Methadone withdrawal medication

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) I have been prescribed Valium for my depression and insomnia BUT my question is that If I choose to taper down from the methadone and try to get myself OFF of all opiates of any kind - will taking the Valium help me with this as well as withdrawals? I want my life back and there has got to be another NON opiate medication to help with my pain so that I can stop depending on Methadone. Any help or advice?

I am not going to lie to you and tell you it is an easy thing to do because it is not. Medically, your body has become accustomed to taking that medication and even though it is not an opiate it does the same thing. I suffer from chronic pain which resulted from a back injury. I too felt the need to be gone from these medications. If you ever have any questions, post them here. People will help you through it and you can do it.

Can you recommend any nutrients or homeopathic remedy which will diminish withdrawal and help me get off 80 mg of Methadone cold turkey? I'd be very grateful for any suggestions you can offer.

understand what your going through, I really believe with methadone withdrawals the answer is time, but theirs a few things one can do to make themselves more comfortable, such as warmbaths, clonidine, melatonin for sleep, taking vitamins, eating healthy, & having a positve attitude. Also taking street methadone will only prolong the process of detoxification.

It would be nice if members of the medical community had offered as much info. before I made my choice to use methadone.

Yes it is possible to stop taking the medication. Hopsing is correct, due to the long half life of Methadone you will not even start to have withdrawal symptoms till day three or so. If you want to stop taking the medication consider doing it very slowly, those who have the most success do a very slow taper, reducing not more than 10% of your dose every 21-28 days. If you start to feel serious withdrawal symptoms you are going too fast.

my partner was prescribed methadone for withdrawal from heroin in march 2008, he was on 225mg to stabalise him a day. Now he is down to 12.5mg per day and has decided that he wants off. the problem is he is epileptic and has to take medication for this daily. Can anyone please tell me how bad his withdrawal maybe and what advice can you give me as should he still take methadone but drop slowly or stop altogether.He hates the stuff .

I have had 4 different doctors prescribe methadone. The last one I've had for about 3 1/2-4 years,and she was my pcp. She would only do 1 thing at each appointment and not very well, if I got sick the day before my meds refill and asked her to look in my throat or ears, she would say" Do you want your pain meds, or for me to look at your ears?" She found cancer in my paps smear in Oct of 09 and has done nothing about it, including doing my mammogram.

I applaud your resolve to get clean, but want to caution you that methadone is a long acting narcotic and your withdrawal symptoms will stick around for quite a while. You will feel rotten for as long as four to six weeks. There is really no easy way of detoxing from home. I have dealt with hundreds of addicts who have all told me horror stories of doing it by themselves. I would only guess that if are successful in doing it at home you don't end up in my clinic.

against forum rules. methadone has a long half life. you will need to taper slow.the lower the mgs in methadone the slower you have to go. cold turkey at 20mgs is rough. you should taper down to about 5mgs before you jump. look at the health pages at the bottom right side of this page. the amino acid protocol is good and there is also some info pages on methadone. we are here to support you and encourage you. there are alo of people on here that have tapered from methadone.

I am now taking (not prescribed) 5-20mg methadone per day as I couldn't cope with some withdrawal symptoms. Suboxone is not available to me in New Zealand & my GP prescribed zopiclone 7.5mg for sleep. What can I do to get off methadone, minimising the terrible heart palpitations & breathlessness that are the only things I can't cope with? Please help as I desperately want off this drug!

Im helping my husband with a at home methadone detox before he goes into a year long christian rehab program. He has been on Methadone for 8-9 months. He was on 60mg and started detox on short notice. He went down 40, 20 then 10 all in one week. He stopped taking methadone Sunday (its Tuesday). He tried a facility for detox but they had some funny business going on so he is at home now. He has me and 4 other people watching him constantly.

oxycontin - I find that taking them as prescribed keeps me fairly stable, but the side-effects seem much worse than methadone so far...I'm probably suffering a bit from methadone withdrawal since I suddenly switched medications (methadone to oxycontin), but fortunatly I still have a few methadone tablets left to ease the transfer - I'm alternating methadone with the oxycontin to try and stabilize myself (oxy is hard to sleep on, so I take methadone in the evening).

