I've only been addicted to painkillers for less than a year but have been taking methadone that last few months to try to eventually go clean.
We have worked ourselves down to 2.5mg/day am I'm wondering if I still have to wait the entire 48 hours or will such a low dose be out sooner? I think back to how the suboxone centers say to come in while experiencing mild to moderate withdrawals but what if I experience those during the first day of sobriety? Do I have to wait until they get worse?
A lot of the withdrawal is environmental it seems because if I'm at work, I'm fine. If we're at home with our daughter while trying to unpack our new home is when the proverbial sh*t hits the fan.
We're completely out of methadone because we were self medicating with them instead of using an actual clinic. I was getting a script of them along with 120 roxy's, and 120, xanax. After we decided to completely come off the roxy's a few months ago, my wife still had to go to the clinic for the scripts for all three because the person we knew would give the methadone to us for free as long as he got the other scripts. I'm sure you all can put two and two together there lol
We only have a few suboxone each but I'm hopeful that it won't take much considering we're at such a low dose of methadone and I seem to be fine while at work. I actually went 2 days without last week while in orientation for my new job so I know that as long as I'm busy enough to not think about it, I'm fine. I just can't seem to get that mindset at home. I feel ok right now but I can definitely feel the RLS, dizziness, anxiety, etc that normally comes on but I'm dealing with it because we have no more options now.
We MUST do this for our daughter and I MUST do this for my new job and the welfare of my family.
We have worked ourselves down to 2.5mg/day am I'm wondering if I still have to wait the entire 48 hours or will such a low dose be out sooner? I think back to how the suboxone centers say to come in while experiencing mild to moderate withdrawals but what if I experience those during the first day of sobriety? Do I have to wait until they get worse?
A lot of the withdrawal is environmental it seems because if I'm at work, I'm fine. If we're at home with our daughter while trying to unpack our new home is when the proverbial sh*t hits the fan.
We're completely out of methadone because we were self medicating with them instead of using an actual clinic. I was getting a script of them along with 120 roxy's, and 120, xanax. After we decided to completely come off the roxy's a few months ago, my wife still had to go to the clinic for the scripts for all three because the person we knew would give the methadone to us for free as long as he got the other scripts. I'm sure you all can put two and two together there lol
We only have a few suboxone each but I'm hopeful that it won't take much considering we're at such a low dose of methadone and I seem to be fine while at work. I actually went 2 days without last week while in orientation for my new job so I know that as long as I'm busy enough to not think about it, I'm fine. I just can't seem to get that mindset at home. I feel ok right now but I can definitely feel the RLS, dizziness, anxiety, etc that normally comes on but I'm dealing with it because we have no more options now.
We MUST do this for our daughter and I MUST do this for my new job and the welfare of my family.
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I was also curious if any has tapered down to 2.mg and how were the WD's? The thing is I've only been on methadone exclusively for a few months.
Earlier this year, we would normally use up our roxy script then moved to the methadone for the next couple weeks. This wasn't a maintenance dose from a clinic. This was just 120 10mg pills prescribed to me (obviously this Dr. shouldn't have)
As soon as we would get our roxy refills, we would stop the methadone for the next couple or few weeks however long we would last on 120pills a piece. At our highest rate, 120 would last us right about 2.5 weeks so there were times we would party and be one 300+mg over the course of an hour or so.
As soon as we decided to stop the roxy's, the transition to methadone was smooth because I would party off of them. I can't understand how people don't get high off of them. If I take 80-100mg, I am just as high as if I was on 8 30mg roxy's.
This was months ago though. Like I said above, we started tapering down much faster than most here. I went from 80-100mg+ to anywhere from 30-50mg a day the first month, then 20-30 the second month, all the way down to 10mg a day for most of this passed month but went to 5mg then 2.5mg pretty fast. We would wake up hurting but 2.5mg would be fine for the entire day.
I was also curious if any has tapered down to 2.mg and how were the WD's? The thing is I've only been on methadone exclusively for a few months.
Earlier this year, we would normally use up our roxy script then moved to the methadone for the next couple weeks. This wasn't a maintenance dose from a clinic. This was just 120 10mg pills prescribed to me (obviously this Dr. shouldn't have)
As soon as we would get our roxy refills, we would stop the methadone for the next couple or few weeks however long we would last on 120pills a piece. At our highest rate, 120 would last us right about 2.5 weeks so there were times we would party and be one 300+mg over the course of an hour or so.
As soon as we decided to stop the roxy's, the transition to methadone was smooth because I would party off of them. I can't understand how people don't get high off of them. If I take 80-100mg, I am just as high as if I was on 8 30mg roxy's.
This was months ago though. Like I said above, we started tapering down much faster than most here. I went from 80-100mg+ to anywhere from 30-50mg a day the first month, then 20-30 the second month, all the way down to 10mg a day for most of this passed month but went to 5mg then 2.5mg pretty fast. We would wake up hurting but 2.5mg would be fine for the entire day.
You are safe to take the Sub at this point without withdrawals.