I have been taking methadone for over a year. I was buying off of the street for about 7-8 months until I felt like I was pretty addicted (definitely psychologically). I was spending way too much money and withdrawing half of the time, so I went to the clinic. I have been going to the clinic for about 5 1/2 months and desperately want to get off of methadone. I was taken to 110mg and have been coming down 1mg a day for the past 35 days. Now I'm at 75mg. I can definitely feel the difference, but am not yet withdrawing. I was addicted to opiates (heroin, oxycontin, etc.) and was able to kick that. I really feel for the first time since I started to use opiates, that I am mentally ready to stop. I am just wondering how bad this is going to be and if anyone had any helpful advice to detox from methadone. I am going to continue to go down 1mg a day until I get to 30mg and then I am going to switch to Suboxone (Buprenorphine). All the while I will be exercising. I haven't been taking methadone for too terribly long and hope that I will be OK. Please, any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ryan
i started out at 90 ml then about 30 mounths ago i went up to 200 ml. on sat and sun .mon thru fri i was 140 ml take more i started detoxing ar xmas 06. i am now taking 80 ml a day
Hello welcome!You are in a god place.dont mind the negative stuff.Just take what you need and leave the rest.First of all how much were you taking a day?
I got strung out on methadone a couple years ago.Only 40to50mg a day went c/t because my access ran out.The w/d's were horrible on just that.I would do what RBC3 says if i had to do it all over.Good Luck.God Bless..............Bruce
I am goin to a methadone clinic and what was suggested for me was to go down 5 mg. at a time every week. so thats what i doin . i am up to 60 mg and next week I'm goin down to 55mg then 5 after that till i am at 5 mgs. Good luck RBC3