Methadone No No No!!!!! (Page 3)

Methadone is the worst drug and most wicked drug in this entire world. They give it to people like me with pill problems and then you can never get off the stuff. I made the worst mistake of my life going into a Methadone program. The people at these places pretend like they are there for you but they are not. They are there to keep you on this drug that rots away at your mind and body, and they do it well. They want your money. Do you know how cheap liquid methadone is? They milk off your addiction and act like they are doing something good for people like me. I HATE Methadone. I hate what it's doing to me and I HATE that I came in this place for a pill addiction four years ago, at 22, told I had one year and I would be weened off and here I am. I fight with these people all the time about this but they come up with a million excuses for why I should STILL be on this crap. It is going to kill me, just like the other pills, maybe just slower and more agonizing.

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I have been on methadone for ten years.. I was 95 mg when I started, I am now on 8 mg! methadone saved my life! all this crap I hear that's bad about methadone. If you are serious about getting clean and really want to live a drug free life.. you can!! yes it has taken my almost 5 years to come of this, but I have had little to no discomfort at all. ( and I am a baby when it comes to withdraw) I started taking 2 mg cut every 2 weeks and for the last year I have come down 1 mg a month. give or take I may have the months wrong.

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are you in Fl?

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That is were you r so wrong I am also on methodone and when they meaning the metodone clinic introduced me to it like it wS the best next thing next to god this women is so right they r not there to help u only to take the money they r not about u stAying in recovery they could care a less if u r that naive I feel so sport for u I tried to detox of meth and I was In icu with my body shutting down due to methodone withdrawal are u that ignorant why would they be pushing to allow prisoners to take it because if they don't they will die from the withdrawal at when we were on pain meds or H yea we wuold suffer for about a week but with methodone u suffer for at least six months if u make it that far. So to any addicts out there do not choose methodone u can do this without ot

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I felt them same way 9 years ago after I was on methadone for a year. But 10 years later it has ruined my life it is a wicked cycle of up down, up down, trying to wean off. 3 months ago I quit after a 10 day wean off with a combination of different meds and my husband. 3 months later and I feel normal again. Actually have feelings again. I'm still free of everything and WILL never recommend methadone to anyone. It changes you from an opiate user to a methadone user. Your life revolves around that, it comes first just like the opiates. Doctors will never say to try the way I went off, but I was at the end of my methadone road, I guess I hit methadone bottom(weird as it sounds) and I was given the opportunity to be supported by loving family to help me get off this. So I took it and it was the best thing I have done in 10 years. So if coming off is what you want you have to be in it 110% it is hard, but I wish you luck. It will be better if you can get through the first 2 months. A good support system is key.

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hey how is everyone. I know there is a lot of negativity about methadone. so I want to share with you all a success story. I was on methadone for nine years, I was on 95 mg. I started detoxing off of methadone maybe in the sixth year I was on it. I am not saying that this is easy or you can just hop off of methadone in a week. its not that easy. but at first id take a 4 mg decrease then when I was down to 30 I started to do one milligram every other week and when I was down to 10 mg I came down one mg a month. and I am officially off of methadone and have been since dec 2014. I had very minimal discomfort. and I am a baby when it comes to being dopesick. somedays were better than others but it wasn't nothing I couldn't handle. if anyone wants to talk you can email me at {edited for privacy}. I hope this could maybe help someone.

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Hi everyone! I have sat here and read everyone's posts! So, I figured I'd write to let you know how I feel about methadone! I had back surgery in 2007 to put a titanium rod around my spine to "fix" my scoliosis! Unfortunately, it made my back 10 times worst. I had the surgery only 3 months before I graduated from high school thinking that I was going to heal and be like a brand new person in time for my "Senior Week" at the beach, but I was completely wrong. My doctor started me out on loricet 10s.. Then I had to gradually go up as my body's tolerance went up as well! It got to the point where the pills my doctor was prescribing me just wasn't enough! Finally I got introduced to the 100 mcg fentanyl patches. I was cutting them into pieces and chewing on them. That drug got me hooked so hard and so fast.. I didn't realize what I was doing until it was too late. I tried numerous times to come off of them cold turkey but the withdrawals were way too bad. I admitted that I needed the help to get off of them and that's when I entered into the methadone clinic. If I would have continued down the road I was on.. I would either be dead or in jail.. no doubt! As far as some of you saying that methadone is the devil and everything else.. obviously you didn't have a life threatening addiction. Because yea, it isn't cheap at all to go to the clinic.. but just think about how much money you were spending to get your fix for the day?? How many times were you doing illegal things in order to get your fix for that day?? So, add up all that money you were spending.. And ask yourself if you'd rather pay daily to get your medicine legally.. or take the risk and eventually have to spend several hundreds of dollars when you get locked up for either purchasing or having possession of a controlled substance?

