 2 years of getting off of it and the program i go to there are alot of people using and i have almost got in a fight twice so its not a good place for me
@afghi420 lol ya the sad thing is that i go to one out side of the city n i hear stories of the other kinics and well the one i go to probly is the better on of course i wouldn,t really no till i take alook thanks
Hiya. Ive been phase one at my clinic for two and a half years, of course they played me with the sky is the limit. At any given moment there are at least 4 people "on the nod" waiting for their dose in the waiting room. Our counselers only talk about "maintence" and the nurses and counselers put up a hellava fight when anybody starts talking decreases. I fought the fight and Im down to 5mgs. This is definately not for the weak. Im interested in your recovery link, anathre@yahoo. Good work pal.
Saint your dropping to fast bud, you goitta give it at least 2 weeks for the change in your body. I know you want to do it as soon as possible, but at 25 mg and 5 mg a day doesn't sound like a good plan. But good luck to you anyways. I did the 5 mg drop a week from 93 mg to 60 mg Then I dropped 20 mg to be at 40 mg so this drug research program could accept me. The nurse told me I went to fast and thats why I'm paying th
hello im from Portugal, Lisbon i take 120mg i apreciatte your video , is important it helps, now i need to go work to Angola and as a head chef and i dont go, good by oppotunity of job, i m gonna trie take 5 every weeks , tankyou once more for video
miglmonteiro75 5 days ago
I take about 30- 60 mg a day, max i take is 90,been on oxycodone for 5 years keeping it at 30mg a slight high by only taken it once daily. some times ill take it twice but i try not to. it started with perc fives and vikes, now i take 8 vikes to get high and the high sucks. i only take pink 10 mg x 3 or 4 , up to three green = 15 mg or 1 and a half blues or two which are thirty mg each. the yellow percs known as bananas, i need four at one time to get high or 3 for a slight buzz, any hope 4 mee
bigseen95 5 days ago
methadone is worse than brown it fucks you up way more long term and does more harm to your body just quit cold turkey because once you start taking methadone your life is over and your a lifer METHADON'T!
SenneffRules 1 week ago
wat z hell!
mad0issys0cheese 1 month ago
Thank you. I'm a looong timer. Doing well & down to 16mg but I'm scared. Other sucesses help X
Mrsmacpickle 2 months ago
IM on 50 mg, i was 120 mg and then i flipped one day and stopped after a week i was dying, and my clinic didnt wanted me to take methadone, they said i abandoned the threatment witch i did, but seeing a guy like me suffering, they didnt give me anything for days, then i started with 20 mg witch was like heroin at that point... i really didnt imagined that methadone was like that, worse then heroin... stupidest thing i ever done, but im tired i want out of drugs, really want out
ukusapillage 2 months ago
God hep to all opioid addicted ppl cuz i know what it is
rifetf 2 months ago
Do I have protracted withdrawal syndrome? I feel like shit and want to die every day, sweating, bones hurt, thinking crazy shit, and I have to take care of a 2 year old....I don''t know if I can make it really. Do yourself a favor and get off whatever you are on NOW before it's too late...
iEatBoneDust 2 months ago
Well, I'm fucked. I'm 31, been on and off opiates since 13 when I started stealing meds from anyone I could. I took the hydro and oxy for years, eventually shot dope on and off for a few years, was on 120 mg of methadone for almost a year, have an issue with benzo's as well, now I'm on Suboxone and I'm about to just fucking kill myself because I am SO FUCKING TIRED OF FEELING LIKE SHIT ALL THE TIME! I can barely MOVE right now and all I did was take benzos for maybe 3 days...withdrawals already?
iEatBoneDust 2 months ago
Rick, more videos/advice please! I was addicted to heroin until I was 19. Now I'm on methadone. Was on 160mg/day for 8 years & have been slowly tapering for the past three years. hoping that if I go slower, the post-acute withdrawal/readjustment period you speak of won't be as severe. Am I being realistic? What do you think I should prepare for? I'm down to 40mg now. Also, I completely agree with the views you alluded to about the clinic system being (badly) broken. Thank you for providing hope!
Safia1117 2 months ago
5 mg a day is actually much faster than what I have heard is a comfortable detox rate... 5 per week and even 1 per week when you are coming to the end are the detox rates I have been told to use to avoid withdrawal. I did 1 mg per day to go from 180 to 100mg ... then had to freeze it. I now am trying to get from 100 to 0 and am very concerned about being able to make it.
emilshere 3 months ago
@emilshere I'm on 40mg now. Was on 160mg for 11 years (got on it as a pregnant 19 year old). At first, I went down 5-10mg a week. When I hit 70mg, I stopped for a few months. Now I'm doing the 2mg a week thing. Feel free to message me anytime. I'm concerned about making it through this, too. Don't mean to use a cliche here but knowing there are others struggling to become free really does help. Best wishes!
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osubeavers05 3 months ago
went off meth and percocets cold turkey. back on percs (low dosage) now, but meth is gone for good. best wishes to anyone who stops. YOU can do it!!!
speedoflite1 3 months ago
@jamesbond504 colored people abuse the fuck outta king cobras !! i've witnessed i was like daaaamn
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@jamesbond504 colored people abuse the fuck outta crack rocks.
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MsNossasenhora 3 months ago
Been on 13 years two slip ups also have lupus and other issues,how do you stay off?
natas666971 4 months ago
@natas666971 I'm in a similar situation. I've been on methadone for 11 yrs & have Addison's instead of lupus. I've done two 3-day inpatient detoxes back in the first few years I was on, but... yeah. How to stay off has proved elusive. I wish I had advice for you. Sent you a friend request. Maybe we could support each other through this & find some answers? Feel free to message me anytime. May peace be with you!
