Methadone wafers

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Avatar m tn I HAVE BEEN ON METHODONE PINK LIQUID AT A CLINIC, THIS WEEKEND THEY SWITCHED ME TO THE WAFERS I TAKE 100. 2 AND 1/2 WAFERS. I WAS FINE AT THAT DOES BUT NOW WHEN I TOOK THW WAFERS SAT AND TODAY I AM HAVEING WITHDRAWS WHY? ITS SUPPOSE TO BE THE SAME RIGHT ?
Avatar n tn hi welcome well there are several names for the methadone demon but its all the same stuff ive seen the metadose pills and was on methadone for a long time 6 1/2 yrs If your considering it..my advise is RUN THE OTHER WAY....
Avatar f tn Methadone and methadose are the same medication. Methadose (40 mg and above) comes in wafers/tablets that can be broken in halves or quarters to reach the required dosage and can be dissolved in water before taking if needed. Methadone tablets/liquid are taken whole.
Avatar m tn ) Methadose (Which is a brand name) also comes in orange wafers that are 40mgs a piece and scored for easy breaking. There are a few generic wafers that come in 40mg per tab as well. And if this wasnt confusing enough as it is.... there is also another brand name known as Dolophine. Dolophine is simply Methadone Hcl in an actual pill form, not a wafer. It comes in 5mg, and 10mg strengths.
Avatar f tn I started with pain pills and started to go into withdrawals and with the help of a so called friend I started to use Methadone wafers to help with the withdrawals, and now I am having to start withdrawals from both. What is the first step.
1641357 tn?1470495393 My husband was taking 4 wafers of methadone a day and when he wouldn't have those he'd take 7-10 xanax bars. He stopped taking both pretty abruptly about a week and a half ago. 3 days ago he took 4 yellow bars. About 2 days prior he took 3 footballs to try to help withdrawals a little. Around that time he started acting weird, kind of out of it. Now he's screaming crazy things, talking gibberish, saying weird stuff and repeating same thing over and over.
1337425 tn?1278173987 I see so much posted about this, but was just wondering whether suboxone or methadone are any good for pain?
Avatar f tn Many people taper off methadone milligram by milligram over several months, while others prefer to just get it over with & jump off at higher doses, either way ya do it, theirs no avoiding the symtoms of withdrawals, not with methadone. I titrated from 90mgs down to 2mgs, by tapering 2mgs per week, this took almost a year & I never noticed much difference untill I got under 10mgs, this was when it got a bit tough, but I kept going untill I hit 2mgs this is when I stopped.
Avatar n tn No. 30 methadone (correct for mg's - 5mg, 10mg tabs or 40mg wafers...makes a difference) should not create weeks of withdrawals......however, you must remember these were to 'ease" wd's from 5 years of hydrocodone. - - - You still need to be proactive to shorten the affects as much as possible. You cant just walk away from 5 years of hydrocodone with zero consequences either....... But you can put the pills and the unpleasantries behind you....
Avatar f tn Is it easier to detox off methadone when you haven't been taking it for more than a year???
Avatar m tn I cannot seem to keep the wafers, or barriers as some call them, attached. The stool just pushes up and out and makes the wafer come off. It does not drop in the bag like it is supposed to. I am taking 400 mg of stool softner and miralax per day to try and soften things up as the doctor told me this should help the situation. I have a recessed stoma, it does not poke out. I have used concave and regular wafers, but not used the belt as I do not like it.
Avatar f tn The xanax was to be taken with the loratab for break through pain in between the methadone wafers. I was on this for eight years. Doctor passes away. New doctor puts me on 4 methadone 10's a day. 4 loratabs and the 4 xanax. Cut it that much in a one month span. It was 8 months before I got used to it.
Avatar f tn Personal experience and objective data tell me that Roche tablets are best, and that there are no inconsistencies between the brand and generic wafers. The wafers have little room for error, as they are very rapidly absorbed. Binders and fillers in tablets are all subject to variation (depending on the manufacturer), which likely affects absorption, and subsequently, onset of action, AUC Max, BA and BE. One day, I intend to write a post with my objective findings on this subject.
Avatar f tn i was addicted to opiates for a couple of years and now have been going to a methadone clinic for about 18 months. I am on 100 mg per day. I have now decided that id like to try to get off of it but am in no rush to do so for any reason. i began going down on my dose last week- the dr says we will decrease my dose by 10 mg every 5 days, consistently. I may be wrong- but isnt that a little quick?
