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Using Marijuana While on Methadone

By kma61005 | 79 posts, last post
Iliriana Bisha Tagani, MD answered this Methadone - Uses, Dosage And Side Effects
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Thanks for the cogent post. I was recently switched from OxyContin to a low dose of 10mg/day for chronic pain. My research suggested that it would help my pain better than a fentanyl patch. I electronically vape a CO2 extracted oil that I am able to purchase easily as I live in Colorado. Can you describe the side effects you've experienced? Thanks!
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If you've been on methadone for years under a pain Mngmt and if you just smoked done very lightly and when they test will it show
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Look to me like he was saying coming off his methadone and now wants to give up weed as well, it's a fact that marijuana affects u very differently while on methadone it almost intensifies the methadone or opiate feeling and when a person stops methadone marijuana affects u as it would if u had just started smoking weed makes u feel paranoid and just totally different ESPECIALLY if ur actually in withdrawal which comes with tapering off of methadone
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Yeah withdrawal lasts about 2 months AFTER coming completely off of it I was prescribed methadone and klonapin got into a little fist fight and went to county jail for ten days for being found guilty of assault , anyway the county jail would not honor my prescription of either ! And I wasn't there long enough to get in to see their Dr so I was coming off of 60mgs of methadone and 6mgs of klonapin a day I had seizures from the benzo withdrawal and all the affects of opiate withdrawal after my 2nd seizure they released me the next morning due to overcrowdedness but like I said I had already been there ten days I was sentenced to do 14 so I really am not sure if I got a early release because of me being so sick or if it was really just due to overcrowdedness but needless to say I was still in very bad withdrawal and had to get both medications that same day as soon as I got released and my plan was to take advantage once they told me I couldn't have the medications for 2 weeks in my head I was going home and staying off them once I went 2 weeks I'm thinkn I'll be good but the withdrawal I was in thr was no way I could have the meds right in front of me knowing they would almost magically take all those symptoms away and not take them ,bout 6 months ago I got off the klonapin and I tried to get off the methadone but I failed ,relapsed and went back up so I'm still to this day on55 mgs a day but I am starting a taper of 1mg a week and I have no choice I've got to do this as slow as 55 weeks is gonna go taking it so slowly that way is the only way to go if u wanna succeed
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You're right about that! Methadone isn't the long term solution in my humble opinion
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I wish you all the best my friend.
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Yes when I tell you. I did it. I walked in the house opened my door and lost control of my body. I literally opened my eyes and I was on the floor and I had knocked things off my drawer. Never again.
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IAm on methadone for pain control at 30 mg a day. It has been weaned from oxycodone, OxyContin, then put on fentanyl patches 150 microgram every third day. It kept me closest to pain control than anything else. I'm on a low dose of methadone which doesn't always help with the pain and I am under stress due to family problems and getting use to the methadone from fentanyl patches. Family have encouraged me to try marijuana to help with pain and anxiety. I'm scared
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I'm n done and was having horrible tooth pain. I don't smoke normally but I took 3 hits that day it took the pain away but while I was finally ready to go to bed pain free.. I realized I couldn't breath correctly and it freaked me out. However I realize now that it was me being completely stoned and paranoid and anxious that messed with me breathing and and was not physical at all. It was not fun. Im sticking to ibuprofen next time.
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u should give up the methadone n keep the weed. weed is way frikkin better for you
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My soul has also been taken by 10 yrs of Methadone use. It can slowly ruin your mind and soul. I'm not even gonna get into the paradoxes involved with methadone use like being told methadone is better than heroin for getting clean. Its harder, takes months to a year to complete and the pain is unbelievable. All street drugs are dangerous cause you never really know what's in them, but dia-morphine ( clinical heroin ) is safe, doesn't attack any bodily tissues or organs unlike methadone which kills you little by little. The problem in the US is the lies. We are told the problems are related to the use of heroin when the majority of crime, theft, arrests are because people can't get heroin
So the problem is not having access to clinical meds that could easily be tapered and the patient could be free in a month! 1 percent of people who have been on methadone over 5 years get off. That is innaceptable. The methadone system is archaic. Dia-Morphine treatment is the future and is already in use in the UK. Watch thetruthaboutheroin on you tube. You will see over 50 percent success rate at their clinics cause they treat the patients like humans and care less for stupid old regulations then a persons life. Its amazing the US docs for the most part know nothing about the revolution in addiction treatment in Britain. I believe the reason is part shame, part ignorance and a bit of pure meanness...

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Your message answered some of my questions for being on this site. I have chemotherapy induced neuropathy.& suffer from c**p. So my dr. Said about 3 hours in between the method and the weed. I do have my medical majajuana card. I am. On the low dose of it 10. Q 8 hrs . I rather have maryJane but unfortunately this b***h neuropathy is stronger than the MJ so I have gotten that side effect. Hard to breath it's scary as hell. I just lost my daughter age 33 to accidentally overdose. But I need my weed to functions.

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Did start out with 50/60 mg of methadone? Or was it a gradual increase? I started on 5mg today for chronic pain. Just wondering if that's enough to help. I also just started smoking pot. So you're info was very helpful.
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I was on the M. juice for 12 years , 120 mg. , was of in 6 months. Trick is to stay BUSY . You you can't get off then don't beat yourself up. Use supplements, vitamins these will help replace nutrition when you can't eat
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Hey your post described myself exactly. Been on it 6 years now. Was on 80. A few good years doing coke. Then pills to come down. But now I have almost 3 years away from anything but weed. I have no idea what it’s like to feel “normal” anymore. I wake up everyday. Sick. Weak. Throw up say once a week. If I try to stop smoking pot the withdrawals symptoms are unbearable. I’m so sick of feeling like sh*t everyday. I’m on 115 now and am afraid to come Down any ml. I end up relapsing. And it’s onlt now 6 years later that I have my life back. My son. Family. Money. I just don’t no what to do. Is there any advice on how to feel better. If I get my drink in the morning. I’m not myself in the evening. Don’t last long enough. And if I get it in the evening the next day is brutal. God damn it. It may have took 6 years. And 3 good years. But methadone has got me my life back. Well I guess it’s methadone. So for that It most def worked. I was a oxy junkie for 5 years. And compared now till then. My god what a difference lol. but I understand when people say there soul is gone. Mine as well. So it’s a catch 22.
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