Methadone No No No!!!!! (Page 4)
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Methadone is the worst drug and most wicked drug in this entire world. They give it to people like me with pill problems and then you can never get off the stuff. I made the worst mistake of my life going into a Methadone program. The people at these places pretend like they are there for you but they are not. They are there to keep you on this drug that rots away at your mind and body, and they do it well. They want your money. Do you know how cheap liquid methadone is? They milk off your addiction and act like they are doing something good for people like me. I HATE Methadone. I hate what it's doing to me and I HATE that I came in this place for a pill addiction four years ago, at 22, told I had one year and I would be weened off and here I am. I fight with these people all the time about this but they come up with a million excuses for why I should STILL be on this crap. It is going to kill me, just like the other pills, maybe just slower and more agonizing.

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I always said methadone should only be given to people like me;;long term heroin addicts of 30 years or more. It's done wonders for me.

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where are you chris

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Ask for lofexine.Its a non addictive,non intoxicating version of subutex.My partner and I cut down from 100 mls to 20 mls in a week.And felt great.You are very lethargic,wake up feeling awful but you sleep.In fact it removes 95% of all withdrawal symptoms.A few aching bones and chills.You will be more than happy to come off the lofexidine. I was on 150 ml. for 18 years.There seems to be very little activity regarding lofexidine (tradename Britlofex) in the states.In Britain it is slowly starting to be introduced,although I've read of addicts demanding it from their uncomprehending drug workers.There are various detox protocols on the manufacturers website,and its expensive(though no more so than subutex)Mind you,you're not exactly blessed with a customer friendly healthcare system.I'm genuinely shocked at what many of you have to go through over there.Anyhow,there is an almost painless solution.Honestly.

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hey my name is chris i have been on methadone for 6 yrs i was on 60mg a day untill about a month now im starting at 15mg tomorrow im not in a clinic i buy it off the street it has been a really rough 6yrs but now it seems like i cant go no less because its really starting to get to me about how long will i go through these DTs i have family that has been on methadone for over 20yrs but they have never quit so thats why i dont know how long the DTs will last

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i too made that mistake of enrolling in a done clinic 3 years ago......this weekend i split my dose in half just to see how "sick" i would get. im on 120 mgs so i only took 60mgs and to tell you something about done is the clinics lie to you about how quickly you can come off the crap...i wasnt a bit sick and they toold me 2% a week would make me sick. i feel lied to tricked into thinking i would never come off but now i know all it would take is 3 to 6 months and i couild be off this crap completly so i feel much better with hope..so hang in there and remember you can quit

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So am I melynda. I don't care what people say about clinics, counselors, etc. I'm just concerned with MY LIFE.Methadone gave me my life back after 25 years of heroin addiction. I'm on it now for 24 years and will happily be on it forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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if u r hooked on opana and want to stop methadone will do wonder and i take 120 mgs and i was addictted to opana for 4 yrs

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methadone is messed up and does mess with you. i would have never ever in my life got on this stupid drug. i would haave been sick for a week, they do just want you money and feed off you stupid addiction its rediculous how about doctors try and actually help there patients instead of killing them slowly and giving them no hope what so ever

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ya, and pat whatever your name is. I think you need to STFU because I have never been a NA or AA follower in my entire life. I find that to be bullsh*t, too! If you can't find one thing that tells you how harmful methadone is to your body then your dense and ignorant. It is THE worst drug to be addicted to and thank you very much I am outta that bull program and have been for 3 months. I'm free.

