I recently completed a methadone taper after 8 years of being at the clinic. In the past cold turkey was the way to go, but after experiencing cold turkey methadone withdrawls ( that time only at the clinic for three months) I knew I had a rough ride. It was not bad. I did a three month taper off 60mg and it was a walk in the park compared to cold turkey and I even did large jumps from 60-40 mg even that was not bad at all. The only symptoms were la k of energy and that feeling of being electrocuted.It was not that bad the hard part is the cravings after the withdrawls subside. Boredom is hard, bc while we are on done sitting on our asses is fun but off the drug the same past times are not. Tv is not thatI entertaining anymore. If anyone wants a painless way off methadone do a slow slow taper like 1 mg every two weeks. When you jump off at two mg which I did I felt no different. I had no secondary withdrawl symptoms like when I cold turkey withdrew. Someone in a prior post said take Benadryl to sleep.NEVER TAKE Benadryl it will makE the RLS worse. I hope this helps.