Heroin heroin detoxing

[boston2603]

Hi guys. So im looking for a little bit of help. Ive been prescribred methadone for the last 10years. I started at first on them for pain but it eventually led to abuse and me gaining a ton of weight. I didn't realize that the methadone was putting weight on me until I read deeper into the drug but by that time I was already addicted and people that were coming around me for my extra methadone's (because I wasn't taking the 500+ mg's that I was being prescribed only 30mg at the most) were junkies trying to get off their drug of choice, which was heroin. Eventually I started doing heroin. Snorting it for a while, then shooting it. I would go back and fourth from only taking methadone to only doing heroin. I discovered that when I was only doing heroin I would loose the weight that Methadone had put on me and not only did I like the feeling of the heroin, but I would be skinny again. This cycle went on for a very long time. So im going to make this story A LOT shorter....fast forward to last week....my doctor has been weening me off my methadone and I went down to 50mg (still not taking more than 30mg ever) but because of a dirty urine, she took me off by giving me one last prescription. I haven't used methadone in the past 3 months not more than a handful of times and not more that 30mg at a time, none at all since last week, once. Ive been snorting heroin on a regular basis. I would like to detox with a small amount of methadone so I don't get a habit on the methadone too, since I haven't used methadone more than 5 times in the last three months and just been doing the heroin. Does anybody know how I can do this with the least amount of withdrawl symptoms as possible. I have one half gram of heroin...a couple suboxone I bought off the street and about 7 10mg methadones I have left. Any advice would be sooo much appreciated. I want this to be the last of my opiod use.... I truly wanna be done with this drug FOREVER. Thanks.

 

[ksralyv2mch]

Well at least you sound sincere about wanting to quit.. I want to quit heroin but I still love it so much... and I just lost the love of my life because I use so the only comfort I have is H... anyway...

There is no "pain free" detox, bro. Sorry to burst your bubble, it's going to be at least a wee bit uncomfortable. Now with what you got you have to be VERY CAREFUL when it comes to the Suboxone and Methdone. MEthadone has a VERY VERY long half life and you could take 30mg of methadone one day wait 36 hours and feel like SHIT and then take a suboxone but you run the risk of there still be minute traces of Methadone in you which will throw you into participated withdrawals... which are like withdrawals x 1000.

If you can, get some Benzos (valium, ativan, xanax, klonopin, etc) those will help a lot with the few symptoms you may have (and it's wonders for the mood lifting and sleep)

The problem here is methadones LONG half life and suboxone's ability to throw you into withdrawals if you have opiates in your system, it's really hard and usually unheard of to go from Methadone to Suboxone...usually people switch to a shorter acting opiate before going to suboxone (IE heroin, percs, vicodin) so you might want to just stick to one or the other...

or check out Loperamide... Imodium, I was a skeptic about it and after I did a lot of research on this website I gave it a go and holy shit it's a god send, it takes away 80-90% of the withdrawal symptoms and it's OTC and a weeks supply is only like 15$. Loperamide is closely related to fentanyl and methadone I believe anyway... well good luck man.. I'md faded so I know I'm not making any sense.

 

[boston2603]

Ive moved on to a shorter acting drug...heroin. I haven't done methadone for atleast 3mnths. but I have methadone tablets. I only bought the suboxones because I was going to do those and hope the suboxone clinic called but I don't think that's going to happen. I know people get methadone detox when they go into rehab but I don't know how to do it. I have enough to do it...just not sure how. in the last 3months ive taken methadone one time...and that was about 5days ago. I took 15milligrams. but since then no methadone. I just don't wanna use anymore but I have a child to take care of. I get my script of klonopins in 3 days also. Imodium is like fentanyl??? or methadone?? not sure how that is....

 

[adicted]

Appropiate drugs for heroin detox:

Diazepam/Alprazolam/Lorazepam
Clonidine
Loperamide
Metoclopramide
Cyclobenzaprine
Acetaminophen

 

[adicted]

Appropiate drugs for heroin detox:

Diazepam/Alprazolam/Lorazepam
Clonidine
Loperamide
Metoclopramide
Cyclobenzaprine
Acetaminophen

 

[mostly-human]

Without knowing how much H you're actually taking, I'd advise against touching the methadone; all you'd be doing is giving yourself worse (longer) WDs.

If you're serious about detoxing / getting clean. Then I would recommend tapering off the H until you're out of that and then switch to suboxon and tape off that (try and get through the sub in a week at most). You can avoid the worst of the heroin WDs by taking sub over that time and so long as you don't take the sub for *too* long (a week tops) you can jump off that and you won't feel too awful. You can expect to have problems sleeping, some mild sweating and a general feeling of lethargy and body aches.

But you won't cop any of the severe, full-agonist WDs if you switch to sub for the last week or so of your usage.

I'd avoid methadone tablets though - switching to methadone to detox will just give you much longer / drawn out WDs. It's not a detox drug; it's a maintenance drug.