The methadone clinic isn't out to get you..! I can say that if it weren't for the clinic.. I wouldn't be the mother that I am to my 14 month old! I take my dose first thing in the mornings.. and I'm good until the next morning. I'm only up to 45 mgs.. I don't plan on raising my dose.. nor do I plan on being on it for the rest of my life.. I'm just using this as a backbone until I honestly believe that I can be on my own and not worry about relapsing. My daughter deserves a 120% mom.. Not a 50% one day.. and a 25% another according on whether or not I was able to get my hands on a pain pill or not! If it takes me being on methadone for awhile.. Then so be it! I deserve to be happy, but most of all.. my daughter deserves to be happy and have a happy mom! My daughter opened my eyes.. but the Methadone was actually that stepping stone leading towards the right direction! So, to the ones who have nothing but negative things to say about methadone.. I wish you nothing but the best in life. And just because you think that it's the devil.. doesn't give you the right to tell someone that they are making the biggest mistake of there life by going to the clinic. Just because it's expensive.. doesn't mean that they only get you hooked on the methadone so that you'll keep coming back forever.. Just for the record, the day I went in for my intake.. they went on ahead and set me up with a plan! A plan that will help me out for a while.. and then a plan to taper me off. They assign each individual a counselor in case you ever need someone to talk to. My opinion, the clinic is actually one of the best things that could have possibly been made available to people whom are sick with that awful disease called ADDICTION! I know that I've just sat here and went on and on.. but I felt that I needed to get my story and opinion out there! Thanks for taking the time out to read!!

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verwon, Suboxone is great to treat people with opiate addiction who do not rapidly metabolize meds. It simply doesn't work for everyone just like most other drugs (not just opiates). We are all fully aware there's no magic cure for addiction and you have to find what works best for you. The Girl demonizing methadone clinics seems like she has falsified UA's. Just my opinion but come on. I was a self pay patient for 8 yrs at a clinic and when I used in the 1st 6 mo of being a patient there it came up. She's hiding the fact she's on them so probably falsifying Her UA's so she can continue hiding it from the clinic docs because she knows it's danger and they probably would not approve her being on them. They do that with meds. The doc has to specifically approve any prescription and specify a time period its approved for. Methadone maintained patients should NEVER disclose the fact they're on maintainance at an NA OR AA meeting. They will demonize and turn you against it. AND harass you to detox, and berate you for it telling you you're not REALLY clean. If you're not using illicitly you're clean. BOTTOM LINE.

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i need help-advice! i have been on methadone now , going to a pain mgt clinic for almost 13 years, i am so scared! i called in my scripts as always. they call and tell u they r ready and u can pick them up. well after 48 hours, time they say to give them, i got no call so i called them. they gave me the run around, first call told me the dr wants to see me, well i just saw him last month and i got the 3 month before i come bk, i just call in my meds. m6y meds are up on 19th of july, i have to wait 2 wks before i can get my scripts cause dr is on vacation? what is this? so i start thinking i am tooooo old and have tooooo many health issues for this! i know methadone withdrawal can kill u. i call bk and i get the run around again until finally i get they did not receive my msg about my call in for my scripts! i called them in to recorded message on the 12th, i do this every time in every month! i never forget! so now i am scared i am gonna have seizures, heart attack, etc! they told me to go to er but i can not get any meds cause of contract! i have ruptured disc, nerve damage, degenerative bone disease, severe arthritis, fractured hip, fractured spine, bone spurs all my sic in my neck are blowed, etc! i have been in a recliner to sleep now for 10 years i can not even lay in a bed! it takes me half a day to try to get moving. i have severe high bld pressure, it is always way up all the time! last reading was 186/164 and it stays high, i also have heart issues and high cholesterol. i am so scared! they as well called me a liar, when they r the ones that kept changing the story! it is not my fault, so now i have to suffer, maybe die because of their negligence? i am praying i make it until the 2wks are up! is there not some kind of protocol for this stuff? should i contact a lawyer? i am desperate and really scared! help!!!!

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Sarah,I would like u also to probe was what you said , the only time I have ever bashed methadone as during the worst of my addiction.
Without methadone my first child would be dead from my $1000 a day herion addiction. I found out I was pregnant and the doctor told me the baby wouldn't make it through that kind of withdrawal, I swore I wanted a better life for my daughter and went to the clinic. I am Australian and here we don't have your " big pharma" or doctors that are infuenced by kickbacks or whatever. My treatment use to be free at a public clinic but now it costs me $35 a week and is partially government subsidised. Not all people are taking it because they got screwed over .it changed my life and by extension the children I have had since. I have over the course of 11 years had four children and have been reducing. I have not used since the first day I found out I was having my first child. Without it I would be dead like my partner of the time and my first child would be too and I certainly would be homeless . People need to see the success not just the bad. We change people's lives through treatment, we need not to stigmatise them but encourage them because through changing their lives many lives are changed, those who love them , their children families and friends. Treatment is not evil and well worth the effort. I am trying to reduce now and am hopeful it goes well. Slowly surely I shall do it but eventually I will get there and will not be rushed by anyone else's misconceived notions or ideas on methadone. You don't like it ? Don't give advice for it.

