Methadone detox at home

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1753425 tn?1312423082 I have a few options now. I need help deciding if i should go into inpatient detox or try to detox at home. I have ga medicaid so that gives me a few options though not many. I've been praying, meditating, excercising, etc to keep my mind off the withdrawal. I need some advice from someone knowledgeable in this area. I just want to feel normal again.....
Avatar f tn You dont get into a detox program unless your dieing sick. I can stay at home, take nausea meds, benedryl for sleep. The only thing I feel is this pain.
Avatar m tn m trying to detox while at home. I have brought myself down to 10mg a day, 5mg in the am and 5mg in the evening. this is the end of my second week. I'm feeling the effects of w/d but very mildly before I even get out of bed in the morning, nothing too bad but I can tell its from cutting down. They say once you go down to 10mg or below is when you start to feel it. I guess my fear is being so sick from it that my family notices. , and all the side effects I felt the last time.
Avatar f tn Thank you for your feedback...I would prefer to detox at home but have been advised by a G.P that it would not be ideal for my daughter? I have gone to all of my relevant doctors for advice but there doesn't seem to be one doctor to understand all of the medical problems I have at the moment...
914879 tn?1243610887 I am addicted to opiates. About the end of 2006 I went to a Dr to go on suboxone. I thought it was the miracle drug and I was going healed/saved etc.Well two years go on and I've only up the does instead of decreasing it. It was effecting my eye sight and emotionall like I just wasn't happy. Well when insurance wouldn't cover it just got to damn expensive. So I decided to go on methadone just a couple of months ago.
Avatar f tn I feel very strongly that methadone is not the best choice for drug treatment during pregnancy. I am sure you want what is best for your baby and so do I. Methadone is an opiate, very long acting one and very addictive. You are still opiate dependent and if you continue to be on methadone through your pregnancy, your child will also be born opiate dependent. Your baby will be in withdrawals after birth and will have be spend time in the Neonatal ICU to go through those withdrawal.
Avatar f tn m getting off everything narcotic -have dr appr tues with a family practitioner who helped me get off 150mg methadone cold turkey 5 years ago at home- with the use of catapres , lomotil and paxil, buspar, klonopin and restoril -can it be done? I've never gotten off pills before only been using last two years -but I got off heroin cold turkey -and then years later methadone cold turkey -anyone know how it will be comparativly?
Avatar f tn I was put on methadone for pain management also was given 10mg 3 times a day to start with after a few months of being on it I refused to take anymore spinal shots and the doctor told me you ether do the whole program or none of it we had a falling out and I to wound up at the local methadone clinic....first off methadone is methadone it still works for pain the problem is you build up a tolerance to it like any other narcotic...
Avatar f tn Today is day two of my methadone detox.. I was taking 110 mgs at a clinic, they were bsing pretty much and wouldn't let me taper down when I wanted to so I'm quitting cold turkey. I feel extreme chills and this morning I awoke with a very achy tummy . again this is only my second day.. I started on tuesday. I'm wondering if anyone knows when the worst of it usually comes and diminishes? I stocked up on sports drinks, bananas, pretzels, broth, and Peptol bismol.
Avatar n tn t get off this methadone soon my fiance is going to leave me and destroy our family. Ive been trying to detox at home but its not easy so I tried to tapper off and its taking to long. I'm down to about thirty mg a day and I want to stop cold turkey but I want to know if there is anything I can take or do to help with the withdraw symptoms?? The last time I tried to detox I couldn't get out of bed. I was depressed my stomach ached and I had no energy at all.
Avatar m tn i'm not sure which opiate your son is taking as you did not specify above.i have detoxed off of lortab & percocet at an earlier time. those are the lower end opiates & the best thing to do would be to taper him off but, that's only my opinion. i was on a methadone maintenance program they had me up to 135mgs and i tapered myself down to 10mgs for 2 months then jumped off cold turkey. methadone is compared to the street drug herion but has a longer half life meaning...
Avatar m tn and start my treatment detox at home. i do have a gp doctor.and i think he can do the buprenorphine program.
1737294 tn?1310645625 I do have a support system at home. I jst dont want to have to go to a methadone clinic every day or something. I just want to do it by myself. I am very determined and know I can. Or what is the best way to go. should I go to a psychiatrist or just call a bunch of clinics and ask if they would help. Doe's anyone know where the best place to go in Vancouver, WA is. Any help is much appreciated.
Avatar m tn Regarding my vacation at home detox, I made it 3 1/2 days. Couldn't sleep, eat and lost almost 10 lbs and just couldn't cold turkey it. I am going to discuss this with my doctor. Very anxious and in allot of pain and have no real support system. I recovered and still in recovery from alcohol in 2007 after a very intensive inpatient program. I just can't loose my job or life over this wicked addiction. Sorry. I am trying.
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
1021643 tn?1265573848 I am now at 130 mg methadone and the money to detox is no problem, and I will not waste 1 year with withdrawal from 130 mg to 30 mg and then.....? I will take low dose naltrexon-depot for some time. I have been 5 years clean after rehab and I know that to stay clean is much better than methadone/subutex.
Avatar f tn it was a inpatient detox. I am at 28 hrs....... a little worse....cant even think of a hot bath for muscle aches cause I am sweating with chills, shiverig actually. I will get the vitamin water, and also ensure and hopefully thomas recipe tomorrow. Did get down a half of a bagel today. bf will be getting dinner soon so I will eat more. thank u everyone so much for the help and advice you have given me. Thank you even more for the encouragement!