methadone vs oxycontin pain control dosage

A number of posts have suggested you use Suboxone to detox from the methadone. The main thing to remember is that Suboxone was developed to help patients detox from "natural opioids" NOT methadone. The length of withdrawal from natural opioids (morphine, oxycodone, codeine etc) is 5-7 days. The physical withdrawals from methadone last for 6-8 WEEKS!



Most addiction specialists suggest you convert from whatever dose of methadone you are on to no more than 30 mg of morphine sulfate or it's equivalent (the less the better) and stay on that dosage for the 6-8 weeks while the methadone clears from your system, THEN take the Suboxone or Subutex therapy.



I hope this will help.

I've BEEN ON IT for back pain now going on 3 years. it has been a wonderful relief for my life. I have a tumor (benign) in my lumbar and the pain can be unbearable. I was taking up to 10-15 lortab 10's per day. I couldn't go anywhere without worrying about my meds. what a pain!
When I switched to the Methadone, it was like freedom. I started out at 30mg per day via three 5mg tabs twice per day. Now I take 40mg per day via two 10mg twice per day and I am totally normal again and have had no problems. For anyone considering the switch, I would do it in a heartbeat.
Some people still worry about the name methadone, but I don't care what others think, it works and my life is back to Normal.

I was an addict to oxycontins for about 8 mths, started out as percocets, and escalated to 80s , 1-2 day.

Withdrawals are horrible, this is the 2nd time I quit.

Here is an excellent withdrawal program !

80mg bottle of methadone - start out at 3-4 cap fulls day, 2 days, and decrease a cap ful every 2 days. In 6-8 days your bottle should be empty, and you should be throwing it in the garbage.

If necessary I pack a few lorazapams for the anxiety and trouble sleeping at a night for maximum 3-5 nights after the methadone, but you shouldn't need it.

If you "think" you need more than that, you should talk to someone about your addiction. That's enough medical ingredients you need to get off natural and synthetic opiates.

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which states are u from so u can get medical cannabis for cheaper than oxycotton and that other c**p, cannabis is safe, and you wont be destroying your liver

Expensive?! I get my Methadone from Right Aid and I only pay 15 cents per pill. I don't have insurance either! I have never got any medication that was as cheap as Methadone. It's awsome for me, because I can't afford the $700 bill per month for Opana ER. I do realize that Methadone clinics charge a lot more than $0.15 per 10mg pill.

I have a problem. I am going to talk in the first person although it is not me.
I have been prescribed 2-20 mg oxy's and 1-5mg daily for pain. I have been up most of the night and I have taken all three pills plus an extra of each. Should I take another or try some methadone I have from a friend? My stomach pain is almost as bad if not worse than the pain from fibromyalgia and Osteoarthritis. My wife wants me to go to the hospital but I don't they would help me unless it is to lock me up in the physc. ward. I have been there before!No Thank you! Any suggestions?
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about four years ago i started taking alot of liquid oxycodone around four hundred mgs a day. I did this because i have several dibilitating disease to my spine. I have never been able to live a daily normal life because i am always in chronic pain. I pretty much dont have discs to protect my verdbrea. it is so very painfull and i have very bad arthritist in my spine and all other joints. I am only twenty one years old and i really started to experience daily chronic pain right before i turned 17yrs. I have been taking pain killer for about three yrs now. I got off the oxy because it did not help with my pain enough to take it and definitly was not worth the withdrawl paIN THat FOLLOWED. mY DOCTOR SWITHCED ME TO METHADONE ON MY REQUEST. THIS REALLY STARTED TO CONTROL MY PAIN BETTER THEN ANYTHING THAT I HAVE EVER TAKEN FOR MY HORRIBLE PAIN before. I ALSO CAN TAKE VERY LITTLE AMOUNTS AND HAVE A GREAT AFFECT. UNLIKE OXY I AM PERSCRIBED FOUR 10MG METHADONE FOUR TIMES A DAY. WHICH IS 160 MGS. I SLEEP ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT AND I AM JUST BEEN ALOT HAPPIER THEN I WAS TAKING OXY. IT REALLY CONTROLS MY PAIN AND PREVENTS IT FROM HITTING ME HARD. OF COURSE I STILL EXPERIENCE PRETTY GOOD PAIN. BUT IT IS SOMETHING THAT I CAN LIVE WITH. WHEN I WAS TAKING OXY I WOULD ONLY BE ABLE TO SLEEP TWO HRS A NIGHT IF I WAS LUCKY. AND EVERY MORNING THAT I WOKE UP I WOULD BE EXPERIENCING HORRIBLE WITHDRAWLS FROM THE OXY THAT I TOOK THE DAY BEFORE. BUT WITH METHADONE I FEEL GREAT IN THE MORNING ALWAYS IN PAIN BUT ONCE I TAKE MY FRIRST FOUR METHADONE MY PAIN DISAPEARS USUALLY AND THEN IS CONTROLLED THE REST OF THE DAY. WITH OUT METHADONE I DONT KNOW WHERE I WOULD BE. i COULD NOT WORK OR EVEN SIT DOWN WITH OUT BEING IN SO MUCH PAIN THAT TEARS WOULD FLOW OUT OF MY EYES. AND THAT WAS WHEN I WAS ON HUGE AMOUNTS OF LIQUID OXY. ALL I CAN SAY IS METHADONE HAS SAVED MY LIFE. BECAUSE I WAS IN SO MUCH PAIN EVERDAY AND FOR SO MANY YEARS THAT I WAS SO DEPRESSED AND THOUGHT ABOUT KILLING MYSELF EVERYDAY. IT IS NOT A FUN WAY TO LIVE AND TAKING OXY MADE IT SO MUCH WORSE FOR ME BECAUSE I GOT SO PHISICALLY HOOKED ON IT THAT I COULD NOT GET OUT OF BED WITH OUT 100MG TO JUMP START ME. tHANK YOU METHADONE AND I WOULD RECOMEND IT TO ANYONE THAT HAS BACK PAIN. bUT EVERYONE IS DIFFRENT METHADONE KILLS MY PAIN WHEN THE GUY NEXT TO ME WOULD RATHER HAVE OXYS. THE MAIN REASON THAT METHADONE WORKS SO WELL IS BECAUSE IT IS A HALF LIFE AS APPOSED TO QUARTER LIFE LIKE OXYS And lortab and all other opites. this means that it lasts 24 hrs and all other opites have a 12 hrs span. take it easy and remember no one should have to live with horrible pain daily good luck and think about what i said and get off them oxys there are no good!!!!!!!!!!

