splenda
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That's been my experience, too....that the scare stories about methadone/suboxone and benzos are WAY overblown. Maybe its different for someone who is opiate-intolerant, but I have noticed almost no potentiation.
Splenda...glad to hear you got your increase. Hang in there! Hopefully you won't have to endure a peak and trough and will attain stability soon. If your doctor and clinic are sane, and by that I mean that they are of the "it takes what it takes" mindset, you will do fine.
What I find extremely sad are the types who have pre-conceived notion of "target doses" and/or "maximum dose". Everyone is different, so those notions have no logical basis. The ultimate insanity are the states with mandated dose caps. This is exactly the kind of crap that could become the norm should government-run "health care" go into effect.
Yeah I'm hoping that too... they will increase me 10mg/week as needed if I want to. Should I stay on 80mg for longer than a week or do you recommend I go up 10mg more if 80mg doesn't hold me off for 24hours? Should I just wait for the methadone to build up levels in my bloodstream?
Yeah, I'm hoping I won't have to do a peak/trough either. If I needed split dosing for any reason, they would split my morning dose in half right (and not double my morning dose)? And yeah I'm pretty sure my clinic doesn't have caps... they have a warning about prolonged QT interval for anyone over 200mg of methadone and I overheard some guy talking in the waiting room saying that he was on 360mg of methadone (he said he was taken down from 480mg of methadone to 360mg, lol.)
The 80mg took a while to kick in today... usually it kicks in within 45min-1hr but today it took around 1.5hrs to do so. Probably because when I got my dose dispensed the different nurse today added more water to the sugar-free Methadose.
Prior to dosing I felt pretty crappy this morning... irritability and feeling uncomfortable... so I'm hoping 80mg will alleviate some of that.