How Long Do You Have To Take Methadone To Get Withdrawals (Page 2)
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Hello everyone who is one methadone and wants to get off. I was on methadone for 6 years....I wanted to get off so I went to a rehab and did a 30 day suboxone detox getting down to 1 mg for the last 3 days. After 2 days off suboxone I started to get sick once again and decided to get back on methadone. That lasted for about a year before I had finally had enough. I did research and did a 16 day detox from 108 mg to 0 with minor side effects compared to the hell I know methadone withdrawal can be. This is what I did and it worked for me. I can't believe drs aren't talking of the benefits of DXM. Every day before dosing I took 100 mg of Dxm, and drank a few cups of grapefruit juice, the juice increases the effects of the methadone because it inhibits the enzyme that metabolites it in the liver, thus stronger effects because of the longer and more amount of drug in the blood. The dxm is proven to reduce the body's tolerance by inhibiting the nmda receptor that tells the brain it needs more...I did this refining every day before dosing and even missed the last 2 days of treatment. I also partook in the tiniest amount of marijuana, but don't think that was the key. The key was the dxm, it can reduce the tolerance. Everyone is different but if you are thinking of doing a methadone detox start everyday a few hrs before dosing with 50 to 100 mg of dxm, basically cough syrup...look it up, then take your methadone and you'll see the effects will be increased and the withdrawal will be so much less. The grapefruit juice also helps, but not on its own. It only potentiates the effects rather then decreasing the body's tolerance. All I know is after basically 7 yrs of over 100 mg a day I had minimal withdrawal after a 16 day detox and was ok after a month of lethargy. No cold sweats, puking or the hell I had experienced before. I would rather kick opiates cold turkey any time over methadone, it's so much worse, you'd have to be willing to be a lifer to get on it, or go down small amounts over 6 months or more to have success. I can't believe no one talks about dxm, it saved me so much pain. Please look into it, even if you are going to do a 21 day detox. Start the first day with it and it will be so so much easier. I really hope this helps at least one person.

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Jonyb suggested taking DXM cough syrup for methadone withdrawals plus grapefruit juice. Finally was able to get both. Just took about 50 mg DXM and the juice. Have been on methadone, 30 mg per day for 6 years, cut down to 20 mg and feel like needles are poking me from head to toe! I hope this helps. Will let you all know. In an hour I will take a bit more DXM if this does not help. Short history, 2 lumbar fusions back in 2001-2002. Was on fentanyl patches, then the dr changed me to 30 mg methadone..said methadone would be easier to get off of. We all just want our life back!

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Can't get to the store yet to get the cough syrup. I really just want to DIE and get it over with. Thanks Jonyb. I have never had a tattoo, but, I imagine if I was having an entire body tattoo done at the same time, head to toe, this is what I feel like... Plus the hot and cold sweats, shaking, nausea... Don't know how much longer I can hold out. And I am only down to 20mg from 30 mg of methadone! It has been almost 4 weeks with no improvement at all! As far as the Xanax, in 2000 when my i**** OBGYN took out all but 1/4 of one ovary without my permission, long story, I had a cyst and he was only supposed to take that out. But he said ' sorry, I thought it was better to just take them out. Then, since it put me into menopause, he gave me Xanax instead of estrogen replacement for all the immediate hot flashes, high heart rate etc. I did not even know what Alpraxolam ( Xanax ) was! So, I have been on Xanax, I am allowed up to 3 mg per day but I take 1 and one half mg per day which is an entirely different hell! What was this dr thinking? I feel, after reading so many posts on this site, that so many lives have been wasted due to doctors not knowing what effects the medicine they prescribe will have on us. The pain management drs I have seen are located in the upscale parts of my area. They gladly accept my money but the doctors themselves are not there, only PA's. Sorry for the long rant. Growing up, my family was very nutrition oriented, NEVER thought I would be in such a sad state. I keep hoping every day will get better. Methadone is the drug from HELL! Xanax is the drug from HELL! If anyone reads this that is considering taking these drugs, don't! Your life will be gone. I had a successful business, trained sport horses, was very active, now it is a good day just if I can eat food. If anyone has any thoughts about Suboxone, please let me know, or is that just another addiction?

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But don't take a lot a Xanax maybe twice a much or %50 more then you usually take. The tagment and juice as well as the dxm all potentiate it, that's why you want to wait to take it, so they can get into your liver and turn off the enzymes that metabolize it, there forever leaving more in the blood, it in turn also potentiates the methadone as does the dxm. Please let me know how this works for you.

Any Dr who says it will be easy to get off methadone is full of it....

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I'm not a dr, but have years of experiance and have done my home work. If your taking 20 mg a day and in hell, find a cough syrup that has a high ratio of dxm per ml, 30 is usually good, it's hard to find one that only has dxm in it, but usually taking higher doses of the expectorant isn't unsafe unless it reaches over 4 grams, 4000mg, that's not gonna a happen.

Try taking 100 mg dmx an hour before you dose and a few glasses of grapefruit juice as well, beforem you does. Also you can take a fewoknt tagment, it's an otc heart burn med. Take all an hr before you dose, then an hr after you take your methadone take the Xanax or valium or any benzo. I think you'll rearly fell the diffrence. Let me know

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I took it once a day, because I only dosed once a day. An hour or more before I took my methadone. It needs some time to work it's water into the receptors I hear to work the best. As with anything you can probably build a tollerence to this also so I think it's best used as a way to help the detox prossess. I'd look it up to see if others have used it with fentalal. For me it worked great taking once a day. Keep me posted

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I just posted about taking methadone instead of the fentanyl patches. I take 5mg every 6 hours. With using the cough syrup, did you take it once a day or several times per day? Thanks

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My first post, Due to the stress put on my back from training Equine Athletes, I had spinal fusion surgery of L4/L5. (sidenote, please everyone, be very thorough in checking out your surgeon. The first fusion failed, one screw was broken, no bilateral support, found out after the fact that the first doctor was on probation, got kicked out of another hospital, etc. The second surgeon was just barely able to redo this! My first taste of Hell.). This was 13 years ago. My problem now, I was taken off the fentanyl patches and put on 30 mg of methadone 6 years ago. I have weaned down to 20 mg over a 4 week period and am in a second Hell! From the top of my head to my toes feels like needles are being stuck into me. No sleep, barely can eat, heart is racing, cold and hot sweats, When will this stop? I will need to stabilize at 20 mg before I can drop down further and just the thought of that terrifies me? Am 52, female and my doctor is not very helpful. I have Xanax to take. Just read the post about using DXM, cough syrup, and grapefruit juice. Any advice from anyone would really help. Am at the end of my rope! Thanks for any replies. The pain management dr. that put me on methadone said it would be easy to get off this medicine. I think not! Thanks to anyone that can help me

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