methadone dose question

[juke007]

METHADONE DOSE QUESTIONS - can anyone answer?

I have 100ml of prescription methadone (currently stored in the fridge) which was bought from a friend, I don't have my own script and I have lost contact with my friend since I bought it a week ago.
I have been using between one and two points a day of fairly pure heroin for about three weeks on a daily basis.
I would like advice on how many ml. of meth. I should take on, of course, a steadily decreasing dosage regime.
Tomorrow is day one, I have made the choice to stop because I have been down the junky road way too many times for much longer periods.
I want to try the first few days cold turkey and when the WD's get too rough, I want to start some measured doses spaced as far apart as possible.
I would really appreciate some advice.
I have never used or been prescribed methadone before.
And I do have a high tolerance right now, I hope this 100mL will do.

btw, would poppy seed tea help?

 

[nAON]

Methadone is a pretty strong opi, 100ml may well be too much for you. I'd recommend just starting low, like 10-20ml, then dosing up gradually until the point where most of your heroin WDs are gone. Should also keep in mind that metd takes quite a long time to kick in, over an hour.

And poppy tea may help, but since it's pretty much impossible to standardise dose and contains an absolute shitload of different opiates with different properties, it isn't really suitable to use in a taper.

 

[nsauce]

I have experience here. I would do as OP said and wait until I feel the w/d and then do as nAON suggested, take the lowest dose that is still effective. I wouldnt take the methadone longer than 3 or 4 days in your situation. And yeah methadone takes a good while to take effect so I would wait like 2 hours before deciding whether I need to dose a little more or not.


This obviously isn't a specific dosage regimen, only OP can figure out what works for him.
Or somebody could pull some numbers out of their ass and maybe it works but maybe it doesnt.

 

[juke007]

I had the impression I was supposed to start with a higher dose and then decrease, and btw, this 100mL I have is not meant to consume in one shot.
I generally get the idea, from both nAON and nsaucem I will most likely start with a 20mL dose.
cheers.

 

[nAON]

Well yeah, you're going to have to decrease, but first you're going to have to find your 'starting dose'. Doing too much is just wasteful and potentially harmful, take just enough for your WDs to be bearable.

 

[jasonmp321]

It also depends on the type of liquid you have,

Is the methadone liquid you have 10mg per mL? If so, 30mg should be good.

There's really no way of knowing at all unless you know how many mg / mL, and if you're not sure, start off very small, 3 mL is not a lot of liquid (30mg would barely cover the bottom of a dixie cup),

I take 85mg a day, going up to 95mg tomorrow, and my dose only goes like an inch up the side of the clear plastic dixie cup

 

[phatass]

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[Swain]

A methadone clinic would not label a bottle 100ml. Like others said it will either be 100mg, or 1mg/ml, 2mg/ml, 5mg/ml etc.. Unless you are measuring the volume your self, it's highly unlikely the label is printed with any reference to ML. A 'bottle' or dose of methadone is generally a persons single daily dose.

Take another look at the bottle and let us know if you mean 100mg, or how many mg per ml there is.

 

[QueensJunky]

I take 180 mgs a day! and if I take any less than 90 I dont feel it at all. Now it does start to kkick in after a half hour, but it has a very long half life. But im on a maintance program and you are just trying to taper off. why do you have it stored in the fridge, what kind of methadone do you have? And hey, does anyone else feel like methadone has destroyed your opiate receptors?

 

[Tony Williams]

By law doctors start addicts on 20-30mg - sometimes more. Stick to 20-30 then you'll find day 2 is stronger, from then it's leveling. YOu may wanna try split dose which is per 12hr half/half.

Methadone takes 1.30hr to peak. So no dosing more 30min in. Grapefruits 2-3 help wonders it you're trying to deal with a small amount.

10-15mg can be dangerious to non-tolerent

Also it's in mg I asssume its like methadone DTF 1ml:1mg in the UK - green liq. HOwever in other countries it is more meth per ml - like 1ml will have 10mg.

@QueensJunky What do you mean? distroyed? you're on 180mg a day!! that'll saturate them all, dope would be well numbed, wait 2 days probably if you wanted to use gear. How come you climbed so high?

 

[Wsolstice95]

I'm a bit confused. 100mL of the meth I get at my clinic would be a MASSIVE dose to anyone I know. Mine is 10mg Methadone per 1mL liquid. Thus, 100mL would = 1000mg of Methadone. That's way more than I've ever heard of anyone being given at once (other than in very rare clinical impatient studies). Average dose is between 80mg-120mg/day, sometimes more......but 1000mg in one hit is likely to kill you or land you in hospital due to OD. Maybe you have a lower concentration (like 2mg/mL, which they do manufacture). You might want to check before dosing!!!!

 

[Potter239]

Are you ok? I really hope you didn't take 20ml at once your first time. Hope you saw everyone's comments first, I've been taking methadone for about two months now from the streets not a program but tomorrow I'm finally starting the methadone clinic so I wish you luck getting off also!