Methadone No No No!!!!! (Page 2) (Top voted first)

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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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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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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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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*** 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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That is not true. They do not start people at 40 ml, and they certainly do not allow people to start with a clean U/A. And why did you vomit, exactly? That makes no sense.

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Methadone is an incredibly effective anti-depressant which gives the user energy and euphoria.

When people don't respond well to methadone it's usually because they have a low IQ.

It's not your fault but don't rag on it because you aren't very bright.

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Johny61 - are you SURE they are giving you methadone LINCTUS? That is NEVER used for opioid maintenance, only for use as an antitussive. It is 1mg per 5mL, as opposed to methadone MIXTURE, which is 1mg per 1mL, and is the standard strength used for opioid issues. The linctus is very rarely prescribed. I think you have your formulations mixed up. You must have brought one bucketload of tablets with you, since for the past 30 years, the ONLY strength of tabletted methadone available in the UK is a paltry 5mg, and in other EU countries (save one in which 20mg are sold) 10mg, and the US 40mg. I would check everything you have, and have been prescribed if I were in your position. Something does not sound right about your regimen.

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I'm 47. I have been on methadone for 12 years. I no longer abuse any drugs and have been off everything my entire time at the clinic. I agree with you a million percent. I want off this s*** so bad. I have only seen two people in 12 years be able to do so. Both of them went thru horrible long withdrawals. Like 60 days worth. I now have cancer. My pain can't be controlled because of methadone. I have no support from the clinic in detoxing. I feel so trapped. It would of been much easier if I just got off opiates and never took methadone...

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Re: Pat (# 6)

For all the Methadone users, whom let the government become legal pill pushers, you will think twice in about 2 to 5 years. The stuff is horrible on your body and is absorbed into the bone marrow, so withdrawal is hell. It takes forever to come out of your system. It rots your teeth, makes you fat, causes lethal cardiac arrhythmia and will ruin your life just like any other drug. I know this because I could be the poster child for the evil s***. It was invented by a doctor/chemist that worked for Adolf Hitler. Yeah it will get you off the other s*** but once you start your romance with methadone you are screwed. So my advice is to get off of it quick, no more than 6 months and good luck when you detox. Oh yeah, please do not let anyone tell you it is ok to take it through pregnancy. It is so sad to watch an infant detox off Methadone. Thank god I did not have my addictions when I was pregnant. And about the cardiac arrhythmia she, you won’t know you have them until your private doctor does an ECG because the Methadone clinic don’t care enough about you to check. They just want your money ever week.

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You're exactly right. I’ve been on methadone for over 11 years and I don’t know where to begin to try and get off it. They do treat you like s*** and take your money once they’ve got you in the program and hooked on it. Most of the places, especially the one where I go my counselor is worse than any probation officer I’ve ever had. They’re almost as if they’re a legal drug dealer. I pay $370 a month to go there and my medicine they give me per month cost them roughly $40. A 40mg Methadone wafer costs about .20 cents at a pharmacy out of pocket with no insurance.

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I honestly think it depends on the person. I went to a methadone clinic, because I was a single mom and could not do in-patient rehab. I got up to 50 mg of methadone, and chose not to go higher. I staid at 50 for a few months then slowly started reducing my dose each week (I had weekly take homes, so went down 2-3 mg each week). Until I was completely off. It took a little over a year. It was the best I ever made for myself. I made sure to choose a clinic that offered counseling as well. That helped immensely! Because getting off opiates does cause a lot of depression. It’s been over 5 years now since I got off methadone and have had no problems since. However, I feel like you have to REALLY want to do it. and you can’t do it for any other reason than you wanting to, otherwise it’s too easy to fall back into old habits. There were people at the clinic who’d been going there for years and years, but they never seemed that interested in getting off methadon. Some expressed concern that if they stopped with methadone they’d go right back to using opiates again. This is why I feel it’s different for everyone. I know some who get low enough on methadone and then switch to suboxone and that worked for them. I don’t think methadone is evil, though you do have to remember it is also habit forming. My life is 100% better and I’m so thankful that program worked for me. I pray that everyone can find a program that works for them, whether that be methadone, suboxone, or whatever. Just find what works for you and stick to it. I wish all of you the best.

