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There are two of us males, early thirties. One of us underwent major back surgery three years ago and has been addicted to pain medication for a total of five years. I have been addicted for about three years just from simply being his main caretaker and dipping into the cookie jar a few to many times like an idiot. We went back to our general doctor (same guy) and explained that we are both full fledged addicts. We told him we have been obtaining Methadone off the street as is seems to be the only thing that works. He asked us what we where getting off the street and we told him Methadone. His response was, "Well that's the smartest thing you have done so far, because of its extremely long effect on the body". We told him we need his help, that we just have no money left and our livers are just a mess and we can't move on with life. He decided to put us both on 100 mgs of Methadone to keep us comfortable until he could make some contacts with the proper addiction specialists that he new. We went for an appointment to his office once every week. We made various contact to different areas, inpatient/outpatient programs, who would not even touch us because we were at too high of a dosage of Methadone. They told us they only work with Suboxone which means we would need to be down to around 20 mgs of Methadone to make the transition to Suboxone. What a nightmare. The doctor also did not have any luck with programs because they where either the scum of the earth clinics, not to mention everyone's famous new drug Suboxone that could be treated in the privacy of a doctors office. About 3 months ago our doctor fell, he herniated a disc or something, all of a sudden was going to be out of the office indefinitely! He never referred us over to another doctor or anything. He just simply CUT US OFF the most potent and dangerous drug out there. Now we are back a square one and no one will touch us because our dosage is too high and there really is nothing they could do. If we could just get us a general doctor to write for pain to get us down to 45 - 50mg, then all these options could open up. A detox would be my first choice, but there is no way in hell we can both come off 100 mgs of Methadone that fast. Anyone know a general doctor in the state of MA that can write for Methadone for pain. That would just help us greatly, but I'm starting to think that there is no hope for us, but I know I cant think like that. Desperate in MA here.

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I feel for you but these drs are in it for the all mighty dollar! I can top that, ive been on Methadone for 38 years without missing a dose. There are days when i wish i could get off methadone. The positive thing is ive been employed at the same place for the last 18 years. Methadone has kept me out of the legal system. Most of my friend's and little brother either overdosed or died from drugs or alcohol. So i thought the best thing for me is to stay on methadone. But i know if you miss 1 or 2 payments you can kiss your dose goodbye. Im on monthly's so that helps not having to put up with the bs at the clinic. Sometimes i pray i die before I have to withdrawal off methadone. I feel like ive been on it way too long to stop now and with that im out'a here!

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Wow that sounds so awesome so where can i find this stuff i live in west sac calif. This wood help so many people will u please post me back wood luv to hear from u

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Oh lord i thought i was all alone in this mess i got myself in after taken pain pills and getting hooked already on a methadone problem. my husband had no clue i was such a good liar. i called myself a closet tweeker. i would actually blame him for cheating on me once to justify my abuse. I'm 50 now and divorced. i was married for 20 years. i totally blew my marriage because of addiction, now 120 mg methadone a day i hate taking it. i sleep with the fan on me in the winter time, ridiculous. Anyways im using the thomas method. It's absollutely working. thank god for ativan. Please get help U guys and dont mess ur family up.

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I do not agree with all of you saying don't use methadone cause it's impossible to get off of. A year ago I started going to a methadone clinic because I was addicted to opiates. The highest methadone dose I ever took was 120mg and I am now down to 6mg!! I feel a little uncomfortable sometimes. But it is NOT impossible to get off methadone. My husband got completely off of methadone by going down 1mg a week. It is definitely possible. Don't let ANYBODY tell you different. You can do this.

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Hiya, how long have you been methadone free since ur rapid detox? how do you feel??? I'm a 40's female who was put on 100 mls for my mental health issues I have BPD, I've had lots of cognitive behavioral therapy and I do have alot of insight into myself but unfortunately I'm not always able to control my emotions especially anger. Giving me a shut-the-f*** up-drug has killed me!! I don't go out, my marriage is in the pits and to be honest while I hate being on Medstead my so called husband is taking some substance of his own accord just to escape life!! I'm already depressed so I don't need or want a mirrow in front of me so he needs to leave but that's another story. I've dropped from 100 mls a day to 75 mls a day. I'm on my 15th day. I really wish I had not agreed to go on methadone a year and a half ago. I'm going to continue to drop 10 mls a day every 2 weeks, that's possible do you think without feeling 2 bad!!! I'm lonely, isolated, angry, sad and just completely down. I don't receive any support except financial from the government which I'm grateful for but money doesn't bring happiness. Yes it offers more choices but my husband won't pass his evaluation so we can get a car!! I'm not allowed to drive. I haven't got any family, they all died some years ago ranging from murder, suicide or blood poisoning. I have faith not religion but my own faith. I'd like to share and talk to persons who can relate to what I'm feeling. Appreciate any feedback.

