Methadone for percocet addiction

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Avatar f tn Hi, I'm new to this site, so please bear with me. I'm a pain pill addict, percocet 10/325. Prescribed 3 a day, but take 8-10 a day. When I'm off of them I'm very sick aandhurt all over, I can't take it. I have a lot of things wrong with me, that's why I take my meds. I've thought about going on methadone, it's suppose to be great for pain and help with withdrawal symptoms. Also heard it's very addicting. Please can someone help me, I can't keep doing this.
Avatar n tn I have been on narcotics for pain control for the past 9 years. Starting with vicodin for TMJ chronic pain then to percocet about 3 and 1/2 years ago. About a year after that started receiving morphine, fentenal patches, then methadone and now oxycontin to use with the percocet. I just had a 2 level neck fusion and have more back problems to be fixed. I am currently going thru 180 pec 7.5 /325 just about evey 2 weeks and then making it the other 2 weeks till the next doc appt.
Avatar m tn I've been taking percocet for a few years now for chronic pain. My doctor prescribed me methodone for the pain. If I stop taking the percocet & start right away taking the methodone will I go through any withdrawals?
1462531 tn?1287846753 I have been haunted by addiction since I first started percocet about 6 years ago. Started out with 5mg tabs. I was up to 15s then 30s. Next I went to the OCs. From there Morphine and anything else i could get my hands on. I new that I had a problem so I thought the Methadone clinic would be the answer. I was on 135mg a day, feeling great and thought that I was doing good. Wrong!!!!!!!!!! When I decided to come off of the Methadone it almosy killed me.
Avatar m tn I STAYED ON VICODIN UNTIL A SHOULDER INJURY REQUIRED SURGERY ABOUT FOUR YEARS AGO AND AT THAT TIME I WAS PLACED ON A HIGH DOSE OF PERCOCET BY MY DOCTOR. I STRUGGLED WITH THIS ADDICTION.....ORDERING IT OFF THE INTERNET, DR. HOPPING, ECT. UNTIL I FOUND IT HARDER AND HARDER TO GET OFF THIS MEDICTION. SO I MENTIONED MY PROBLEM TO MY ORTHOPEDIC DR. HE HELPED GET ME IN CONTACT WITH A PAIN MANAGEMENT DR. WHO ALSO HELPED PEOPLE "GET OFF PRESCRIPTION PAIN MEDS".
1182733 tn?1264121299 Never heard of using methadone for coming off a percocet habit. The methadone wds will be just as hard if not harder than percs. Not a good idea. How many mgs of percs were you taking?
Avatar n tn I am on Methadone for chronic pain management. Did you try any other drugs first? it's a little strange if you did not try any other medications and they put on Methadone to begin with. Did you discuss that with the doctor? Methadone builds up in the system very quickly in some people. I just started taking it 2 weeks ago. I was very weak, very sleep. My blood pressure is normally low but it dropped to 115/50. The Methadone built up so quickly in my system.
Avatar f tn I have had a constant headache that started after I stopped the percocet for 12 hours and now is continuing on the subutext. Anybody been on subutex and have had a similar speedy reaction, or double vision ?
Avatar f tn t really matter how or why we started because when it comes down to it addiction is addiction and we are all out to accomplish the same goal and that is sobriety. If you feel comfortable enough you could fill us in on your "story". No one here will judge as we have no right too. We have all walked the same path here. You will be surprised how similar your story probably is to others. It does help to get it off your chest. Please stick around no matter where you are at in your recovery.
995438 tn?1251758280 I started having extremely painful gallbladder attacks witch i went to the hospital for and was treated with Demerol witch at that time knocked me out. I have 5 attacks and 5 shots and 5 prescriptions for percocet. Shortly after I had my gallbladder removed but in-place of it was an addiction to painkillers. Around the same time my back pain problem got extremely worse and after trying everything else I got percocet and fentanyl patces. It all started with one pill.
Avatar f tn Ok.......many years ago I had an Oxy addiction. Successfully came off with methadone and successfully tapered off methadone as well and had been clean for around 10 years. Fast forward to about 3 weeks ago. I had pretty major surgery and was prescribed Percocet 7.5/325 (60). In about 3 weeks I've been through 210 7.5s. I'd take more than recommend dosage for the first few days of the script and then taper myself down to about 4 a day. I'd refill and do the same again.