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Hey Pat,
I think I'm in worse shape then you think! I got on SUBUTEXT, not suboxone instead and wish i hadn't switched over. Now i hear the subutext is worse to get off of! I didn't know. I hear the W/D can be pretty bad. I am doing the taper with the pills and am feeling pretty good for now but am scared to death worrying about them running out. You know how us addicts hate pain! :-) But not to worry about my going back to the oxyz's! I would get back on the clinic if I see that I can't get through life without something! GOD that sucks! :-) but I'm just being real and know myself! After all these years of being an addict some times I feel doomed. But I've got to start getting a possitive attitude b/c I'm starting to believe that if you think neg, neg things will happen. And if you think poss, poss things will happen! Call me a crazy old lady! Anyway, it is always a pleasure to get your post and so look forward to them. I am so sorry about the baby thing. That just wasn't in the plan for your life I guess. It wasn't in mine either. I'll bet you would have been a wonderful mom b/c I can tell that you have a very caring heart. MY sis hated the mthadone and so did my mom for years b/c I wasn't working the program right back in the 80's. I was still in that junkie state of mind but after loosing 2 fingers from the blood clot and realized that the clot could have gone to my head instead of my fingers, that's what changed me. And my mom supported me on the methadone b/c she saw the change in me. (MY sis lived up north and so just thought that I was cured for life since I'd been off the street drugs for so long and that I could get off the methadone with no problem at all especially after 18 yrs) and had me convinced too! But after the finger thing I was WAY TIRED AND READY! I did have a son when I was 16 and my parents made me put him put for adoption which I think kept me in my addction for many years. The guilt and emptiness were unbearable. Then I got clean on the clinic and a year later my son found me! What a blessing. He was down here in Fl with his wife and I talked to him a lot. Things were great until they split up and I don't know what happened b/c one day he was here and then he was gone and haven't heard a word from him in 5 years! I think he's doing drugs or something. Maybe like mother,like son. I just don't know but it kills me everyday. Things were fine between us so I know it had nothing to do with me. I just wish he'd let me know that he is ok. OK, sorry for bending your ear again! I'm sure you have things to do but will look for your post again soon! God Bless you and keep you and your family safe! And KEEP LOOKING UP^ Grace

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Hi Gracie..Please be careful with the suboxone, I tried it before I got on methadone because it just came out for trials in 2000 and it was free. I had to get off because I got very ill on it. I had the same side affects some people get on methadone only 10 times worse, so I walked away at 32mg of the suboxone, and I kicked real bad, but you should be fine the way you are doing it. Just please, if you run out and want to get more oxys, please go back to the clinic get on a 180 day taper. I would much rather see you do that than take oxys.. The clinic will work with you.. Me a baby..Thanks for making me laugh, I was sad today. but just thinking about me having a baby makes me laugh.. Never had kids because we didn't want them, then I found out I couldnt have carried a child to term.. We spent a lot of money on birth control and my poor hubby had a vascetemy.. Yea you and I have been around the block a few times. My sister and I don't even speak because she says I am a loser because I am on methadone...I havent spoken to her in 14 years...She would rather see me dead of an OD rather on methadone..Don't let that come between you and your sis. Just tell her you are an adult and if she doesn't agree with the life you have it is her loss, not yours..Family is important, but when she called me awful names that was the end. My life is more important.....Let me know how you are, ok??

Pat

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Greetings Pat, what a nice surprise getting your post. Yes, I think I've finally found a good website with good people that I can relate too on here. Knowing your age helped too as yes, we've been around a bit longer then a lot of these guys.. I was so stupid getting on the subtutext not really knowing what I was getting myself into. I have 15 pills left and feel fairly good when I take one but not high or anything, just normal and not sick! Which is huge since I have to go to work everyday!. But then to find out that they are also addictive! Geez, does it ever end! I suppose the subutext is better then the oxys. I should say FOR SURE IS BETTER THEN THE OXYS! But you are right that I need to taper off of them and will start doing so right away. Thanks for your support as it means the world to me. I'm telling you, some times, most of the time.,you feel so alone when you are doing the drugs. Like T?G, i had plenty of invites but just wanted to stay home alone in bed and eat cerele. When my sis gets here from Cal Jan 18th and finds out that I went through $10,000 in 7 mo I'll never hear the end of it. She is not an addict and does not understand at all! She's really the one that told me that I needed to get off the methadone b/c I couldn't afford it any longer but I shouldn't have listenend to her and gone with my gut feeling that I wasn't ready. The clinic may have worked with me since I'd been on it so long there. but I didn't even try. Just did it on my own. So honestly, it was my own fault for the W/D i went through. MY sis wouldn't let me get anything from the dr for sleep etc. she is just a control freak and thinks she knows the best for me and for everyone! I know she loves me but I have to toughen up when it comes to her and not let her control me when she gets here or I'll be back depressed and God only knows what will happen. No, I just realized what I wrote when I said that! I am going to be strong and stay off of everything as soon as I get off the subutext and get back into my church where I have a foundation and friends! Ok kiddo, gotta get to bed. Again, thank you for your sweet post. You hang in there too. Did I read that it was you having a baby or someone else. I'm still new to this and can't remember everything I read from one person to another! But now I know you for sure and i am glad! God Bless you and KEEP LOOKING UP^ GRACIE

