Methadone Withdrawal: Methadone Facts

methadone withdrawal - Important information about methadone, its uses and its dangers. The drug methadone is used extensively in addiction treatment.

What can I do to make methadone withdrawals easier?
I have been on methadone for 6 months, gradually decreasing my dose to get off this stuff.. I was on 5mg about 3 4 days ago, and had to stop because im going on a trip sunday. Im not sick to my stomach but my body feels warm but I am constantly freezing. The restless legs has turned into a restless entire body. Im constantly fatigued and my legs burn just walking up the stairs. Hot showers help a little but is there anything else I can do? Will this get better or worse as the days go on? If it gets any worse, how can I make traveling on a bus tolerable?

	Methadone helps block the euphoric effects of drugs like heroin and morphine.

Where can I find detailed information on methadone withdrawal?
My girlfriend has been on methadone for about 2 3 months for chronic pain. At max, she was taking 60 80mgs a day. Everything I read on the internet regarding withdrawal symptoms is regarding people who have been on 200mgs a day for years. She is obviously in a different criteria. Does anyone have a good resource regarding what to expect, and the best ways to get off of short term methadone use in relation to withdrawal symptoms it will product?

Will tramadol help with methadone withdrawals?
im out of town and can not get into anothr methadone clinic as fast as i need to so i found some tramadols and i looked it up and it says it contains opiats. Will these help with the methadone withdrawals till i can get into another clinic?

Does tramadol hcl help with methadone withdrawals? is it possible since there are opiats in tramadol?


Does anyone know a lot about methadone withdrawal?
I need to know how long it will be before regular pain meds will work as they are supposed to, Lortab, Percocet, Etc. . I'm having a major surgery done and have to be off the methadone to have the surgery. I stopped taking 120mg's on the 29th of april, I did not take any for five days. By sunday I felt so horrible someone brought me some 5mg methdone pills. So I took 50 60mg a day until today Friday , I'm not going to take anymore I just need to know the longest time someone's opiate receptors were blocked after stopping the methadone. Will my tolerance for pain meds. be very high is my first question? My second question is I read that ultram blocked methadone's affects, does that mean I can feel my pain meds? I know that it puts you into withdrawal, will that move the methadone out faster? I have to have rods and plates put into my wrist and arm, and don't want to suffer in pain. My doctor has already discrinated against me, I'm scared i will be in severe pain, he wont car

How long does it take to get through methadone withdrawals.?
I have been on methadone for 3 years, 100mg.

Is there a good home remedy for methadone withdrawals?
my friend is not doing well, he is trying his best to kick methadone, is there any home remedys for his illness?

How long can I expect to go through methadone withdrawal?
I have detoxed from methadone but want to know how long the withdrawal sympts will last? No chance of relapsing

Taking psuedoephedrine to help with methadone withdrawal?
I have a theory and was wondering if it would work. Methadone withdrawal is mainly caused from the body producing too much norepinephrine because opiate cause your body to not make as much and it has to kick up the production when you get addicted to opiates, which is why withdrawals happens. If someone were to take pseudoephedrine for a long while before stopping methadone cold turkey and then stop taking the pseudoephedrine too, would this help the body to not produce so much norepinephrine? Since sudafed norepinephrine causes an increase in norepinephrine, it would seem that one would go through a withdrawal from it constiting of too little norepinephrine and maybe the two would counteract each other, or at least make the methadone withdrawals a little easier as they are impossible for me at this time. What do you guys and girls think?Hey Tim L....I know for a fact that pseudoephedrine works by stimulating release of norepinephrine from the neuro endocrine system. Also, a significant part of methadone withdrawal is cause from the body producing too much norepinephrine, which is why clonidine is sometimes prescribed to help withdrawals. Read up on your medical info or ask a doctor before assuming you are right. I've done a lot of research, believe me

Severe "physical" methadone withdrawals, what do i do?
besides calling 911 or calling doctor.

Anyone else pregnant on methadone? withdrawal symptoms?
ok, first off, i am taking methadone for herion addiction, have been trying to get off of it and keep running into problems financial and medical, have been on birth control and got pregnant. i had my baby and all is good. had some problems 1st pregnancy with my dose not holding due to pregnancy. well started the nuva ring and at my 9 month post pardum check up, my dr said i was pregnant again. i am upset because i was planning on getting off methadone. well i am 17 weeks and i keep having to up my dose, though i don't want to, i have a child and home to take care of, so i can't get that " sick" and if i am feeling these symptoms, i know it is bad for the baby. i wanna know if anyone anyone you know, is having similar problems? what to do? keep going up and hope it doesn't get to high? my plan is to stay at lowest possible dose to be" normal, healthy" and detox after the baby detox now isn't an option for me, maybe a hospital detox but i doubt they'll do it polite answers please

