Methadone is accumalative within the body and is specifically stored in the liver. It is also long acting so it sounds like your dose is about right but every so often (every two weeks) you accumulate too much and you feel sick.. doesnt sound like an allergy at all! Its possible your dose may be a little too high and provided you have done all the obvious things like drink plenty of water and eat lots of fibre and a healthy diet to ensure your bodies efficient processing of the methadone it sounds like you could drop your dose incrementally until you no longer experience unpleasant side effects.
Wow what a disproportionate response to a young persons opinion....and you are wrong anyway and seem a little blindsided by a desire to vent off at a heroin addict because I presume you hold resentment for them. The 19 year old states clearly 90mg is a normal maintenance dose for people addicted to heroin and strong painkillers which you say is wrong. It is absolutley right. Wether or not you are taking high amounts of strong opiates for physical pain, for emotional pain or just purely to get high you are still taking them and a maintenance dose would normally be between 60 and 120mg so 90 is indeed an average and by no means unusual. You are wrong in fact. And you say methadone doesnt make you happy ...I suspect not much makes you happy based on your tone but for the record methadone and all opiates affect different people in different ways and I know lots of people experience "highs" this young man describes his experience and you angrily and rather ridiculously shout him down as wrong? What a rather useless waste of time. His opinions are just that and they are actually factually correct despite him being a former drug addict...deal with it you angry little person
I'm going through the same symptoms as well im probably going to lose my job because of this as well ill wake up in the middle of the night just sweating like crazy, my heart just pounding and then ill lay back down for a bit then ill get a hot flash again then ill start to get sick I've been to doctors,in and out of the hospitals im starting to get very depressed with the hole situation. I really like my job but im concerned about my health . I'm stuck in a tough spot and don't know what I should do. Any suggestions.
I am also on 65mg of methadone and i felt real sick wanting to vomting
How long have you been taking it? What was your starting dose & has it always made you sick or is this new? Are you taking it for pain or addiction & how much do you take at each dose how many times per day & is it liquid or pill? Sorry for all the questions; but each tiny detail is VERY important info needed to point you where you need to go & find out what may be going on. Methadone is a very complex medication that can be very tricky to get "right". Because it is used for & most associated w/ the treatment of addiction, many believe that it is just like any other opioid that can be taken by everyone; but nothing could be more wrong! It is also becoming more popular as a effective pain med for chronic pain, especially for cns pain as recent studies have shown it to be more effective than other opioids for nuero. type pain. We are all very different & what works for one, may not work for another, so once I get more info, I will try to help you find some answers.
i wish i knew the answers to the sweats and chills. they are debilitating as much as a disease state. i too am a long time low dose methadone user with this uncomfortable side effect. thank all of you for letting me know i am experiencing a side effect of my drug use and not a new desease state,for i hav been perplexed for some time.is there anything to help this i d/c ed my total use to learn i needed real pain managmentand then resumed a low dose therapy that works well for my level of pain
Hi, have you ever tried any other opioid? While they are all opioids, they are not exactly he same. I have found that a lot of the patients I work w/ that have these types of problems w/ methadone will have much more success on a different opioid. Out of all other opioids, oxycodone seems to be the best tolerated w/ the least amount of side effects. Please talk to your doc about maybe switching you to one of the others to try. Good luck & hope you are finally able to find relief!
take some phenergen (promethazine) or tygant
I also feel nauseous in the mornings. I'm on 90 mg per day.
Dude come down off your high horse man, he as offering an opinion which we are all entitled too with the intent of providing some information that some may find helpful. Just because he is using it for a different reason does not mean that he is ignorant to the nature of the drug. And sorry bro but saying you can't get high off methadone, well that's just plain BS. The high May not be as great as shooting dope, or even popping percs but for an opiate naive individual could be very high off as little as 20mg. The high is quite different, it provides relaxation, sedation, anxiolytic effects, an overall numbing feeling, nods, and positive moods/feelings (not quite euphoria/ at least in the way other opiates provide it...). Finally, is it really nessasary for you to go bold and all caps on the like 8 points your trying to make? Seriously man, we are all here for generally the same reasons so unless someone breaks the rules, is trolling or just being down right rude they have the freedoms of speech, and u impeding on that makes u look like a penis kinda. Now if someone is truly misinformed, then kindly tell them and explain the issue.. That's what this board is for in your own words, no? Anyways just my 2 cents- I am on MM and quite knowledgable on all opiates as I have been an addict for a decade. Sorry for the long post without much helpful info, it just bothers me when people get all high and mighty on these boards.. Like who made u the king? Peace and Pot (and whatever makes u feel happy lol )
I agree with this 100%, my comment at the bottom is quite similiar, and as a patient of MM for addiction, not pain, what they said to be quite ignorant and rant-y... Had I seen ur reply I might have saved myself the time for writing my own. But hell this is an old thread I doubt anyone will even see this unless it's stumbled upon by new opioheads lol - Peace and Pot
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Ignore that dude. That was crazy rude. He's not a doctor, and addiction is addiction is addiction, and being addicted to a legal substance doesn't make you any better then someone addicted to a street drug. Not one of us chose to end up in this nightmare of a perdickment, Nobody wants to be hooked, and have a poison control their lives. I felt those same euphoric feelings when I started Methadone, and can identify with some of what you're saying. Everyone's body reacts differently. I'm sure he felt really good about himself after talking the time to write that c**p. Keep ruling at sobriety haha!
I know people who take over 300mg daily so why surprised at one 300mg dosage depends on dr and what its for
Your crazy shoot up methadone all the time just hard as so much liquid need big syringe.There is nothing in the liquid not in pills except coloring and the awful flavor get your facts straight maybe.you should fact check what you already wrote before you add new c**p