Methadone befor quiting oxy cold turkey

[Fatjosh]

Methadone befor quiting oxy cold turkey*update 10 days*

Hey everyone i just wanted all of your opinions and experience in this matter so here is what has been going on. If u havent read any of my previous posts i have a pretty substantial oxy habbit anywhere from 150-240 mg in a single sitting every day and this has been progressing to this point for the past 4 years. So 4 days ago i could not find any oxy or hydro and i was starting to panick when i get a call from somone who had 20 10mg methadone for cheap so i bought them out of desperation. For the past 4 days i took 50mg and i never even felt a tickle of my opiate receptors, but i never felt sick and the break from the high has made me not really want to get high so tonight when i ran out of methadone i didnt even try to score, i do have 7 norcos a friend gave me but i dont feel like taking them i just want my world to stop revolving around getting high. so i guess my question is do u think that switching to another opiate for a few days befor going CT will lessen the withdrawls? And on a side note do u thing it is harder for somone to quite who doses multiple times a day or only once? thanks ahead of time for the support guys, josh.

 

[Cotillion]

Hydro withdrawl is substantially lighter ( imo ) than an oxy WD, however I couldn't tell you how long of a switch would be needed before you wouldn't still deal with a rougher WD. Everyone is a little different. I can also suggest going without for a while and see how it pans out for you from here on. I did a 4 day detox in a hospital where they gave me methadone at 40/30/20/10 and I only went through the mental part after I was released. Clonodine works wonders too if you have any access to that

 

[Fatjosh]

thanks for the reply. Well i made it through the night i dont know if it is a residual effect from the methadone i took almost exactly 2 days ago, but i dont feel too bad. I had a little cold sweating but i took half a mg of xanax and a little nyquil and i slept... It was broken sleep but sleep none the less. if i can skip out on the brunt of the physical part the mental part will b cake cause i truely dont want to get high anymore i just want my life back.

 

[herbavore]

Hey Josh, glad to hear that it hasn't been too bad so far. It sounds like you are really ready to quit which is great. Do you have support for that--both the process and after? Keep us posted on how it is going.

 

[Cotillion]

I'm glad to hear you made it another night! What's most likely happening is the methadone masked the majority of the withdrawl, you're most likely feeling the tail end of it. As Herb also brought up I would also suggest some sort of after care, you're emotions will be going buck wild and having a support system in place really helps with that. I had a friend who recently switched to a methadone program and even with something to assist he still finds himself relearning how to deal with many situations. A big one for him is finding something new to think about. Before it was pills, bags, getting more, how much do I have, when and where do I get more and now it's oh man I'm broke! Make sure to talk and let it all out. Hope to hear back!

 

[Fatjosh]

Hey guys thanks for the support today at 5pm it will be 3 days with no opiates.i woke up more happy than i have been in such a long time, even befor my opiate addiction, which started during my senior year in highscool while my father was dieing of cancer and i had an unlimited supply of drugs(gotta love hospice) to numb my reality when he passed away the day before i graduated. Since then my addiction has slowly sapped my quality of life i went from astraight A student to a nobody...a drug addict. As for your question herbavore and cotillion i have alot of friends to support me but my main support has come from my fiance brianna. She is my world, all the money i will have from getting clean is a huge motivation for me but only really so that i can give her the life she truely deserves even tho i kno she would sleep under a bridge with me if it came to it. I really want to be clean i want to do something with myself i am highly inteligent and while i have had other obstacles in life that kept me from going to college right out of highschool, it has been the drugs that kept me from going the three years after. And u know what els is nice...i kno its random but its nice to be able to have sex with my lady and actualy have an orgasm or atleast have one without both of us having sore genitals sry if thats tmi but its an exciting new world to me lol.

 

[Fatjosh]

Ok so today is day 10, most w/d symptoms r gone except rls. Now r the emotions cotillon and herb were talking about. I kinda like it tho its nice to "feel" even if its sad, but when im happy its like really being "high on life" but im all over the place...and loving it, i can be happy to feel sad what a cunundrum. I have tried to spend lots of time on TDS and it has made all the difference because u guys understand. Whats weird is iv had all these emotions, happy, sad, hopefull, regretful, and a plethora of other ones but i have yet to feel angry. When i was using i was angry at the world its like iv used up all the anger i have, i feel maybe disapointed with some of my choices but im not mad at myself anymore i guess i forgave myself during this past week and i have had to ask my old lady to do the same, we r engaged but i told her months ago i wouldnt marry her until i had this monkey off my back and that i would rather see her with somone els than follow me down the path i was headed, i dont kno how i did it but i am so glad i did, sometimes the grass is greener on the other side. Thank you everyone, u guys made me feel very welcome here which gave me an outlet to vent lol i look at every post iv made and they r long as shit every time and theres always more i could have said. The phrase of the day is carpe diem, and i think tomarrow it will b the same, and every day here after, josh.

 

[herbavore]

That is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do--forgive yourself. I think it is fantastic that you were able to let the anger go. I know what you mean about feeling happy to feel sad; being able to feel is something I never take for granted.

I'm proud of you for being on day 10, for doing all the hard and scary work and I'm proud of TDS as a community for being what it is--a true community of support.