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Suboxone is just like methadone! It is a maintenance medication with an opioid in it. It is physically addictive and causes severe withdrawal symptoms when stopped. Now subutex, on the other hand, is different. It contains just the naloxone with no opioid. It prevents the the one using it from achieving a "high". It also has no withdrawal symptoms and can be taken for as long as needed .

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Suboxone is just like methadone! It is a maintenance medication with an opioid in it. It is physically addictive and causes severe withdrawal symptoms when stopped. Now subutex, on the other hand, is different. It contains just the naloxone with no opioid. It prevents the the one using it from achieving a "high". It also has no withdrawal symptoms and can be taken for as long as needed .

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Medicaid and Medicare pay for methadone

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I'm 10 yrs on methodone no bad ua s in 4 yes at one pain clinic almost 4 at this one that brutally and cruelly cut me off based on a borderline UA to have to cold Turkey is so horrid it takes along time to ever feel right. Alaska sucks for not enough treatment for people now I'm screwed and suffering

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So glad to hear another success story. I have been on 11 years as well and do believe I would be dead if I hadn't signed up for Methadone treatment. Too many people begin the program just to avoid withdrawal on days they can't find dope. It's unfortunate that the majority still use even while in treatment but there are those of us who truly want to be well. I'm tapering slowly as well and hope it goes well. It's been fine so far and I've been doing it for the past year or so. I personally would rather be alive on Methadone and be healthy, happy and clean, than risk death by using illegal drugs. good luck to you and your children!

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If you want someone to take your advice seriously, you may want to learn how to use a period once in a while. Ever hear of a run on sentence? I honestly will not even read a post that is written that way because it's quite obvious to me that the individual writing it is a bit lacking if you know what I mean. I wouldn't take advice from someone like that. A personal opinion yes, but it makes sense if you think about it.

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Just in reading ur post I can tell u are too young in the drug game to turn to methadone maintenance as an option. It's discouraging that these clinics allow pill addicts in their 20's to think that methadone is a better option than say subutex. From what I have seen at my clinic, the clients with the most success and stability have 6 take home privileges a week, clean u/a's and an attitude of gratitude. Being a junkie is a full time job and for those with 10, 15, 20 years of opiate use, methadone is always the better option. For someone with a hard core pill/opiate addiction lasting a handful of years only, your brain can heal much quicker than the 15 year veteran. Maintenance clinics therefore should evaluate clients accordingly.

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Don't give up....Tell them you want to ween down..2 to 3 ml a week.It works...And they will let you skip going down a few weeks of if you start to feel it..It really works...But you are right about them wanting your money...A good counselor knows how to do it right.. Good Luck you can do it...

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*** IN NEED OF ADVICE

Methadone is ruining my boyfriend's life. I have been with my boyfriend for almost 2 years. When I met him he was on methadone. He is not on the program because he doesn't take it everyday, just every 2 days but in large amounts.. For about 4 years he was addicted to oxycotin and then eventually hydromorphone/contin. I did not know him at this time but I know he was doing terrible and sold everything he owned to get the drugs. He lives a fairly normal life with me, and you can't really tell he has a problem. Except for the fact he is unable to get off methadone. The withdrawals after 4 hours are so painful and terrible for him he fears after 3 years of being on methadone, he will never get off it. It hurts me heart so much because I dont want to see him depend on ANYTHING - of course I rather he be on methadone rather than pills. It makes him have mood swings though, gets sweaty, and has no libido or general motivation really. He knows he needs to get off it but doesn't know where to start. I am thinking a rehab facility that doesn't replace the methadone with another drug like it. He NEEDS to be sober. Its time now. ADVICE???

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I think considering all the tribulations today for patients to acquire our much needed medications, due largely to the DEA and goverment interferences, that we should ALL stop making judgmental statements about ANY medicine. When someone says "OxyContin is the worst drug around", what does that do? It alerts the forces that control to start a new campaign of harassment, at least it seems to me it does. Every person is helped by different drugs and formularies of drugs. Saying one is bad for YOU, may have saved another's very life. We need to consider how our own comments may be influencing today's pharmacy needs that are controlled by our regulators. JUST SAYING, one never knows!

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What? Are you kidding me? I went into a clinic to see how easy it was, and i was dosed within 3 hours. They started me out on 40mg, and my u/a was as clean as an athletes. About 15 min after i took that 40mg dose i barfed my brains out for the next 4 hours. almost died, it made me so sick. But don't lie and say clinics are so great and care, because i proved they are full of it. Methadone is garbage and so are the doctors that peddle that s***....get a grip.

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