I Have Been Taking 30mg Of Methadone For 6 Weeks And Changed Script Now Take Percocet How Long Will It Me To Stop Having Withdrawls (Top voted first)

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I have been taking 30mg a day of methadone for 6 weeks and wanted to switch to percocet and changed script now take 45mg of percocet a day. How long will it take for me to stop having withdrawls symptoms from methadone? I am feeling sick even while I am taking the percocet. Is it possible to still go through methadone withdrawls even while you are taking the percocet?

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I wouldn't think much more than a few days although it's gonna feel like a week or more! I took like tons of 10mg vics a day plus other stuff for years and now I have been on Methadone for 8 years and am now trying to deal with the withdrawl of detoxing from that demon....whatever you do, try an stick it out and keep away from methadone!! Drink lots of water to flush your system and hang in there wish I had a miracle answer for you, good luck!

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My prescription was changed from methadone 80mg A DAY to oxycontin 40mg twice a day. ID been taking the methadone for 8 months and I have never went through anything like it. It severe withdrawal, after 2 weeks into it the oxy would not help pain and would only subside methadone withdrawal for about an hour then it was back like id never taken anything. You hurt deep down in your bones, sweat and freeze, joints hurt, you cant eat, cant sleep and then after 2 weeks of this it gets worse until it finally goes away after a month. But hang in there and get off it and just take what you can to get through it . There is no situation worse than being on methadone because it does nothing for pain you just take it to function.

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You will find that the perks may make you feel better than the methadone does, IF you take enough of them, but they dont last nearly as long and arent no where near as strong. In my opinion you should go back on the methadone. In the long run it will work much better for you. You build up a tolerance to oxycodone so fast that before you know it you wont be able to take enough to feel it, or to get out of pain. unless you end up getting off pain medication all together, most people end up on methadone anyway, and it really is a much better drug. You dont have to take it every 4 hours only to actually get about 2 hours of relief, like you do with perks. It lasts all day and is so much stronger.

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So you're going from an extended pain reliever to a short-term pain reliever? Does that mean your slowing weaning off? If you're taking 30mg, I'd try to wean off instead of going cold turkey. Cut them in half and take less each day. You will end up feeling like crap but much worse trying to go from 30mg to nada.

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It will take 30days to withdraw methodone even if 2mg.

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I think it can be a 'demon' if not severely needed to save a life...Such as severe opiate addicts that may die anytime... And as well as chronic severe pain sufferers that ive seen that methadone is a miracle medication for which can actually feel like they can live life some...and get out of bed and actually walk with it! Methadone is a Blessing for So Many!

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I was on 120 mgs of methadone a day for 4 years. I quit cold turkey and the withdrawals lasted every bit of 5 months. Definitely switch to subs or percs and I would add some maeng da thai kratom. You can legally order it on the web. It's quite close to an amphetamine / opiate feeling. Get the capsules though. The damn powder is like eating crap dust. Buy 100 pills take 5 at a pop and see if it helps. It def helped yours truly. God bless guys. Stay strong.

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Best advice iv seen so far! Methadone has been a miracle pain medication for me...I have severe chronic pain,without it I would be stuck taking many pain pills all day and night...just for a 2hour relief at a time

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Not at all, Methadone i have been on now for 7 years and have always had dirty u/a's for methadone even after i had been clean off of it for 2 months. This is my opinion from experience and not facts.

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Suboxone is much better than methadone. You can't take opiates for yrs and think it's going to get back to normal after a week or two. That's drugs bro. I know it took me 7 months in prison for the pain and sleeping to get back to normal.

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P450,

What a f****n moronic statement that was. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, just don't pose it as fact. *****s like you kill honest folks just looking for VALID INFO. And support.

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@Just,

It is valid. This drug is dangerous.

Whoever posted that any opioid is the same is wrong--for example you cannot switch from Methadone to Percocet without withdrawals and they could last a very long time if you were on the Methadone a long time.

Regular opioids affect a different part of the brain than Methadone. I live with intractable pain and the two most dangerous drugs given to us are Methadone and Duragesic.

Take it for what it's worth.

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The withdrawal from methadone is probably the worst and longest of all opiates, and unlike most opiates is known to cause seizures during withdrawal. Oxycodone is bad too but that is more because of its high bioavailability and the fact that is has been shown to affect the nerve endings after habituated usage.

