I have been on methadone now for 4 years for chronic pain, this drug is so good yet bad, it saved my life whe my pain was soooo bad I begged for my life to be taken or to be put in the hosp. Being only 31 with 2 kids I realized I could no longer live this way and went through many medications trying to ease my pain which none did till the methadone. I only took as much as I needed to stop the serious pain yet still lived with my daily pain because I am stubborn, I do not beleive I ever really got an opiate high which is why I loved the methadone, I do not like getting high.

So now 4 years later I am coming down off the methadone, I want to see how bad my normal pain is yet from tappering I am experiencing serious amounts of withdrawel symptoms especially once I was down to 20mg a day. I went to a detox rehab outpatient DR who wanted to put me on suboxone but HELLOOO I want off the dang drugs not get hooked on another, plus the cost was 300 the first weeeK!  I told the DR my gf was given Chlonodine which is blood pressure medication that is used to help our addiction withdrawels and asked if I could pls just have those. They graciasly gave me the blood pressure meds and it has deff helped! I was on 60mg of methadone 2 months ago, I am on 2.5mg with only 3 days left. Beleive me I feel like sh*t every morning for a few hours but once I finally get going and I have been working awhile I forget all about it.

Listen if I can do this and I take it for real chronic medical conditions PAIN all over, then those who take these just for the high can most def get off this c**p. I almost died in a hosp because they did not know I was on methadone and gave me a med that says right on the box do not treat on methadone patients....This was my big scare that led me to get off the sh--t! You can do this, I know it freaking sucks just small baby steps