How Long Does It Take For Your System To Clear Methadone (Top voted first)

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if i've been taking 50 mg methadone qd for 3 yrs and wonder how many days will it take to have a clean ua? what about occasional use of xanax klonopin ativan or valium? i read on this site that it only takes 2-4 days to be clean for ativan and klonopin???

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im a frist time user,i took 20mg of methadone 3 weeks ago ive never taken it before or after,how long will it be in my system how long will it be before i can pass a drug test

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methadone absolutely will NOT be out of your system in 2-4 days. it is not a normal opiate. it is what is known as an antagonist. it has a half life which means if you took 30 mg today (and never took it before today) then tomorrow you would still have 15mg, next day 7.5 mg, so on and so on. If you have been on methadone for an extended period of time, it can show up in your urine for up to 30 days. I went to a methadone clinic for 9 years and recently switched to suboxone. it takes a long time to get that crap out!!

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And, yea...that half life rule people are basically making up. If there was half of it in your system each day it would be undetectable much faster. Not sure what the actual half-life rule is, but it's definitely not like people on these boards say it is.

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Tari my name is Nick. I've been going to a Methadone clinic for 8 months and I've been on 95 mg. I WANT OFF ANDY KNOW WHY!! However I'm scared to death cuz I've heard the horror stories! And I heard the transition to Suboxone is not an easy one. I tried suboxone before but I wasn't ready to really quite shooting dope. I AM NOW AND I'VE BEEN DOPE FREE WHILE ON METHADONE and like I said I want back on suboxone. is there ANY HELP OR HINTS OR IDEAS OR ADVICE U CAN GIVE ME TO MAKE MY TRANSITION FROM METHADONE TO SUBOXONE AS PAINLESS AS POSSIBLE??? PLEASE!!! ANYTHING WILL HELP!! THANK U FOR UR TIME!!!

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@tari that's def not right, you make it seem like the half life goes down on daily basis, methadone is a synthetic opiate that is specifically designed to last for a long time in order to manage around the clock pain, I am prescribed it for nerve damage I suffered from a gun shot wound. A half life doesn't go down daily it goes down at a constant rate of half of the previous half life.

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Nah, benzos are similar to marijuana believe it or not. They take a minimum of 7 days and I've seen it in my system for up to 3 weeks.

By the way, the place actually didn't drug test me for the job, so I stressed for no reason. O well, suckers! ;)

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Nick, i also was in a methadone treatment center for 5 yrs. I was on 100mg and started detoxing 3mg each week. At 30mg do to no insurance and financial issues, I had to stop cold turkey. It was a horrible experience. My husband was at 60mg and was able to dose down to 3mg before leaving the program. Allow yourself to be able to rest and be alone to get thru the hard parts. Calcium magnesium helps with the bones aching and alternating tylenol and ibuprofen. Benadrhyl will help with the runny nose. Try to find a doctor that can start you on a good anti-depressant and make the transformation to Suboxine. I choose not to do the suboxine but just to be done all together. I have been clean for 1yr Oct 3, but it is a difficult process, have faith and good luck to you.

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FIRST OF ALL, methadone has the LONGEST HALF-LIFE OF ANY DRUG OUT THERE. It literally stays in your bone marrow.
People think that they can wait just a few days, & then go on Suboxone. But PLEASE trust me--it's the Worst Thing You Could Do!!!
Suboxone is composed of two different drugs, the first one is Subutex, and that is an opiate that will not make you high or give you a buzz or really help any pain, it just keeps you from going into withdrawal. The OTHER ingredient is the one you need to be wary of. It is called naloxone which is narcane - the drugs they pump you full of in the hospital if you OD.

THE NALOXONE IN SUBOXONE WILL PULL ALL OF THE METHADONE OUT OF YOUR SYSTEM AND PUT YOU INTO A SEVERE WITHDRAWAL, THE KIND OF WITHDRAWAL DOCTORS WON'T EVEN LET YOU GO INTO. ANYONE that says methadone will be out of your system in 3 or 4 days is completely wrong. You might not pee it out, but it is still there. I ACTUALLY EXPERIENCED THIS FOR MYSELF. detect down from 100 milligrams of methadone, down to 10 milligrams. I took that for two weeks, and then started only drinking half of it for a week, (I was on the liquid, occasionally called METHADOSE) then stopped completely for about four and a half days. Then I took a Suboxone. An hour later, I was curled up underneath the chair in the waiting room at the ER begging them to make it stop. They gave me a catapress & some ativan & let me sleep for about 4 hours, and then they basically told me there was nothing I could do but wait in agony until I was able to take a suboxone, which took 2 days...

Subutex after methadone might be a lil better since it does not contain the naloxone so you would not going to withdraw, but I would still wait as long as you can possibly can until you take the subutex. I would definitely look into that! Also, if you are pregnant woman, do not take suboxone only take subutex because I know naloxone can cause birth defects. Your brain is simply not able to handle the stoppage of the serotonin production so suddenly, that's why people taper slowly off of heavy opiates, and that's why the doctors tell you too.

