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Higher doses of methadone

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drewskie

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I have been going to a methadone clinic for about six weeks now. I'm already at 120mgs and I'm just now begining to get any sort of real relief. Although, my dose is still not even holding me until I go to bed at nigh around eleven. I feel like complete shit in the morning until about an hour after I dose. I have told the nurse this and I have been at 120mgs for twelve days. on the weekends I have to dose at 7:30 am so my dose wears off around 7:00 pm. I usually dose at 10:30 am so it will last until I try to go to bed. So the weekends are especially tough right now.

I am having to still by things off the street to get through some days. Given, I don't have to buy something everyday, I can tough it out usually during the week. But on the weekends I usually have to get something to make it through my 10 to 12 hour shifts at the restaurant I wait tables at.

I asked my counselor at the clinic I go to about split dosing and she said they had to quit doing split doses for some reason. Anyway, I have heard that is unusual, at my clinic anyway, for someone to be at 120mgs in a month. I was at 120mgs in four weeks and have almost been at it for two weeks because I failed a damn drug test and can't take my dose up until this monday when my clean drug test results come in. After that I can continue to go up 10mgs a day again. They have already said that I can go up, I just have to wait on the results for this drug test, which I passed 100% sure.

I really need some help and advice from anyone who knows what the are talking about or has been through this kind of thing. If I can't split dose, what dose will most likely hold me for close to 24 hours? I was taking lots of oxy and smoking a few fentanyl patches a day ( 10mg patches ). This is why they have let me take my dose up so rapidly. I know the concerns of being on high doses and I plan to be on methadone for the long term, so I don't want a lecture about trying not to take a high dose of methadone. Should I look for clinic that splits doses? Or do I just need to continue taking higher and higher doses of methadone until I reach one that holds me.

My clinic does not have a limit on the mgs you can take. I also will eventually get a weeks worth of take homes every week. So it is a great clinic and I don't want to change. I just really need some advice.

Thanks so much for listening and any help is greatly appreciated. I DO NOT WANT TO CONTINUE TO BUY OFF OF THE STREET!!!!

-Drewskie
 
If you keep buying extra you will keep your tolerance higher than your methadone dose. Just quit buying on the street and tough it out until your your methadone level reaches your tolerance. There isn't any magic answer.
 
i duno if this is answerable easily either but....

wen id abuse opiates , itd take roughly 80mg morphine snorted to get me off

im on 75mg methadone now , with near nil effect , maybe a little bit of placebo lazyness but thats bout it , n thats wth my daily xanax 6mg x 2 a day , well 5.5 mg twice startin today , tapering down
 
fryingsquirrel said:
If you keep buying extra you will keep your tolerance higher than your methadone dose. Just quit buying on the street and tough it out until your your methadone level reaches your tolerance. There isn't any magic answer.
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this is the best answer, and will most definitely work. you're on methadone now, you're supposed to be done with still trying to get high. stop doing more pharms and/or street drugs. and then your body will eventually accustom to the dose you're getting and everything will be fine.

and I think since during the week you can't split your dose, and you say that it does you fine, then I don't understand why the weekend it doesn't. but since you get take-homes on the weekend, why don't you do dose split those, take half when you wake up and the other half mid-way through the day.

I would say 120mg is standard high dose of methadone and most peoplestop there, but I've heard of some places dosing up to 300mg. that amount would make one a zombie. I think you could eventually get used to 120mg, and that would make it easier to eventually get off one day. but if you must, I'd say go up to maybe like 150mg and then stop, I wouldn't go much higher.
 
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