We shall see tomorrow.

I was on 40mg of lortab/perc a day for a year. Last Thur I stopped taking them and tapered with methadone.
10mg
6mg
6mg
3mg
2mg
2mg
1mg
and tomorrow none. I felt bad on the 5th day but have not any other excluding boredome and cravings. I have worked out every day, ran 1 mile each day and drank lots of gatorade. Lots believe I will experience WD's when I stopped taking methadone. I am hoping to have curbed them a good bit at least by ending on 1mg of methadone compared to 40mg of lortab a day. Keep in mind the methadone was a 10mg (the smalles mg I have ever seen for methadone) pill I broke into ten pieces and flushed the rest! I will let yall know.
Thanks for the support.

[avik7]

good luck and keep us posted. keep working out, running, and drinking that g-rade, and anything else that will kepp ur mind off it. im 18 days clean from lortab and i feel great. i tappered with suboxone! days 3-5 sucked for me after not having anything, but now im good. i just think about the tabs a lot. keep ur head up!

[buckeyehaven]

I think about them but I really wanted to quit. I wanted that feeling of sober and loving life. I think I might have stopped just in time. 5mg doses would still get me high but not get me high. I didnt like them and they made me less energetiic whereas they would give me energy and I loved them when I first toook them. I have had 6 phonecalls since thursday with "friends" saying I got some tabs, oxycontins and percs for sale. Never accepted any. I flushed the 9/10ths of the methadone yesterday. I hope it does not go so smooth that in a month I can be like wow i wasnt addicted boy i want a pill and i can take it b/c I wasnt addicted....so far the worst part was the worry of how I would feel knowing I was going to quit last thursday since early July.

[buckeyehaven]

Dammnit another call for Lortabs! still denied.

[kim715]

I'm so happy to hear that you're doing so well and you're exercising and you have such a positive outlook.I know you said before you're prepared to feel a little w/ds  so it sounds to me like you have the right mindset.I wish for your w/ds to be minimal and for you to soon be free of everything and go on to lead a happy healthy drug free life.AWSOME willpower turning down those offers and flushing the rest of that pill.....Peace....Kim

[avik7]

i know how u feel..it seemed right when i quit everyone and their momma was calling me with the hook up. i still have acess to 180 every two weeks. so of course i think about them...not so much want to do them tho. its always like that n the beginning..u feel so good and all energetic then all of a sudden u hate them but cant stop taking them. it sux. im sure u might have minimal wd's. i did anyway. wasnt anything i cant handle. i wanted to be clean so bad tho. well it seems ur pretty serious, so just keep a positive attitude and keep ur head up. u can do it!

[buckeyehaven]

Thanks. I will keep you posted. If I do have WD's when I should I feel them I was taking the methadone 2mg in the moring for two days then today I took the 1mg piece at about 7:45 am. I actually forgot to take when I first woke up  which surprised me b/c that was the first thing I would do to get out of bed on the lortabs was take one! If they have a 48 hour half and I took 2mg yesterday and 1mg today do you think by tomorrow afternoon I will feel them if I get them? I will say I have been having trouble sleeping but nothing as bad as what I read.

[kim715]

Methodone actually has an up to 72 hour half-life,so if you are going to feel anything it will be within the second or third day after taking your last dose.You haven't been on it that long so I doubt you're going to have to really deal with methodone w/ds,but the methodone has most likely been maintaining you,so I do suspect you're going to feel something.Don't get yourself worked up about it though.Deal with it when it happens ,if it happens.Stay strong.......Peace......Kim

[avik7]

i quit taking the sub on the 20th. and i would say i didnt start feeling the wd symptoms until the 22nd or 23rd. it was really bad for about 3 days starting from when i started to feel bad. i just wanted to jump outta my skin and i had rls like a son of abitch. i took valium those couple of days just to help me sleep. i drank lots of gatorade, took tylenol, pepto, and immodium, and did things to keep me busy. but it wasnt anything i couldnt handle

[buckeyehaven]

how long were you on the Sub? I was only on methadone for 6 days and the last 4 were 3mg 2mg 2mg 1mg. which is like 1/50th of wwhat a methadone addict would take a day.