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Re: melynda (# 11)

I totally agree with you . I've been on methadone for over 10 years now . It saved my life . I know exactly what you mean about "piece of mind" .

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METHADONE ALSO COMES IN A PILL FORM, AN ITS CHEAP

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f**k all this s**t!! hey people, methadone has changed my life and my outlook on everything i do and see i f**king soo applaud it!!! im living life too the fullest. at least i have a piece of mind even if its trade one thing for another i will take this and know it saved my life. melynda phoenix, arizona

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Hi Gracie..I still think what the clinic did to you is criminal, but I wish you great luck with being clean off of all drugs. I agree don't give a dime to those pain clinics, they are rip off clinics who have doctors who can't do anything else because they have bad reputations. Of course I am sure there are a lot of good ones, but the charges Heck, they cost more than methadone clinics.. If you only have a few suboxone left and when you are finished and feel sick, please seek medical help, because the worst thing you can do is get on oxys again... Just take it slow and if you do it right (slow) there is no reason you can't be successful. And I agree whatever works for people is fine by me.. BTW, I am 55, so I know how hard it is when we get older. We have a lot more experience than a lot of other people here, and that helps us help others..If you ever feel like using, here is a website with people trying to be clean just like you. There are many addicts going through the same thing you are..I wish I could help you more, but I can't help you with your taper because I don't know what you are going through, but hopefully there are others that can... Good luck friend!!!! Happy Holidays to you

Pat

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Hey Pat,
I think I'm in worse shape then you think! I got on SUBUTEXT, not suboxone instead and wish i hadn't switched over. Now i hear the subutext is worse to get off of! I didn't know. I hear the W/D can be pretty bad. I am doing the taper with the pills and am feeling pretty good for now but am scared to death worrying about them running out. You know how us addicts hate pain! :-) But not to worry about my going back to the oxyz's! I would get back on the clinic if I see that I can't get through life without something! GOD that sucks! :-) but I'm just being real and know myself! After all these years of being an addict some times I feel doomed. But I've got to start getting a possitive attitude b/c I'm starting to believe that if you think neg, neg things will happen. And if you think poss, poss things will happen! Call me a crazy old lady! Anyway, it is always a pleasure to get your post and so look forward to them. I am so sorry about the baby thing. That just wasn't in the plan for your life I guess. It wasn't in mine either. I'll bet you would have been a wonderful mom b/c I can tell that you have a very caring heart. MY sis hated the mthadone and so did my mom for years b/c I wasn't working the program right back in the 80's. I was still in that junkie state of mind but after loosing 2 fingers from the blood clot and realized that the clot could have gone to my head instead of my fingers, that's what changed me. And my mom supported me on the methadone b/c she saw the change in me. (MY sis lived up north and so just thought that I was cured for life since I'd been off the street drugs for so long and that I could get off the methadone with no problem at all especially after 18 yrs) and had me convinced too! But after the finger thing I was WAY TIRED AND READY! I did have a son when I was 16 and my parents made me put him put for adoption which I think kept me in my addction for many years. The guilt and emptiness were unbearable. Then I got clean on the clinic and a year later my son found me! What a blessing. He was down here in Fl with his wife and I talked to him a lot. Things were great until they split up and I don't know what happened b/c one day he was here and then he was gone and haven't heard a word from him in 5 years! I think he's doing drugs or something. Maybe like mother,like son. I just don't know but it kills me everyday. Things were fine between us so I know it had nothing to do with me. I just wish he'd let me know that he is ok. OK, sorry for bending your ear again! I'm sure you have things to do but will look for your post again soon! God Bless you and keep you and your family safe! And KEEP LOOKING UP^ Grace

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ya, and pat whatever your name is. I think you need to STFU because I have never been a NA or AA follower in my entire life. I find that to be bullsh*t, too! If you can't find one thing that tells you how harmful methadone is to your body then your dense and ignorant. It is THE worst drug to be addicted to and thank you very much I am outta that bull program and have been for 3 months. I'm free.

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methadone is messed up and does mess with you. i would have never ever in my life got on this stupid drug. i would haave been sick for a week, they do just want you money and feed off you stupid addiction its rediculous how about doctors try and actually help there patients instead of killing them slowly and giving them no hope what so ever

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if u r hooked on opana and want to stop methadone will do wonder and i take 120 mgs and i was addictted to opana for 4 yrs

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