methadone withdrawal

I am two weeks and 3 days into a cold turkey detox from methadone , I am still very ill but I can at least see the light. I wish everyone who ever thought methadone was a good idea could experence this withdrawl! You think u are tough, I thought I was and I am , I have been addicted to,and detoxed every drug out ther......but now I had methadone! NUMBER ONE MOST TERRIBLE<HORRIBLE, DETOX!!!!! It dropped me like a sack of potatoes and I have thought of suicide for the first time in my life.....Never would do that though. I will beat this if its the last thing I do.I feel this is a conspirisy, not to mention a money making adventure the govermemnt has cooked up, to get in on the drugs, being sold....all the while saying they are helping u. I felt clean for the last 4 years , got married and happy as could be until I had to get rid of my dirty,dirty, secret......I went from a recovered heroin addict to a junkie begging for help yesterday in the hospital,My years of being clean ment nothing. I was far from clean guess what a nurse or doctor thinks when u say methadone...................JUNKIE. I walked out with some lorazpam and a bad bad feeling. I just know how many people take this drug I see them at the clinic ..lined up, just what the government wants!Its like hiding under a shadow of ur past.....I refuse to do it anymore and will speak against Methadone every chance I get..............I AM FREE and CLEAN GOOOd-Bye DR. P

i wanted off methadone, and i went down 85mgs a day to 20mgs a day. 5mgs a week. it wasn't to bad, until i got to 30mgs. i had some legal problems, did 3 days in jail. day one 5mgs. day two 5mgs. then my usual 20mgs before court. they gave me enough to keep me alive! i was sick the whole time, but i was on methadone for 4 years, so i had not reached the diarrea, just sweets and SEVERE pain. no sleep, and freezing cold. i went to rehab. they gave me subutex for 11days (starting at 4mgs 4 times a day then down to 2mgs morning and 2mgs at night) day 12 they stopped giving it to me. day 13 my insurance stopped paying, but the place had an extended care program, billed as out patient, where i stayed 14 more days. the second day of nothing i was o.k. just the runs. day three i was sneezing, cloged nose, diarrea, everything but the severe body pain (which was the part of withdrawal that always broke me down to use). i went on like that for 4 days, and asked to be put on suboxone. since i had been moved to e.c.p. they would not do that. i had to tough it out. i was allowed to go to the store, a perk of e.c.p., there i bought immodium a.d., secretly. i took two each day after diarrea in the morning, and carried tissue in my pocket for my dripping, cloged, sneezing nose(i was forced to attend meetings). by day 8 or 9 i was much better, BUT, still having diarrea and sleep lasts for one hour asleep, one hour awake to this day (day 14). i don't care what anyone says, subutex withdrawal IS NOT AS BAD AS THE OTHERS! i rate them like this worst to easiest, methadone, heroin, dilaudid, oxycontin, morphine, hydrocodone, subutex. if you don't shoot up or take at least twenty pills a day, don't get on methadone. if you are on methadone and want to kick, get down to like 20mgs, then take subutex or suboxone the way i described. you may want to take it about a month, NO LONGER! get down to 2mgs a day, then stop. you will be uncomfortable a few days, but it is nowhere near as bad. i'm a baby about being dopesick and that is the only way i could ever kick. also, i know you won't feel like it, but, try to excersize by walking or a few push ups and do some yoga. i swear it helps!

im about to detox off 90 mg's next week it will be a 21 day detox my smart plan is to double up on klonipin xanax and clonidine with i already take anyway but im double up on all 3 and hopefully not hang myself at the end of the methadone detox......

Well...i have been addicted to opiots for about 5 years and started on my own taking methadone. I was buying pills on the streets and hussling doctors for so long. Now i am 9 days off methadone. I started at 40mgs and weened down a halfa pill every 5 days... that seemed to help a little when i kicked em...i stoped at one and went cold turkey...im def feeling all the withdrawl symptoms everyones been talking about especially the fatigue and very worn out..i also cant stop thinkin about how easy it would be to just take a pill and feel better i think we all can agree that opiots have CONSUMED our lives...but im working hard to get thru it with a lot of support. i couldt afford a detox or rehab program so im doin with my family...and thats my motivation to stay off... i think you have to focus on why you want to quit....Have a goal and a reason for quitting....try an occupy your time... Thank you

I smoked heroin for 2 years and then got on methadone. I was at the clinic for 1.5 years and was at 90mgs on my highest dose. I went down a couple mgs every week after about 3 months of being on 90mgs until I reached 1 mg and left the clinic. I have been doing ok. Only goose bumps and sneezing. I can eat and do what I need to do and sleep. Maybe it's mental, maybe it's not. For me I think exercising and having a positive outlook changes a lot and can make you feel a lot better. Also, I'm 25 so maybe that has something to do with it. Maybe it's that I'm only on day 8 of not having the meth but it seems like a lot of people notice worse symptoms by that point. So for anyone who is reading the blog and is discouraged by what is being said, and thinking they shouldn't detox off the methadone, I'd say go for it and try. I'm doing ok and everyone is an individual and not the "norm".

