Yes same story. I started with hydrocodone, percocet, and loratabs. Got up to 12/10mg tabs a day....then was smart enough to get on suboxone on and off for a while. Then I was introduced to methadone off the street, by my husband, of all people. It was cheaper and you could take 3 a day and be fine. Until it got up to 8-10 a day. That is 100mg of methadone. I was and addict.
Do not up your dosage ever. I am 53 days clean. It took divine intervention. I spilled water all over my stash of 40 pills. Luckily I had suboxone also. So I took that too soon, your supposed to wait 36 hours, before you take suboxone. With loratabs it is 24 hours.
I jumped off methadone 100mg/a day 6/3/10. Then hell BEGAN. I didn't sleep for 4 days straight. Was taken to the hospital, restrained bc I couldn't sit down and was having panic attacks which actually in my mind I though I was dying. I then was transferred to a psychiatric unit, state run, but voluntarily. Since I wasn't cognizant, I was signing forms I had no idea. I was going through cognitive withdrawal having massive panic attacks, agorophobia, akasthia (unable to sit), memory loss( I couldn't remember dates), auditory hallucinations, and I was basically FROZEN with FEAR of the world. Was drugged with Adivan, Seroquell, all sorts of sedatives. FINALLY got to see a psychiatrist on the 3rd day in the unit. I was diagnosed with BIPOLAR DISORDER with PANIC DISORDER. They pretty much ignored the methadone use, and got right down to what the real reason I was self medicating. There is reason, addiction is a disease of the brain, so figure out what is wrong with yours. SEE A PSYCHIATRIST.
It didn't end there they prescribed the wrong medications that weren't working, celexa, ambien, the celexa was making me catatonic, confused etc. Finally went to see a psychiatrist with 22 years experience, and rave reviews 6/14. I couldn't speak in my first meeting, I was in complete FEAR of the world...they said my panic attacks would last 3 weeks, every day, almost all day. The medication I was given would take 3-4 weeks to begin working. I was prescribed lamictal, and klonopin. 3 weeks on the dot, my life was TRANSFORMED. I no longer feared anything. My life has changed, I identified my stressors, and with help the deeper psychology of the problems. I over the years have had extreme up and downs, social high energy, and then depressive episodes. Methadone kept me balanced, it numbed out the fear, but in turn in ruined my life, and my family for about 2 months. I am in recovery. I am clean after 2 years of addiction. I am thankful, not only to my support system, but that I always have believed in GOD. You must have that seed implanted in you. To know what you are using is not doing your brain any good, it is ruining it. I saw people in this state clinic that have abused for years, they just wander around, and are severely mentally ill.
GET HELP NOW, GET TO THE ROOT OF THE DISEASE, SEE A PSYCHIATRIST. METHADONE withdrawal people die from. There are people that get locked up in jail and don't have their methadone....they have seizures and died. When I went through it, my husband thought I had a stroke, I was saying really crazy random stuff, and had no recollection of it. I saw HELL, I felt HELL, I was in HELL. But I was saved. I looked back to my roots, my family, my religion, and reflect every day. I love life now! I embrace it! I don't sleep 12 hours. I am not under that cloud of darkness. Get off of it as soon as you possibly can, and good luck. If you are on a low dose, try to get back on loratabs and then on suboxone and taper off. My physician had told me I hope you can get off it, most people never do. Blessings, and good luck!
Do not up your dosage ever. I am 53 days clean. It took divine intervention. I spilled water all over my stash of 40 pills. Luckily I had suboxone also. So I took that too soon, your supposed to wait 36 hours, before you take suboxone. With loratabs it is 24 hours.
I jumped off methadone 100mg/a day 6/3/10. Then hell BEGAN. I didn't sleep for 4 days straight. Was taken to the hospital, restrained bc I couldn't sit down and was having panic attacks which actually in my mind I though I was dying. I then was transferred to a psychiatric unit, state run, but voluntarily. Since I wasn't cognizant, I was signing forms I had no idea. I was going through cognitive withdrawal having massive panic attacks, agorophobia, akasthia (unable to sit), memory loss( I couldn't remember dates), auditory hallucinations, and I was basically FROZEN with FEAR of the world. Was drugged with Adivan, Seroquell, all sorts of sedatives. FINALLY got to see a psychiatrist on the 3rd day in the unit. I was diagnosed with BIPOLAR DISORDER with PANIC DISORDER. They pretty much ignored the methadone use, and got right down to what the real reason I was self medicating. There is reason, addiction is a disease of the brain, so figure out what is wrong with yours. SEE A PSYCHIATRIST.
