How to deal with Methadone withdrawal with Dr Rodriquez and Delray Center

[MrNeftali39]

It takes bolas to kick

[sanfranbmxican]

....doing your maintenance/detox unless he's your doctor. As long as you set goals and do what you can to reach them.

Good luck & love

[sanfranbmxican]

I'm now tapering off my 135mg by 1mg a week. Ya its slow but I will eventually be off. I'm at 124mg now and I'm in no rush! I can't stress this part enough. Go slow if u can. You DO NOT want to have to increase your dose,EVER, if you're trying to detox. I would rather spend the 266$ every month and continue to live my life than risk relapse and all that comes with. I have detoxed off of 8mg of klonopin this way and was/am successful. Don't let anyone tell you how you should be doing you're...

[sanfranbmxican]

I am 23 and have been on methadone for 2 years. The clinic I was at in sf started me at 80mg (court ordered, or else it would have been 30mg like everyone else)and took me up 10mg a week until I hit 185mg. I stayed there for 3 years. I've used it 100% successfully, no relapse. I went on a trip and missed like 4 days (no other opiates during). I came back to my clinic and they started me at 100mg and went up 5 mg a day. I hit 135mg and felt no need to increase so I stayed there for another year.

[BigStrongHands]

This, I believe is already partially understood by the medical community, and the blind detox is an approach at applying the concept. The idea is to make the patient unaware of their dosage in an attempt to reduce their mental impact on their state of withdrawal. Until recently I would have not known why this would be effective or possible, given that we are taught to believe that typical withdrawal symptoms are inevitable regardless of your mental state.

[BigStrongHands]

Withdrawal, although not by definition, is an interpretation of an experience created by your mind. There is no doubt a biological effect that occurs in your body from cessation of daily methadone use. However, your experience is comprised mainly of thoughts and ideas, ones in which we are continuing to poison each other with on a daily basis. The experience of withdrawal is an idea, one that can be manipulated by YOUR MIND.

[WCGMLG]

This dumbass doctor doesn,t even tell you how to deal with it. Anybody on Methadone knows the symptoms you dumbass. Not one thing he said tells you how to deal with it. FUCK YOU DR. RODRIQUES!!!

[stor857]

well yeh meathadone stays in ur blood 48 hours ??

[nolanjuice84]

when i used to do methadones alot and run out or stop usually the next day i would feel ok but the second day it would hit me hard

[Miles3363]

I have been on methadone for 8 years. I'm 29 now and have been doing 20 mg's a day without a prescription so I can't pass a drug test to get my dream job. I have never done any other drugs, just methadone. I want off bad and have tried at home and at a hospital and have failed everytime. I need advice. I can't keep doing this forever, i feel like I'm stuck and never going to amount to shit. i'm not a bad person and have never been in trouble with the law. i just want to feel normal again. Thanks

[staunch5000]

@Miles3363 I'm getting off myself at the moment, have gotton off before and been clean for 3 years but unfortunately relapsed (heroin). Am currently on 15mg. I have reduced from 45mgs to 15mgs at 2.5mgs a week in the last 3 months. The way to get off is to reduce your dose slowly. Maybe 1-2mgs a fortnight if you want the withdrawel to be less severe. Also doing it fortnightly gives your body a chance to recover before your next reduction as you don't feel the effects till 3 days later.

[Miles3363]

@staunch5000 I have been tapering down the past 2 months. I was doing around 25 - 30 mg's a day in Febuary and March. I have done only 10mg's a day for the past month and feel fine. Sleep is ok, good energy. As long as I'm able to keep my full time job I'm happy but want to be off completly. I'm going down to 5 mg's, I've always heard the part is going down to zero.

[staunch5000]

@Miles3363 If it gets hard, go down half a mg, or have a break for a couple of weeks as long as your reducing your gonna get to your goal at some stage. The hardest part is not sleeping properly for 3 months when your off and still having to go to work. Also what helped me last time was joining a gym. Nightly exercise whether it be cardio or weights, helps so much you will be surprised. It helps you sleep a little better and also keeps you strong(both mentally and physically) and focused.

[staunch5000]

@Miles3363 The best thing to do when getting off methadone is to not rush. You have been on for 8 years and have done very well by getting down to 10 mgs. Even if it was to take another 20-40 weeks to get off that 10, so what. Its taken you 8 years to get to this point, why risk all that good work just to rush and fall over at the final hurdle. Also you need to join a legal methadone clinic as dosing yourself is putting you at a disadvantage. Its like putting dracula in charge of the blood bank.

[Miles3363]

@staunch5000 There is a clinic in the area. It's very expensive. Dosing myself has stopped me from getting off long ago. I don't think I had the same mindset and determenation years ago as I do now. I have come to hate methadone, and all drugs for that matter in the past few years. Staying busy this past year, palying basketball and other exercises has worked. 10 mg's is not alot but it's a terrible withdraw, coming down slow does help. Wish me luck

[randomshizz91]

@Miles3363 In my area methadone is only 290 a month, as compared to $8 for 10 mg IF i go to mexico to get them, Im on 14 mg, but i think the clinic is worth not risking my ass but its gonna be hard to know the exact dosage you'll be on, do you get methadone or methadose??

[smokeybirdman]

If methadone is harder to detox than heroin, than why do our evil fucking governments feed us this shit instead of regulated heroin? I kno why, I just said it didnt I...coz their fucking EVIL!

[BJS1365]

I have been on for 2 yrs. I sure wish my doc told me all this crap about methadone. I didn't think it was addictive at all. 

[Quagigitymire]

Your teeth are busted probable because when u where using ur drug of choice you didnt take care of your body. methadone dont rot your teeth. I been taking it for 4 years for pain management. I got tired of the constant dosing for break thru pain and the 180mg oc i took thru out the day. I think it's a great drug if it's taken propperly

[5nationals]

@Quagigitymire I agree with you. I do think it is a great medication if it is taken properly. I too was on OC 180 mg and could not do a thing. With Methadone I can live a normal life and manage my pain with out all the effects that real opiates give you. Great read!!!

[shanealan4161]

been on methadone for 11/2 yrs. i'm scared to death i'll never be able to get off of it. doing 120 mgs now. Theres no way I can handle going through the withdraw,it hurts so bad,the worse thing i've ever expirienced in my whole life,and i've been through a propane explosion, burnt over 40% of my body ,with 1st 2nd and 3rd degree burns,that was'nt as bad as methadone withdraw.My solution to withdraw,take my dose, with 10 zanax,1/2 gm heroin,bottle of tequeila, the end.Anyone know a better way?

[TheRalphus666]

How come everybody in my clinic are always going to the dentist??The shit gets in your bones.And you never experienced it so you cant read shit that was written in a PDR.I got off methadone for 5 months and felt like total shit.So I went back on it

[hoboboxerjoe]

@TheRalphus666. I agree, and my teeth have gone to shit, too :(

[liondoghound]

Methodone made me not even think about oxycodone. Methodone gave me sever difficulty breathing. I quit taking it, but I can see how it can work to get off oxycodone. Oxycodone withdrawls with me felt like electricution. I faught the withdrawal for seven weeks and gave up. I couldn't deal with it.

[TheMistermuppet]

is someone taking a piss in the background?

[blingblang1988]

@TheMistermuppet lol I knw right.