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jamesbond504 4 months ago
i was on methadone for 4 years straight,,, i was clean.... butt when i came down to a low dose the withdrawl was worse then oxys it was brutal... now im back on the methadone and feel like ill be on it for life
yaboypowda 4 months ago
@UnderTaker1279 If it is completely effective at controlling pain for you, and the side effects are manageable, just stay on it I reckon bro. It's when the side effects etc become worse than the pain itself that you might want to think about getting off it. Maybe try getting onto endone or something instead.
neckupmuppets 4 months ago
PART 2:With these relapses,i have got back onto methadone only for 2 to 3 month stints max and i reduce straight away.I have jumped off doses of 20mg,15mg's and my last one was 13mg's,i see know difference weening down to 1mg(but everyones different) With each relapse i've learnt why i use and as they say you don't always succeed on your first kick.Keeping busy,having interests is the key as well as eating healthy with exercise(push yourself).So look to the future and try to be a better person
afarq2 6 months ago
afriend of mine was on methadone , he tried to lower the dosage and ended up back on the brown , injecting , it turned my stomach , its unclean and disgusting
dave123c1 6 months ago
PART 1:I was on drugs 22yrs + and 15yrs of that was on methadone.My first jump off meth after 15yrs was when i got down to 40mg's.I was on 120mg's,buying and shooting up extra 200mg's meth+ big amounts of benzos.I was determined to get off this crap,i smoked pot,had a few beers and had valium when anxiety heightened.I also had an interest in gaming and online chat which helped.I eventually moved interstate 6mnths later for the better.I was 2yrs clean before i relapsed back onto heroin 10 times..
afarq2 6 months ago
I'v been on it since 2000 i'm on 110mls my partner has got down to 23mls i can't it's awful. But i don't think it's something that should be rushed that stuff saved my life i haven't touched heroin for 3 years.
mrmojorisin291278 6 months ago
the dog in the back lol
Butown 8 months ago
Stop playing connect four and play some Damn backgamman.
humgum44 9 months ago
instead of pland parent hood get rid of this shit if we had pland parent hood most of these stuck up useless M-F-ers wouldent be on the goverments pay role anywaysss.
humgum44 9 months ago
I just got on methadone 2 months ago, 55 mg's. I want to get off now . I wanted to take to so I could get use to not feeling that rush everyday. Needed some opiate. But Im really, I have to admit getting scared that i'm for more than I bargained for. Someone please tell me that 55 mg's is easy to get off. Lol or something, any advise? thanks
temptstress666 9 months ago
@temptstress666
PLEASE GET OFF NOW BEFORE ITS TOO LATE!! I was on it 8 years,the longer your on it the worse it will be for you,and it really doesnt matter what MG'S your on get off now. I been off it 1 year this month,but still sustituting just to frigging do dishes.
Slickychick420 8 months ago in playlist Addiction
@Slickychick420 You really got me scarred now damn :O That sounds brutal. I just dont want to go back to my opiate addiction. Thx for the help, if theres anything else you can tell me please do, but you already made it very clear. respect.
temptstress666 8 months ago
@temptstress666
tempstress,You need to calm down,and not be scared,I can tell you detailsof my 1st 2 weeks off of methadone. IT WAS PURE HELL,and NO morbid pills,and methadone W/D's are2 TOTALLY different W/D,symtoms.
Tempstress email me @ pagarne8@aol.com as I have a hard timeposting on you tube,andI was thinking,maby we can help each other?? SERIOUSLY!!!I am still battleing, but my opiate tolerance level is so low now.my nameis Pam,and after you email me,join my FB page K?see u soon
Slickychick420 8 months ago
@Slickychick420 Ok Slickychick, I added you to fb :) Thx for the response
temptstress666 8 months ago
@temptstress666 hey, its definately possible, that was the dose i was one for a few years but i abused this shit outta em. i was doin bout 50 -60 mgs a day illegally so it broke my wallet as well. but today i got down to bout 7 mgs a day and planning to lower it to probably nothing.. but i already feel the happiness of bein sober again. which is awesome, cus when u get down to a low dose like that ur not getting "high" anymore your just feeling"normal"again ya know.butyaucandoit
brianfunk91 1 month ago
my boyfriend of 11 years was on 180 mg a day he was detoxing and he killed himself i myself was on it i stoped cold turkey i was on 165mg a day i was sick as hell for weeks but i got over it i was great when i was trying to get off the pills but they dont tell u u get just as sick on the done........
morbid13syn 9 months ago
I'm on methadone, plus they give me concerta which i abuse, its like speed, i get a weeks worth and i take them all with in 2 or 3 days, then i jones like crazy all week, feeling irritable as hell. i wonder if its the methadone or the concerta making me feel like this. i went up on my dose but i still feel like shit.
jellocostello 9 months ago
Methadone is a great drug. I was dependant on it for years, it helped me stop my herion use. I detoxed over a 18month period and it was not uncomfortable. I use it occasionally now for pain but i am not dependant on methadone or any opiates.
lilyypoot 9 months ago
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antonl3 10 months ago
I've been a Registered Mental Health Nurse for 20 years and worked extensively in addictions. I have listen to many a lecture and read many books on this subject over the years but no one has described these issues better than you have. The pharmceutical industry makes millions from methadone maintenance programs which are promoted in the health service. I agreed with everything you said and i think you are an inspiration for anyone wishing to overcome their addiction to methadone.
synapper 10 months ago
Alas, my friend has been addicted to methadone for many decades, as have others I know [England,where the heroin was very strong, and pure/private prescription] but no matter how HIDEOUS opiate/opioid withdrawal is, it is not fatal. That is a myth. alcohol 'drawals and Barb 'drawals CAN be fatal.
Oakleaf700 10 months ago
totaly false, you can die if you're a long time user. The hypertension caused by the withdrawal can lead to brain hemmoragia. It's rare bu happens.
freshmeatandhook 10 months ago
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Pharmaceutical corporations originally marketed diacetylmorphine (heroin) as a cure-all for morphine/opium addiction in the early 1900's. Duh. Same thing with methadone. What happened to to methadone patients in New Orleans in the wake of Katrina? They died.
cyberhuninvan 10 months ago
Pharmaceutical corporations originally marketed diacetylmorphine (heroin) as a cure-all for morphine/opium addiction in thge early 1900's. Duh. Same thing with methadone. What happened to to methadone patients in New Orleans in the wake of Katrina? They died.
cyberhuninvan 10 months ago
I was on 80 ML and i tempered down to 2 real slow ,take me like a year to go down from 80 to 2 ...i have 2 weeks clean and was so easy to quit , i was on meth for 5 year and was a live saver for me, i was afraid to quit because i was reading a lot of negative people, but i said, that it for me .....thank to God the Help me to..