It didn't end there they prescribed the wrong medications that weren't working, celexa, ambien, the celexa was making me catatonic, confused etc. Finally went to see a psychiatrist with 22 years experience, and rave reviews 6/14. I couldn't speak in my first meeting, I was in complete FEAR of the world...they said my panic attacks would last 3 weeks, every day, almost all day. The medication I was given would take 3-4 weeks to begin working. I was prescribed lamictal, and klonopin. 3 weeks on the dot, my life was TRANSFORMED. I no longer feared anything. My life has changed, I identified my stressors, and with help the deeper psychology of the problems. I over the years have had extreme up and downs, social high energy, and then depressive episodes. Methadone kept me balanced, it numbed out the fear, but in turn in ruined my life, and my family for about 2 months. I am in recovery. I am clean after 2 years of addiction. I am thankful, not only to my support system, but that I always have believed in GOD. You must have that seed implanted in you. To know what you are using is not doing your brain any good, it is ruining it. I saw people in this state clinic that have abused for years, they just wander around, and are severely mentally ill.
GET HELP NOW, GET TO THE ROOT OF THE DISEASE, SEE A PSYCHIATRIST. METHADONE withdrawal people die from. There are people that get locked up in jail and don't have their methadone....they have seizures and died. When I went through it, my husband thought I had a stroke, I was saying really crazy random stuff, and had no recollection of it. I saw HELL, I felt HELL, I was in HELL. But I was saved. I looked back to my roots, my family, my religion, and reflect every day. I love life now! I embrace it! I don't sleep 12 hours. I am not under that cloud of darkness. Get off of it as soon as you possibly can, and good luck. If you are on a low dose, try to get back on loratabs and then on suboxone and taper off. My physician had told me I hope you can get off it, most people never do. Blessings, and good luck!
Listen: to all of you people on these posts saying that Methadone is helping you or your loved ones: YOU ARE IN f*****g DENIAL! I was on 90 mgs under a doctors care because I snorted oxy's like it was my job for almost two years. Today is three weeks. Three weeks since I have had ANY methadone and I still feel as shitty as I did when the withdrawls started. I've been through my fair share of withdrawls. oxy and heroin withdrawls are NOTHING compared to this. RUN AWAY FROM METHADONE!!!!! as far as you possibly can. i am only 23 years old and i can't look myself in the mirror. of all of the mistakes that ive made...even using the oxy's.... getting on the methadone is still the worst thing ive ever done to myself. i hope my doctor is eventually sued for even putting people, even PREGNANT ones on this drug. how is it helpful to put someone on a drug thats withdrawls are 472389473829749X worse than what they were doing in the first place. I dont care what you do...go to suboxone, i dont care if you get a bunch of oxys and ween yourself off of them, or even just go through the maximum seven days of oxy or heroin withdrawls just dont dont dontdont dont DO NOT let someone trick you into this BS they call Treatment. methadone is BS.
i was on methadone for 6 yrs bc of a car accident. They say withdrawal is just like heroin withdrawal but its not. I dont recomend drug use but heroin takes 3 days, bad, horrible days to detox but methadone does cause mental issues and i honestly just had insomnia and anxiety. if he only used heroin for a lil while he should just lock himself up and go thru the withdrawal. methadone takes almost 6 months to get out of your system so its a very hard call. 3 days or 6 months??? hes gotta make that decision bc hes just replacing a drug with another 1. and honestly i would have NEVER gone on methadone if i knew id feel like this. i would suggest therapy too bc theirs a reason he turned to drugs. if i can be of any health write me.
Methadone? Methadone WHO?
I used for about 3 or so years and got upto 90mg a day. I quit smoking weed and quit drinking like a fish after starting. Ahhh the Euphoria. Anyway in December of 2011 I was constipated so bad I finally said to hell with this I'm getting off this c**p! My stomach hurt so bad that I went to the doctor because my stomach was killing me. He told me I had IBS and if the pain got worse to go to the ER.
