taking oxycodone with methadone

ve been taking methadone 10mg twice a day with oxycodone 10mg for breakthrough up to 3x daily. My wife was telling me she thought the methadone had been making me not care about life the way I did before being switched from morphine to methadone. Anyway, I have a lot of problems and still don't know if the med. switch is related to that. To get to the point, I decided to try pull away from methadone after my doctor really wasn't getting it(he just wanted to lower dose).

Were you taking any immediate release medication like the oxycodone with the methadone for breakthrough pain? If so, what was it?

the only thing you need to do tos tart suboxne is not take any oxycodone for 24 hours prior to taking your first dose, so realistically your detox could be for only one day and you could realistically skip having to go through detox all together.

I've been taking oxycodone mixed with methadone for the past year. It has recently become unavailable to me & I was forced to stop cold turkey. It's been 11 days without it now, & I've developed some issues over the past week. I can not sleep, day or night. I've gone through withdrawls before, but never had sleep issues. I'm tired, & I go to bed at a decent time (between 8-12 pm), but I just lie in bed with my eyes closed a night.

The problem is your primary -- they're not trained to deal with high doses like this. You'll need to find a pain management specialist to rethink your opioids. Your huge tolerance to oxycodone will not be helped by additional oxycodone. A real pain doctor might rotate you to another opioid where you'd get more relief with a lower dose. You also could use alternatives in treating your back pain -- PT, interventional pain management, a pain psychologist.

storage in your tissue--and more importantly, the half-life of Methadone is (on average) 25 hours (13-47 hours), with peak absorption in 4 hours. However, Methadone lasts for approximately 25 hours for the average patient, BUT there are a few of us who have taken it every 8 hours to reduce the amount of Methadone needed (for pain management), by reducing the zig-zag effect of depleting and replenishment of Methadone within our tissues.

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. I had to drop to 1/2 pill at a time. It can suppress your breathing but only at higher does. Be careful with it.

I have been taking Methadone for many years at 120 mg. daily. i also take Oxycodone 30mg. 4/daily. I am wanting to change up my meds due to high tolerance...any thoughts on Opana ER? This discussion is related to <a href='/posts/show/1021891'>left butt check pain that continues down my left leg</a>.

ve taken 60 mg before except I did not take the methadone at the same time.But, only 60 mg did the trick, with methadone in my system, but not taken at the same time. How close am I to overdosing? What IS the deadly combo? I just know this: 70 mg of methadone is great for my feet. But my shoulder? Doesn't touch that pain. It's acute. Now what?

Hello everyone, I have never posted a medical question online before and am hoping for some advice. My boyfriend and I have been taking oxycodone for about 5 years now. The past 3 years has been heavier use- about 100mg/day. Today we went to a methadone clinic because it was the only option to treatment that we had heard of. While we were there the doctor said he was legally inclined to provide us with other options.

I have a friend who is prescribed methadone and 5mg oxycodone. And I always thought methadone was a opioid blocker. So wouldn't that bock the oxycodone??

i dont know what to do i understand that no matter if im on oxycodone or methadone my baby can withdrawl off both.my question is if i slowly taper myself off of the oxycodone n make it so i only have to take 2 a day would it b safer to stay on the oxycodone or to get on methadone?im also conserned about switching my meds while i am pregnant..i know this question is all over the place but thats how i feel..

Oxycodone is pretty strong and sometimes has unusual side effects similar to this - my wife for instance was taking oxy, and she went totally nuts after a short time, same with dilaudid - so much so that I had to ask her doctor to find something else for her. Methadone, although there is so much negative publicity, is an excellent pain reliever, and the only one she could take after demerol had become ineffective. She was allergic to morphine, fentanol, etc.

I cannot say how oxycodone will make you feel in comparison with methadone. I can however, share that in my experience, oxycodone is a much less debilitating medication. It causes less somnolence than methadone, and is not as effective as a pain medication. For some who get great analgesia from methadone, other medications can help with the side effects. For example, I used ritalin for the years I was using methadone.

Hello there! I live in Washington state, my daughter is currently taking methadone and it's not a problem with pharmacies here, not yet anyway. From what I have read from other members and their posts; Florida is difficult regarding methadone. I wish I knew more so I could say more to help you. Currently, you are doing the only thing you CAN do - call around until you find a pharmacy that dispenses your medication. You could also call your doctors office for info.

I have been on methadone 80mg and oxycodone 30mg for almost 5 yrs for chronic pain and in the last yr it seems that the medication is only making me feel worse. Everything all the time now hurts. All of my daily activities are chores even doing things with my kids.I want my life back. I have gotten to the point I dispise methadone for what its making me feel like, I no longer just have misrable back pain now, i have head to toe body pain 24hrs a day. I have spoke with my dr.

I just saw the prescriptions that my mother is taking. Methadone, Oxycodone, Klonipin and Tramadal. If she is taking all 4 of these drugs I suspect she needs to be professionally detoxed. She has been loaded for years now. She really can't function anymore. Any suggestions? She has fibromyalgia. I don't buy it, but, this is her story. Is this typical to prescribe this combination?? It seems over the top to me.

how much oxycodone is needed to switch from Methadone 80miligrams to Oxycodone?

I was actually thinking earlier that when I was on methadone it worked well for the pain. I think it worked better than the oxycodone 30mg that I am taking 4xdaily now. I did have some problems with pneumonia and I got more UTIs when taking it, but I have asthma and smoke and have UT problems anyway. If you haven't tried methadone, it might work for you. It is an opiod med like the others.

yes but only for less 5 days i came off of oxycodone and I was clean for 2 weeks then I found some methadone i had hidden I toke it friday sat sunday then I took oxycodone on mon and tues I tried to take suboxtone wed and I felt like crap so I took more methadone yesterday and this morning 20 milligrams do you know how long it take to get adicted to methadone

Taking oxycodone with methadone

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