Methadone for oxycodone addiction

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Avatar m tn 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
Avatar m tn well yes I do agree that it is trading one addiction for another, methadone or suboxone are much healthier for you as well as it being monitored by your doctor or a clinic. it is possible to quit an opiate addiction without things like methadone or suboxone but it is difficult and has a high failure rate. some people can do it and only do it once and stay clean for the rest of their lives while others like myself need the help of these medications to fully kick the habit.
Avatar m tn Welcome to the forum! It's great that you recognize addiction is the cause of circumstances. Just think, if you get clean and get into a recovery program.....ALL those life circumstances will turn around for the GOOD and you'll only be 28 yrs old! Since you said you've been using for over half your life, you're gonna need to learn all you can about addiction....
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 Sub only makes sense for you as a step down (temporary) from methadone. Methadone as you know is very hard to get off of and even tougher for 18 years but it can be done. It's makes no sense to switch to sub to stay on sub from meth because meth is a better maintenence drug. It makes a lot of sense to use sub for 6-8 weeks as a step down from meth. There are outpatient clinics that specialize in this for methadone patients and give you meds for when you get off the sub.
Avatar f tn I have been addicted to oxycodone for the last 2 yrs and am trying to stop. I have been taking up to 180 mg a day and am looking for some advice on how I'm going to do this.
Avatar m tn This is a forum for addiction. Not supplying. Go somewheres else please. I understand you left your oxies at home. But please respect this is a forum for addiction. Not to keep using. If you want help and want to stop then join us. If not please respect our forum. This kids fighting for his life. Did you read thru the post? Good luck.
939983 tn?1262528060 I had been on the oxycodone for five and a half years, and within two days of taking 10mg methadone every four hours and using the oxycodone 15mg now every four hours for breakthrough pain, the methadone is working SO well that I don't even have to take the oxycodone every four hours, and when I do, half a tablet (as opposed to two tablets, which is the dose) is enough to control the breakthrough pain. I never would have believed it, but it is AMAZING!
1087566 tn?1282448730 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>.
Avatar f tn But they find it difficult to spend the money to actually save their lives once and for all. Think about it. Your son finds the money somehow for the drugs and the booze on daily basis. Does he work? Does he have major medical? If he does, there is an injectable shot of Naltrexone called Vivitrol that is completely covered by insurance that will keep him from both using Oxy and alcohol. He does need to be Oxy free for seven day. Yes, cold turkey.
Avatar f tn 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.
Avatar n tn I have been on a high dose of oxycodone for Lupus for the past 8 months. I take up to 150 MG a day of oxycodone, I am trying to get off because I feel as if I don't need the meds anymore, I have found a different non-narcotic to help ease the pain. I am not pain free but the oxycodone is worse than the pain I am in. I can't seem to get off the oxt though, I am experiencing extremely bad withdrawals, and I can't seem to get any help from my doctors.
Avatar f tn s useful for extremely bad drug addiction and for certain kinds of pain. My mother-in-law was given it for the last couple of months before she passed away from lung cancer. They had her on high doses of oxycontin and oxycodone during most of her treatment but in the end it wasn't helping and she had terrible bone pain. They switched her to methadone and it worked well. But she was never going to have to come off it. YournTHc use will likely be a problem with most doctors.
1017452 tn?1254904998 It is so hard to tell major problem is how addicting benzos can be .However coming off of methadone is hell .I would ask him for the bottle of them so you can keep an eye on how much he is takeing .
425312 tn?1279966179 If a patient is on the Methadone for medicinal reasons, it will be easier for the patient to recover from the withdrawal symptoms, but if the patient has a mental addiction, the patient will be faced with craving to withdraw and take the Methadone as an out. Fortunately, Methadone does not have the same level of euphoria as do other chemical compounds, but nonetheless, it is still significant enough in the patient’s mind that it may not matter the chemical side.
917008 tn?1251223979 as for dauladid I never came across that and I was buying pills on the street for years. I always heard it was most similar to heroin. When I was on methadone it was most similar to the heroin high but safer.
Avatar f tn Hello Wanda, Welcome to our Pain Management Community. We are a membership of Chronic Pain patients. We are not addicts. I think you'll obtain better responses and more information from our Substance Abuse Forum. Here's the link: http://www.medhelp.org/forums/Addiction-Substance-Abuse/show/77 We don't carry "lists" of PM Clinics. I encourage you to do a internet search and see what you can find. It may take some phone calls. Good luck to you.
Avatar f tn t like what I have heard about Suboxone, so I have just decided I will wean slowly, there is no rush for me to be off methadone, although I wish it was just done and over with. What I wanted to ask of you guys is this thing I keep reading about....... depression and anxiety that seems to really hit people hard, it almost seems like it is worse than the physical withdrawal itself.
1708849 tn?1308063972 I take oxycodone and tylenol 3 w/ codeine for pain but you people with chronic pain like me need to be careful with addiction. So methadone is not a cure for RSD/CRPS, fibromyalgia period.
Avatar m tn 13 days ago I stopped taking 180 mg of oxycodone and started take 30 mg of methadone which i tappered down to 5 mg. I took my last dose 39 hours ago. My fiance just left me 5 days ago and I am severly depressed can i take xanax?
1774104 tn?1314215207 I had an allergic reaction to a medicine that I was prescribed for migraines and on Easter of 2009 I literally died. I flat-lined 3 times and was in a coma for 18 days. Then out of the grace of god a doctor came into my room in the middle of the night and decided to try to Eckmo (sp:) machine on me. IT WORKED! Thank goodness I did wake up and although I had to learn to eat, walk, speak, etc. all over again. All of my organs are 100%.
Avatar m tn In your opinion and i hold you harmless of any and everything what dose of methadose should i start with to get off the 200 mgs of oxycodone,then the next day dose and so on and so on for how many days until i would be somewhat OK and not get hooked on the methadose.