Hi guys i'm a young male who has a genetic bone problem causing low density and i dont absorb calcium and vitamin D i was taking opiates from a young age due to severe pain that has taken over my life i also have ADHD and i am on or was on oxycontin 80 mgs i lost my tablets a few times and also without knowing the dangers i took morphine tablets that i had from b4 in combernation i told my doctor and she said it was dangerious , so instead i doubled my 80mg dose and kept running out early , i was then stopped completely ! i suffered with serious withdrawals , it was like the most horrific experience i was liturally taking 5 baths a day and climbing the walls for just over 2 weeks my doctor said it was for my saftey and i was just given an anti sickness tablet and loropamide for diariea it taught me i only today got put back on oxycontin but 40 mgsto ease pain as i am disabled and having the tablet got rid of the symptoms within an hour!i am worried about the sddiction and how will i ever be completly pain free and i cant even get help or rhey will take them away and i have pain so cronic before i took oxycontin i was going to end it all , anyone with advise i'm scared of having to go thru withdrawals and is there any other treatment for a 33 year old lad

i ment 23 and the treatment works but what happenes when my tollerance goes up will there be other meds or alturnative therepy !!!4

I have been addicted to Oxycontin for 4 years and just started Methadone treatment. The doc started me off on 25mg of liquid methadone and it is not helping at all. I am used to taking 300mg+ of oxycontin. How much should I be taking to help me ?

