• 🇳🇿 🇲🇲 🇯🇵 🇨🇳 🇦🇺 🇦🇶 🇮🇳
    Australian & Asian
    Drug Discussion

    Welcome Guest!
    Posting Rules Bluelight Rules
  • AADD Moderators: Tronica

Methadone Withdrawals Urgent Help Needed

4thDimension

4thDimension

Greenlighter
Joined
Dec 6, 2010
Messages
38
Location
Sydney
Hi guys. I am in an absolute crisis.

Last month my doctor reduced my methadone from 55mgs to 10mgs in one month. After I was discharged I stupidly went on an opiate binge of Oxycontin and fentanyl for a week. Now after I took off the fentanyl patch I developed severe akithisia , which is this terrible uncontrolled muscle movements and it feels like I am being torn apart from the inside out and there are bugs crawling all over my skin.

I have the methadone (15mgs now) at 8 in the morning, but by 10 at night I start going into withdrawals and get this uncontrollable muscle movements and feel like I am going crazy. They dosed my up 60mgs of diazapam last night and it did not work.

What the hell has happened and what could I do about this. I am thinking of raising my methadone to 20mgs and having a split dose. It seems I am metabolizing the methadone in 12 hours.

Could the opiate binge I had after tapering down my methadone have caused my opiate receptors to up-regulate again? I have never experienced anything as bad as this before and I have had eye surgeries and spine surgeries and they don't come close to the pain this is causing.

Somebody please help me, It was so bad the other night I cut my wrists open and ended up in the emergency room.


One doctor has suggested a ketamine infusion to get me off of this evil methadone. I am afraid if I go through this again I will end up killing myself.
 
jesus christ.
this is serious man. you need to speak to your doctor!
i'm sure we would all do whatever we can to advise or help you. it seems to me that the best advice any of us could give would be to speak to your doctor - and tell him/her exactly what you said above.
if you can't reach them directly by phone, see if you can leave a message.
but to me it sounds like your doctor - or a doctor, any compassionate doctor - is the only one that can really help.

all the best, and please take care.
 
I agree, you need to speak to a doctor, though probably not the one who reduced you so quickly. Any doctor who would reduce you from methadone so quickly and ignore your symptoms obviously doesn't have your best interests at heart.

I'm honestly not sure what else to suggest except that if you're feeling suicidal, go to hospital! Hopefully they'll have a detox ward or something.

Really hope you manage to sort it out and pull through.
 
Yeh sounds like you needed to taper much slower, I would try and go back up to about 30 or whatever you need to get you through the night till the next morning.

I would also look into the Ketamine infusion with the doctor who is willing do help you along those lines. I definitley think that could be worth a try, but maybe get up to more stable dose that holds you and taper a bit slower. K has worked wonders with my life. (although never tried them in w/d). I think K could possibly give you the mindset power to try and beat your addiction.

Another idea might be to switch to Bupe now while your hanging out bad, and wait over 48 hours, then taper of that which I found much easier.
 
^ Yeah you would think at the least he'd taper you to 30mg then stabilize you on bupe. The doctor sounds like a bit of an idiot, sadly all too common.
 
That does sound like a very quick taper, and if it was on doctors advice instead of your own, I would not be seeing that doctor again. My doctor doesn't want me going down 5mg's a fortnight! I hope you find a better doctor who listens to you, or an emergency ward to help with your situation. I feel for you man :(
 
Some people are known as "fast metabolisers" of methadone, and require split dosing. Discuss it with your doctor, who should be familiar with the idea. Still, that's a really fast reduction and you are going to get withdrawals from what you've described there regardless. You could try a slow bupe reduction, if that's possible.
 
I agree w/everybody else..Find another dr. ASAP! Hopefully, you're already doing that!

Absolutely! Taking another dose later on in the day should help you to feel a little better..
until you get in to see a dr who's not an idiot. Methadone w/d is one of the hardest opiate w/d's...
and it lasts alot longer than most.
You need somebody who knows what they're doing.

I hope you update this so we can see how you're doing.
<3token
 
Thank you all for your support and guidance, it is so so helpful.

The reason my psychiatrist brought me down so quick is because I developed narcotic bowel syndrome on the methadone. It is awful. I have now put myself in a private hospital and they have split my dose - 10mgs morning and night. This allows me to dodge the withdrawal symptoms temporarily. Unfortunately every time they drop my dose I have unbearable akathisia and muscle spasticity. It seems methadone was the worst drug on Earth they could have put me on. My only hope now is to get absolutely bombed out on a ketamine infusion and withdraw that way. I just hope they do it and soon. The narcotic bowel syndrome is killing me, pain in the abdomen all day, severe constipation, nausea. I really feel just fucked. Does anyone know if the ketamine would allow a faster, more comfortable withdrawal?

Jim
 
OP your Doctor is a fuckwit!!Have you seen the thread bout "prescribing Drs in AUstralia or NSW"....I ring a 1800 number and they give me the drs names new me that do MMT and Bupe etc?...


I try find it for you...
http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/threads/472610-Australian-Opiate-Withdrawal-Maintainance-Medication-Prescribers.[/URL]

Otherwise i am very familiar with Sydney and i can give you the name of a DR in Kings Cross that is friggen lovely and compassionate...I saw him at 9am in withdrawals and by midday hed done the paperwork and i dosed at 1pm that day....

WTF is up with your Dr?

ALl the best M.K
 
4th dimension i was posting at the same time you were and didnt realise why you taken down like that..Also i didnt realise its a bit old (thread) and you would be well and truley on your way now!!ooops..!!!My reply is irrelivant now!!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top