KanoRottweila 11 months ago
Hey Rick, My name is Matt and I am currently trying to get off of methadone after being at a clinic on maitinence for just about going on two years now and I must say I am scared to death. I recently had my dose lowered from 149 to 70 (Dr was a jerk ) and I am sufering greatly right now. This video was good to watch and when it was over i was looking for the next one in the series that you said you were going to do and there was nothing. Are you doing any more? We need them and we need you!
lilbro209 11 months ago
what in the hell do you do if you got hooked on opiates due to back surgery, pain, and the went on methadone. I have all but begged my dr to start the taper process but he is dead set against doing so. I am totally at a loss here and very, very depressed about the whole situation. It has been 3 years on MMT, at a dose of 80 mls. Can anyone help me? Please!!!
I would also like to warn people to watch out for prescribed drugs they can be very dangerous.
THanks for your video angelo!!! :)
INVU4URAQTOK 11 months ago
@INVU4URAQTOK I personally had succes ( i have been off opiats for around 4 months now) with switching to buprenophine when i was down at 20mg methadone. Then reduced buprenorphine in 3-4 months(some can do this faster btw) before quitting. The wd`s lasted maybe 2 weeks but was minor and there seemed to be a turning point ( things feeling better not worse) after around 5 days.
Zhqrxt 11 months ago
what about only on say 40ml then 35,30,25 now im at 20, should i take longer than 2 months to go from 20ml to 0ml?
i had to by it off st< iv been on it since early dec 2010, im hoping that will help me?
utuberocker40 11 months ago
what about only on say 40ml then 35,30,25 now im at 20, should i take longer than 2 months to go from 20ml to 0ml?
utuberocker40 11 months ago
Methadone is way more destructive to the physical Human body and mental well being than Heroin. Heroin that has not been stepped on is relatively safe because it is semi-natural. It comes from a plant whereas Methadone is 100% synthetic made from chemicals. The 2 main precursors (building blocks) of Methadone are the same ones in many insecticides. They are classed as cyanide "poison". This drug should not be used unless someone is terminally ill or 1-2 week hospitalized tapers only.
excthour 11 months ago
@excthour this isn't true at all...
tandbergj 9 months ago
@excthour i would rather get heroin than methadone but they dont do that. lol
Bnswiss 8 months ago
@Bnswiss Yes indeed wouldn't we all..but would it be a sensible option ?? That's the killer question..RX
Waitingforriki 4 months ago
Thank you for your video
mebeluvined 11 months ago
God bless you!
Snotra 11 months ago
In addition once stabilized patients don't experience the highs and lows of short acting opioids and can therefore begin to focus on other aspects of their lives.The main problem is that the stigma associated with replacement therapy makes patients who lead quality lives hesitant to identinfy as patients. Am I saying methadone is the best drug in the world? No but as of 2011 it's one of the medications that can effectively be used in treating opioid addiction.
Drjjnd 11 months ago
@Drjjnd Effective Medications? Are you kidding me? Make Heroin legal and cheaply available as Methadone and see which is more effective. To a dependent person, both Methadone and Heroin does the same job...that is to take away the sickness and physical withdrawal pain. The government and Big Pharma choose Methadone simply because of economics and the fact that Methadone is way more addictive. Do you really think they give a damn about the people? Ask any user how devastating it is to the body!
excthour 11 months ago
Drjjnd If & when used properly, opioid replacement therapy, currently remains the gold standard for the treatment of patients with a primary diagnosis of opioid dependance disorder. Unfortunately there remains significant differences from state to state. That being said, I've seen patients truly prosper when treated and one thing many individuals don't understand is that longer acting opioids such as methadone have a restorative effect on the brain when compared to short acting opioids.
Drjjnd 11 months ago
If & when used properly, opioid replacement therapy, currently remains the gold standard for the treatment of patients with a primary diagnosis of opioid dependance disorder. Unfortunately there remains significq
Drjjnd 11 months ago
I've been going down 3 every 2 weeks for the past few months. I'm down to 12mg, my bones don't ache yet but i feel really irritable and depressed. i'm thinking of going way back up so i'm happy again. what should i do? how bad really is methadone? is it worth getting off it?
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mdcombs79 11 months ago
and im doing great but dont get me wrong its the hardest thing ive done in my life upto now 20 x harder than heroin for the first 60 hours without it i must have slept an hour out of 60 plus my legs spasming all the time plus diorera and i was pacing my living room but three weeks on ive put on just under a stone in weight im feeling great some peoples bodies react 2 it ok but not mines it ate away at me anybody out there thinking about going on it 2 get of heroin try cold turkey. peaceout
bigbaz1barry 1 year ago
hi everyone just thought id tell yous my experince im away 2 turn 23 i was addicted 2 herion since i was 15 up until 21 i kicked it easy a gd few times but stayin away from it was the hard part so wen i was in prison i got put on methadone i was on 85 ml then down 2 70ml then 50ml then 2 30ml the good thing about it was that i stayed away from heroin but after a while of being on methadone i started losing weight getting really depresed etc so i decided 2 kick it out my system its been 3 weeks
bigbaz1barry 1 year ago
I've survived two overdoses due to methadone, the last time I lost my wife huh this is a really bad thing to do please get off.
