Damn reading the badness from a methadone withdrawal scares the piss out of me, because on 160 mg and going cold turkey from there is unthinkable plus i am almost sure such a withdrawal would kill me due to cardiac failures and becoming very dehydrated as nothing stays inside also no water and if that stays in for a minute or so then projectile vomiting is another experience i dont like.
I take methadone now for ehh i would say 22 years with on average using about 120 mg methadone a day, but some days i would use 500 mg and other days no more then 75 mg therefore the 120 mg on average daily for 22 years and its my opinion that after such an amount of time on methadone that this causes certain irreversible changes in other words behind such an amount of time on 'done getting off it may never be possible, but i have no intentions to drop it or to even slowly lower it with say 4 mg per week, which is doable only at around 60-70 mg i dont get better anymore so if it ever happens then from there i was thinking of using bupe and lower that one.
It doesn't come as a surprise though to see methadone as opioid with the worst withdrawal, but what i think makes methadone especially bad to withdraw from is that this withdrawal never seems to end and even being in a relative low extent of withdrawal you still feel miserable so the sheer time methadone needs to withdraw from is what breaks many people who try a cold turkey, but it can be done for most.
I did something embarrassing at some point in my life as an addict and that was that for using barbiturates, they are strong enzyme inductors, i was in withdrawal from methadone and with my last money i could buy a fluid amount, but then i drop that amount on the ground and i felt like i sank into the same ground, but no worries i licked the methadone off the ground getting maybe 50 mg inside me from the 150 mg i dropped and for some hours i did feel better and that made my move for myself acceptable.
One last thing about the potency from methadone this stuff is extremely potent and for somebody without opiate tolerance who weighs say 220 pounds then 100 mg methadone, likely less like 70 mg, would OD such a hypothetical person so that's 1 mg per 2.2 pounds bodyweight.
Somebody who get 1,000 mg oral morphine a day could in theory get the same painrelief from 50 mg methadone so that makes methadone 20 times morphine potency, but if somebody gets 100 mg morphine at first then to replace this 1/3 of those 100 mg metahdone will do say 30 mg so see the difference between high and low doses of opiates and how methadone shows itself in potency sense.
One really last thing and then i shut up so what i like to say is that anybody who never had methadone dependency, but have a habit from another opiate then its very easy to lose the other opiate and to take methadone in lowering doses for seven days or ten days if needed and the reasoning behind this is that the methadone will prevent withdrawals from the short acting opiate, but using methadone for 7-10 days does not make you dependent to it so on this way methadone can be used as a tool to lose another opiate habit. So far my 2 cents or maybe a bit more then 2 cents, excuse me i seem to be longwinded, but english is not my native language anmd i like to be clear.
