Methadone Withdrawal: Methadone Facts

Question: Methadone withdrawal?

(Posted by: jeff on 2009-03-20 17:36:32)

I was taking 60mg of methadone for 4 years ( not legally) then my supply stopped. ive been trying to detox by taking oxycontin in moderation. starting with 80mg, then to 40, 30, 20, 10, 5, and yesterday was my last day. Will i still feel withdrawal symptoms, such as vomiting, weakness, and insomnia?

Posted by: DynoDiKk on 2009-03-20, 17:56:11

You better believe you are. You are not going to feel the extent of the Methadone withdraw until 3 days of none and since you are super dependant on the methadone (You are super dependant on any opiate now < you have a billions of receptors and you will withdraw off a darvocet) You are going to withdraw off the Oxycodone and it is going to be horrible! The large gaps in your receptors cannot be filled by the faster acting / less efficient weaker oxycodone and you are going to withdraw worse! The Methadone would have ran it's course and kept these things filled to the end, not now. You have two drugs now competeting for the same receptor sites making withdrawal worse as the drugs are being depleted. Two weeks at least, and the Oxycodone is going to make it worse now. ANd the first few days of this you are getting the illusion it is working for the drugs are in competition (Making you feel great) and working until the levels drop. And than God help you. What you did was take a higher hitting opiate and throw your pain receptors completely out of wack, for they are use to; and you are use to the flat methadone, and you might as well been giving your body nitrous oxide injections and than slammed on your brakes; now you are going to get full blown oxycodone withdrawal and it is going to be hell, and than your going to get the methadone. You still have 10mg's of Methadone in you and that is going to be hell to get off of. Why in the world would you take Oxycodone????????? These are to completely different acting drugs. In about 12 hours or less you are going to get the most excruciating stomach pains you ever felt in your entire life. Taking the Oxycodone completely threw the relatively light 60mg's Methadone withdrawal right off the rails. You can do this but not like this! You would have to take the Oxy mg's versus the Methadone MG's and flatten the mg's of the Oxycodone like a pancake. TRUST ME!

Posted by: bananarama on 2009-03-20, 17:42:04

Its possible just try to sleep it off if you can. Nothing is easy to stop including oxycontin(pramasudical heroin). Why not just stop cold turky? isnt oxy and methadone 2 different things?

Posted by: Brindle B on 2009-03-20, 17:46:14

Oxy and methadone are both opiates, both painkillers and both effect that "pleasure sense " in your head so they will have similar withdraws. You will probably have withdrawal. If so try a detox clinic (usually 5-7 days) followed by immediate rehab for at least 30 days in-house.