Methadone Uses

Question by jenna: What can I do to make methadone withdrawals easier?
I have been on methadone for 6 months, gradually decreasing my dose to get off this stuff.. I was on 5mg about 3-4 days ago, and had to stop because im going on a trip sunday. Im not sick to my stomach but my body feels warm but I am constantly freezing. The restless legs has turned into a restless entire body. Hot showers help a little but is there anything else I can do? Will this get better or worse as the days go on? If it gets any worse, how can I make traveling on a bus tolerable?
I forgot to add the constant fatigue and the fact that my legs burn just walking up the stairs..

Best answer:

Answer by Frank B
Unfortunately this could continue for some time, weeks even. If I were you I’d try to last it out. I think there are other lesser drugs that you could be switched over to which would ease you off it more gently. Might be worth checking out.

Answer by DynodiKk
Look. I weaned off 200mg’s of this stuff and am off it completely. I was on it two years. When I weaned off it I did not sleep for 4 months straight. I could not walk, And the leg burning is a typical acute opiate withdrawal symptom that gets so bad in the lower legs it feels like there is a fire in your bone marrow. The fatique is very typical and take a lot of vitamin C and B-12 and B-6. And when you buy it make sure you need whatever else you need to make these vitamins works. I think B-12 just needs protein to work. It has been a long time since I was in school.

5mg? that is it? How long where you on this? I need to know how long you were taking it how much of a dose and this can go on up to two weeks or more. Just 5mg’s though I doubt it. E-mail me at [email protected].

You can take L-tyrosine a amino acid, you can buy Milk thistle ONCE the drug is out of you for three days, eat a bunch or proteins and go to the health food store and buy a vitamin supplement called Emergen-C. Also fish oil everyday and or flax seed oil. These supplements are endorsed by a doctor.

DO this for 6 months man! eat proteins like crazy, your cells need to re-build themselves and proteins are the building blocks of amino acids.I think. Drink V-8, Carrot juice etc. Proteins all govern the proper way in which neuro transmissions from the brain that regulate everything, getting you back to normal in short. Although this might not be the medical way to put it. It is right.

The milk thistle (You must buy this) aids and brings your liver to normal function and will clean the crap out, Methadone leeches vitamins out of your body by slowing down metabolizim. And it’s constant grab on receptors fools your body into thinking you are fine.

See, what you must realize is after the third day of not having Methadone, there is still some in you, so as it gets depleted you are going to withdrawal harder, the first three days are actually the easiest. But 5mg’s is nothing. I took a 80 mg cut right off the top of my dose but it does not matter, your pain is your pain but I am only saying this because it can be much worse. If your walking up stairs my friend, you are fine. I couldn’t get out of bed for two months.

IIf you can take Darvocet and I mean like TWO a day at the most for just 2 days ONLY, do it. If you can tolerate it only!

It is the exact same thing as Methadone minus a oxygen atom or vise-versa and will help but DO not take if it gives you heart issues, and do not use more than two days at twice a day. And that takes a lot of balls for me to mention that but it will help. It is just not good advise because Darv’s mess with people SO, take only if you know how your body responds to it.

EDIT: and remember these supplements are not miracle cures. In other words you are not going to take them and feel like you pushed a button. 6 Months of Methadone has long term effects on the body and how your body functions. It will take time for your body to get back in sink and have your brain (Pituitary gland) make endorphins again properly) this is the real deal.

This is why I encourage anyone that is on Methadone and can do it without huge increases all the time (Or any other disruptions of normal living) to just stay on it.

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