Advice On Switching From Suboxone To Methadone (Page 3) (Top voted first)

I am switching from suboxone to methadone and i have chronic pain. Will this help me with the pain? I dont have any other options. What should i do for my pain? I have marfans syndrome and it makes u have chronic pain every day. This is my last resort. Will the methadone help? It's terrible to be uncomfortable and in pain trying to find a solution, so please i need feedback.

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Methodone never helped my pain. Never. U have to live w it if anything made my body huet worse but could be lack of chems i needed to feel good. When taking opiates for pain they make pain go away. U can take both appare lry under supervision..

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Re: corey (# 14)

it takes up to 8 days for methadone to completely leave the body..then and only then can you take suboxone. Taking it(suboxone) any earlier may cause you to experience severe methadone WD

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Re: sierra (# 20)

I'm wondering Also..as I was on methadone for MMT for 12 years and did a 10 day medical detox to convert to Suboxone a year ago..since then I have had sciatica for the last 6 weeks(the most excruciating pain ive ever felt in my life) It travels from my lower left back down my left butt, hip, thigh, knee, shin. When I stand for more than 30 seconds it feels as though I'm being stabbed all up and down my left leg a thousand times..Lord help me wow! what pain..so ive been thinking of returning to methadone as I found it worked well for pain whereas suboxone did not, and it didn't matter wether I was on 8mg or 20mg it was the same

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Re: Kate (# 5)

Just to be clear they do not give people methadone at such high doses simply to avoid cravings. Do your research! I’m quite sure it helps cravings but most people experience cravings even on Methadone because the euphoria is absent. Ladies and Gentlemen, what those high doses of Methadone do is flood the holy heck out of your receptors, so if you decide to relapse you won’t feel high because there’s simply no room left for the opiate to flood.

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Re: Kate (# 5)

It’s cases by case basis for methadone if the doctor feels the patient will benefit from being on methadone maintenance long term then they will not wean the patient off this after a couple years this I know for a fact because it’s the case for me obviously not every one hence cases by case

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Do not go onto methadone!! In fact any doctor that will place you on methadone for pain when all your taking is suboxone should be shot!! Have you lost your mind??? Do you know my doctor has me on 20mgs of oxycodone 5 times daily and he told me he would never place me on methadone that it will cause another problem and told me that it only works for pain for people who are withdrawing from strong drugs it doesn’t work for pain if it’s from something that’s mechanically wrong with you. And if your on suboxone for drug withdrawals you are on such a low dose that it’s now maybe all in your head and maybe you should go see a mental health doctor about this because 2 years on suboxone I can tell you from experience that you are not withdrawing anymore. And to ask to be placed on methadone is a childish decision and very stupid. And I can’t believe your doctor has left you even on suboxone that long?? That’s meant only for 2 weeks???

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Woah, sorry but, this seems like it's posted by a methodone clinic nurse or doctor. I have been through the withdrawals from Methadone and they are worse than anything I've experienced w/d from (oxycodone or morphine) even at 30mg I we end myself down with my doctor. I've heard from other people who got off methadone that the severe w/ds lasted 30 days and even after that of course there's effects. When they put you up to over 100 - 140 it makes you HIGH AF not just controls w/d and cravings. People who have been through this and research know a lot more than the doctors and nurses giving this out. I was told when I first started at a clinic that methadone wasn't addicting. That was a flat out lie. But most of them are misinformed and need to do their DUTY and research for themselves before selling these drugs. Thats their civil and moral duty. These drugs need to be tested more before they release them to the public. But there's so much greed and ignorance to what the drugs actually do that they get millions of people hooked for life with horrible side effects like horrible migraines and severe sweating and large amounts of weight gain on and on. Methadone is very addicting and if I could go back I'd never get on it. I took morphine and oxycodone for a degenerative spine disease and I am also trying to recover from being an addict and get off these meds for good. God bless you if you are fighting the same fight. It is a battle. Inform yourself, research.

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I went to the methadone clinic for 4 years and came off of it cold turkey in jail. I am struggling to stay clean even 4 months later. methadone is more addicting and w/d are more painful than the opiates. if you are already on suboxone i would definitely stay on it instead of switching to methadone. just my opinion tho. i am looking into starting suboxone and would never go back to the methadone clinic.

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you should be good wait till the half life of the methadone gos away like a day you know because once in methadone treatment i took suboxen and instantly went into sweaty nasty withdrawl but if you wait till the meth is out of your sytem you should be fine same vice versa

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I am wondering how long I need to wait to take methadone since my dr is dropping me from suboxone will I go in withdraw if I took 6mg of suboxone today and then later and tommorow take methadone ? PLEASE RESPOND ASAP I could use some honest advice!

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