Comments on: Welcome to MethadoneDetox.org

By: amy

amy — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:01:57 +0000

hi everyone, i am currently taking 50 mgs of methadone a day and need to find a doctor to prescribe to me! i want to start weaning myself off but need a doctors help….. i went to a clinic about an hour and a half away from my home and that just got to b waaaaay to mucb for me! i have two children and i dont have anytime to b completly laid up being sick, please can anyone help me find a doctor?!

By: joan

joan — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:50:10 +0000

i am finally trying to get off of methadone for the fifth time in my life! i am on 78 mgs i attend a walk in clinic everyday and have been there for six years i am finally mentally ready to get this drug out of my life when i got sick of going to this place every damn day seeing the same faces every day seeing the same people who use this clinic to get high because their broke and when their not you don’t see them for six days because of the fact that after a week if you don’t show they will boot off the program so usually on the first it’s quiet around there and it’s sad to see 70 and even 90 year old men and ladies who have been on this or heroine for pretty much all of there natral lives i got sick of looking at the same faces it is so pathetic so sad and i don’t want to live my life like that any more i am thirty years old and have been high one way or another for fifteen years of my life and i figure if i put in half the effort of getting high for those many years i can live the rest of my life sober and thrive i want to taste things the way they should be tasted and see the things the way they should be seen i am not willing to do this any more i have a daughter who is nine and every day sine before i even gave birth to her she pulled on my heart strings now i had enough currage to be souber for nine months while i was pregnant with her i didn’t even smoke ciggarets when i carried my special baby and look at me now i say in the mirror i am always kicking my self in the a#* for what i have done to her and my family and my self you see just like heroine methadone destroys lives it is not worth it i feel like if your not ready to get completely souber and you need a stepping stone try other routes one segestion can be a drug called saboxin or bupinorphin now please exuse my spelling but if yound these things out it might beable to help if you google theese drugs they are supposed to help you because they are desighned with a chemical in them that will make you terribly sick if you use any other drug even drinking alcahol can make you vomit like nobody’s buisness ! if you are on methadone you have to detox for 74 hours before taking this drug because it def will pull all of it out of your system and make u ill! but after that time frame it should be safe to use any methadone clinic you go too should have pamplits for threir clients to read but as far as for me i want cimpletely off of any opiate chemical for ever i just have to find the right place to go to for around the clock care if there any seggestions please respond now iv’e also herd of a method called the weiseman method were they put you to sleep for up to or around 7 to 10 days and flush your system so you dont have to feel the brunt of the withdrawl symptoms and for the faint of heart like my self who has had siezures and has almost died because of withdrawl im willing to try anything that will make it just a little bit more simple for me than not i dont ever want to worry again and after my self i want this the most for my daughter and my man than anything ! regards

By: PB

PB — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:37:35 +0000

My boyfriend was on 270mg a day given by Pain Mgmt, in the past 2 months they have cut him down to 180 mg a day. They are giving him more moraphine to help with the pain. Right now he is in a mental health hospital because he is angry at everyone and everything. The doctors today are doing this to people. He has been on this high of a dose for 7 years. IT has destroyed our life together. If anyone is listening get off this crap. He is 54 years old and can not work or function any longer.

By: surviver

surviver — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:23:34 +0000

This is by far the worst drug ever made. I used it about a yr for shoulder and back pain and hated the side effects…lethargic, no libido, weight gain and loss of interest in many things I once loved. I quit cold turkey after only 10 to 20 mg a day. Let me tell you it will not be easy or pleasant! If you want to experiance hell on earth this is it. Be strong and keep yourself busy if you can. Forget about sleep for at least a week or two not to mention restless legs and flu-like symptoms. Stay hydrated and eat healthy even if you dont think you can. YOU WILL get better. I am starting to love the things again I did and feel more like my old self everyday. I forgot I loved music, blue skys, fresh air and SEX! Life is a very precious thing not to be wasted or taken for granted. I also suffered the loss of my only son who was a wonderful young man while detoxing and the emotions were overwhelming! Look to whoever you call your higher power and ask for peace. Good luck to all who are sick and tired of being sick and tired. Stay positive and try and enjoy and saver each day.

