methadone withdrawal

Some help I stop taking my methadine and I 'm detoxing like crazy .Can anyone help!

not sure if you are still having this issue or not but i have been on methadone and i am getting my self off.. i'm on 10mg and i definity can tell and fee the withdrawls for sure. people have told me to try suboxin (not sure on the spelling)
Check a doc for that, i have heard there is on WD from that.
but each visit to the doc i have found is 100.00 the first month will be the most expensive after that you will get your monthly take homes

I was on methadone on 3 separate occasions and the withdrawl is not fun nor easy. I did switch to Suboxone my third go around after 4 months of methadone and am now trying to get off that. Your just replacing one drug with another and these damn drug companies want you to stay on the stuff forever, they make a killing. With methadone the best things to do is taper down to the lowest dose, 5 mg. then when the withdrawl starts you will be sick for about 4-7 days. Get yourself enough of these items to last: Gatorade, Potassium Pills or Banana's, Alka-Seltzer (for the muscle aches) AND ABSOLUTELY NO SWEETS! It will not be easy but if your determined you can do it! You will be uncomfortable but if you get the items stated above it will help you get through it.

Regarding Suboxone, I've been on it for 6 weeks and took my last dose Sunday and I feel aweful. On this site I found an 800 number and I called and spoke to a rep there, she stated that because I have been on opiates for 8-years, since my car accident, that it will take about a year to get all the drugs-meds out of my system and that it wasn't goin to be easy.

However, I have a ex-friend who ended up in jail and he was one 120mgs. of methadone and taking about 8-12, 2mg Xanax Bars per day, he said it was a nightmare of a withdrawl, he spent 3 days in the hospital and after about 3 to 4 weeks he was functionable, but he was at very high doses of each drug. When I picked him up from jail after serving 130 days he looked llike a whole new person and he felt great.

So I hope this has helped you and I wish you all the luck in the world. These Drugs they put us on are just as bad as the ones we started with, just one addiction after another. They like making money off addicts and keep us doped up and they're making millions, it pisses me off.

So I will pray for an easy recovery for you, please to the same for me and get the items stated above, they will help, you can also add like Tylenol PM to help you sleep.

Good luck to you and get a support group, or family members to help you through this, if you can. I wouldn't tell my family so I go through it alone and its not fun.

God Bless and good luck, you can do, it sucks but I'm sitting here going through it with you my friend your not alone.

You guys are nuts when it comes to the length of time coming off methadone. it does not matter how many mgs. you have been taking, but the length of time you've beenn taking it. I was on Methadone Maintenance for 6 and half years. It took me a 107 days in an in-patient medical detox just to ween myself down from 100 mgs, but once again the time i was on it is what killed me. After I was compltetly off of it the kick really started. It's been 62 days since it's been out of my system and i still feel very sick to different degrees. the old timers tell me to expect 6 months to a year for my body to feel physically normal again! Have no illusions, it is the worst and longest physical kick in the world, especially if taken in a maintenance format. GET OFF QUICKLY! You think Heroin or Oxys are bad you have no idea. Steer clear from Methadone Maintenance in less you plan on staying on it for life! Good Luck...

36 days off methadone, I kicked cold turkey after bringing myself down to 5mg. I've been on methadone for 5 years, maitanence. I kept myself at low level, maybe 30/40mg a day, trying to insure I wouldn't have an awful kick when I finally got away from it completely. I didn't have as severe symptoms this last kick but I'm experiencing totally utter exhaustion. I have been unable to go back to my labor intensive job. I can't do anything physically longer than an hour. I'm taking vitamins, they help a bit. From researching here online I have found that adrenal exhaustion/fatigue is from withdrawal, as result from long term methadone use. It really amazes me how I can't hardly move or get around. I feel like I'm 90 years old. It's a huge change for me and how active I was while on methadone. I keep trying to find an answer to this terrible exhaustion. I can't imagine feeling like this for 6 months to a year. I'd take herion withdrawal any day to this nightmare. Methadone did help stabalize my life but I never wanted to be on methadone forever and if I can't get physically active, I'm going to watch everything I worked for over the years, slip away, while I'm stuck on the couch. Some of my friends say it's mind over matter, but I swear, I'm not depressed(well not yet), what I mean is this is not a mental thing, it's in my body. The only thing I can relate it to is when I had mono when I was in high school, but much worse than that. If anyone has any answers to this problem or knows what I'm going threw, please write about it. I have no intention of switching to any other drugs, such as subutex or suboxone, etc... thanks.