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Get to a methodone clinic they can dose you and they take mass heath I am on one

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Wow, after reading that you have been allowed to be on methadone that long shocks the he'll out of me!!! it's so so sad. My shrink put me on 100 mls of methadone a year ago, my life has GNE I'm dead in every aspect bar physically, the hours are seconds, days flow into another day, I've put on weight, I dnt go out infact I barely walk around my home just pottering, cleaning, moving things around to get a feeling of change 'm in complete nothingness. Well I CARNT really say nothing as I'm aware of what this poison has and is doing to me. I suffer from BPD, I've had mass amount of treatment so I hve a great insight and awareness of myself but I'm not always able to control my emotions or intrusive thoughts that urge me to act out. I've now decided that I'm going to detox myself off this poison and learn to live with my bpd. At least I'll have days when I could laugh, listen to music and dance around while cleaning and enjoying my home, I'll be able to go out into town and enjoy just being in the fresh air. My shrink doesn't know what I'm doing its not his business and the motivation is there as once I've got off it and I have another argument with the clinic I can tell em to f*** off and never go bk. I'm a loud vivacious women who does ask questions and I do EXSPOSE the injustice of what these doctors do to people not all but alot here in England you never leave the doctors without a script!!! sir I know I'm responding to your post and I've gone off on a tangent about myself, I apologise. It makes me angry that your personality has been suppressed for most of your life and it is YOUR life how dare they!!. Take care hun and thank you. Amair

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I was on 3 80mg oxy a day 30mg of it 3 times a day and a 40mg..methadone 3 times a day. the methadone was the hardest drug too get off of in my life. 2 months it took me to get out of my body. My legs hurt, every joint in my body hurt, I would not recommend them to anyone.

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Where can you find a reputable MD/Clinic that will help me with a rapid detox from methadone.

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I have been on methadone 5mg for 6 months. Stopped taking 4 days ago . No side affects only a little tired.

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Ive helped others with what i call split dose down..get some cranberry juice..tarts better sweet will work..tell your mind your set week levels...here we go..dont try to do a wham im off youll fall flat..week one..cut the tabs in quarters..take a quarter if the draws start take another..do this till you level but try droping an extra quarter a week off your week before..its a step down system..the juice stops the spasms...if you stick it..itll work i got off after five yrs and helped four of my friend..they leveled at one five mill tab a day..they like it there and know how to go clear off if they want...good luck..stic it..if u go this way and dont giv it will work the slowed thru it at a six month goal...

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at the age of 45 and being on 120 milligrams of methadone for 10 years I kicked it in four months and it was the hardest thing I've ever done but it was well worth it so don't think you can't get off of it you'll never be off of it until you're off of everything god bless you all

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Ive been on both suboxone, and methadone, and ill have to say without a doubt, no matter what anyone tells, you methedone saved my life. I was an Iv uses for 15 years been through every treatment known to man. Tha taboo of methadone is what kept me away, but i finally made the choice, an that was 6 years ago. My mother is proud to say that next month her son will reach his 30th birthday. Im also a very sucsessfull plumbing and heating contractor. So do what you feel is right dont listen to anyone that doesn't know what yout going through. Life can feel like hell. But i have more respect for those who have seen it and climbed out. Good luck, Best wishes.

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It is the answer to the government. Did you know that a heroin assisted treatment center is going to open up in Boston? Wow...I'm on 35 mgs...and I have a good reason to be scared as Hell to get off it. It was the worst. Flu? My ass. Hell on earth. I want all of the clinicians to become addicted to it in order to work at a methadone clinic...then we would see if they believed, "It is all in your HEAD!"

