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90 Days off of Methadone on Friday!

After 18 years on methadone, I am about to hit 90 days clean on Fri.  If was a rough road but I am finally starting to feel better every day.  Thanks Gnarly - Your post helped a lot at a time when I  was really starting to believe I would NEVER feel good again.  I am actually feeling good enough to actually be proud of myself, after 21 straight years I am finally completely drug free.  I am using the money I don't pay the clinic anymore to make my new car payments every month.  I actually got past my 1st test this week.  I had oral surgery on Friday I had to have 4 root canal & capped teeth removed & I did it without pain killers.  I was miserable for until today, but I did it.  Anyone, who is trying to get off methadone or anything else for that matter, stick with it, it will be so worth it when the misery passes.  Good Luck All!
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Thank you all, I really appreciate your support. Reading that my post gave encouragement to people who are living through the hardest part of the withdrawal process made me feel great.  Reading the board, seeing so much encouragement & seeing others were struggling through the withdrawal process just like me, really helped get through some really dark days. To be able to do that for someone else feels really good. Those of you who are in your 1st weeks of withdrawal, I know that you are living in a nightmare right now & I also know that when you get to the other side it will be worth it. Stick with it - you can do it.
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Thank you for the post, it has been 15 days off the methadone for me,and as long as people like you continue with the encouragement ,the ones who are all going through the hard part will make it too. You know who you are.
Thank you again msdm105.                                                          kc156
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1374653 tn?1289239473
I personally can attest to the fact that anyone, I mean anyone, who can walk the walk away from methadone to a free and clear life is a person that I have incredible respect and admiration for.  Congrats on Day 90!   It is hearing stories like this that makes me continually log in during the day to get motivation and offer help.  Especially like today, where it has been 9 days and I am not hurting as bad as I was, but still in a tight situation.
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1370323 tn?1309994146
Oh thats awesomeee!! I am going through a methadone taper after 8 years. Im on 6 mg right now, and I know if I drag it slow & get my body used to each dose, it makes it a bit more bearable when I jump off of it. I have my supplements from the Thomas Recipe/Amino Acid Protocol, and I look to people like you for the inspiration to get through this! I want so bad to rush it & be through with it, but I know thats not whats best! Congrats on 90 days! I can't wait to be like you soon!!
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518031 tn?1295575374
AMEN..HALLELUJAH....Congrats on the 90 clean mark...Praise God...you are doing GREAT...keep up the great work...God Bless...brian
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Way to go on almost 90 days. After 21 years of using, this must be like a rebirth to you. I have never been on methadone, but have read how tough it is to come off. It will keep getting better from here too. CONGRATS and keep posting.
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Thanks Gnarly!  You do help, through the whole nightmare your sharing your experience & letting me know that despite the hell it would be worth it in the end, gave me the strength I really needed at a time when I was at my weakest & lowest in the whole process.  Your post definitely kept me from giving up & helped to get me to a place where I feel great about what I have actually done. I know I am not done & I still have a lot of work ahead of me, but I can finally see where I am going & it is so great!   Thanks Again & All the Best to You!
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495284 tn?1333894042
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Way to go on 90 days!!  What a great accomplishment!!!       sara
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I am so sorry - I know exactly how you feel right now & I know it is pure hell & that it is overwhelming.  I am going to be honest with you, it is going to rough for a while.  Methadone is one of the worst drugs to withdraw from because it stays in your system so long.  For me the worst of the symptoms lasted about 3 weeks.  Then the symptoms were less intense, but they were still there & I was an emotional mess.  I felt so bad that I could not even be proud of myself - I just wanted to feel better.  I just kept telling myself that I NEVER WANT TO FEEL LIKE THIS AGAIN & that it will pass & that I can do it.  Now at almost 90 days I really do feel so much better & with each day better is working its way to feeling great.  You can do it, just stay strong & remember it will pass & it will be worth it - I promise!  It is the best gift you can give yourself & your son.  Best of Luck!  
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HI and CONGRATS on your clean time....im always so happy to here another one has mad it off the stuff....well you have endured the worst of it....what a grind a ? but now your at the turning point...life starts to get better from here.....after doing it you can see why I say it takes around 90 days to feel better...it is like that for most people but it is so so worth it when you finely get there....your no longer in a fog...that in itself can take some getting use to but life is so much better once you get to the other side ...I just wish it dident take so long
your progress will start to go a lot faster now that your where you are the body/brain begins to heal the energy crash goes away you can finely start sleeping fairly normally and the anxiety finely lets up...in a short wile life will start coming back to ''normal'' if we can ever remember what normal is after so many yrs....life is a beautiful place once again for me....it will be for you also you have done what it takes to recover...get some aftercare if you haven't already...it really does help you recover...im glad some of my posts have helped you...im out here to help all that I can and when I read a story like yours it makes all the effort worth it to me..if I can ever help out in any way just message me...I work one on one with a lot of people...I wish you all the best may the rest of your days be sober you have concurred a monster good luck and God bless......Gnarly  
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Thank You!  And Congratulations to you too! You are so right about not taking sobriety for granted.  This was an agonizing process that started last Oct. & I refuse to ever let myself forget how hard it was to finally make it too this point, hopefully remembering the hell it truly was will help keep me strong.  Thanks again!
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1392428 tn?1280277728
The people on this website and stories like this is making me hopeful. Im still in hell right now at 15 days coming off CT at 120mgs of methadone. Im not seeing the otherside. Im very depressed. Im starting to snap on my 7 year old son. Ive put him through hell and I hope I cant get through this for him and myself.
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1253584 tn?1332877954
great post! congradulations on the big 90 days. thats awesome!! it is alot better living clean and sober. u dont realize it until u come out of the fog of the drug use. im 33 days clean and im loving my sober life. ive been doing things i havent done n years. i never thought id make it this far or if i was ever going to see these days again. man am i glad i stuck with it. ur right it is so worth it.... but remeber we always have to have our guard up and can never take our sobreity for granted. congradulations again.
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