VZGproductions 1 year ago
The clinics are a joke now days, the jails out here wont give it to you, I went to jail 183lbs was in jail for like 24 days could not eat any thing for 24 days they kicked me out of jail right before I was going to die, left jail went stright to hospital was in the dam mental ward for a week when i checked in 2 the hospital i was 150lbs... It took me all most 5 months just to start feeling better METHADONE is poison
It was pure hell coming off of it cold turkey i was on 90mg....
gadgetrich123 1 year ago
my heart was racing, violent puking and shitting, felt like my soul was being raped violently, i feared heart attack, , i feared the most utmost sickness, felt like a cancer or aids patient to be exact. i fear i will have to be on some sort of opiate maintenence for the rest of my life as i never had the ambition to do any work at all in my life before using. ill have to move to the most friendly foriegn country where opium is legal, then i can grow my medicine and be free
XxMaLcLmPwNsxX 1 year ago
wow... i love how everybody likes to brag about there dosage... you are very right about the dosage margain you mentioned. people do not understand that other psycoligical factors can account for longer length of withdrawal, more severe symptoms and other pottentionaly dangerous things like irrational decision making and pycosis. even know i have brought my dose from 120mg hydromorphone intranassaly to 120mg of codiene in an instant, i went so crazy i ran to the hospital for fear of death
XxMaLcLmPwNsxX 1 year ago
the background noise is so distracting in this video
brazmus76 1 year ago
wow I've been on dones for 4 yrs now,no increase in dosage or strength. I usually go a week to 10 days w/o taking any of it prior to my next appointment. 60 to 80 mgs per day. I don't have any symptoms during the 10 days not dosing. Maybe its me,or my body chemistry. I hate that folks are having truoble with it as it really works for my jacked up knees and back. Best of luck to all of you. Peace and blessings.
justaman6972 1 year ago
I'm giving the implants a hard time tho...they do their job, it's just if you are having second thoughts about maybe having a bit of a tickle here or there or your not fully in the mental side of quitting they absolutely don't work cos if your a poly you just use speed and override it with subutex.
IllogikOoNE 1 year ago
Thanks for sharing this video. Been taking methadone and opana 80's for a good 6 months. I haven't used any kind of pills for 2 days now. I'm always cold, and feel very lazy . This is the first time I'm quiting without going to rehab in Oakland ca. I'm doing it all on will power. But ive been smoking weed very little, and it helps somwhat. My goel is to smoke for a month and then quit weed. Is this helping? Thanks!!
matthewdesantis 1 year ago
was on it 8 yrs, got off it cold turkey...was hell seeing as i was withdrawing from h and methadone. That was 4yrs ago. now ive just started on it again...happytimes...not
the7thwreck 1 year ago
I JUST now discovered your video, it was recommended to me from You Tube. I am on 300 mgs a day. I take 180 in the AM and 120 in the early afternoon. It is prescribed for pain. I am supposed to be taking 100mgs 3x daily. EVERY night I have nightmares about loosing or not being able to get to my pills. I am so tired of being married to this drug. I want to travel and stuff. I do not know how to get off of this. I am scared. I am PETRIFIED!!!!! I don't know what to do. I am afraid to tell anyone!
MichaelinSF 1 year ago
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Hi
I am in metadon and i was on 120 mgs per day and 10 mgs xanax. I tried the suboxone (buprenorfin and naloxone) , it help me to stop using metadone. But i had to keep a clean day and then i got a 2mgs suboxone. You need ~ 3-4 days that the suboxone be good. The 300 msg is too high. You have to use 40-50 mgs before suboxone. I do not know where R U from. I am from Hungary. We can choose between Methadon and Suboxone. But the suboxone has not got any feeling.
PuFFoK 1 year ago
@MichaelinSF You could sell me your script... I'd be happy to take them off your hands for a fair price. Sometimes there's these weird shortages up here in Northern Cali.
staphinfection 1 year ago
@staphinfection I do NOT sell drugs! We are talking about my pian medication. You must've misread what I said. I cannot believe you are trying to purchase narcotics thu You Tube!
MichaelinSF 1 year ago
It's reallynot that hard... A. got one milligram every 2 weeks (if you have the time), and you won't feel a thing. B. MAKE SURE you have a good councilor, if your sucks, get a different one, if they won't let you switch clinics... a good councilor should get to the bottom of why you choose to use. C. Methadone only works for you if you let it, if you run to the clinic and expect to buy drugs and hang with addicts, your not going to achieve anything.
nickothompson 1 year ago
Thats crazy my methadone clinic has no drug dealers or people trying to abuse the system around there. Ive never even seen someone buying methadone off of another and my at my friends clinic downtown it happens everyday so im lucky in that sense. And most of my generation arent fucking vicodin users. I was a heroin addict like everyone else. I gaurentee only about 20% of methadone users got on to it because of OCs and vicodins. I want to ween but I dont want to feel like shit D:
SosoSeth1990 1 year ago
i'VE BEEN ON IT FOR 5 YEARS i'M ALMOST AT THE POINT OF GETTING ONTO SUBOXONE IF YOU CAN i'VE BEEN OFF BOTH BEFORE AND SUBOXONE IS BETTER...
IllogikOoNE 1 year ago
@IllogikOoNE Damn your lucky. I tried suboxone before I even drank my first dose of methadone and it was HORRIBLE. I waited 24 hours before I let it dissolve under my tongue. I started withdrawaling on an entirely new level. Ive never felt so horrible. Thats not supposed to happen if youve waited the 24 without doing any dope. So I ended up trying to do some H to ease the withdrawals and it ended up making it even worse! So basicaly I will never try that again. Even tho this methadone adctnsucks
SosoSeth1990 1 year ago
@SosoSeth1990 to be safe you should give it three days before switching to sub's because of the naltroxone in it will give you precipitated withrawls Very quickly. Or were you going off of H to subs?
Manxam1234 1 year ago
@Manxam1234 Ya i was going of H to subs and I waited 24 hours after my last hit to do the suboxone and the withdrawals were so horrible. they were the orange 10 mg ones and the first one i took was a half under the tongue. let dissolve for 40 minutes in mouth. Then it got worse than anything ive ever felt in my life and I even tried to do a gram of dope to releive the kicks but it made it worse. I ended up doing another 2 pills afterward, one at a time and it did nothing. Thats y im on methadone
SosoSeth1990 1 year ago
@SosoSeth1990 fuck man i would have got some diazapan or something of that nature.... Now that i look back at it heroin is such an easy kick compared to methadone.... one thing i didnt say though
The absolute worst part is the nights where you cannot sleep... i would describe it as..... when you get near sleep..... I had my eyes shut... I could almost see this wall that took me right out of the mode. Bam awake another night.....
Manxam1234 1 year ago
@SosoSeth1990 One thing i did even though i was withdrawing still is worked myself ragged with walking and running as i could stand it. OHhhhhh so cold the whole damn time i was doing it, cold sweats like no other.....