I have been on methadone for three years. I was at 110 mg. In November i starting detoxing at 5 mg/ week. When I reached 25 mg/ day I could no longer work or function the way i wanted to. I checked into rehab June 23rd and my last dose of methadone was on July 2, 2008. The worst part is i still feel like shit! Horrible leg cramps, excessive sweat ( the point where I'm soaking my shirts, yuck!!!) anxiety, uncontrollable shaking, complete and utter exhaustion, very moody, i could go on and on. While I was taking methadone I didn't have cravings for opiates, but now that I'm off everything completely, I cannot stop thinking about getting high on some type of opiate. I don't think about it once in awhile, but all day long. It haunts me from the time I wake up till the time i go to bed. I'm trying to do this. This last stay in rehab made # 8 for me. I'm tired of the lifestyle, but my body and mind won't let me forget. I go to meetings, but I feel stuck. Like i have no hope......

Thanks for the truthful input about withdrawal. I have been in the most pain I have ever been in on top of complete exhaustion. I want to eat anything and everything in my sight. I am sweating and irritable. No one told me that this would happen. It's too bad that you have to search the web to find this out.

I CANNOT REALLY OFFER ANYTHING THAT WILL EASE YOU AT THIS TIME. BUT, IF IT MAKES IT ANY BETTER, I COMPLETELY FEEL THE SAME WAY! I JUST KICK METHADONE A LITTLE OVER 1 WEEK AGO COLD TURKEY, THE WORST PART IS OVER, BUT I AM EXHAUSTED, IT'S HARD TO KEEP UP WITH MY 17 MONTH OLD. I HAVE KICKED METHADONE BEFORE, BUT REPLACED IT WITH ADDERALL. I DO, REMEMBER ABOUT 2 WEEKS OF FEELING A KIND OF EXHAUSTION, BUT MY ADDERALL HELP ME GO THROUGH IT, ONCE I STARTED FEELING BETTER, I GOT OFF THE ADDERALL, WITH JUST A 2 DAYS HANGOVER AND WAS MYSELF AGAIN, UNTIL STARTING METHADONE AGAIN. I WAS ONLY USING THE METHADONE TAKING ROUGHLY ANYWHERE FROM 6-12 AOMG A DAY FOR 3 MONTHS, I HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED THIS. I'M SWEATY, HOT THAN COLD, JUST TIRED, MY BRAIN IS IN A FOG, I CAN'T MOVE, I CAN'T SLEEP! THAT IS THE KILLER, BEING SO EXHAUSTED AND NOT BEING ABLE TO SLEEP. I TAKE VITAMINS, BUT WHAT ELSE CAN I DO? I AM AN ADDICT, AND WAS NEVER PRESCRIBED THE METHADONE, I WILL NOT TAKE ANYTHING TO "EASE THE SYSTEMS" BECAUSE OF MY ADDICTIVE PERSONLITY. I HAVE A CHILD AND IT WAS MADE QUITE CLEAR THAT I WOULD NO LONGER HAVE THAT CHILD IF MY HABIT CONTINUED. IT SCARED ME STRAIGHT, MY SON IS THE ABSOLUTE LOVE OF MY LIFE. HOWEVER, HOW IS IT THAT I HAVE TURNED FROM SUPER MOM ON METHADONE, TO SOMEONE WHO CAN'T HARDLY PICK UP HER OWN CHILD AND PLACE HIM IN A CAR SEAT...... ? ANY PROFESSIONALS OR ANYONE WHO HAS GONE THROUGH THIS, PLEASE SPEAK UP, WORDS OF COMFORT WOULD BE APPRECIATED.

I was on Suboxone, a drug similar to methadone, for about one year. I haven't taken any drugs since july 20th. I can no more tell you that the feeling gets easier than that the sky is purple. If this is what you really want, to be free of drugs, than you simply learn to live with the withdrawal symptoms. To help me, sometimes I think of how many people gave their lives in this country so I could have my freedom yet I enslaved myself to drugs. Doctors and drug companies just want to keep you hooked so dont trust methadone or suboxone there is no easy way out. Its a big cold world, and your in it alone. If there were an amount of days i could tell you where your body just lets go and you feel okay again, i would do it. there is nothing. you just push through for months and months. take a xanax sometimes to relax yourself but only seldomly. I have never been so depressed or felt so physically drained in my entire life. All I feel is this pain mentally and physically but somehow i am still here, alive, dead. I do not know how to help you because I can't even help myself. Just push through, you are alive and that is something you must be thankful addiction has not yet taken from you. I don't know that any of us will ever be right again. Each breath I take I think of taking a pill. this addiction has so completely consumed so many lives it makes me sick. i would go through any amount of pain or surgery to never have opiates in my system. they should be illegal i dont know just try to live just try to go on. i just dont know because it still hasnt ended for me.

i started taken what i thought was morfen from a friend about a month an a half ago for are pain i dont have insurence and 3 kids so going to the doc was going to be to expencive hince y i was getten it from him well it turned out to be methadone i was only taken 1-3 tabs i think 10mg just about every day for 35 days i stoped taken it 4 days ago .i feel like shit its getten a lil better but i bearly leave my house i started puken last night how long will this last for ??????