my husband is experiencing withdrawals from methadone. we dont know what to expect... how long will this last? hes on his 5th day, and still cant sleep and his legs are killing him...please help!!! :'(
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Just hold on tight and tell him not to give up. Withdrawls are killer, i know.
If he has gone 5 days he is pretty much over the nasty part. Not sleeping could take a long time. My daughter has been clean for 13 weeks, THANK GOD...she was real sick from the withdrawls for a good 2 weeks. Dr. gave her a mild sleeping pill which helps her fall asleep.
She had pains in her legs for just about a week or so.
It will get better for him (and you) soon.
If he has gone 5 days he is pretty much over the nasty part. Not sleeping could take a long time. My daughter has been clean for 13 weeks, THANK GOD...she was real sick from the withdrawls for a good 2 weeks. Dr. gave her a mild sleeping pill which helps her fall asleep.
She had pains in her legs for just about a week or so.
It will get better for him (and you) soon.
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I am not going to tell you tonight, my story of addiction because, well, I don't have one. But, the reason I wrote to you today is for my boyfriend. For the sake of not saying boyfriend every other sentence, his name is Alon. He is 29 years old, and his story of addiction is the reason for my post
Alon's brother who is 15 years older than him was involved with drugs since childhood. He used Alon as a delivery boy for Heroin for a while, when Alon was only about 12 or 13 years old. Child's curiosity obviously took hold, and he tried the product he was delivering. At about 14 or so, Alon found himself enamored with Heroin, it solved his anxiety problems, and took away his need for...well anything...because, from what he's told me, it makes you feel like you are on top of the world. One of the best feelings imaginable. He slowly began to take bits from his brother, and soon, when he realized it was something he wanted to become heavily involved with, he found his own connection. From that point in time, he became addicted, initially snorting it, but then eventually shooting it. He remained functional for the most part, and obtained a job on Wall Street, as a computer programmer, at the age of 17. He is truly brilliant. He confided to his high school counselor that he was taking drugs and she asked if he had ever contemplated suicide. Since she told him that he could confide in her, he admitted that he had felt feelings of suicide before, but that everyone in the world, in his opinion has had those feelings at one point or another. She immediately had him signed into a Rehab facility, and Alon lost all of this faith and truth in people soon afterwards.
I'm not 100 percent sure of the happenings during rehab, but when he got out, he started using again. Eventually, and again, I'm not quite sure how, he was put on Methodone, or Methodose (which I think has calcium in it)
Anyways, since that time, around 1999 or 2000 he has been on Methodone. He started his dose at I think about 200 mg. And since has slowly come down to 5 mg. But obviously, since the late 90's He has been on the substance, and has developed what I will call more than a dependency, but a true NEEED for it.
I started dating him last May, knowing full well what his situation was, and at that point he was on 25mg. He and I have made the decision to get him off of Methodone for good this coming december. I have a month off from school and am going to be moving in with him to help him out.
Like i said, he is now on 5 mg and is going to be detoxing. I am scared and worried about the situation, but feel that I am up to the challenge of being there to support him.
He is not only scared, but terrified of coming off, but is going to take the plunge.
Now, I am writing to you to beg you for some kind of advice. He would kill me if he knew i just confessed his story to a total stranger, I am quite frankly, very innocent and naiive when it comes to the world of drugs, and no NOTHING about what he is going through and will be going through other than what he has told me. I beg you, if you have any advice for me, or for him as a result of your experience with Meth, as to how I can help him get through this awful withdrawal. Or any advice for him to improve his mental or physical state I beg you to share it with me.
I am ready for the pain and the vomiting and the increased sex drive and the need for me to cook healthy food for him, and to make him exercize, and all that stuff, but I do not know how to help him with the anxiety or the other more severe and prolonged symptoms, or what to say or what to do. Clearly I am lost, and at this point desperate as the time draws nearer.
I look forward to hearing from you more than you will ever know possible, and thank you from the bottom of my heart, if you even just take the time to read this long rambling post
i hope that you had a wonderful thanksgiving, and that your life is good.
Please help me help Alon's life be good too.
Thank you so much
And happy holidays.
