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Am Detoxing With Methadone. Want To Stop Abruptly. Had Detoxes Of Morphine Before. Suggestions On Easy Withdrawal?
I am detoxing myself cold turkey off methadone. I was on 50 mg. I weaned myself down to 30 mg. I'm just tired of being a slave to it. now I've decided to stop abruptly. Please tell me some tips on easing withdrawals and how long of a detox I'm looking at. I've detoxes off morphine before but I've hearted methadone is worse. Thank you
Tue, 11 Jun 2013
Hello,
Quitting methadone cold turkey is an extremely bad idea.
Since methadone has a long half life you would probably be okay for a couple of days but then your withdrawal symptoms would start. At day 3 or 4 the worst symptoms start. You usually vomit quite a bit, get diarrhea and stomach cramps.You will have pain in your whole body and a creepy, crawly feeling like you have thousands of ants running around under your skin.
There is lot of associated weakness and yes you are right that withdrawing from methadone is more problematic than withdrawing from heroine.
You should be patient with withdrawl and do it slowly over many weeks and months.
From 30,you should come down to 25 and stay there for few weeks and then withdraw to 20 and stay for few weeks.
This way you can withdraw from methadone without inviting horrible side effects.
Thanks
Quitting methadone cold turkey is an extremely bad idea.
Since methadone has a long half life you would probably be okay for a couple of days but then your withdrawal symptoms would start. At day 3 or 4 the worst symptoms start. You usually vomit quite a bit, get diarrhea and stomach cramps.You will have pain in your whole body and a creepy, crawly feeling like you have thousands of ants running around under your skin.
There is lot of associated weakness and yes you are right that withdrawing from methadone is more problematic than withdrawing from heroine.
You should be patient with withdrawl and do it slowly over many weeks and months.
From 30,you should come down to 25 and stay there for few weeks and then withdraw to 20 and stay for few weeks.
This way you can withdraw from methadone without inviting horrible side effects.
Thanks
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