Manxam1234 1 year ago
@SosoSeth1990 Main thing on top of that is the problem with eating... The less you eat the harder time your body has maintaing its temp.... so chills get so bad..Shit i couldnt even force anything down for at least 5 days at the start, puking ect..... was drinking juice just to stay alive
Manxam1234 1 year ago
@SosoSeth1990 The orange are 8mg not 10mg
TomRock81 1 year ago
@SosoSeth1990 shite man that sucks sounds like you went into rapid detox we have a mad scientist of a doc over here in west Oz who experiments with naltrexone implants (the foulest things ever invented you can't use, have a tickle, anything for 9 months)...I fucken hate the taste of it too. yesterday I took my first dose of it after getting down to 30ml of done missing a day and dosing on 4mg of subbies. Went back 6 hrs later and dosed again.
IllogikOoNE 1 year ago
I been on methadone for 5 years. i was hooked on morphine for only a year and a half. i'm coming off slowly 3 m every 2 weeks. will i be able to handle it?
jellocostello 1 year ago
O yeah anyone out there that wants to get on methadone think twice because it's ten times hard to detox for methadone than heroin. If you can detox from heroin do it because the chances are you will be on methadone for the rest of your days. But saying that methadone saved my life! The day i started methadone i never used heroin again and i got my life back in order. I would prefer to detox from heroin 5 times than methadone once. So make sure methadone is right for you.
Oldskool01Hakken 1 year ago
@Oldskool01Hakken
I had heard that before. I looked up this video because I have a friend/room mate who is convinced that methadone is somehow less addictive than the oxycontin that he was once dependent on.
I'm worried that hes deluding himself in regards to the addictive nature of this drug and he's just going to end up addicted to this stuff instead.
kmsabia 1 year ago
@kmsabia oh god oxycotin withdrawals are THEE WORST. I used to do em before I got into dope because of financial reasons but I just remember the withdrawals just the OCS were so much worse than the H kicks. I remember getting tunnel vision and only could see pills. Horrible sun burn feeling all over my body. Skin was so uncormfortable had to wear silk blanket everytime I kicked. With the heroin, it was just like major flu symptoms. Still got most of those same withdrawals just not to that degree
SosoSeth1990 1 year ago
@SosoSeth1990 LOL you gotta be a opio noob. Silk sheets? All i can think of is lying in a pool of sweat. Never have i puked more or shitted more then the many times kicking gear, Methadone is a whole new monster, i hate to even remember it.... OC's.... serously?
Manxam1234 1 year ago
@Manxam1234 ok you must be and have been a broke ass fuck then. If you didnt have bad withdrawals from heroin than you obviously never did enough to feel withdrawals in the first place. And I was saying my withdrawals from the OC were way worse than the H kicks and thats when my skin felt so aqward I had to wear a silk blanket. Oxycontin if you dont know what OC means bud.
SosoSeth1990 1 year ago
@SosoSeth1990 No you misunderstood me... Heroin has the worst acute withdrawls imo.... unless 1. you have been doing methadone for 10 years, or have found an even better opiate then these. OC half life can make it hard. but from the many opiates i have withdrew from OC is down there... methadone being my worst withdrawl ever.
Manxam1234 1 year ago
@Manxam1234 No I've just only been on methadone a year and a half at 95 mg the whole time. I did about 120 - 150 mgs but I had a street dealer so I had to pay almost a dollar a milligram where I live. After two years of that I got broke and moved onto smoking 1 1/2 - 2 grams of dope for another two years. Thankfully I havent missed a day yet to get to the clinic. I would fuckin walk the day my car broke down before that fuckin place closes at 11:30 am. So thank god. Im sure they are horrible tho
SosoSeth1990 1 year ago
@SosoSeth1990 I didnt mean to come off as a douche man, what you were saying disagreed with what i have went through....The scientific aspect also came into play when discussing half life of drugs..... I didnt take the human factor in to play either, because i have heard of a couple free rides getting off of 100mg+ after 2 years.... a fucking mystery for sure.... cramps kicks shits pukes... bad thing is it lasts forever... i have heard of people withdrawing after 10 years
Manxam1234 1 year ago
@Manxam1234 No I understand where you were coming from, I would have said the same if someone went through something way differently. My mom was a H addict before me and she used to say everyday to me how I kicked way worse than she ever did off of everything, especially oxycotin. Your right about the half life of OC compared to H thats true. I think because the oxys were so much stronger and cleaner than the dirty heroin it was worse. Omg that horrible! After 10 years and still D: Holy shit
SosoSeth1990 1 year ago
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Manxam1234 1 year ago
No you misunderstood me. Heroin has the worst acute withdrawls imo.... unless 1. you have been doing methadone for 10 years, or have found an even better opiate then these. OC half life can make it hard. but from the many opiates i have withdrew from OC is down there... methadone being my worst withdrawl ever. Gear= Heroin... OC's still laughing at that one. There is no question on this, this is well accepted. But i am not judging you, just what you say.... I dont know how long you were on OC's
Manxam1234 1 year ago
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Manxam1234 1 year ago
@kmsabia He is in for one hell of a ride if he thinks that is true...By far the most addictive only because of the severity and length of withdrawls.
Manxam1234 1 year ago
I had naltrexone rapid detox and it works. The withdrawals lasted 4 to 5 days after having the detox but the naltrexone helped make it much easier and less pain. For me i did all my hard work while on methadone so i was 100% ready to stop forever and i was extremely confident and still am. I was on methadone for 8 years and it took me a year to drop from 140mg to 5mg. I hit a brick wall at 20mg. I wasn't pleasant. Detox still sucked but you need some pain to appreciate being clean. Its 1yr now!
Oldskool01Hakken 1 year ago
@Oldskool01Hakken When PAWS ends its like a whole new high on life.... While i have withrawed in the past I would watch tv and i couldnt understand why everyone was so happy... even taking into acount the clean time in my life.. but at that very instant PAWS ended The dopamine rushed in like tidal wave. Felt good for days after that.