By: anna

anna — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:35:18 +0000

PS There was a time when I was on 190 mg’s, So I have been threw alot, and I have answer’s to some questions I’m sure, Ask away my friends.

By: anna

anna — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:00:39 +0000

i am at 44mg’s and comming down 3 mg’s a week, then i plan to come down 2 mg’s a week, i really want off this drug, even if you come down 2 mg’s every 2 weeks, atleast the number are going down, i understand what yr friend is going threw, it might be that she is comming down too fast? Let me know I will help anyone that I can Hugs anna.

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 15 May 2011 17:00:40 +0000

hi i am 43 in 1 week batlled drugs since 14 and drink detox detox detox wen you are redy then you will do it we all now the symptons and it hurts so much push threw it ime down to 10ml off 12o second proggramm in 3 years o and it aint good but i can see some good coming out off it b strong every body all my thoughts rob

By: sheila

sheila — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:06:43 +0000

i know someone who has high blood pressure and she was at 40mgs and totally couldnt handle it. the sweats and chills were so bad for her and it was happening at the same time she said, not just that but her body felt like so sick on top of all that. methadone is the worst drug to come off. i have been trying to find her a place to detox and i cant find one thats not gona cost an arm and leg that she dont have.please, if there is anyone out there that knows a place i can call for her please help me. she lives in akron ohio and i dont want to lose my best friend. please, is there anyone out there that can help me help her.

By: Jenna

Jenna — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:55:33 +0000

I have been on both sides – I have been the clean and sober wife of a heroin addict and, many years later after a serious back injury, found myself addicted to my pain pills, oxycontin and dilaudid. I was taking more pills than prescribed, too embarassed to tell my doctor that the pills weren’t working, so I would buy or barter for more pills. When my pill sources ran dry, the pain was so intense I went ahead and got heroin. After a while I would trade my pills for heroin because it worked so much better. After my surgery, I detoxed off the pills and was put on a methadone pain management program. I would horde my methadone and use it to kick when I couldn’t afford or find any heroin. I did this for about three years along with my significant other until we started selling off our prized posessions for heroin. At that point we decided we didn’t want to lose everything to this and friends of ours were going into rehab so we decided to self-rehab at home. We tapered down using methadone and eventually stopped using. I am still on 60mg of methadone a day and am planning to detox off of it because I am tired of being dependent upon pills. In the past, I have detoxed with minimal discomfort if you just take it slow, gradually lowering the dose by small amounts. If you go slowly enough, you escape withdrawals. The last 5mg is always the hardest, in my opinion. Some people go the route of suboxone, but I hear that detox off that is even worsed. I tried it once, but took it too soon, before withdrawals hit and was sent into the worst withdrawals I’d ever experienced, I thought I was truly going to die. My experience has been that if you are truly ready, you will prevail. I went through heroin withdrawals many times before I was successful, but was able to do it at home. The mental addiction, I think, is the hardest part. I watched my husband try to kick for years, over and over and over, and then clean up for 8 years, only to relapse again. He had many psychological issues and had a hard time with reality, so for him, it took months of rehab. I recommend therapy after the withdrawals as sometimes the physical part is just the beginning and it takes a while to shake the depression that follows. No matter how you detox, it takes time and the true desire to stop if you want to be successful. I have been off of heroin and pills for 2 years now and haven’t looked back. I wish anyone the best of luck, and if you are the family member or close friend of an addict, it can be just as painful as it is for the addict. I was fortunate enough to pull off that part of my with very few people ever knowing about it. I saw how it hurt my son and am grateful that he never found out. This is really the first time I have ever been completely open about my addiction, so thank you for reading this and I hope I can offer any advice to anyone who might need it. If you are reading this, you are likely and addict or have an addict in your life, so I wish you well!

By: robbie

robbie — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:18:27 +0000

hi every one i am lookin to ,get off of the does i am at 47mg been on it for 8 years and now the place that i get it want me to pee in cup and i just cant do the pee in the cup thing . i was at 120 mgs and took my self down to were i am at now i want to start to get off of it but my wife and kids no what is going to take place is there some way to keep my life from fully falling apart and can any one tell me some that i can take to keep me from hurting i no what i am going to go through but dont want my boy to see this