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R u freaking serious? 30 days withdrawal just from 1 or 2mg of methadone??? I just s*** my pants hearing that because im so not ready for 30 day withdrawal from methadone! S*** id rather go back on opiates aha because that withdrawal lasts like a week and nowhere as bad as methadone withdrawal. I'm getting so tired of this crap, literally. Feel like I have a damn ball and chain.

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Dont listen to these guys. Please I’m begging you, because it takes 30 days to quit withdrawals from methadone without any drug to help and it hurts in your bones, but it takes 44 days to quit withdrawals from suboxone and zubsolv the same and you will hurt 10 times as more coming off suboxone than methadone. Please just quit cold turkey. Be strong. But if you do take percocet to help your withdrawals it is only postponing your real withdrawals. I am a recovering addict. I’m 33. I started when I was 14 and I just don’t want you to listen to the other people. I’m just keeping it real and I promise you cold turkey sounds hard but if your honest with yourself and really do want to quit please just take it one minute at a time. Then you go one day at a time. Then before you know it you will be clean. It is hard but when your craving something please try this for me because I believe in you and anybody who can be strong enough to want to quit is stronger than anyone else on this planet. So do this when you’re craving, don’t take any other medicine, just look up to the sky or god (I believe in god but if you don’t just stop thinking about your withdrawals) and think of everything that you have been blessed with in life and everything that you are happy about. If that doesn’t work imagine all those kids at st. Judes that are dying with cancer and fighting for their life every day and here we are trying to hurt ourselves and cry and blame everyone else but ourselves. Sorry if that is offensive. Please just think of the great things you have in your life and if you don’t have great things then when your depressed and wanting to use, make your mind up to go out and get good things for your life. No other drugs will get you off drugs. {edited for privacy}. If you ever need a shoulder to lean on or an ear to listen I will love to help you. It’s easier than you know, trust me please.

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Yes you will still feel the d.t.'s from the methadone. It has a 72 hour half life. you can determine the time it will take to completely rid your body of the drug. Then you will have to deal with the mental withdrawls

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Man, I feel for you: there are soooo many severely addictive drugs out there; and so many people with really severe physical illnesses who need medications but hate getting hooked on 'em ~ like me!

I recently lived (barely) thru eight days of Lyrica Withdrawal: Drenched in sweat, shivering uncontrollably, vomiting, weeping, hallucinating, gasping for breath, staggering from one room to the next, barely sleeping, even suffering sudden and dangerously violent convulsive seizures! Pregabalin withdrawal is beyond HELL! As I say, I just lived through 8 days of it and then I scored and fixed (legally: I went to the pharmacy & got my Lyrica and took some) and I just woke up from about 4 hours of Lyrica-induced heavy sleep. But the RELIEF! While I was in Withdrawal I don't think I had any Delta-wave sleep at all, which is very wearing and exhausting. If I hadn't had the Hydrocodone to alleviate some of it, I wouldn't have slept at all. As it was it was an abominable ordeal I do NOT wish to repeat.

Maybe Percocet (which I've never had, but I've had Hydrocodone) might not turn out to be the best medication for your pain. But if by any chance you end up being switched from Methodone to Lyrica, be aware that Lyrica IS very effective for nerve pain; BUT it is also very, very habit-forming. GOOD LUCK.

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I had 2 10mg meth pills about 8 hours apart; is it possible if i drnk 9 pints of water and take 250mg of cranberry powder and 1200 mg golden seal per day that i piss a clean urine in 6 days

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I was interested in your post because I went from 10 to 7.5 with no withdrawals and am going to try 7.5 to 5 next week. Do you think I have less wds because I was only on 10 for the last 3 years? I used it for pain management and not opiod addiction, and am under a doctor's care. I have ativan and clonidine which I have only used a couple of each to help me sleep, but I am sleeping a lot, so I am not going to take those again unless need with the jump to 5. Then I want to use suboxone just for the last jump because you can cut into strips and go down 1 mg at a time. Any suggestions?

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Lucky you should never go from a LA drug like that to SA. That is suicide. Call the physician who did this and titrate properly. Depending on your amount of Methadone it might take you months to get off the one and then use SA.

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