Manxam1234 1 year ago
I was on it for years, then tapered down to 5mg..and did cold turkey ontop of a mountain. It was the most painful experience ever. I was off it for 4yrs,but im now back on. But in the 4yrs I switched to subutex.Which I think is a great drug for those ppl really serious about never using again,, but for me I ended up drinking a bottle of vodka a day! So now im back on methadone and will see how things go...
the7thwreck 1 year ago
when i quit i keeped a methadone pill and a loaded gun so that way it was a choice not to shoot myself and a choice to not take that pill i quit for me and still have that pill
blake0moser 1 year ago
Ive got addicted to Methadone for around 18 years ago. Had one remarkeable easy buprenophine detox 10 years ago - followed by 3 years cleantime. Now im detoxing again. A few tips: first - go LOW. Prefereable lower then 1mg buprenophine.
2: Keep your mind busy- read books - the absolute worst thing about detox is the relative time. 1 hour feels like 10. 3: Try showers - you hate them while addicted but they can ease light withdrawel symptoms. 4: jerk off - it provides a few mins relief.
Zhqrxt 1 year ago 14
@Zhqrxt I laughed at #4 because it is funny but it's true... Unfortunately it is worse soon after!
lilbro209 11 months ago
@lilbro209 So true - but it might give you just the pause to make you sleep:) Forcing yourself to excersize allso helps alot - just jump on the spot for 5 mins maybe. All the mentioned above only applys if you reduce as much as possible before quitting btw.
GL:)
Zhqrxt 11 months ago
@Zhqrxt Do you honestly think any opiate addicted person doesn't know this?
temptstress666 10 months ago
@temptstress666 Well if you go look at any of the forums related to opiat addictions, you will se threads emerge about how to deal with rls, anxiety, insomnia etc, on a dayli basis. It might be common knowledge for some, but when you sit in a ct you are usually filled with heavy doubt and might need to hear that something, anything really, actually might give some relief.
I should have put in clonidine, blood preassure med, btw- ive been told its incredible helpfull.:)
Zhqrxt 10 months ago
@Zhqrxt Yeah, I took Clonidine too man. It is just a blood pressure medication, but for me, it took a GREAT deal of the pain away, all the opiate addicts in my detox were all in agreement that they felt 90 percent better when they took it. Its not over the counter so you will have to go to a detox center or a hospital to get it, tell them you are withdrawing.
temptstress666 10 months ago
When detoxing from methadone try and remember the saturation point. It's typically 20mg a day. I have watched hundreds and hundreds of people go through detox at their clinic and it's always right around the 20mg marker when shit gets uncomfortable . Detoxing from tar is a walk in the park compared methadone---and beware !!! Clinics all around my home state have been caught watering doses. The staff in these clinics are sometimes worse than the dealer himself. Scandalous mother fuckers- stay aw
GeneticallySuperior1 1 year ago
bye the way,it took about 9 months to feel normal again just being straight after years of abuse.I relapsed,but never methadone again.Pure Hell
oxypimp1 1 year ago
Methadone is not a drug to use to get off opiates.Many years ago my clinic started me at 20mg and i abused that clinic until i was up to 240mg with take-homes.It took a while to get clean but you must want it,& realize alot is mental.Methadone is extremely hard to break,harder than other opiates when tapering.I truly suggest try switching to oxy or hydro if u can,but only if you really want to quit,and taper off that.Way easier.Do not let your mind torture your body.I REALLY know how hard it is.
oxypimp1 1 year ago
You cannot escape the withdrawel symptoms no matter how you cut down. I recommend subutex or suboxone if you have insurance. Also if you cold turkey from methadone the withdrawels can kill you!
McLainACS1978 1 year ago
i have a mehtadone problem too but i dont make it cold.its to hart,every week i lost 5 mg,thats not so hard
fanatics1988 1 year ago
im on day 5 coming off the done. i jumped at 2mg. think it helped that i tapered down low. i couldnt sleep for a couple nights and have some aching and some anxiety. but im starting to feel better in my head,still in a fog upstairs a bit.
my cloudy head seems to bother me the most. hope the light at the end is coming soon.
TheMistermuppet 1 year ago
@TheMistermuppet last tuesday (so 28th of oct) i went down to 2mg from 3mg (i had been doing the slow taper from 75mg whenever i was allowed to) but basically i was going down 1mg every 3 weeks from 10mg (is what they let you at my clinic) anyway, i decided to stop last tuesday and for the first 2-3 days i had loose bowels and all the typical symptoms associated with opiate withdrawal. my question is, how long did the symptoms last for you? also, my metabolism is pretty fast. reply if you can ty
ant1ph0n 1 year ago
I've been off methadone for 4 months now.Making it through the detox was hard but to me it seems the hardest part is trying to go on living a normal life.I'm constantly depressed,I have bad anxiety and migranes that never seem to end.I was on 205 mgs a day.Even after 4 months I dont know how much longer I can go on like this.
Bridog1977 1 year ago
I think that methadon is an amazing medication! I want to know: i am 2 month of use methadon and i want to gett off, because i don't want to be a methadon addictive. Now i am on 10mg a day. Should i gett off ?
blerim250 1 year ago
@blerim250 haul ass from that crap,it can be rough and you will always want more as time passes
oxypimp1 1 year ago
Was on 150Mg a day for 9 years. In 2008 I decided I wanted off the crap. I dosed myself down over a 3 month period tilI I got down to 10Mg a day. (Clinic wanted me to go down 1Mg a month,yup that's right 1Mg a month, asses). Anyway, once I got to 10Mg a week I stayed at that dose for 1 week and then kicked. Was very, very very sick for about 6 weeks. Then had ongoing light shakes for 6 months. Now totally clean & been clean for some time, feeling awesome, and living a full life. It can be done!
