Methadone And Morphine Together (Page 7) (Top voted first)

MY HUSBAND HAS BLADDER CANCER AND WAS PRESCRIBED 20 MG OF METHADONE EVERY MORNING. HE WAS ALSO GIVEN MORPHIN SULFATE 60 MGS TWICE A DAY. HOW SHOULD THESE MEDICINES BE TAKEN?

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Wow I thought I had it bad.I wish
You the best.I'm on the exact meds so I know everythiby your going through.I've had 25 surgeries and cannot walk up right
so I may have to undergo another surgery.I've had Osteomyelitis so it's tough to say yes about a surgery.I want to stand up.better so Its GREAT to hear you can and Will do that.Please keep in touch.
Let me know how it all goes.My sincere good thoughts will be with you.
Colette

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Hi.He should take on in the morning
and the Liquid instant relief in the evening.
I hope his helps.Best wishes for a great outcome.You can always call your local pharmacist they can explain why..
Sincerely Colette

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You're welcome Dean. If I can help in any other way, just let me know. Thanks.

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Back in the 70s i was on 40 mgs of methadone and I went through close to 100 dilaudid one weekend without feeling a single one. The only drug I can feel over my methadone is fentanyl and It has to be a fairly high dose (160 mcgs) because now im on 150 mgs of methadone.

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Im getting off methadone for once its the best thing to take with any other opiate cuz it keep you from abusing and taking too much of anything and i havent been high off of oxys for years and it works great for pain with oxys.i use to take xanax with this only 20 mgs of methadone and i use to sleep and feel great but when i quit the xanax boy that was a worse feeling than withdrawls and it took 2 months to get normal even tho i had methadone and oxys so stay away from that combo if possible.and i dont care what anyone say you do not need more than 40 mgs of methadone it just makes it harder to get off them..i tkae 15 to 5 mgs a day and its the same

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I am on methadone, just 60ml daily. Anyway I so thank you for your, well lesson. It's interesting. I love that you have said where methadone has come from. I knew Hitler, well I'd heard, he'd had it made but didn't know that China had cut Germany off, so cheers for the lesson, nice one.

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Methadone is a bigger compound, therefore in high doses it will make other full agonists like morphine harder to cling to other receptors because they are occupied. Anyhow, it's probably best taking morphine at night if on high doses of methadone; allowing methadone atoms to metabolize.

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Hi, im on 45mg of methadone and if i take 60mg of m-eslon (morphine) i get a migraine, but if i have around 30mg it's ok, no migraine. From what i understand, under 150mg of methadone helps the morphine bind to the receptors, but over that and the methadone clogs the receptors. I could be wrong though.

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In my personal experience, a medication called Neurotin was amazing for me. If you are going through withdrawal, you need to find a doc to prescribe it and then withdrawals won't be bad at all

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I don't know when you posted. But do NOT just quit methadone cold turkey. What methadone does in your system is attach to the receptors and if you take it daily, it keeps stacking. Methadone is known as a "stacker" drug. Meaning the more you take the more it stacks on top of your receptors. If you quit cold turkey, sure you will be okay for a couple of days. The worst days are 5-8. But when trust me when I say, just do it the right way. Ween yourself off of it with the help of your doctor.

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Only when methadone dose is 40mg or more does it cancel out other opiates

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If you are trying to cold turkey 130 meth. You won't sleep well for 30 days!

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It was 2 months for me.suks but wasnt sik.was at 5mgs a day from 40mgs for 4 years

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When I was in the hospital for a severe stomach bleed and pain from that, but couldn't take my methadone 150mg daily dose (due to bleeding), the doctor TOLD me the conversion rate is 500mg of morphine spread out over 24 hours, given every two hours, FOR 150mg of methadone. THAT IS THE CONVERSION rate.

But HE, being a country bumpkin, small town doctor that he was, trying desperately to avoid a legal suit and because doctors are terrified to OVER MEDICATE a patient on narcotics due to respiratory depressions "not breathing" (which is NOT a problem or remote possibility for high level methadone patients) HE only gave me 10 mg every two hours to start, so it was only 120mg (over 24 hours) of morphine at first.. I WENT INTO SEVERE WITHDRAWALS. and was in soooo much pain i was screaming. He doubled it to 20mg of morphine every two hours and the withdrawals let up a fraction but i was still in withdrawals, nose running, legs cramping.... and they had to give me a high dose of benzos TO KNOCK ME OUT COLD, because I was screaming in pain for hours. (which they shouldn't even be doing with pain meds, ESPECIALLY METHADONE but THAT was what the on call Dr. decided). As soon as the benzos wore off the normal ICU doctor had my 150mg dose waiting to be taken, in two doses to prevent too much damage to my stomach, but they didn't even try after that first night of HELL with morphine.

Had they actually given me what the medical journal he read said he should....which would have roughly been 40mg (41.6mg to be exact) of morphine every two hours INSTEAD of one daily dose of 150mg of methadone, I think i would have been out of pain for the most part, or at least back to NORMAL as far as NO withdrawal symptoms. You do the math for your dose, lol. But that's what I was specifically told by a ICU physician AFTER he went and looked it up.

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I couldn't imagine what u had to go through. I've been on this thread for awhile and i had a back injury from work for 17 years now but the doc i went to was a nice doc that you could tell him anything you were taking and he'd prescribe it. I was taking up to 300 mgs of oxycodone and in the last 13 years, 2 days was all i could go without the full blown withdrawals. I was prescribed 60 mgs of methadone when i got tired of it but only took 20 mgs at first and it worked wonders. I got up to 30 mgs and stayed at it but one day i tried to get off of that cold turkey even though i had 100 pills reserved. I almost had a heart attack when constipation tried to come out. I went to a pain clinic because i dont think the doc wanted me dying on him even though i never abused methadone. I finally got down to 5 mgs. It's not hard from 20mgs, but i've helped addicts in my family get off drugs with as little as 60 mgs methadone over 4 days, so i don't know why docs prescribe so much from my years of personal experience. The only thing was for 1 to 2 months I couldn't sleep great, but was never sick.

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It takes 80 at first then it builds up over time it stores in your bones body fat and bone marrow

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Right on! It isn't a blocker.Just adheres to the opioid receptors requiring more opiates to feel the effect!

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How much Did she take see I only took ten miligrams of morphine and then two or three hours later took 20 miligrams of methodone

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Hi, my gf is tapering off methadone for opiode addiction and I'm concerned is using morphine or other drugs again. She has been suffering from nausea, restless leg, trouble staying asleep and sweating...she was in detox and has been pissing clean for awhile now is able to carry 6 days of methadone only doing drug panels every 6 weeks. Yesterday came back with pin point eyes, slurred speech, poor coordination and elated and confused and nodding before dosing her methadone. I found green pills that I think said n 15 on them. Please someone tell me if they think she is using other opioids again or if this is a sign of methadone tapering? She is insisting she is not using and I'm scared. She is on 38 mg methadone, tapering 2 mg per week.

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I'm on 90ml of methadone. Is it safe to use morphine patches while on methadone? I am in a lot of pain after an accident and was wondering if the patches would help?

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