getting off methadone

I know this was a year ago how are you feeling niw? I am going throught the same things and my likfe is so miserable howlong do I have to look forwared to these symptoms

That's what I'm getting ready to do. Did you succeed?

I can't stop admire you guys.You all are over 40 years old and u did no gave up! I am on 8ml per day

you said it right,when u don't feel your dose anymore.when it don't feels any good then u ask yourself what's the point anymore ?

Hi, iv found it very interesting reading all ur comments. Iv been on methadone for 2 years and reduced slowly down to 2ml. So far the only withdrawals iv had is restless legs and difficulty sleeping. My plan was to have my last dose on Monday but after reading a few comments I am now rather apprehensive about it as I thought my withdrawals would be minimum seen as I'm down to such a low does. Has anybody get any advice on how I should proceed?

To put it bluntly, you have to want to get off of the stuff. I mean you really have to want to. Nothing is going to make the final leg of the race without effect. I was on 170 mg and went to 0 in like 6 months. I was told by my counseler it can't be done, that I would be sick as a dog(I think I was queezy in it's strongest form for months), and that I would be back on opiates in no time. The methadone clinics was the biggest con job with the worst possible side effects. I went there to get off drugs and they quickly jacked me up to 170mg to "stabalize" me and when I asked(2 years later) what was the stratedgy for getting me squared away and they told me I would be on this the rest of my life("maintainence program"), but, atleast I wouldn't be on opiates. So in other words I was trading opiates for synthetic opiates which was invented during WW II when Germany couldn't get opium?? So, who was the drug dealer here?? 

Getting back to the story, I got kind of wound up over what I was told. I told them that I needed to be squared away in 6 months as I was leaving the country. After a bunch of arguing I was taken to the clinic doctor who asked me if I wanted to do it and I said "yup sir !!". Came down 10 mg per day till the end which had smaller reductions and finally the counseller told me(when I was down to around 2.5/day) I was only teasing myself and to make the move and get it over with, which was true because I would show up with what should have been the whites of my eyes now green from the discomfort and was only prolonging the torture so I said good bye to the place for the last time. I moved to the Philippines and it was probably 6 months before all the effects were history but I finally made it.

Getting away from the area(far--to a place you know nobody) and making a new start is what worked for me. I feel for all trying to get squared away but it can be done and is worth it. Forget about suboxen and move on to a life you can live.