JudistMarshalCrews 1 year ago 16
@JudistMarshalCrews can you honestly help me? ive been on methadone only for about 2 years on the liquid and ive never gone higher than 95 mg. I just feel im going to withdrawal crazy just from going down 1 mg. i already feel like im gaining a tolerance to the dose ive been taking every day i go into the clinic but I dont want to go any higher sincce the higher you go, the harder it is. So let me know what you think about how i should even start this process. Im scared D:
SosoSeth1990 1 year ago
@JudistMarshalCrews Awesomely done dude. I've been on Methadone for 3 years, was up to 120 mg. I have been tapering for over a year and I am down to 26 mg now. My clinic sounds a little better then yours, but still I'm tapering slow. I am willing to though because I don't want to relapse. Although I've been clean for 3 years I don't want the prolonged withdrawals that you get when tapering fast because I was a serious addict. Should be dead. Congrats on your clean time!
mmelissa420 1 year ago
@JudistMarshalCrews Aww man!! what do you mean by sick? like aching joints and craving for dope? I been on methadone for 6 years., i've been weening off , now i'm done to 12 mg. i feel really uncomfortable and cant stop thing about dope, but i dono if that's considered sick . Do you mean throwing up all the time and shit. aww man i hope this doesn't happen to me.
jellocostello 11 months ago
@JudistMarshalCrews Yep i was at 95mg and my counselor and everybody in the clinic told me to go down by 1mg every three months!!!!!! so 23.75 years to get off this $H!T NO WAY so what ever they told i did everything against them, and so they got pissed off that i was not listening to them and put me on 21 day detox from 40mg and so i left cold turkey from 40mg.
MegaDOHCVTEC 10 months ago
@JudistMarshalCrews similar with me then subutex so then suboxone but methadone is methadone i now don t use methadone or suboxone ok sometimes i use methadone but still BRAVO MY BROTHER I KNOW WHEARE U VE BEEN THROUGH HELLLLLLLLL !
MARKO8885VTC 10 months ago
@JudistMarshalCrews thats greAT TO hear
tallblonde1976 9 months ago
methadone clinics should be outlawed!
tiffany88ist 1 year ago
@tiffany88ist
W R O N G.
margaretszuky 1 year ago
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margaretszuky 1 year ago
ive ben on methadone for going on 4 years i went up to 90 mgs i only got on it for oxy contin ....but anyways ive ben coming off it alot lately i went from 50 to 11 in 2 months and ive ben on it for going on 4 years and i feel like it brought on to me alot of anxiety and it drives me nuts and i also have NO enegry and it sucks because i have to work, any help ? i also live in canada and im not sure i can get anax but i need something before i take a heart attack
fububoy49 1 year ago
this guy is on methadone righ now
necroxeon 1 year ago
Yeah, The Fatigueness is the worst symptom right now at 20 days off. I wonder what causes the fatigue?I guess from no sleep and the fact that the body has been under siege. I have taken Milatonin last couple nights and I have slept 8 hrs. I still toss and turn but resting. Methadone is way too strong!!! Never take methadone!!! Methadone is meant for certain people..make sure your that people!
markmcali 1 year ago
So my boyfriend had his last bit of Methadone on July 4th, since then he seems to have overcome the physical effects of the withdraws. Now he has become very distant, and educationalist, I was just wondering if this was a typical effect of methadone withdrawals? He also seems to keep his distance from me and his family(basically everyone who knew about the addiction), is this a normal reaction to withdrawing from Methadone?
Phoebz006 1 year ago
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markmcali 1 year ago
kill yourself ! the DONE makes you a zombie
collinb25 1 year ago
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markmcali 1 year ago
@markmcali Bro... you're gonna feel fatigued for a long time. I'm on day 74 completely clean and i still get fatigued and it's still hard to find things to look forward to. There are gonna be times when you don't even feel like talking. But the good thing is, those symptoms are a lot easier to deal with than withdrawing, haha.
But dude, i got the 4 sneezes in a row also, so crazy. My pupils were also dialated like crazy, that took about a full month to go away.
P.S. Hershey squirts FTW!!!
mattman4020 1 year ago
hey rick, i am going to school to get my cdl's and as soon as i graduate they are gonna try to get me a job.thats great and all but problem is that all jobs you first get are over the road jobs that you are gone for a few months at a time.now i am on 150mg and have been for several years.i have to be off meth to get a job cause its against the law to b on meth and have ur cdl.and i REALLY do want to get off this.whats ur best advise to this.is cold turkey best?i dont have time to taper so...
gratefuldid 1 year ago
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hey rick, i am going to school to get my cdl's and as soon as i graduate they are gonna try to get me a job.thats great and all but problem is that all jobs you first get are over the road jobs that you are gone for a few months at a time.now i am on 150mg and have been for several years.i have to be off meth to get a job cause its against the law to b on meth and have ur cdl.and i REALLY do want to get off this.whats ur best advise to this.is cold turkey best?i dont have time to taper so...
gratefuldid 1 year ago
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hey rick, i am going to school to get my cdl's and as soon as i graduate they are gonna try to get me a job.thats great and all but problem is that all jobs you first get are over the road jobs that you are gone for a few months at a time.now i am on 150mg and have been for several years.i have to be off meth to get a job cause its against the law to b on meth and have ur cdl.and i REALLY do want to get off this.whats ur best advise to this.is cold turkey best?i dont have time to taper so...
gratefuldid 1 year ago
hey rick, i am going to school to get my cdl's and as soon as i graduate they are gonna try to get me a job.thats great and all but problem is that all jobs you first get are over the road jobs that you are gone for a few months at a time.now i am on 150mg and have been for several years.i have to be off meth to get a job cause its against the law to b on meth and have ur cdl.and i REALLY do want to get off this.whats ur best advise to this.is cold turkey best?i dont have time to taper so...
gratefuldid 1 year ago
Iwent to jail for 7days and Ididnot sleep more than 2hours daily becouse the withdrawals are painful on my joints lower back and legs and Idonwantogo back to jail jejeje esta bien cabron meda mucho miedo Quit erle noway jose
gilramirez777 1 year ago
i tried to kick methadone 120 mg day, after the frist week sleeping nothing a day, i went to the hospital asking for morphine almost going nuts because of the sickness, my eyes my nose where dropping water and body was boilling inside a cooking pot, everything in the book i had it like i didnt had with 80%pure heroin, pretty scary ah? never though methadone could be fucking painful, i asked on my knees to go back to methadone and i even had to explain why i wanted out methadone
badsign1980 1 year ago
@badsign1980 could you repeat that......