I think Ultram is a bad idea for just about anything but drugs like darvon and clonidine can really help somebody coming off long term methadone, if used properly like in a medical setting. The most important thing is when you start to feel better don't take any dope so you don't get hooked again and have to go back on methadone.

It's the way he took you off them. as well - I found my inability to disolve opiates long before my junkie life - perks made me sick as did T3's. So my withdrawal was longer as well. BUT, and its a big BUTT, it could be just the method he used. I would look at Suboxone as a helper. It's an orally released patch that helps and the withdrawal are seriously minimal. Talk to your doctor about this. You've been hurting to long.

sub would be an option I think he has been off long enough to induce it normally they wont unless your below 30mg so it might be hard finding a doctor to do it if you can he could stay on sub for 90 days and get past most of the methadone withdrawals but then you got sub withdrawals to go threw and there is no telling how he willl come off that ......

the suboxone will rip out what it can of the methadone from your receptors, and instead of the suboxone filling your receptors, and stopping withdrawals, the suboxone and the methadone (in a sense) fight each other off leaving your receptors empty, causing immediate intense withdrawals...

There are many stories of how people quit, but for me it took 3 accidents ( all of which I was high and drunk ( how I didn't get a DUI I don't know ) and my wife leaving me. I lost my business and went to rehab. I had to withdrawal from the methadone and then 12 days later had to again withdrawal from suboxone. I think the suboxone was worse to WD from weird as it may sound. By week 3, I was fine.

I am in the midst of methadone withdrawal after being on it for 4 years. I tapered down to 5 mg. without much trouble but at that point had my first dreaded 'night of terror' where I wasn't able to sleep. So I decided this would be a good time for the breakaway. It has been a week now and the symptoms have lessened. I went through cold sweats, back/body pain, flu symptoms, cold symptoms (including fits of sneezing),skin 'crawling', diahrrea, and the anxiety/ sleeplessness I mentioned.

I've been through different opiate withdrawals and i must say that methadone withdrawal wasn't as hard as i thought it would be, honestly. The bad thing about it is that while the symptoms aren't as intense per say as detoxing from oxy or heroin, it lasts so much longer. I actually went cold turkey off my benzos on the same day, not by choice, but because i ran out a week early on my 1m 3 times a day klonopin. There were several things that i did to try and help with this detox.

I have gone through methadone withdrawal and it was absolutely the worst kick I have ever had in my life. I also was addicted to heroin at one point and methadone withdrawal makes heroin withdrawal look like a walk in the park.

Is methadone worse than other Opiod medications to quit taking? How long to symptoms last? Are the prolonged QT intervals worse during withdrawal? My husband was prescribed methadone when we lost insurance and he couldn't get nerve blocks, now I'm worried bc he's ready to quit taking them.

The point i am getting to is how safe is it to withdraw while being preg.? I do not want to hurt my baby anyway, please help! I have a friend who stayed throughout her pregnancy on methadone, her clinic told her if she were to withdraw she would lose her baby. Is this true, i took my dose down already to 20 mil a day.

If you give birth to a baby while still on methadone, baby will go into withdrawal a few days after delivery if you do not breastfeed because of methadone level falling in his or her bloodstream. Breastfeeding while on methadone has been done, but there have been reported cases of respiratory arrests and deaths in infants while breastfeeding from mothers taking pure opiate agonist such as methadone. There are better ways of approaching your situation.

I was on methadone for 3.5 years. Started at 30mg got to 170mg in 5 months. Started a taper on September of 2009 at 5mg per week till I got to 10mg at the end of April 2010. Quit completely on May 5th 2010 and have been nothing but misserable since. My life revolves around lying in bed all day feeling like I'm dying. What fun. Been 23 days and still suffering just as much as ever, if not worse because my mental state is questionable at best. No sleep, tough to eat and the rest is just bad.

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