Did I mention I didnt tell him I was taking methadone? Well nope I didn't.
Anyway the next day I had to the go to the ER because I was so freaking hurting! I told them the deal what I took for "back pain". They never asked where I got it or who prescribed it. I thought I had an appendix my stomach hurt so bad! Anyway they gave me an IV and took some blood then did a CT scan. Methadone severly dehydrates your body and makes your body tighten up IMO. Like sucking in your cheeks of your mouth. DO you get the idea? So consider your organs and intestines and what they are doing? The CT scan and blood work came out OK thank the lord! At that point I said NO MO! I started weening down from 70mg. to 40mg overnight! every other day! NO withdrawls really whatsoever! Then I started dropping 10mg a week so by the end of January I was like at 20. Yes I maintained the same low dose for a few weeks constantly. My Stomach and my pooper was still bothering me sporadictally. Now at the end of March I am down to 5 and I can honestly say I havent really had any withdrawls what so ever. UNLESS you consider my aggravating stomach pains or cramps withdrawls and of course my pooper is still messed up. I get cramps and have trouble going to the bathroom it seems. I dont know if my bones are full of dones and its still coming out of me to constipate me or what but man its aggravating. I use to remember when I would stop for a day or so I could just go and get it all out now its not easy whether i stop or not. Regardless I will go on toughing it out and not let it effect me as much as possible. I am breaking those 10mg pills in half at about noon each day! Its really not that bad IMO just mind over matter people! but everyone is different! Some of my "friends" or connections tell me I am a man of steel being able to do what I done. Hopefully one day I will look back and say. "Methadone is what helped me quit living a high life!" instead of it being a negative experience. When life deal ya lemons make lemonade!
dam my stomach is huwrting! :-)
Methadone does cause physical addiction, and getting off of it will cause withdrawal. I really feel the best thing to do is because he's already on an opiate bring him to a methadone clinic, get on a low dose and once he's ready to be clean and get off of the methadone and any other drugs, have them decrease the dose slowly. Please think about doing this. Don't let them get him on a high dose, just enough to not feel sick, stay on that dose for a few months so he's mentally ready to get clean and getting advice from a counselor that is mandatory to study his case, and then slowly taper down. Even if its 1 or 2 mg a month. Go slow so he doesn't get sick and panic and then they up the dose again. Its better not to go up past 60 mg. Stay low and keep the taper slow and get into the meetings. I'm telling you he'll be ok if he can do this. I wish you both the best of luck, I'm so sorry you both have to fight this battle. Bless you both your in my thoughts. Kim
Is there any stuff we can use over the counter to get rid of the withdrawls? I decdied to stop cold turkey, My last dose was yesterday, im not feeling withdrawl sysmptons yet, but i know they are comming...
o yes it is very much so addicting im bout to go through a detox from methadone scared as hell. but i would recommend gettin off as soon as possible and just withdrawlin im gonna try withdrawl ease sounds it would help.
I read this post back in january 2012 i as at 90 mg of methadone i was 120 pounds 6 foot I am now at a clear state 10 mg daily Yes i do feel mild witdrawls I do alot of spiritual meditation and working on creating natural endorphins I know its hard to talk to an addict methadone is not an awful drug but the doctors should tell you the consequences and if your already going threw witdrawl the doctor should just give you 50mg 3 times then bring it down just to clear it sadly most of us on methadone become lifers Im 20 now been on it since i was 16 years old.... i have alot to accomplish in life and being a opiate survivor and spreading my knowledge is key there are so many blind youths getting involved in opiates
I know its hard for family members to talk about issues and if its not, the addict doesn't want to hear it.
If anyone is thinking about methadone you need a plan a self-made plan the doctors in reality do not care they will raise your dose and when you come down say I didn't know it would effect you like that.
I'm at 10mg 1 week now 3 days Ive felt great I'm still waking up to stuffy nose yawning stretching RLS!* mild flu like pain in my neck and head
People that are considering methadone need to know their wit drawls they are experiencing cannot top the methadone wit-drawl
get your dose at 30 mg chronic users may need more time but if you stay at 40 no higher you can manage your wit drawls and not get hooked on the meth.
methadone should be a one month thing to get you over the pain of oxycontin morphine ect , and not a life time struggle
I can say I finally feel good in my head but body wise I'm a old man trapped inside of a 20 year old body
My heart goes out to all the familys and patients I know its hard to deal with comming back to normal/ reality but just don't spend three years on this program!