afghi420 1 year ago
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markmcali 1 year ago
I am day 3 cold turkey of 2 years of use!! The last 2 days were the hardest most excruciating 2 days of my life! I paced around my apartment like a lab rat for two days with 20 min of sleep per day. I have lost 8 pounds trying to jam food down.I have been taking fish oil and vitamins regularly. The only way I made it because I was going to go on suboxone but once the Doc. Appt. came around I decided to not go on suboxone and continue cold turkey. It is tough but you can do it.!
markmcali 1 year ago 6
@markmcali . you are an insiration. Please keep us posted!
angeloamericano 1 year ago 6
@angeloamericano keep us updated. Thanks for the positivity and "tell it like it is"mentality.
drjsteinberg 1 year ago
@markmcali yah you can do it, ive done it cold turkey maybe 10 times where
i got completely clean then went back to it.. the sickness is very
bad indeed, but remember when the sickness is gone is when you
start thinking you can get away with doing just 1.. it's all or nothing
remember that. i went on MMT after 7 years of off/on use.. but if
you can do it without MMT then stick to it, i did have 6 months
clean time while in prison and i felt better then i ever have.. MMT is
a last resort
afghi420 1 year ago
@markmcali how many milligrams were u at before u went cold turkey n was there a specific reason for the abrupt stop.
rosebudbynicky 1 year ago
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markmcali 1 year ago
@markmcali Well i love being able to talk to people about meth because N/A ppl just dont get it and I wanted to thank u and wish u the best of luck in stayin clean cuz i no its hard but like u geting off the meth is just another step in my recover and I no when I do it I will stay clean its what i want god bless
rosebudbynicky 1 year ago
@markmcali You wouldnt even be typing if you were on day 3 cold turkey, and you SURE as hell would have gone to get the sub. Stop lying.
Jason29n 1 year ago
@markmcali Hope its still going well, I dropped from 18 to 8mg 2 days ago & shit it feels bad but about 8yrs ago I went to Ireland and left my methadone at home-Bad move that was unbearable so I think slowly is always best,I been on methadone for 15yrs btw also using heroin on & off but just reading yr txt has helped a bit so thanks & good luck
dirlewanger42 1 year ago
@markmcali i was addicted for 3 years everyday and quit cold turky i was growing medical weed and went crazy when i quit! i only slept 2 or 3 hours a day with a bullit proof vest on and a loaded ak-47 i was in pain for 4 months and depressed for a year, im just know re discovering feelings like guilt, happyness and all that
blake0moser 1 year ago
You can do it, but you need support.
You need to be mentally strong. it helps to have family to support you both physically and financially, becuase you may have a tough time getting around and doing stuff for the first little while.
Make sure you talk to your doctor(s) because there are physical risk, (e.g. low blood pressure, fainting or passing out, sleep loss, RLS, loss of appetite and vomitting, complete loss of energy). If you have a spouse, make them a part of your recovery.
efrom1234 1 year ago
im in uk im on 70mls a day down from 100 doing good, nice post
DAVERUKY 1 year ago
Looking at you, and listening to you just amazes me. You conduct yourself very professionally and seem to really be confident in what you're saying. You look very healthy also. I did not think this video would be about your personal experience because you look extremely well. I enjoyed this video and plan to watch more. Thank you.
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imsoflyyeah 1 year ago
Hello my names nicky Iv been n iv heroin user for 3 years i have been in and out of rehabs on sobos and now i have met my fiance' who is 4 years clean and still on sobos so march of 2010 i got on the meth i had a 20 pill a day habit so im up to 100mgs and i made sure not to go any higher but any ways now i am starting to get off of it 1mg a week!!!!! wtf should i do thats what my consular suggest and im scared but my sponcer in NA is very strong in my geting off of it. thank you for your post
rosebudbynicky 1 year ago
@rosebudbynicky hey dont let anyone rush you!! if you dont feel ready
then you will surely relapse, well i shouldnt say that but trust me
stay on it until YOU feel ready. No way should anyone be suggesting
to you to hurry into anything.. I've been on MMT for 2 1/2 years and
am doing very good with it, am on a 70 mg dose. You need to be
away from that whole lifestyle for awile in order to not go right back into it
Alot of people dont agree with MMT but its always better then the alternative
afghi420 1 year ago
@afghi420 Thanks Ya its my sponsor that pushed me she had a bad experience geting of the would let her off. But she told im just scared which I am but she thinks that as long AS I AM on mmt then I will always have a factor to relapse. so I dont no I want to get off B/C I nod out all the time . But the are lowering me 1mlg every week thats a 2 years of getting off of it and the program i go to there are alot of people using and i have almost got in a fight twice so its not a good place for me
rosebudbynicky 1 year ago
@rosebudbynicky ok, sadly you have to go to a clinic like that, the clinic
in my area downtown is like that, i drive about 15 kms to a clinic out
of the city, mever anymore then 1 or 2 other people there, who i happen
to be friends with anyhow. but if you cant afford to do that, you know even
taking a bus for the sake of going to a better clinic is well worth it. if you
have a car search out a good clinic and discuss with them you concerns,
they should be more then willing to help you
afghi420 1 year ago
@afghi420 lol ya the sad thing is that i go to one out side of the city n i hear stories of the other kinics and well the one i go to probly is the better on of course i wouldn,t really no till i take alook thanks
rosebudbynicky 1 year ago
Hiya. Ive been phase one at my clinic for two and a half years, of course they played me with the sky is the limit. At any given moment there are at least 4 people "on the nod" waiting for their dose in the waiting room. Our counselers only talk about "maintence" and the nurses and counselers put up a hellava fight when anybody starts talking decreases. I fought the fight and Im down to 5mgs. This is definately not for the weak. Im interested in your recovery link, anathre@yahoo. Good work pal.
Icannabliss 1 year ago
Saint your dropping to fast bud, you goitta give it at least 2 weeks for the change in your body. I know you want to do it as soon as possible, but at 25 mg and 5 mg a day doesn't sound like a good plan. But good luck to you anyways. I did the 5 mg drop a week from 93 mg to 60 mg Then I dropped 20 mg to be at 40 mg so this drug research program could accept me. The nurse told me I went to fast and thats why I'm paying th