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Methadone withdrawal is the most painful experience and nothing but time helps. It took me a YEAR of suffering from severe RLS, 2 months of ZERO SLEEP to gaining 1-2hr increments of sleep until at 1 year post withdrawal I was finally back to 6-8hrs of continuous but very light sleep. I didn't even include the severe flu like symptoms, no energy, and feeling like every cell receptor in your body is on fire for 3 months. It took a year for me to feel normal.

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blind...you won't feel a thing until maybe 25 mgs. bec. u might get cravings. Go blind.

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What is wrong with you? Go to a pain clinic...if you are addicted to street methadone for pain, it helps minimally. I'm on 35 mg a day and have 3 take homes at clinic. You both are in danger. You could OD on other stuff... Coming of M done is HELL on EARTH cold turkey. Get on a Methadone clinic asap!!!!

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If u live in Massachusetts their are methadone clinics everywhere. Habit.Opco.is in almost every town in MA.get on a clinic they don't care how much your on

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I wish I had money for a rapid detox. There's no way off it!!!!

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I have been on methadone longer than I've ever done any pills or illegal drugs.I'm on 35 milligrams at a clinic.I am going for my second take him home it will be the first time I ever got take Homes and I started to methadone clinic when I was 23! I'm 39 and I always had good teeth until methadone. It's impossible to get off this man made drug. people for the most part either turn to opiates. I'll get jailed and suffer forever. I really need to get off this drug.I feel the only way to do it and stay clean is to go on suboxone. It worked for me once but it ended up feeling me or i feel myself because of the person that was taking opiates that tempted me to use once a week. I get angry when I bring my take home box. I'm so angry it really Styx reality in my face. it's not a privilege to have a take home at all. they instilled fear of losing it for any reason they can think of. I was reluctant to applied for my second take him but I did the other day...only because I know how clinics are...they can make up reasons just like the police do to take them away. I thought what I rather lose one or two or three or four or five or six for 1 blunder like not being able to make group when you are always there once a week. I really believe the only reason why they should take them away from you is that you fail the damn drug panel! we make up reasons like hey-so and so saw you get in the car with a client that is still using-or we found out but your boyfriend is abusive or drinks alcohol because you told your counselor-or since you're on two medications that we don't approve of together you aren't allowed any take homes. I definitely want to go on suboxone again. I wanted a vacation for god sakes.

I haven't been on a vacation in almost two decades! the cavities in my teeth since methadone a probably about 65 fillings! the high of my dogs was the fatter I go out for the first time in my life! you crave sugar more on a higher dose and that going to be all know because you were such a drug addict that's why you were so thin.it's because you don't exercise! and their excuse for all your cavities in your teeth is Ono the methadone didn't cause it-it's because of your lack of dental care and hygiene when you were using that has caught up to you! when you tell them you really don't believe you a clean they never have a fn answer! methadone is a synthetic opiate controlled by the damn government-and you can't feel high-only tired! Maybe more krokodyl should come around and open people's eyes - opaites are fine if you have it and don't share! you can function and go to work and not damage your body the way they say you do! instead they came up with methadone and suboxone X cetera because it's controlled by the FDA! is alcohol controlled by the FDA? I want off this drug and I totally want to be clean! there is no way to do it you can be on one milligram and field aches and pains and sweats and how and not sleep for 4 months! because it has a half life?

its pain killing effects absolutely a fallacy! I can stub my toe and bang my knee and I know it actually feels worse then if I wasn't on the drug! its like your body after a while get used to the methadone and it turns on you when you suffer from physical pain-God forbid you end up in the hospital.the doctors take it upon themselves to cut your dose in half within a day and give you one percocet every 4 hours being so ignorant as to the fact that you are in withdrawal! and here comes the big one if you end up in prison you are treated like a less than on methadone! you're better off telling the nurse you are a opiate addict because they dont medicate you the way they do if you were addicted to opiates! they don't realize it lasts forever. the doctors don't care and sadistic God like to see you suffer and say to themselves maybe that will teach them a lesson. this world is messed up. I don't understand why doctors is so ignorant. I'm happy that the opiate epidemic has touched suburbia and rich people. I hope that some of these rich people that a doctors lawyers judges have an overdose in their family of a loved one. then maybe they'll be more inclined to learn about opiates and methadone and the fact that you should give a patient triple the amount of painkillers if the person is on a large amount of methadone! it's a curse to be addicted to methadone!

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