I feel the same way you guy's do. I do not think I am addicted to any thing, I do not abuse ANY THING at all, but I am sure my body is use to every thing, and is dependent on the thing's I have taken on an every day basis. I was on 30mg. of oxycontin 3 times a day, 350mg of soma 4 times a day, zanix 0.5 4 times a day, 10 mg. of perkcete 4 times a day, paxil 1 time a day, elivil 25mg. at night (which did not help at all and finally just stopped taking it and started taking an over the counter sleep aid,  and I have been on these thing's for year's TRYING my best to put off back surgery, I have been told I need L4 and L5 spinal fusion's, detearating disk desease, aurthis in both hip's, knee's, back, hands (my thumb is shot, it just clicks and barley moves) chronic pancreatitis, acute divertibutitlis, you name it I got it, I KNOW ALL THE MEDICAL TERM'S ARE SPELLED WRONG, BUT I AM NOT GOOD ON THE MEDICAL SPELLING OF THING'S) I found a doctor that has had 4 back surgeries and he has a GREAT web site, I have also heard a lot of good thing's about him, he took me off of just about every thing I was on and put me on different thing's, 2 10 mg. of methdone, 3 times a day, 2 tizandine 3 times a day and cut me down to 3 0.5 xanix a day instead of the 4. I am not going through any withdrawals but I am in A LOT OF MAJOR PAIN, but he said it would take awhile to get thing's adjusted to where it would control my pain (if I can stand the pain that long) as of right now I can not do ANY THING AS I COULD WHEN I WAS ON THE OTHER MEDICINE but I am trying to hold in there as much and as long as I can but I do not know if I can wait until my next visit when he is going to give me some shot's to avoid the surgery and adjust the medicine which I am going to TRY TO WAIT FOR AS LONG AS I POSSIBLY CAN AND TRY TO DO WHAT HE SAY'S, don't know if I can, but I am going to try. My main concern at this time is I am not real smart when it comes to all this medicine, and when I told a couple of my closest friends he put me on the methadone they about lost it, now I am really also worried, not only because it is not working but I have looked up a couple of sites and they said that oxycontin and peracecete is nothing compared to trying to get of methadone and that has got me scared to death, I have so many chronic problem's I sure do not need another one PLUS THE MEDICINE I WAS ON BEFORE MADE IT POSSIBLE TO AT LEAST KEEP ME OUT OF THE MAJOR PAIN I AM FEELING NOW AS LONG AS I TOOK MEDICINE FOR THE BREAK THROUGH PAIN. I may be taking all this wrong and because of the MAJOR PAIN I AM IN RIGHT NOW but he did say it would take awhile to get the pain medicine adjusted to where it would work the way it should but I also have chronic pancreastitis and if when I stop taking the methadone I am going to feel ANY THING LIKE THE WAY I DO WHEN I GET THAT I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WOULD DO BECAUSE THAT IS JUST AWFUL, EVEN WITH ALL THE MEDICINE I WAS ON THEY HAD TO GIVE ME MAJOR DRUGS ON TOP OF EVERY THING ELSE I WAS TAKING JUST TO GET RID OF THAT PAIN. I AM SO CONFUSED I WAS JUST WONDERING IF ANYONE COULD GIVE ME THEIR THOUGHT'S OR IF THEY HAVE GONE THROUGH ANY THING AS I HAVE AND AM AND MAY BE GOING THROUGH IN THE FUTURE? Thank you and anyone for any advise they may be able to give me or if any one has gone through this and what did you did or any one that you may know has been through the same thing and is methadone as bad as I have heard it could be because if it is I would rather be back on the oxycontin if it will be easier to stop taking but it does seem like I should not be in this much pain, I am really just sitting in a chair looking out the window, at this time I cant do ANY THING AT ALL at least I was not in all this pain before ever thing changed, I HAVE MADE UP MY MIND, THIS DOCTOR HAS HAD BACK SURGERY HIS SELF AND HE IS WALKING JUST FINE, I SAW IT WITH MY OWN 2 EYES AND THAT IS WHAT I WANT, AND I DO NOT WANT TO BE ADDICTED TO ANY THING AND I AM SCARED TO DEATH OF THAT, AS I SAID I HAVE BEEN TOLD OXYCONTIN IS NOTHING COMPARED TO THE METHADONE AND I JUST DO NOT KNOW. I WILL LISTEN TO ANY ONE THAT WILL TELL ME WHAT THEY THINK, I AM A 51 YEAR OLD GRANDMOTHER OF 6, I WANT TO BE ABLE TO PLAY WITH THEM AND DO THING'S WITH THEM. I GUESS I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHAT OTHER PEOPLE HAVE TO SAY. 

i dont understand doctors except the fact that they are in it for the money...if anyone ever wanted to detox off of something using methadone here is the trick,works everytime..start by taking 4-5 10mgs pills, next day take 3-4 10 mgs pills, next day take 2-3 and the fourth day take 2-3 and then stop some people might have to go one more day..but the key is that you just stop taking anything this 4th or 5th day.. all you are doing is allowing one substance out of your system and not allowing another to get hooked to. the clinics would make no money if they only saw you for 4 to 5 days so they won't tell you this secret, the doctors won;t make any money,the pharmacy won;t make any money but if you really want to get off i guarantee you it works try it and let me know, good luck...

I also was on pain meds for over 18 years for chronic pain. I used oxycontin the first 13 years. Then i was put on methadone. 200 mg. a day. It said take 25mg. 4 times a day. that is 200 mg. a day. I was also given soma and Valium with the methadone. My ex wife who was an R.N told me some night's i was only breathing 4 times a minute.I'm very lucky to be alive. When I wanted to get off of methadone rehabs would take me because of the amount of methadone i was on. I have been off of methadone for more than 2 years now. It was a very hard road and I have lost everything in life. but I'm alive. was it worth going on methadone? No

there is no way 25 mg. of methadone will help 300 mg. of oxycontin. I was on ovycontin for 13 years. Then went on 200 mg. of methadone. It almost killed me. My Ex wife told me i was only breathing 4 times a minute some nights. She was an R.n and new what she was talking about. I would never use methadone again. I've been off of methadone for over 2 years now. It;s been a very hard road and I have lost everything in life. was it worth it. NO

methadome is a very good pain reliever. he switched u because eventually u would not have enough oxy at the pharmacy to kill the pain or the pain from pill dependancy...methadone has a long half life and is the best for chronic pain.. if it does the job stay on it or reduce slowly, very slowly and get off everything which is where u want to be going. good luck