Help! How long will our Methadone Withdrawal last?
My bf and I have spent two annoyin months at a methadone clinic and maxed out at 80mg. We decided to feetox our own decision bc we pretty much were tired of seeing the junkies and we want to not be able to depend on opiates real or syntheic anymore. We stopped Saturday at 30mg. My bf has the flu and restlessness and I have horribled depression, body aches and insomnia. We can't take it .. we want to know a. how long our WD will last mainly bc my boyfriend is a high up in his job and his boss NEEDS him..he has a laboring job like I said we went for 2 months started April 18th ended June 18th 80 mg max I weigh 125lb and he weighs about 150lbs ..we started going there bc we had been addicted to roxicets 30mg Percocet and WDed off them on and off b. what we will expect and how to safely aleviate the symptoms yesterday i visited the " street pharmacist" and yes I bought 2 roxicets each for us to aleviate which I think restarted the whole process c. how to get this SHIT out of us fast We need a plan Please help..we are so sick any words of advice is appreciated. Thank you so much.

Methadone Withdrawal -- Scared with no one else to get answers from?
My dr put me on methadone for pain management about 2 years ago. I started out at 5 mg total a day and he eventually got me up to 40 mg total a day . I had major hip surgery hence the methadone. So eventually, about 10 months ago we started to taper my methadone and things weren't a 'walk in the park' but for the most part things were going smoothly and he was easy to communicate with if I had any problems. All of a sudden my dr is gone this past april I had called the clinic for a refill and was told my dr was no longer practicing at the clinic. I was anxious but to work that day on establishing a new internal medicine dr in the same clinic. The office made me an appt for 30 days later may and a day before the appt canceled it. So I tried to reschedule and they decided to schedule me with a different dr this time, which was fine with me. Same thing happened again, the appt was canceled last minute. And... get this... this happened a third time in June. So this whole time my medicine wasn't being tapered... I was at a constant 4 ml. I had to go to the hospital's Patient Advocacy office to finally get an appt that wouldn't be canceled last minute. So now I'm with a dr that has sped up my taper to an incredibly uncomfortable speed. More than twice the speed of the plan w my previous dr whom left his practice. So... my question The day I picked up the my current prescription I told the receptionist that I need to talk to her, my dr, as soon as possible because I was so anxious and fearful about the current taper my dr wanted me at. So now it's 2 weeks later, she called me once and I wasn't at my phone so I'm waiting for another call. I tried for a 2nd time today And at this point I just want to see if I can handle the withdrawal myself. I feel like she invalidates how I tell her I'm feeling. When I tell her about my withdrawal symptoms, I feel like she doesn't believe me. So last Fri 17th Oct I went from 4 ml a day I had been on 4 ml a day for about 17 days. That day I realized that she probably wasn't going to call me back in any timely manner I felt like I was backed up into a corner. So the next day, Saturday the 18th I went to 2 ml a day, Sunday I went to 1 ml a day half AM, half PM and I've been on that dose since Sunday... so 2 and a half days. But tonights 'the big night'... tonight is my last dose and it will be exactly .4 .5 ml. What I m trying desperately to figure out is how bad my withdrawals will be or if they will be bad at all. The last time I went through withdrawals was a long time ago and I was at 10 mg, so I know for a fact that the withdrawals won't be nearly as bad as they were then. But I know this won't be a walk in the park by any means, I just want to be prepared and have some sense of control over what I'm going to be feeling like for the next 2 weeks or however long they last. What's even worse is my mom is leaving in 2 days for a Napa Valley vacation and will be gone for 2 weeks so I'm going to be all by myself and I can honestly say I'm scared shi less.Does anyone out there know what I'm going to be going through, symptoms wise, in the next week or 2 weeks?? Any help, information, suggestions, or piece of mind is greatly appreciated... I have absolutely no one else to talk to about this. Thanks

Can you die from Methadone withdrawal?
My ex partner and father of my teenage son has been prescribed methadone for over ten years. He has not taken Heroin for many years now and throughout his addiction has worked. He has decided to try and detox and is currently waiting to be referred to a detox unit but it is taking months. He has been on a high dose for the last four years 150mg. He has other illnesses, he has high blood pressure for which he takes three types of medication and he has Hepatitus C. Aside from that, until the last year due to a change in circumstances resulting in the onset of depression he was pretty active and has generally ate reasonably well. Over the past few months due to a change in his clinic and his behaviour, there has been a number of times when he has not had his dose for up to three days. I have always thought that you cannot die from opiate withdrawel, however it's been indicated to him that due to the size of his dose and high blood pressure that that for him to go 'cold turkey' i.e. stop taking methadone suddenly could indeed be dangerous indeed fatal. I would be grateful for any informed advice, as some members of his family are suggesting that this is what he should do if he was serious about being drug free.