I woke up to the negative effects when I found my sexx drive was incapable of producing sperm and how insecure i was well on it from there i started to dropped by 10-15 mg a month until i hit 40ty then it was 5mg a month until 20 from 20 i went to 10 mg
I hurt I yelled I cried even lost the only person that made me happy I never told her my whole situation she was the first in threeyears I fell so hard for her was it due to the fact she built character in me ? brought the most sensitive thoughts from the deep to the surface? well in the end she thought i was unhappy and left me
PILLS ARE MADE TO PUT ONE INTO SUBMISSION I AM NO CONSPIRACY THEROIST BUT I HAVE FIRST HAND EXPRINCE WITH EVERYTHING ESP ANTI DEPRESSANT
ever done shrooms and had the thought process of what to do and how to do it right? methadone witdrawl is one big mushroom trip in that way but
I found meditation nd working out cleared my head I find myyself often over thinking a lot of things every moment of the day
I think to myself is this some sort of karma in a way?
since I was 14 I made my family sick by taking their meds from 15-17 i was robbing and engaging in streeet fights is this the pain i put my family threw?
anyhow I've started taking OMEGA3/CELL FOOD / PS and krill to re-route my thinking and brain patterns
-tylenol 1's are the only thing that i can say works but for pain I cannot take it because I will suffer the consequence by loosing my carries
I was going to try lyrica but then I tried DMT! dmt made me awaken and see my lifes purpose I do not condem doing dmt but I do recommend trying meditation mainly spiritual meditation cleansing the brain of opiates flouride ect.
If possible I also found being intimate with a significant other helps calm you down whether its masturbation or with a partner you are letting hormones fly that cannot release its self as in anxiety stress wise
I hope to be in college by 2015 to take SSW FAMILY SERVICES to educate the youth of the danger of drugs mainly pharmaceutical
I can better his world I do not wish for anyone to go threw this hellish life style
THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS ARTICLE WAS TO SHARE MY STORY AND HOW IM DEALING WITH INNER EMOTIONS AND HOW TO DEAL WITH YOURS AND HOW TO MANAGE GOING ON METHADONE-
Methadone is not to get high, and if your not serious about getting off opiates methadone is not your drug you will just end up messing up your self worse in the end
stay at the dose you are put on deal with the mental and physical pain find your higher-power(things that make you happy)
work the program eat fast food /comfort foods
“You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it. You must learn to see the world anew.”
If anyone is thinking about methadone you need a plan a self-made plan the doctors in reality do not care they will raise your dose and when you come down say I didn't know it would effect you like that.
I'm at 10mg 1 week now 3 days Ive felt great I'm still waking up to stuffy nose yawning stretching RLS!* mild flu like pain in my neck and head
People that are considering methadone need to know their wit drawls they are experiencing cannot top the methadone wit-drawl
get your dose at 30 mg chronic users may need more time but if you stay at 40 no higher you can manage your wit drawls and not get hooked on the meth.
methadone should be a one month thing to get you over the pain of oxycontin morphine ect , and not a life time struggle
I can say I finally feel good in my head but body wise I'm a old man trapped inside of a 20 year old body
My heart goes out to all the familys and patients I know its hard to deal with comming back to normal/ reality but just don't spend three years on this program!
I woke up to the negative effects when I found my sexx drive was incapable of producing sperm and how insecure i was well on it from there i started to dropped by 10-15 mg a month until i hit 40ty then it was 5mg a month until 20 from 20 i went to 10 mg
I hurt I yelled I cried even lost the only person that made me happy I never told her my whole situation she was the first in threeyears I fell so hard for her was it due to the fact she built character in me ? brought the most sensitive thoughts from the deep to the surface? well in the end she thought i was unhappy and left me
PILLS ARE MADE TO PUT ONE INTO SUBMISSION I AM NO CONSPIRACY THEROIST BUT I HAVE FIRST HAND EXPRINCE WITH EVERYTHING ESP ANTI DEPRESSANT
ever done shrooms and had the thought process of what to do and how to do it right? methadone witdrawl is one big mushroom trip in that way but
I found meditation nd working out cleared my head I find myyself often over thinking a lot of things every moment of the day
I think to myself is this some sort of karma in a way?
