I don't
have to do this, I just like having extras but I never let it affect me too much. If I feel uncomfortable skipping that day, I just don't. Actually, I don't skip my entire dose that often, only half my dose usually. If I take my entire 160mg the day before and after I take 80mg for a day, I hardly even notice that I'm only taking half my dose during that one day. Taking more than my 160mg that I'm scripted rarely happens (actually I only do it very, very rarely - I don't really have problems sticking to my rx'ed methadone dose - so I only really do it sometimes when I have extra methadone already saved up that I don't have to replace anymore). Most days I even forget to dose until the late afternoon.. Taking my dose at 3am last night is something I've literally never done before. Not in the entire 6 months I've been on methadone. I haven't taken any methadone on top of that dose either (but I do have an extra 160mg saved up that I might pop after dinner, see if I can get a nice methadone high).
How do you mean this would stress you out? Having to go pick up my dose every day at a clinic like (apparently) US MMT patients are forced to do, that would stress me out. A once a week visit to the most easy-going psychiatrist ever is hardly stressful to me. Before I had methadone when I had to rely only on oxy and heroin was a very stressful time for me, because I can't ever make do with oxy or H, regardless of the amount. I'd spend 50% of my month in withdrawal. *shudders* horrible time. Since I have the methadone too, I've only been in withdrawal once.. And that only happened because I was being lazy, had some oxy and thought I had enough to get away with skipping 1 appointment - I was wrong. :D Now that I know the severity of a combined methadone & oxy withdrawal, I won't ever make that mistake again.
I save up the most methadone by far when I get my monthly oxy scripts though since I only need 1/4th of my 'done every day until I run out of oxy for that month. I get 240mg oxy (3x OC 80mg, old formula), 2x xanax 2mg (or 'bars'), 1x brotizolam 0.250mg and 4x lyrica 150mg daily from my GP and 160mg methadone (2x 80mg methadone capsules), 2x clorazepate 50mg, 2x 25mg hydroxyzine & 2x 300mg lyrica daily from my psychiatrist. I'm done with 'real' doctorshopping like I once did for benzos. Now I go to a GP and a psychiatrist, I can explain that if I ever have to and it's far more than I need (everything except for the opioids is anyway). Doctorshopping for even more oxycontin isn't necessary, I get enough as it is, and it would likely get me in trouble anyway as it's far more regulated than the meds I used to dr. shop for. Last month I had been taking oxy long enough for me to need such a high dose that I ran out in little over a week.. Next month I'm pretty sure I will be able to save up a fair bit of methadone again by making the oxy last a while. Taking my full dose (or even 80mg) of methadone really decreases the euphoria of the oxy, whereas 40mg methadone is perfect to add sedation. I have 4 benzos (the 3 I mentioned and over 100-120 x 12mg bromazepam) to choose from, and lots of lyrica as well (hydroxyzine too). Anyway, I've never been happier while addicted to opioids than since I found that psychiatrist who prescribes me my methadone (and some other goodies

).