I really would like to extinguish this whole Methadone withdrawal as the worst when the gods honest truth it isn't.  Been taking pills like vicodin, percocet oxycontin for the past 6 years now for both pain and recreational use.  I got on methadone through my doctor by being flat out honest with him.  Was up to 10 mg pills about 8-10 times a day.  If you want to know what "withdrawal" is, that my friend is where its at, not the methadone.  I take 40mg a day and every once in a while take a few extra.  I ran out 2 weeks early this past month due to theft by a close friend and had to wait till today.  NONE of those symptoms happened to me, except for the depression.  As far as nausea, diaharrea, runny nose and body aches, well i simply didnt feel any of those.  I'm tired of people putting this stigma on methadone cause its worse than these painkillers that practically everyone has in their pocket today.  My point is this,  if you are wanting to get off of the endless list hydrocodone and oxycodone. methadone has changed my life.  Oh, for the alcoholics out there, it will actually curb your drinking.  When I say that I mean when I get home from welding everyday I like to have a few drinks.  I consider myself an alcohol but since I've been on this drug for 9 months its curbed it tremendously.  I hope this information helps anyone out there who is afraid to try methadone cause its worse that hydrocodone and oxycodone, I swear on my unborn children its not.  No more waking up in the morning feening for a pill.  Just take what they doctor prescribes me and enjoy my day.

I have been off and on methadone since 1988, first time round was for heroin addiction that was  5 years on methadone .I weaned down 1 MG a month and stayed clean for 10 years .THEN >>> I had to have 3 surgery's back to back <enter Pain Pills (Hydrocodone) . Back to the methadone clinic ( big mistake)!!I should have bitten the bullet and weaned off the vicos myself. 

You are so right, withdrawal is so bad and they do not tell you that when they incourage you to go on their program. I wish you the best. The web is the only place I seem to get any info and it is all bad news.

Hi, I was on 65 mg a day, for a little over a year. Today I dosed 20 mg, I've been going down 9 mg a day n have two doses left. Last night, i went to sleep later, woke up earlier so all in all i know im gonna be sleeping less but it hasn't been that bad. I figure skate and one thing i noticed is in 24 degrees you dont experience hot or cold. Does anyone know how long im gonna be going through it considering my mg dosage, and time i was on it? I keep telling myself, you have to go through it at some point and better now then later. I just wanna know what it feels like waking up in the morning and not needing anything to function. I envy the people who never came across what i did. But anyways if anyone has any advice please feel free to share, im 22 I lost 4yrs of my life to a drug I might as well have been in jail, but i been free from heroin for a yr and half, but i never counted myself completely sober cause of methadone but i know if i can get away from this im gonna turn my back on it and never look back. That's why i always relapsed before, i always looked back.

I have been on pain medicine since 1998 so I have had a pretty rough time with pills. I went to the methadone clinic in 2005 so I have been there for over 7 years now.

I moved out of state and the closest clinic was 35 minutes each way,so it was a real pain in the butt for me to get used to this after it being 10 minutes away before. Anyways I was on 110mgs a day and decided I was tired of this and wanted to try and get off this c**p completely knowing it was gonna be total hell.

I have gotten through the muscle aches and pains but the last 4-5 nights have been kinda hard sleeping but it is what it is. My post is only meant to let people know if you want it bad enough you can do it because I was an addict from hell.

@Sonia waking up without taking anything is something I have been wondering about myself, especially having to get up 2 hours early to get to the clinic before going to work. It is something that will take some time I guess, hope everything works out for you.

Hey man, I'm currently thinking of quitting methadone, just wondering, I hear day one and two really aren't that bad, but how was day 3,4,5? And how did everything work out for you? YOu probably won't even get this but if you do I'd really like to hear how things went.

curt if your thinkin pf cold turkey don't!!!!I thought I could cold turkey 85mgs for a lil over 2 yrs and im on day 6 and cant do it anymore I have relaped and took some dope to day.i messed up when I should have dosed down