Heroin Addict in Need of Some Help Someone Who Has Used Methadone Before Please?What Would You Like to Ask?
Question by marie: Heroin addict in need of some help someone who has used methadone before please?What would you like to ask?
I started withdrawls and could not help but to take my methadone for the first time since prescribed it.
I was always scared of the methadone withdrawls since I. Heard they were longer and worse to kick than heroins withdrawls. When I started heroin I would smoke 3-4 grams a day. I had the money to do so so I felt like I had the right to. Now that times have changed and heroin has completely ruined my life I can sometimes be lucky to come up with $ 100 and buy myself a gram and have a good day. Most times I can get anywhere from $ 20-$ 60 worth of heroin. So let’s say a range from .2-.6 of heroin a day. Is taking 50 mg of methadone too much for my first time?
Please serious answers seeing as how I already took the 5 pills of 10 mg methadone.
Very much appreciated thank you
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you should quit both of those but since you cant do it cold turkey switch to weed it is safer
Answer by Jay
I have all the sympathy in the world for you, because I have been in your shoes…sort of. I was hooked on various and assorted narcotics for a long time, oxycontin in particular, but I never got on the heroin simply because it just isn’t in our area…yet. That’s the only thing that saved me from it!
Anyway, I did the methadone maintenance program through the local clinic. It has not been easy and it has not been quick. In fact, it took me a total of three tries to get it right.
The thing with done is that it allows you to deal with the withdrawal from the oxy or heroin without having to deal with the withdrawal symptoms.
The idea is to take the done, get on a level and stabilized dose, start getting your life together and SLOWLY taper off the done.
If you are able to stabilize at say 50mg of done, and then you wake up one morning and say “well, I’m feeling ok right now, I’m only going to take 25mg today…” You WILL go into done withdrawal. And methadone withdrawal is NOT fun at all!!!
The onset of withdrawal may take a little bit longer because methadone is a long acting agent. it actually stores in your body.
this also means that it may take a couple of days before you actually start to feel a great deal better. it just takes a little while for the methadone to get in your system. And it leaves the body slower too.
this among other reasons are why it is absolutely imperative to reduce your does slowly. the clinic where I attended recommended reducing the dose by no more than 5 milligrams over and span of 3 to 4 weeks. at times I was able to reduce a little bit faster, at times I was forced to go a little bit slower. everyone’s body is a little bit different.
but please believe me when I tell you that your body will let you know if you are reducing your dose to quickly.
in the future when you are able to reduce your does to say 20 milligrams, then it would be a good idea to only reduce your dosage by 2.5 milligram.
as my doctor explained it to me, try to think of it in terms of a percentage:
once you are able to reach 20 milligrams, if you reduce your dose by 5 milligrams, you have reduced your dose by 1 quarter. if you are at 10 milligrams, and drop by 5, you have been reduced your dose by 1 half. and that is just entirely too fast.
in your question you stated that you were concerned about the withdrawal symptoms of methadone.
if you are careful, and if you reduce your dosage very slowly, it is possible to eventually stop the methadone with a few or no withdrawal symptoms.
I simply cannot stress enough that the keys to stopping the use of methadone is to reduce your dosage very slowly.
as I learned during my second attempt in rehab, we did not become addicted to these narcotics over night.
therefore it is impossible for us to recover from our addictions over night.
the methadone maintenance program that I attended, was in theory a 2 year program.
because I was too foolish to follow medical advice it took me much longer. I found myself reducing the dosage to quickly, just because I was tired and aggravated with going to the clinic all the time.
this caused me to begin experiencing withdrawal symptoms and eventually into relapse.
methadone has been used for many many years in assisting heroin patients to stop using heroin.
success rates for those in methadone programs have far better success rates than those addicts who decide to try to quit cold turkey.
what you are proposing to do will be very very difficult. but it can be done.
I wish you all the best in the world.
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