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Hi Gracie..I still think what the clinic did to you is criminal, but I wish you great luck with being clean off of all drugs. I agree don't give a dime to those pain clinics, they are rip off clinics who have doctors who can't do anything else because they have bad reputations. Of course I am sure there are a lot of good ones, but the charges Heck, they cost more than methadone clinics.. If you only have a few suboxone left and when you are finished and feel sick, please seek medical help, because the worst thing you can do is get on oxys again... Just take it slow and if you do it right (slow) there is no reason you can't be successful. And I agree whatever works for people is fine by me.. BTW, I am 55, so I know how hard it is when we get older. We have a lot more experience than a lot of other people here, and that helps us help others..If you ever feel like using, here is a website with people trying to be clean just like you. There are many addicts going through the same thing you are..I wish I could help you more, but I can't help you with your taper because I don't know what you are going through, but hopefully there are others that can... Good luck friend!!!! Happy Holidays to you

Pat

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Beki, I read your post about remembering what it was like b4 getting on the methadone and it no doubt saved my life and made me a normal person or as normal as i could be!. the things i was doing to get heroin i am not proud of . i think another thing that helped me was wanting to get those take homes and after a year of clean urines was able to take a months worth home for the 18yrs i was on it. when i had to come in to get it each mo. they would do the urine test and that helped to keep me off of anything. i also think having to be accountable to something and have clean urines so i didn't have to go to that place everyday and run into old friends etc helped a lot. bottom line. the detox sucked big time but in the long run i had the best 18 yrs of my life. was here and able to take care of my mom while she was sick and died and also for just having the 18 yrs with her and holding down a job at my church and as a normal person and not running the streets, stealing etc Methadone saved my life. i remember saying while i was on the clinici'll never go back to street drugs but after 10 days of the worst days of my life durning the detox then turning to oxycotin b/c i didn't want to be sick anymore, which while i was on the clinic never even knew anyone on it or knew anything about oxycotin..feeling like i was going to die from the w/d, i found someone and now am trying to make it back to sanity! anyway, any time i think the clinic was bad for me b/c of the W/D, I'll remember where I was b4 it and know it saved my life. KEEP LOOKING UP^

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Hey Pat, thanks for responding to my post.you misunderstood a few of the things i said. i went 10 days with out sleep and had nothing to help me through the worst W/D you can imagine but after taking it for 18 yrs, I knew it wasn't going to be easy. I never went to NA but said that I got on Oxycotin the day after my sister left to go back up north. i just couldn't take being sick any longer. and then after 18 yrs on the methadone and not even taking a valium or anything else, there i was on friggen oxys. what a night mare but i wasn't sick anymore and could go to work again. i had a weeks vacation and then called in sick for the second week. i take care of a 92 yr old lady in her condo and she is something else! very spunky and couldn't believe the change in me when i came back after getting off the methadone. anyway, i'm on subutext now and have 2 or 3 pills left and then that's it! i am done and want to move on with my life. i have mixed feelings about the clinic. mostly good ones b/c after being on the streets and doing heroin for 30 yrs off and on, mostly on and having to have a finger and 1/2 of my thumb amputated b/c i shot up in my hand and got a blood clot, the hospital sent me right to the clinic where i stayed for the 18 best yrs of my life. it was just when i had to get off b/c of money and the terrible detox is the only bad thing i have to say about it. it did save my life and if i' had the money, would still be on it. it did do some damage to my body but i think anything you do for that long is going to have some effect. anyway, i'm feeling better everyday and while i just found out that the subutext is addicting, i'm going to start weaning myself off of it. got it from a friend that goes to one of these crazy pain clinics that we have on every corner! i refused to go to one of them and give them my money. i just want my life back and to be clean and happy. i worked at my church for 8 yrs and i believe that also saved my life. NA and AA never worked for me but having the Lord in my life and the methadone did. what works for one, may not work for another. anyway, LIKE I ALWAYS SAY KEEP LOOKING UP^ Gracie

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Sarah..Please prove your post because if it is a lie, they call that slander..You must be an NA cult member or you wouldnt be talking this crap..I think you are a clean and sober NA cult member who has been told what to write. You probably dont even know what methadone is