If you do it slowly, your brain will re-learn to produce it on its own. The best way to stuff is to go down in milligrams until you start to feel sick and then go up 5 and stay there until you're comfortable. Then start going down again until you feel sick again and go up 5 again, and stay and keep doing that until you're down to nothing. You will probably stay somewhere between 3 and 10 milligrams for quite a while, and then stop, but the problem is is that your brain will feel like it NEEDS a pill, or it won't work, even if you just take a sugar pill.
It truly is a sort of mind f*** at that point, but if you have the will and the determination, you will succeed. A girlfriend of mine (friends since we were eleven-24 years now--it started at 19, she got addicted to crack & then heroin really bad for years, went to rehab for over a year got off everything & then ended up on vicodin, taking 11 pills at a time 4 or 5 times a day, & I got her on suboxone to get her off the pills because buying them is just simply too expensive) was on suboxone and knew she did not need it anymore, but still had that paranoia that she would get sick if she didn't take anything, so she would take teeny tiny pieces of a 2 milligram strip, just to ease her anxiety. But then she got pregnant with her daughter and was able to stop completely. So maybe a big change in life so having a child, or moving to a new house, would help you stop completely at the end.

Also, if you look online, there are recipes for the withdrawal symptoms. They have prescription and over-the-counter recipes, they combat the symptoms of restless bodies, where you can't stop moving, sleep aid because you won't be able to sleep, medicine to combat runny noses and that feeling of your blood running cold, bad headaches, diarrhea, all of the withdrawal symptoms have over the counter remedies that will help you during your detox. Some remedies would be better if you could get the prescription strength variety, but there are over the counter options as well. They are usually called oxycontin withdrawal recipes, but they will work for any opiate.

PS: I used the Google Talk Text in order to write this out, so if it is a little bad grammatically, that is why. Also, I am in college to be a drug counselor because I was addicted to just about every drug imaginable except for methamphetamine. I figured that will only way to make a positive out of that negative time in my life is to help other people.. When I needed to talk to a counselor when I was in the clinic, I was happy that my counselor was an ex addict who started her sobriety in 2000. Mine started in 2010 for the last time, I started in the methadone clinics in 06, but I've been in the same one now, my 6th, in August of 2010. I will have 5 years clean on my birthday in August. I'm very proud of that, and refused to start practicing as a counselor until I am off methadone completely-which I'm starting my detox from 65 milligrams, (my lowest ever amount out of my 6 clinics, and will hopefully be ready to switch off of methadone by the end of this year). So what I'm telling you I'm not getting out of a book, I'm getting it from first hand experience going back and forth and back and forth from using and being clean.

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did you get the job and pass the test?

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For example, if a pull has a half life of 8 hours, in 8 hours it would start on the next,.which would last half as long (4 hours) once that goes by (12 total hours) then its 2, then 1 then 1 half then 1 fourth then 1 eighth, then it.depends on the.drug test, certain tests can detect smaller amounts then other (eg 1/16, while some can do let's say 1/64)

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That's a damn lie!!!

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Yes xanax is a benzodiazipine which will take about 2-4 days depending on how much you took & for how long.as for the roxycodin you are lookin at up to 72 hours also depending on how much for how long.

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Xanax clears system in 3-4 days stay away from that addiction its a beeeeyaaaaachhh

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Buy some clean substitute urine. most Head Shops have them. I used one called U-R-IN-LUCK. it came with a heating pad and a spare bottle. it worked perfectly. You can do this. they are not watching THAT closely. put the urine in a really small balloon with some kind of valve on it so it wont spill. Neccessity is the mother of invention. if you are truly desperate to get or keep your job you WILL beat them. I always did. NEVER once gave a dirty UA in my life

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Thats too many benzo's, you think you felt anxiety before, coming off of that will cause you to not only feel more anxious but paranoia will set in, and that will last for a couple years before u feel normal, come down slowly, I just seen your post and wrote you because I know how it feels and wanted to help. Try Remeron(Mirtazapine) for
anxiety.

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i am at my witsend i was on methadone for 8 years,recently i went to ibiza and they would not give me a prescription to go,i saved some up and went anyway after paying almost a grand and initially being told i could have a prescription to go.i have not taken meth for 12 days yet still testing pos i need a script but they wont let me see the doc until a clear test i am going out of my head what can i do?i dont want to go back to jail i cant afford to finance the heroin

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I took 20.5 mg of methadone I have urine test Thursday, will my urine be clean by then?

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Yes to first question and your screwed on the second part. Taking the night before a test? Really? Good luck maybe for some reason they won't care.

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John,

You should be good. In my experience, my piss my clean in 3 weeks and I was taking 100 mg/day.

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I am on the methadone clinic right now they are dicking me around and kicking me out because i cant affod 600 dollars a month i am 24 yrs old work 2 part time min wage jobs and just cannot afford it. I dont want to go back to using so i am curious about other options.....how long did u have to wait to get the methadone out of your system before you could go on suboxone? I am at 70 mgs a day right now and i am terrified to be getting kicked out in two days

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