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Greenlighter
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i've been researching the 'methadone miracle method' on here and other sites for the past few weeks. for those of you who haven't heard of it, the idea is basically to use methadone for a short period of time to ease you through the acute phase of withdrawal. i'm talking about 3-7 days here...any longer would increase the likelihood of getting addicted to the methadone itself in the process. i haven't really been able to get a definitive answer one way or the other about whether this method actually works....so i decided to give it a go myself to find out.
a little background: i'm coming off an eight month habit of anywhere from 1g to 2g of tar smoked daily. had about two months clean before this last run. been using opiates for about 5 years....starting getting sick for the first time about 3 years ago.
i couldn't really find any definitive info about dosing for this method...whether to take the same dose each day or taper or what. i decided to do a four day taper starting with 40mgs, and lowering it by 10mg each day, thus taking 10mgs on my fourth and final day.
today is six days after i took my last methadone dose (10 days since i last had any H). so far, i've felt hardly any withdrawals. here's a brief account of my experience so far ::
after i finished the last of my H, i waited a full 24 hours to take my first methadone dose of 40mgs (other places i read said to start your first dose at around 12 hours before withdrawals get too bad, but i decided on 24 out of......self loathing...?....not really sure). anyways, started getting pretty hairy by about 18/19 hours but hung in there. after i took my first 40mg dose, i felt a whole lot better after about an hour, but still not 100%. def still had some rls, sweating, temp control issues, etc...but toned down by like 80% of what they'd be cold turkey.
didn't sleep at all that first night, even on the 40mgs, but made it through by just laying there and imagining how bad id feel if i was doing th ol' cold turkey. next morning took my next dose - 30mgs. laid down and started feeling pretty good after about an hour. seems the 30mg dose added on to the dose from the day before, and combined in my receptors to completely block all withdrawals. i was feeling 100% a few hours later. slept fine that night.
took 20mg on day 3, and 10mg on day 4. felt completely fine those two days.
since stopping the methadone, i've so far felt basically 0 withdrawal symptoms, and its now 6 days and 4 hours since taking anything. have had some slight back and legs discomfort the last few days and maybe some cold flashes and am def fatigued, but besides for those basically negligent symptoms, i'm fine.
i gotta go out of town for two weeks in two days, and am starting to get pretty scared that once the methadone completely leaves my system im gonna go into full blown withdrawal. i really can't be sick on this trip..its for work.
what do you guys think:: has the methadone left my system in the previous 6 days and this method actually is a miracle? or is there still some methadone lingering in my system and once it's gone i'm gonna be fucked?
will log my progress over the coming days. thanks for reading : )
a little background: i'm coming off an eight month habit of anywhere from 1g to 2g of tar smoked daily. had about two months clean before this last run. been using opiates for about 5 years....starting getting sick for the first time about 3 years ago.
i couldn't really find any definitive info about dosing for this method...whether to take the same dose each day or taper or what. i decided to do a four day taper starting with 40mgs, and lowering it by 10mg each day, thus taking 10mgs on my fourth and final day.
today is six days after i took my last methadone dose (10 days since i last had any H). so far, i've felt hardly any withdrawals. here's a brief account of my experience so far ::
after i finished the last of my H, i waited a full 24 hours to take my first methadone dose of 40mgs (other places i read said to start your first dose at around 12 hours before withdrawals get too bad, but i decided on 24 out of......self loathing...?....not really sure). anyways, started getting pretty hairy by about 18/19 hours but hung in there. after i took my first 40mg dose, i felt a whole lot better after about an hour, but still not 100%. def still had some rls, sweating, temp control issues, etc...but toned down by like 80% of what they'd be cold turkey.
didn't sleep at all that first night, even on the 40mgs, but made it through by just laying there and imagining how bad id feel if i was doing th ol' cold turkey. next morning took my next dose - 30mgs. laid down and started feeling pretty good after about an hour. seems the 30mg dose added on to the dose from the day before, and combined in my receptors to completely block all withdrawals. i was feeling 100% a few hours later. slept fine that night.
took 20mg on day 3, and 10mg on day 4. felt completely fine those two days.
since stopping the methadone, i've so far felt basically 0 withdrawal symptoms, and its now 6 days and 4 hours since taking anything. have had some slight back and legs discomfort the last few days and maybe some cold flashes and am def fatigued, but besides for those basically negligent symptoms, i'm fine.
i gotta go out of town for two weeks in two days, and am starting to get pretty scared that once the methadone completely leaves my system im gonna go into full blown withdrawal. i really can't be sick on this trip..its for work.
what do you guys think:: has the methadone left my system in the previous 6 days and this method actually is a miracle? or is there still some methadone lingering in my system and once it's gone i'm gonna be fucked?
will log my progress over the coming days. thanks for reading : )