Alon's brother who is 15 years older than him was involved with drugs since childhood. He used Alon as a delivery boy for Heroin for a while, when Alon was only about 12 or 13 years old. Child's curiosity obviously took hold, and he tried the product he was delivering. At about 14 or so, Alon found himself enamored with Heroin, it solved his anxiety problems, and took away his need for...well anything...because, from what he's told me, it makes you feel like you are on top of the world. One of the best feelings imaginable. He slowly began to take bits from his brother, and soon, when he realized it was something he wanted to become heavily involved with, he found his own connection. From that point in time, he became addicted, initially snorting it, but then eventually shooting it. He remained functional for the most part, and obtained a job on Wall Street, as a computer programmer, at the age of 17. He is truly brilliant. He confided to his high school counselor that he was taking drugs and she asked if he had ever contemplated suicide. Since she told him that he could confide in her, he admitted that he had felt feelings of suicide before, but that everyone in the world, in his opinion has had those feelings at one point or another. She immediately had him signed into a Rehab facility, and Alon lost all of this faith and truth in people soon afterwards.
I'm not 100 percent sure of the happenings during rehab, but when he got out, he started using again. Eventually, and again, I'm not quite sure how, he was put on Methodone, or Methodose (which I think has calcium in it)
Anyways, since that time, around 1999 or 2000 he has been on Methodone. He started his dose at I think about 200 mg. And since has slowly come down to 5 mg. But obviously, since the late 90's He has been on the substance, and has developed what I will call more than a dependency, but a true NEEED for it.
I started dating him last May, knowing full well what his situation was, and at that point he was on 25mg. He and I have made the decision to get him off of Methodone for good this coming december. I have a month off from school and am going to be moving in with him to help him out.
Like i said, he is now on 5 mg and is going to be detoxing. I am scared and worried about the situation, but feel that I am up to the challenge of being there to support him.
He is not only scared, but terrified of coming off, but is going to take the plunge.
Now, I am writing to you to beg you for some kind of advice. He would kill me if he knew i just confessed his story to a total stranger, I am quite frankly, very innocent and naiive when it comes to the world of drugs, and no NOTHING about what he is going through and will be going through other than what he has told me. I beg you, if you have any advice for me, or for him as a result of your experience with Meth, as to how I can help him get through this awful withdrawal. Or any advice for him to improve his mental or physical state I beg you to share it with me.
I am ready for the pain and the vomiting and the increased sex drive and the need for me to cook healthy food for him, and to make him exercize, and all that stuff, but I do not know how to help him with the anxiety or the other more severe and prolonged symptoms, or what to say or what to do. Clearly I am lost, and at this point desperate as the time draws nearer.
I look forward to hearing from you more than you will ever know possible, and thank you from the bottom of my heart, if you even just take the time to read this long rambling post
i hope that you had a wonderful thanksgiving, and that your life is good.
Please help me help Alon's life be good too.
Thank you so much
And happy holidays.
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no way does anyone start out at 200mgs, second if he has been on methadone for as long as you say he is going to be going thru a very long process of getting healthy. It will take him anywhere from 6 to 8 months before he feels normal, i was on methadone for 9 years and detoxed down to 18 when i left the clinic and went to stay with a friend for 6 months, i changed the way i ate, and took vitamins and herbs everything healthy and even a valium once in a while so i could sleep. Methadone is no joke and these clinics should be shut down or at least monitored better they are all for profit and want to keep you on the c**p for ever because that is how they make money, they never tell you how hard it is to get off methadone when you sign up only how it will stop the cravings and withdrawal pains, it is worst medicine ever created it should only used for the dying it is c**p, it is liquid handcuffs because you cannot live without it. anyone interested in coming off methadone should google "methadone and nutrition" and read an article from Dr. David Arenson this is what i used to rid myself of methadone you will go thru wthdrawal symtoms if you walk off at 65mg or 1mg it doesn't matter and the reason i am telling you is so you don't get discouraged and quit, i was on it for 9 years and the longer you are on it the longer it will take you to feel better but don't quit you can do it but it will be hard. good luck
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I've been on methadone for nine day's will I have withdrawal if I stop now even though I ain't been on it long..
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from experience it will last about 6 weeks, dependin on how long he's been taking it. not nice!
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Hi how old is your husband? Watch out for heart attacks if he's more then 50. I'd rather commit suicide than go through methadone withdrawal AGAIN!. Your husband is very brave. i do not agree with cold turkey method. Good luck
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