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What happened:
Going to make this concise and as scientific as possible to help others. I took 50 mg methadone liquid recently for my first time. I did NOT do this on purpose, as I was told the concentration was 1mg/mL but was in fact 10 mg/mL. I was suspicious of this at the outset, as there didn't appear to be 100mL in the bottle (These were sealed 100mg from the clinic), but I wouldn't consider myself good at estimating liquid volume.
They didn't come with a pipette or anything, so I went and got a NyQuil and used the cap. The lowest marking was 15 mL and as I was pouring I was like NO WAY is there 100 mL in the bottle, so I poured to what look about half of the 15 mark and DRANK IT UP. I say 50mg mdone in the title because at home I later used a syringe to accurately measure the remaining liquid, about 4.5mL. I had another unopened bottle, measured this at exactly 10mL, so 10mg/mL. I expect .5 mL could have stayed on the plastic cup I drank it from, could very well been more than 50 mg that I took though.
History:
Previous opioid use pretty light. Sporadic use in the past, mostly oxy. Never IV'd anything. Nothing huge before binging h (nasally) and roxy (nasally) over the summer. Culminated in 60-70mg oxy/day for about a week. Then 2 weeks of nothing. Then 50mg liquid methadone on an empty stomach. Also I'm 150 lb male, low body fat.
How it felt:
First felt it coming on in 30 minutes, but just a general cloudiness to my perceptions. Kind of tired too. Started really coming on around 2 hrs in, and it felt rlly good. Like oral hydros. It felt this way for a long time, probably two hours. Four hours in is supposedly the peak and I also felt great.
It was around this time that I really started looking into how much I took and what the concentration was. I performed those little syringe experiments that I described above and started to panic. Everything I read said 10mg is a good starting dose (I was aiming for around 7.5 mg at 1mg/mL). Even addicts can only start at 30mg on their first time to a pain clinic. But I also know people are capable of hundreds of mg of methadone after a long period of time. I probably did an hour of research and I felt the methadone experience was intensifying, like kind of feeding off my panic. I decided I was gonna go to the ER, but once I left my apartment and was heading down the stairs I felt really nauseous for the first time. So I ran back up and vomited. After that I felt much better, much more in control. I'd been sick on opioids before and to me it felt very cyclic. Like throw up every hour, feel great for 40min, then sick, then throw up. This was the same way.
I didn't end up going to the ER, I spent probably the next 6 hours researching and throwing up every hour, but always feeling less generally sick as time went on. After vomiting I'd always feel great for about 40 min, like the opiate high was still there. Then I'd get kind of drowsy, but I was really afraid of falling asleep. Eventually I did go to sleep, approimately 15 hours after first drinking the syrup. Slept until 4 pm the next day, still feel opiate buzz. And that's where we're at now folks.
Pretty sure I wouldn't have made it without that roxy binge a week earlier. In the same instance that opiates saved me, I was almost killed by them.
Don't do 50mg methadone on your first time.
What happened:
Going to make this concise and as scientific as possible to help others. I took 50 mg methadone liquid recently for my first time. I did NOT do this on purpose, as I was told the concentration was 1mg/mL but was in fact 10 mg/mL. I was suspicious of this at the outset, as there didn't appear to be 100mL in the bottle (These were sealed 100mg from the clinic), but I wouldn't consider myself good at estimating liquid volume.
They didn't come with a pipette or anything, so I went and got a NyQuil and used the cap. The lowest marking was 15 mL and as I was pouring I was like NO WAY is there 100 mL in the bottle, so I poured to what look about half of the 15 mark and DRANK IT UP. I say 50mg mdone in the title because at home I later used a syringe to accurately measure the remaining liquid, about 4.5mL. I had another unopened bottle, measured this at exactly 10mL, so 10mg/mL. I expect .5 mL could have stayed on the plastic cup I drank it from, could very well been more than 50 mg that I took though.
History:
Previous opioid use pretty light. Sporadic use in the past, mostly oxy. Never IV'd anything. Nothing huge before binging h (nasally) and roxy (nasally) over the summer. Culminated in 60-70mg oxy/day for about a week. Then 2 weeks of nothing. Then 50mg liquid methadone on an empty stomach. Also I'm 150 lb male, low body fat.
How it felt:
First felt it coming on in 30 minutes, but just a general cloudiness to my perceptions. Kind of tired too. Started really coming on around 2 hrs in, and it felt rlly good. Like oral hydros. It felt this way for a long time, probably two hours. Four hours in is supposedly the peak and I also felt great.
It was around this time that I really started looking into how much I took and what the concentration was. I performed those little syringe experiments that I described above and started to panic. Everything I read said 10mg is a good starting dose (I was aiming for around 7.5 mg at 1mg/mL). Even addicts can only start at 30mg on their first time to a pain clinic. But I also know people are capable of hundreds of mg of methadone after a long period of time. I probably did an hour of research and I felt the methadone experience was intensifying, like kind of feeding off my panic. I decided I was gonna go to the ER, but once I left my apartment and was heading down the stairs I felt really nauseous for the first time. So I ran back up and vomited. After that I felt much better, much more in control. I'd been sick on opioids before and to me it felt very cyclic. Like throw up every hour, feel great for 40min, then sick, then throw up. This was the same way.
I didn't end up going to the ER, I spent probably the next 6 hours researching and throwing up every hour, but always feeling less generally sick as time went on. After vomiting I'd always feel great for about 40 min, like the opiate high was still there. Then I'd get kind of drowsy, but I was really afraid of falling asleep. Eventually I did go to sleep, approimately 15 hours after first drinking the syrup. Slept until 4 pm the next day, still feel opiate buzz. And that's where we're at now folks.
Pretty sure I wouldn't have made it without that roxy binge a week earlier. In the same instance that opiates saved me, I was almost killed by them.
Don't do 50mg methadone on your first time.
