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help !!! quiting oxys with methadone

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DRILLBIT TAYLOR

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My husband and I have been taking approx. 3 ( 30 mg each ) blues ( oxys) a day for over a year now. We were weekend warriors at first and then before we knew it we needed them just to function , go to work etc. We were always broke , always chasing them and or worrying if we will have enough money to get " through" . It was not " fun" anymore!! We got to the point where we were ready to quit . We tried the cold turkey - and its awful . Tapering down did not work . Anyway we got methadone ( Im so scared of this drug - but its heleped us so far ) This is our day 7 on methadone , 10 mgs pill every 24 hrs for the past 7 days. So here is my question

now what ...
after 7 days of taking methadone- 1 pill every 24 hrs ( and really today is the first day I really feel good - no body aches no crabbiness etc.) how do we tapper down now? Should we just start taking half of a pill ? For how long ? Anyone out there quit successfully on methadone - what dosing would you recommend?

Talking to a doc is not an option.

We have been smoking " green" to help and it dose help . WE DO not take any other medicatons at all not even asprin...

so what im looking for is hep with doseing to be sucessfull. WE ARE ready to be drug free.
 
to clarify we were up to +/- 90 mg of oxycodone per day each and now we have been on mathadone 10 mg tablets every 24 hrs each since last Monday .
Would love to hear from people who have done quit their addiction using mathadone and how they did it ...
Asking for help with tapering down info , dosage info ....any info would help . We are doing this we are ready !
 
i escaped from a heroin addiction ~3 years back (and jumped onto blues pretty quick), so congrats!!! im glad methadone is working for you!! when you take it, does it give you a 'buzz' feeling, or just not sick and not high?? i would like to give this a try, if its been working for you. i want to quit, but i dont want to stop getting that buzz feeling of opiates, i use it like a reward for when i get off work. so if methadone could give me a slight buzz , i would be interested.

i would say, now taper down with half a pill every day for 7 days, then try to go with none. when you get down to NO methadone to dose with after 7 days, start smoking MORE green. marijuana will be your friend with withdrawal and trying to detox. thats how i got off the heroin, is just smoked myself retarded non stop all day long (but that was cold turkey)
 
thanks for writing back ... I SO know about the " reward" after work . ....ahh anyway i took add .5 mgs of methadon on the 3rd day when i felt like crap - took half of a 10 approx. 8 hrs after takeing my reg 10 mg morning pill AND I def. felt " high" ( way diffrent then oxy more like a heavy body high) - so thats when i knew that 10 mgs just lets me be " normal" . Im 120 lbs and 5'4 tall and def. was " high" after 15 mgs. My husband 180 lbs and 6 ft tall took 20 mgs the first day and he said he had a powerfull body high so then he decided that dose was way to much for him and he has been takeing only 10 mgs now and he said he is great and able to g to work etc.
 
and yes marijuana has been my friend since we made our decision ...but has anyone noticed that methadone seems to intensify the effect or is it just me ?
 
one more thing we both feel that methadone is a wonder drug ...with a slight mental struggle we were able to be oxy free for 7 days now!!! So far my plan is : Tomorrow I will cut my dose to.75 for few days then .5 then .25 and so on UNLESS I hear from someone that has been there and done it differently with sucess.....and by the way we feel great I noticed I can smell more and have more positive outlook .
 
Taper down at the most 1mg every 2 weeks. Dont listen to this bs about cutting in half. They only do 10 percent decrease a day (doses given 2 times daily to decrease withdrawl) in detox environment, and they want you out as fast as possible. If you decrease more than that you are asking for failure. I have been on the monster methadone since 2001.
 
I tapered to 1 mg a day and when I terminated I was the living dead for 3 months before relapsing. Once physical withdrawal is over you have to get your endorphins and serotonin back in balance. It takes time. I was unemployable for 3 months before my relapse. I hardly slept, could not get enough salt, took naturopathic remedies for adaptogens for brain chemistry, etc.
 
Dude, no offense but I see you bumping threads tonight from way back and answering the questions as though the OP is still wondering? Please, please read the BLUA user agreement and rules you agreed to when you signed up...

There are a ton of good people who can answer your questions but bumping old topics usually isn't the way to make many friends here.

-Mike
 
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