Day 3 off Methadone....what should I take?

[DestinyM]

Hi all.  

I'm 3 days off of methadone and hurt like a mother f***er!!!  I have a 13 yr, 2 1/2 yr & 6 month old daughters I have to drag myself to even remotely come close to taking care of.

I can fill my suboxone script tomorrow.  Until then, I have klonopin, adderall and adivan in my medicine cabinet (oh, and flexeril as well)  what would be the best one to take (I will take minimal possible) to at least aleviate SOME of the discomfort and pain until I can start my suboxone tomorrow?

I was down to 9mg methadone when I took my last dose on Tuesday.  NO, NO, NO, not looking for a high or anything like that, all that will do is make the suboxone NOT work.  I just have 3 girls, two of which NEED me and I can barely move or stop crying because I hurt so bad.

Advice and help is greatly appreciated!

[kkirby]

I always found it was easier to push myself through a quicker detox.
Vitamin C helps your body get cleaner, quicker.
Its difficult detoxing, I know, but sometimes it helps to get through the worst of it as fast as possible.  There arent alot of things that will help with the pain.
Hot tubs are an excellent help, if you have access to one, it will help with alot of the aches.  Heating pads and hot baths will help as well.
It is important to keep care of yourself while detoxing, this means pushing yourself to eat.
Sometimes its difficult to fathom eating, but this is essential to ones health.
Sleeping pills dont often help through the night, I suggest something that will calm you.
Celestial Sleepy Time Tea and Tension Tamer are a great way to relax, or try to.
If you are unable to deal with it and need some kind of meds, your best bet is a muscle relaxer. This will help with the muscle aches. Though not entirely.
Before ones jumps to other drugs, keep in mind that there are several botanical remedies, its just a matter of getting a hold of them.
If you incur a relapse, and find yourself detoxing again, keep these things in mind.

[mr.lucky66]

sorry, Ican't make the linc turn blue if you type in "xmethadonian4u1" in the you tube search box you will see a video I made called getting off methadone 2 and this has some more info on  a methadone step down on sub . How long were you on methadone?

[mr.lucky66]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdTaEPUZxDg

[mr.lucky66]

yes don't take the speed and the benzos at the same time I did that before and it was diasterous. The shorter term sub may be a good step down from the methadone and here is a linc to a video that has more on this all the best
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdTaEPUZxDg

[DestinyM]

Thank you!

NO, I was NOT going to take all 3 of them!!  Sorry, should have clarified that.  Those are the 3 in my home and I wanted to know which one would help me feel just a tad bit better so I can take care of my kids for an hour or two until my MIL gets out of work and can take them.  Methadone should be pretty much out of my system with the extrememly low dose I was on.

I'm starting on 8mg sub a day and then tapering down from there.  We're looking at a 3-6 week complete detox from the sub.  I've read of some that take 32mg of sub a day so I'm very grateful to be able to start lower in order to end quicker.

Just need to function for a few hours for my children.  This is so not fair to them.

[worried878]

u r now speaking of 2 benzos and an amphetamine/amphetamines r not physically addicting but mentally very addicting/like cocaine/ and the mental part of getting clean is the toughest part of the whole scenario...all extremely addicting...we r all different and u gotta do what u gotta do..do know the drugs u r on can present new problems and wd.....it may be good to cut out 2 of those meds...and stick to oone of the benzos for sleep if need be/but talk to a dr before u decide anything..mixng drugs on ur own can have dangerous outcomes....i would choose the klonopin out of the 3 listed if i had to choose/but if u r starting sub tomorrow i would throw all of those out with a big FLUSH!..the thomas recipe is great..skim the health pages and learn about ur addiction..but i do know that taking addictive drugs like the ones u listed is not the way to overcome an addiction...ur plan is to get on sub???be safe as it is also a very powerful narcotic and addictive as well..they say 21 days or less on sub is not addicting..some will argue that point...but if u get addicted to the sub u will be right back where u r now///addicted to a maintenace drug/methadone and sub are both maintenance drugs//both highly addictive and have wds that last a long time
educate urself..the health ages r full of info..when u start the sub i would doubt they would recommend any of the drugs u listed while u r on the sub..especially it is not good/dangerous/to take benzos with methadone..u need to make a plan..aftercare has got to be part of it as it sounds like u r in this very deep..do wat u gotta do to get clean..just always be sure u r moving forward..try to never take a step backwad..and u will feel it in ur soul when u take a step backward

have u planned any type of aftercare?  keep us updated..and please be safe