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some interesting (maybe) methadone questions please help

haden

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I have experimented with methadone for about two years but I have some questions about it. First some info:

I use between 50-70 mg about once a week ( every seven days) and sometimes once every 4 or 5 days. There have been times when I have used two days in a row but that is very rare. I space out my doses to keep a low tolerance and so I do not have to take more methadone to achieve my desired euphoric effect.
I have been heavily addicted to heroin and opiates in the past, on mmt and suboxone treatment, and have found that while tedious, my method of opiate use (with methadone) works fairly 'well' and while I shudder at the thought of going a month without methadone, I am still able to live a fairly normal life.

My questions are,

1: How dangerous is this? I have read posts where some say 30 mg of methadone could kill a non tolerant individual.

2. If I use once a week will my tolerance slowly grow? I am aware of methadone's long halflife. I feel as if in the last year I experiencing less of a high, and I do of course suffer strong mental cravings for methadone when I am not on it, as well as minute WD symptoms (chills, insomnia) but I assume that these symptoms are mostly mental.

3: How long does it take to completely erase a methadone tolerance? (if it is even possible to)

4: would taking suboxone (bup) once a week and methadone once week help keep tolerance exceptionally low? also how long after taking a dose of methadone can one take suboxone without any negative effects?

Please help with this.
 
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i take 140 mg everyday but i was shooting anywhere from 6 to 30 bags a day for 2 months before that i was snorting that amount for 1.5 yrs so i dont feel anything of the methadone but i will if i quit taking it right now i just moved to des moines ia from NYC there is no herion here so i am geting of the methadone i am going down 3 mg everyother day but they recomened to me that i take it slower like 2 every 3 days ( i think they just want my money and they dont want me to quit ever)
 
I am new to this site but I had a simple question I'm sure one of you smart it's can answer for me. Lets say one day my dog took 8 10mg methadone a and it was his first time in a while... The day after if he only took 60 mg is it possible to get higher the second time due to the half life and build up of the methadone from the day before?
 
No, your dog would die for sure..:)
We don't use acronyms on this site, everyone knows its you.
But to your question: if you have no tolerance to methadone, then 80 mg's is WAY too much!!!!
But if you do, then the 80 mg's will hit and last for quite a while, you might get a little buzz the second day off of 60mg's depending on tolerance, but you wouldn't get any higher....IMO.
 
I am new to this site but I had a simple question I'm sure one of you smart it's can answer for me. Lets say one day my dog took 8 10mg methadone a and it was his first time in a while... The day after if he only took 60 mg is it possible to get higher the second time due to the half life and build up of the methadone from the day before?

In theory yes. If you dose 60mg on the second day, you should feel 100mg at it's peak... but it doesn't seem to feel that way. For me, methadone pleasure only really goes so far. In my opinion, recreational methadone isn't the greatest idea. I've heard that you can experience WD using it twice a week. Methadone WD sucks huge balls. I was on a clinic for only 4 months and it took me 7 days on a methadone taper, then 8 days on a suboxone taper, then another 5 days before I could have a normal bowel movement and get more than three hours of sleep. Fucking 20 days of symptoms WITH drugs. Fuck that
 
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