Yeah I don't recommend this, shun methadone if already on bupe, I'm making the switch soon because of the really bad side effects it has given me long term, just read my post. Most of my pants and jeans are suddenly unwearable, I was having an alright time with the treatment, it would even get me high a little when i took hydroxyzine and a low dose of valium with it, but fuck this shit, I'm willing to switch to subutex as soon as possible, it does't fuck with testosterone, doesn't cause water retention (which is a big reason I gained that much weight from it) and doesn't fuck with cortisol levels either, which methadone can lower enough to be dangerous, it lowered mine after 9 months of treatment to subclinical adrenal dysfunction....so i'm quickly lowering my dose, am at 44mg now, 41mg in 2 weeks, etc. until I get to 35mg, then the next day I'll have a half dose and do the switch inpatient, because Ihave a feeling it'll be really difficult, already now i'm getting some generic oxycontins at times (which i just chew and eat, which I have always done, fell to the needle because of dat hydromorphone rush) on rough days. It's ok with me, 80-120mg of eaten oxycodone is still weaker than my 44mg daily dose of meth...shows how fucking strong the thing is, only problem is that at that dosage now it is very much gone (feeling wise). So I'm treating myself like they do in more enlightened countries, using regular opiates/opioids in between methadone and suboxone, if i could buy enough oxycodone i'd just dose with it and ignore the methadone, the faster that shit is out of my body the happier i'll be.
Can't wait till the 13th...I can't wait to get back all my energy and liveliness that methadone stole from me ( I sleep 10 hours at night, which is fine with me) but then I nap about half of the afternoon and nap from 8 to midnight, stay up 4-5 hours and go sleep those 10 hours. Probably a big reason why I got so fat....what confuses me is that I gained all that weight in 2 months, before that the methadone didn't fuck with my weight..probably caused by the huge loss of testosterone...at this point I don't care anymore other than I want off the methadone as quick as possible. Too bad I showed up at my scheduled appointment last monday to stay a day or 2 inpatient to switch to bupe...I just couldn't, even if the doc, who was my age and so casual with me it's the kind of girl I can speak with a bunch and she even had a bunch of tatoos one arm, we discussed punk and hardcore punk music for a while and thats probably why she said ok, i understand you dropping half your dose of 47mg yesterday wasn't enough for you to switch, (I took 23,5mg the day before, but I don't think the doc I had discussed the switch with was aware that only a dose that low one day before switching wasn't enough, and that one didn't think I would fall into complete precipitated withdrawal when they would give me the subs, even if I had been sick when they gave it to me...I talked about how I read a lot about it, didn't mention this site, I know a lot of people recommended me to switch when i was at 25 to 35mg since a while, not since only a day to switch, I would have had way too much methadone in my blood then, right?