[avik7]

well i started taking it for like prob close to a month and i actually started to abuse it. bc if u take enough it will make u feel high. so i decided to get 2 more 8mg subs and 1/4 them up. i tool 1/4 a day for a 8 days straight and then when i ran out that was it. wheni decided to quit i had been taking like 2 or 3 mg subs, and i had to left so thats why i just stuck w the 1/4s. so u should be fine.

[buckeyehaven]

Avik, thanks for you help. I am hoping so. Did you feel this in your timeline?
Day 1 of the methadone didnt feel anything since I took 5mg in the morning and 5 at dinner
Day 2 took 3mg morning 3 dinner. I felt bored little depressed and cravings. Day seemed to last forever!
Day 3 the same little energy
4: 3mg in morning only  Had some trouble sleeping, uncomfortable and boredome.little energy worked out and ran though
5 2mg in morning only was the worst for about a 6 hour period. Depressed,bored no energy, no motivation and cranky. just ran
6. 2mg felt much better ran 1 mile
today when I woke something felt different I was happy and hadnt taken anything yet. 1mg at 7;45 then worked out ran got haircut washed car worked then about 2 hour period of day 5 hit. Right now my feet hurt real bad but not sure if that is from the working out. no leg cramps or RLS. Sleep has been I wake up every 4 hours but get about 8 a night since I started this taper with night 4 being the worst and last night. I didnt take any benedryl those two night either though..hmmmm

[buckeyehaven]

After a long talk with my best friend he is teliing me I was not addicted to pain pills. I quit smoking 12 days ago also quit drinking red bull. Besides dont smoke green or any other drug. Not big on drinking since I had a fake ID since I was 14. My fiance and I will go out on special occasions though. I just didnt like drinking on the pills though.  Plus I have had my share of drunken days before I was even 21. I am wondering if I was addicted to the drug or the high. Like I mentioned a 5mg still got me high but a 7.5 was very close to being that 5mg. I took one every 2 hours to feel good. I could however not take one and still function. Sorry to keep asking questions but would like to be educated on this.
Thanks

[avik7]

well if u think that u are addicted then u prob are. i was taking 50-80mg at one time. it might not be as bad of an addiction compared to some people. but if u feel like u need it and u dont feel normal if u dont take it then that leans to addiction. my mom and dad tried to say that i wasnt addicted too. im guessing to try to make me feel better, but let me tell u...i wanted to rip my skin off, bad stomch pain, rls, i mean everything. remember i didnt feel any wd until like 2 or 3 days later after being off the sub. it has a hald life so it lingered in my body and after it was gone is when i started to feel the effects. i started doing drugs at the age of 14 and im now 23 but it didnt really become a prob until like 2 yrs ago. i mean some people wanna say its all in ur head..but if u even think u might have a problem then most likely its there even if it isnt a BIG problem...u know what i mean?

[buckeyehaven]

I feel ya, I am 25 and been taking pain meds since I was 20 off and on, never ventured to much into others. I was a young enterpriser so I was always around several drugs but liked money better. Besides smoking I have only been addicted to making money. I have a career, buy foreclosed properties, trade stocks, private interest in a local company and thinking of more ways to make money. I am going to say I am addicted but maybe I nipped it in the butt before I got real bad. Like you said how much you were taking at once, if I took more than a tab 10 I would be fu()ed up, plus I would be pissed I spent all that money at once. At the same time a 5mg wasnt quite as strong as it was.

[avik7]

yeah i was also a cokehead at the age of 14 until 18. i was the girl that hung out with the older crowd and got a lot of drugs for free. my tolerance just built up so much so fast. i started my own cleaning business about 4 months ago, which is going good so im glad im off the pills. u are going to be fine. just be strong if u do start to have wd's. if i can do it, you can. and the whole taking so many at once i have acess to 180 pills every two weeks that i dont have to pay for so it was easy for me just to pop them like candy. i mean i still had to buy oxycontin and other pills but lortab was free. just keep ur head up and stay strong