Methadone Withdrawl

[dustincnj79]

I am on 70 mgs of methadone for about 2 mos now.  I am planning on quitting cold turkey and just wondering when the bad withdrawal symtoms start to take effect.  I was only able to get 7 days off work and I want to plan it so it start the first day of my "vacation".  If my first day off is saturday when should I stop the methadone like Wednesday or Thursday?  Any information would greatly be appriciated!!!

[IBKleen]

OK, I understand hun. Can you taper down for a little longer before jumping off?

Don't get me wrong, I do not suggest anyone stay on, or take drugs, However, I do want you to STAY clean and my fear is that you will try cold turkey and be in such discomfort that you will be back..to something. so, can you do that?

[ajg3333]

i was on it about 8 months it is so hard because no one knows and i have 3 little girls to take care of

[IBKleen]

20 mgs is still a high dose to come off of. Were you on it a long time? And you do know it has  long half life, that is why you didn't feel it the first day.

[ajg3333]

well i have not had any since friday 20 mg but today i felt like i was dying. i took one halk of a 30 mg roxi

[IBKleen]

You will definately prolong the withdrawal hun. How many mgs are you coming off of?

[ajg3333]

does anyone know if loratabs or roxicodones will help with methadone withdrawals, or will it just prolong the withdrawals

[motleigh2]

hey dust,i am getting ready to do the same--as far as quiting the M-done. i've been taking 20mg a day for 2months, maybe a little longer.i had planned to cut back to 10mg a few days,then 5mg.a few days --then quit. from what i've read- med info,(not the forum) they say pretty much the same thing>> "W/D's come on slower,last longer, but are not as bad on W/D's as the other opiates" "the worst suffering in other opiates (morphine,etc) are over after 5 days, but M-done can last 7-10 days" that's what "they,the books" say--honestly--i don't what to think or exspect. i took my last 20mg last night,so i'm gonna do some more research before i start feeling bad.i'll get back with you.write me if you want>>what kind of work do you do? you may be able to go back in a week..

[Britney83]

my goodness please don't do that! I cannot warn you enough about what you are doing!!! I did it...! i was on 80mgs a day for one month and i went cold turkey and i cannot ...CANNOT explaiin how painful it was!! it took me 3 months to withdraw from it...the first 3 weeks were absolute hell!!! the pain of withdrawls began to peak at 10 days....it took about 3 days before i felt the full onset of withdrawls... i stopped taking them, and by day 3 it was bad, and progressively got worse and worse...by week four I finally got more than one hour sleep...i literally did not sleep for 3 weeks straight...nothin..no cat naps no nothin..it was awful..and the mental part of it is where it got really REALLY bad..my brain felt like it was withdrawing, all twitchy and achy and hot and cold, and tired but wired awake...my hands and legs were screaming and i could not lay comfortably, i had to lay on my hands and one night my boyfriend tied my legs to the couch to see if that would help...to no avail...anyhow..PLEASE wean...i've been clean now for almost 6 months and i would never touch pillls again...so in that sense the withdrawl was good for me...but i also lost 30 lbs. and was literally in the wost state of my life during that withdrawl process...i ended up in the ER 3 different times because my blood pressure was so high....it was not fun...either way i wish you luck and if you have ANY questions please PLEASE ask..lots of informed folks on here....britney

[IBKleen]

Why aren't you weaning off? That is huge leap you are about to take....