Are there any easy ways to get off methadone?
You can not die from Opiod withdrawl; proven fact. You just wish you would die. You can die from Methadone overdose which is quite easy if you take enough. Methadone is an extremely effective drug at helping people get off narcotic painkillers and heroin. If you take it in theraputic doses and tapering it according to your doctor, there shouldn’t be hardly ANY withdrawl and if there is it is extremely mild. I know first hand. After breaking my back and being on oxycotin and demerol for 2 years my doctor put me on methadone to kind-of counter act the other pain killers. Methadone is a very long lasting pain medication. I believe one should last about 12 hours. I didn’t need to take that many and i kinda just stopped taking it on my own. Spent a day kinda sweaty and with some slight chills but i was fine the next day. If you are absuing methadone, you really may want to seek inpatient treatment. I do know the abuse of methadone will lead to very very bad withdrawls and eventually death f
Honestly, if you want to get off methadone, it is almost better to go back to doing heroin for a couple weeks, and then just go through the withdrawal of heroin. Methadone withdrawal is so much worse and it lasts so much longer. By going back to heroin for a couple to few weeks, you can get the methadone out of your system, and go through a less severe and MUCH shorter withdrawal. Withdrawal from methadone peaks at around days 7-10, and can be pretty bad for up to a month, with depression and other minor side effects lasting up to a year. Heroin withdrawal peaks at around days 2-4 and lasts about a week. Heroin withdrawal is much much MUCH easier to get through – and although it sounds like a stupid thing to do…it would make withdrawal much easier and shorter.
I’ve been on Methadone now for a few months, I was a heroin addict for almost 13years. I am only 25 and I found that methadone was the only way to get clean. I have been on methadone before and I was at 130ml when I got cut off. I went into a detox center that gave you medication to help like phenobarbital and another med I can’t remember what it is called, And I was in there for almost a month, the withdrawal lasted for a long time. But I still decided to go back on it and try it again. I am very serious about quitting and getting off this methadone. This time around I will go no higher on it than 85ml, and when I am ready to taper off I will make sure I do it slow, Just as long as I eventually get off it I don’t care how long it will take. So just take your time to withdrawal and don’t try to do it as fast as you can. I won’t be easy but nothing is.