since I was 14 I made my family sick by taking their meds from 15-17 i was robbing and engaging in streeet fights is this the pain i put my family threw?
anyhow I've started taking OMEGA3/CELL FOOD / PS and krill to re-route my thinking and brain patterns
-tylenol 1's are the only thing that i can say works but for pain I cannot take it because I will suffer the consequence by loosing my carries
I was going to try lyrica but then I tried DMT! dmt made me awaken and see my lifes purpose I do not condem doing dmt but I do recommend trying meditation mainly spiritual meditation cleansing the brain of opiates flouride ect.
If possible I also found being intimate with a significant other helps calm you down whether its masturbation or with a partner you are letting hormones fly that cannot release its self as in anxiety stress wise
I hope to be in college by 2015 to take SSW FAMILY SERVICES to educate the youth of the danger of drugs mainly pharmaceutical
I can better his world I do not wish for anyone to go threw this hellish life style
THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS ARTICLE WAS TO SHARE MY STORY AND HOW IM DEALING WITH INNER EMOTIONS AND HOW TO DEAL WITH YOURS AND HOW TO MANAGE GOING ON METHADONE-
Methadone is not to get high, and if your not serious about getting off opiates methadone is not your drug you will just end up messing up your self worse in the end
stay at the dose you are put on deal with the mental and physical pain find your higher-power(things that make you happy)
work the program eat fast food /comfort foods
“You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it. You must learn to see the world anew.”
hi i am ashley i have been coming off methadone for 4 months and i stopped at 5 mgs last friday i have been clean for a week. i only take ambien for bed and my body still aches not as much and my head hurts etc. i have three young children i am doing this for. but at my time of detox i feel like i am disappointing them, while i sit there in pain and watch them play and cannot even think right. everyone tells me it takes forever your story has inspired me i cannot wait to play with my kids and have a normal life. how long did your symptoms last for?
to be physically dependent is not the same as being an addict, i think you need not stigmatize yourself in addition to you pain.
im dosing 120mg methadone daily,,,it has not ruined or destroyed my life if anything it has saved my life and i feel great,,i dont get high from it i actually feel normal like i use to b b4 i got on drugs so no i dont agree with you it will not take over ur life!!!!!!!! i go dose every morning at 6am,come back home clean my house and go bout my day,,unlike b4 i was calling drug dealers and always chasing dope now i dont have to worry bout tht problem anymore.......So i think if ur serious bout becoming clean i recommend methadone but,u no its like any other drug it may not b rite 4 u ,,it wasnt 4 my husband he quit cold turkey after 4 months of been in methadone trmt center,,,he only withdrawl for mayb 6 days,,,,,and he was on 100mg day,,,,and no he didnt take anything but ibuprofen when he came off of the methadone,,the reason he came off of it was bcause it just wasnt for him and yes he was on drugs daily he was taking 15-20 roxy30mg daily and if we couldnt find them we would buy lortabs,lorcets u no the basic pain pills,,,,along with xanax 5-8 daily of the 2mg,,,so no i dont agree with alot of the post i read on this site,,and to all ppl who has never done methadone plz dont put a post on here just bcause u no someone who is or was on methadone!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks alot
I just got off after 5 years and its 3 weeks and I'm still having insomnia and sneezing pain and depression. It's the worst thing I remember ever going thru 5-6 days reeling in pain then diarrhea for 5+ days restless legs then pain from your toes to fingers to head then weeks maybe of insomnia and sneezing I'm there now. I wouldn't go to high on dose even above 50mg I don't think we need it we think we do. I'm waiting praying this ends soon. I'm scared straight though.
I really free with what you said it did help me stand back and see all that I was doing. I did not take this drug to get high that was the last thing on my mind. It did give me the time to see all that I as doing. But the downside to get off its hell, I'm suffering worse than ever I just want off this ride!!!
saved me but also want out,, this year i hope,, find cash and do ibogaine maybe