Avatar f tn My doctor prescribed me these vitamin d3 wafers that I'm suppose to take weekly since my vitamin d is a little on the low side and he says vit d deficiency can cause several birth defects. So I've been taking Replesta vit d3 for 3 weeks now its one chewable tablet per week & just now I just read on the indications and use sheet "NOT TO BE USED BY PREGNANT WOMEN". Says it can cause heart defects in fetuses amongst other things. I dont know how to feel right now.
Avatar n tn In regards to the water, yes I have been their, done it, but the only reason was because was being dosed by a nurse while on was on what they call, the wafers, they are big white methadone pills not something you wish to swallow whole, thier much to big, other then for that reason, I see no other logical reason behind his friends advise?
Avatar f tn i was told by a nurse that my family life would improve.well my life as a iv herion user stopped and my life as a methadone addict began.there is 1 pro to methodone-it prevents the effects of methadone an pacifys the ugge to use.its a antagonist that binds with the opiate receptors therefore causeing a block and a sence of may i say-loosing the impuslive urge.now what di it do bad.please read if you dare condiser methadone.its sideeffects obn the body are devistating.
Avatar f tn They're pretty good because they work a lot faster than the pills, and they don't taste bad to me. They just dissolve in your mouth and go to work! I take them when I can't control my anxiety any other way, but I must say that for some reason the pill form seems stronger even with the same dosage. This could be because of what they mix it with. If you don't like waiting an hour on the pills, then the wafers are a good choice. They are also a bit more expensive (just a bit).
Avatar f tn I am 12 weeks and have terrible morning sickness and nausea. the wafers are all that works. i am having trouble getting a script larger than four wafer or tablets. its really started to drive me mental. i am having to go to the doctor every four days just so i am able to function for work. any suggestions on how to get around this problem??
7510956 tn?1411671417 s Ginger Trips (or the wafers) for my nausea and/or stomach ache. Dizzyness, they are good for all those things, great you discovered them. I'm not finished with my tx.
Avatar m tn Hello and welcome to all to ingage in a intellectually based discussion on the PROS + CONS of the therapeutic and recreational use of Methadone. I john K on June 4th had a hip replacement.Post operative i had a Morphine Drip for post operative acute pain.The next step was 2 percocets every 4hours for breakthrough pain this was for 2-days Morphine and i was hospitalized for a total of 5-days pills and methadone for the whole 5straight days.
Avatar n tn Wafers are expensive and cannot be cut. You can cut a .5 mg tab into fourths easily. Each fourth will equal .125 mg. I have taken a long slow taper and have had no withdrawal yet. Hope it continues. Hope you can be successful also. good luck. Ryan is definately the guy to listen to. If you can afford the wafers or have coverage I would take his advice.
1624977 tn?1299260466 Then my new doctor weined me off the methadone and loratabs and the xanax completely and now I have to go to a methadone clinic with herroin addicts just to get a methadone fix of 120mg of liquid methadone. The liquid methadone has no analgesic effects, it only makes the withdrawls go away. I want off the methadone completely and I don't know what to do. I feel so sick when I don't have the methadone. It's so embarrasing going to a methadone clinic for pain management.
Avatar n tn The wafers are equal to 1/2 of the .05 mg tab. The wafers instruct you not to break or cut them, but my doctor said it would work and it did. I used a pill cutter. It wasn't always a uniform cut but it worked out in the daily total. I started by taking two wafers=.05 mg per dose. I took away a quarter wafer from my daily total(started w/ am dose). I stayed at that amount for two weeks and then took away another quarter wafer and so on. Your doctor has to prescribe the wafers.
Avatar n tn I am not sure about the legal side of this ..... but 200mg of methadone is a really hefty dose - .... most methadone users get 30-40mg for maintenance .....
Avatar m tn Our 3 year old autistic boy will not eat anything AT ALL. Except vanilla wafers. He does drink a lot of apple juice and some fruit punch. He also drinks about 2 baby bottles of formula daily (keeping him on this for his vitamins and nutriments). We tried force feeding but any feeding is a physical battle of flying arms, hands, clenched teeth, twisting head, etc. Not wanted to tramatize him anymore we have given up and are letting him eat his cookies.
7945295 tn?1397658820 Good question, I just educated myself on aspartame, a sugar sweetner that is sweeter than regular sugar, but lower in calories. I bought sugar free vanilla wafers, only to find out they aren't really sugar free because it contained that ingredient.