484378 tn?1209905892 if they ived the morphine or im the morphine u should feel relief right now and not be sick at all. Hang in there and do what is necesary for you to quit.
Avatar f tn s when I took advice from a friend neither of us knew about the dangers of methadone or anything else other then it could be used to help my addiction with Percocet...I swear methadone is the demon...I would've never checked into a methadone program if I knew then what I know today about methadone...when I called my counselor at the methadone program she told me to come back...that I can't do it without them...but I'm on day 6...how crazy would it be for me to go back!!??
Avatar m tn I deal with chronic pain, I am wondering what to do, should I ask my doctor for methadone because its used for chronic pain and doesn’t abuse the liver like opiates do. I think if I were on 40mgs and took it as a split dose, where i took 20mgs in the morning and 20mgs in the evening would work. With opiates, you build up a tolerance and soon the perks wont work. Whereas methadone you don’t build a tolerance for it and it helps with pain.
Avatar n tn there is a ton of info in the health pages at the top of the forum
Avatar m tn After finding this site and reading several of the posts I just wanted to get on and vent a bit. Started the patch several years ago after trying various other (Percocet, Methadone, etc....) methods to control leg pains due to artery/vein blockage below both knees. My vascular surgeon does not want to operate due to my extensive heart history. Went clear up to the 100mcg patch and just totally felt like sheet. Moody, tired, anxious. You name it, I felt it.
445312 tn?1205376479 please try the methadone clinic it sounds like it may really help you although i dont suggest staying on methadone for a long period of time as this drug also is extreamley hard to get off i have taken roxicodone and thought they were verry strong please keep posting and let us know how you are doing .
1563401 tn?1296593413 s when I took advice from a friend neither of us knew about the dangers of methadone or anything else other then it could be used to help my addiction with Percocet...I swear methadone is the demon...I would've never checked into a methadone program if I knew then what I know today about methadone...when I called my counselor at the methadone program she told me to come back...that I can't do it without them...but I'm on day 6...how crazy would it be for me to go back!!??
Avatar n tn Hi I am new to this- but I am desparate- my husband has been on percocet,oxy,moraphine, and methadone. His drug of choice is percocet- he is at this time perscribed methadone and percocet- however, we discovered about a year or more ago that he had been abusing all of the pills- now he will take the moraphine or methadone as perscribed but when he gets the percocet (which are 10/325) and he gets 150pills at a time- he will take them in a very rapid manner not as perscribed.
Avatar m tn ether one will get you there methadone is not a get out of jail free card it has its vices now if your slamming heroin its better then that but what is really going to change your life is aftercare I use N/A and A/A 5yrs6mo ago to break free from alcohol weed and everything else recreational for my methadone addiction a substance abuse conslor has been the right fit I will be a yr clean in 7 days from methadone you need to treat the illness or your just going to stay on the mery go round going f
Avatar f tn The only way I could figure out how to join ya'll is to post a question...I became addicted at age 42 to a prescription of percocet (shockingly. Never a drinker, partier, nada) and admitted myself to an inpatient facility that worked wonders in 2005.. Became very involved in N/A, stayed clean but relapsed a year and a half ago so was advised to try a methadone clinic.. I was detoxed on methadone for the first three days of treatment and no dt's!..
Avatar n tn some old people i see at work/elderly without addiction problems/ put down 40 mgs a day without wd but do not have an addiction problem methadone is just a narcotic..not a dirty word...used in germany originally for pain until the us picked it up for a detox drug giving it a nasty name...sub was also a pain med called temgesic til the usa picked it up as a detox med/will also be a nasty word soon/...
199177 tn?1490498534 you got MMT methadone treatment program, that wuld be for more severe addictions not for hydrocodone,vicodin, percocet addictions, more severe like heavy amounts of H or oxycontins, dilaudid, the super potent opioids, then you have suboxone(buprenorphine 8mgs and 2mgs Naloxone tablets) and Subutex(buprenorphine) treatment which will work for any severity of addiction, it works the best as far as success reates go for addictions to vicodin, percocet, oxycotnin, and not super heavy addictions, but
Avatar f tn Has anyone been through testing baby simply because your on methadone?
662972 tn?1270166301 works, but i truly believe that suboxone treatment works for extremely motivated addicts or less severely addicted addicts, like a vicodin or percocet addiction..for the more potent and heavier addictions and longer you use and higher the dose methadone is a better choice, both are long term treatments...thats jsut my opinion, everyone reacts and responds differently, so...