Pat

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Gracie..I am sorry that you had to get off of methadone because of your money situation, didn't you even try to get on Medicade? Also there are new laws being drawn as I am writing this to where a clinic cant taper you like they did b/4.. People are starting to sue clinics because people who are older and have medical problems can die from methadone WD's and one day a clinic is going to be shut down because of this. Why didn't you do anything to help yourself? Seems to me you were doing great for 18 years and then they just cut you off after all of that time?? I would call a lawyer NOW..Plus you must be one of those miracles if you slept and got better after 12 days..Bottom line, unless you have an MD after your name, don't give any advice to people except to call their doctors..You can't give out medical advice, and it also seems funny to me that after 18 years of being successful on MMT you decide NA is the way to go. Something seems wrong with your post..People don't just embrace NA's cult after doing so well for so many years..There are other topics here for the 12 steps, this isn't one of them. NA almost killed me with their words

Pat

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buddy you are outta your mind, its used by the clinic's to give you your high legally cha ching, i had to check myself in a suboxone treatement program. I did a one month program with it and i have been clean ever since i think its been like over a month i feel good no withdrawls. methadone is addicting go on YOUTUBE for example and type in methadone clinics or MMT maintenance. It shows how ppl act about it and what it really is. I went there b/c i couldn't get any meth ice wanted to get high well did i know i got addicted to methadone on 21 mg's. Got done to 1mg It's not in your head you can't quit it cold turkey i have tried I'm not the type of person to dwell on something it sticks with you bad you gotta have it, I would be working on something next thing i know i can't get anything right or im messing up, then im in pain im like whats going on Oh i went off methadone at 1 mg on the 3rd day and im hurting as I was when i was on 21 mg when i missed the clinic weekend when i first started. I don't care if you are on 1mg of methadone or 21 mg's of methadone your ADDICTED. It's like what my suboxone doctor said is why there are so many MMT centers is because methadone is so cheap its profitable a lot of drugs and medicines are but they make money like a fast food restauarant costs so much to get it they sale it to you ON SUPERVISION AND URINE DRUG TESTS? At my old clinic they would get busy they'd hand me the cup and tell me to put the specimen in the slide thru window when i was done, I wonder if i could of done the switcharoo lets see yeah if i wanted. If your going for a new job are they ppl gonna be this leniate with a drug test? I thank not methadone is a joke and a highley addictive drug like heroin,crack,coke,ice opiates. Methadone is just a legal substitute.

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I was on the methadone clinic for 18 yrs here in fort lauderdale and while i will say that it saved my life, until they upped the price then the money ran out. Then i had to detox. i had clean urines for 18yrs except for the methadone and so i got to bring home 30 worth of disks and did it the right away everyday.Then i started to detox my self and got down to 10mg when i couldn't go anymore b/c of finances. i was never so sick in my life. after not sleeping for 10 straight days, with my sister here for 10 days from chicago to help me get in the tub to soak my achey bones and to cook for me to make sure i ate something, i think i would have died. i can't believe that the detox was so horrible that the minute my sister went back up north i got on oxys which i only knew one person that took b/c he needed them and there i was again. while for 18 yrs it saved my life it was taking a toll on my body for sure. i'm 57 and feel 80. right now i'm on subutext, after being off the streets for all of those yrs i had no idea what i was getting myslef into with the oxys. now after getting the subutext i find that is very addictive. so now i have to get off of these which i've just been on for 3 days today. OMG, if it's not one thing when you're a true addict,like i am then it's another. and i rememeber saying when i was on the methadone i'll never go back to the street drugs again. well, never say never. i'm depressed, broke etc and so disapointed in myself. all i'm saying is please don't stay on the methadone as long as i did. i should have used it and then when feeling better got into NA. anyway, good luck to anyone who is using methaodne. i still have mixed feelings about it. as long as you can afford it, it's great but when the money runs out, be prepared. none of the misery i went through was mental. KEEP LOOKING UP EVERYONE^ Gracie

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f**k all this s**t!! hey people, methadone has changed my life and my outlook on everything i do and see i f**king soo applaud it!!! im living life too the fullest. at least i have a piece of mind even if its trade one thing for another i will take this and know it saved my life. melynda phoenix, arizona

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