How Long Will It Take For Methadone To Leave Yr System Once You Have Stopped Taking

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I have been taking methadone for atleast seven years, have been clean from drugs for two years now and finsally stopped my meths 6 days ago, but seem to feel worse as the time goes, sneezing, feelsing tied, blood in urine, just general other flu like signs, how long with this last, all the drug workers said when you stop the meths that it , all done and everything will be fine but i dont feel like that, someone told me for every year on meths it takes 2 days to get out off you.

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How long does it take methadone to get out of your system? I've been taking it for 4 years...20-30 mg a day. Need to pass a drug test

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how many days does it take for subboxin to leave your system where you can pass a drug test

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Go to a smoke shop like a 420 shop and they sell unisex synthetic urine that will solve your problem I have used it several times to get jobs.

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CHEATING UR SELF WILL NOT HELP TO QUIT FOREVER.

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FOREVER. I have been on it 20 yrs. Tried to get off it so many times. The longest i ever made it was 3 weeks and was still as sick as the 3rd day.

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Understand ur point completely! Until someone actually'walks in your shoes',they have absolutely No right to say that...There is only one JUDGE ^..& we all know who that is! Hope all goes well for you!

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It will be months before you start to feel even half good as the methadone gives you false endorphins, your body is used to being filled with these false endorphins and it needs to produce normal ones.Your bones and body will ache and expect little or no sleep for 3 months,basically it's hell on earth but stick with it as the m/done is basically ruling your life as you know being on it for so many years.If you went on it due to H use it would have stablised the hectic life we go through bring addicted.But there is a downside and it's achieving life without depending on a drug and it's HARD very HARD but I wish you all the luck on the world as I have been through it and some days will be better than others but you must stick to it and don't be tempted to use H again. Btw sorry if it wasn't H use that started your journey down this path but if it was I must warn you.As I have dabbled with the H to make me feel better and dependence comes so much more fast than EVER before like using 3 times and you are hooked again.Just keep on keeping on and take one day at a time as when you start thinking how long can this last it seems to last FOREVER so I wish you good vibes and STAY STRONG.The saying what goes up must come down springs to mind but you WILL get there and it might be worth getting an naltrexone implant put under your under arm skin incase the craving gets too much as with the implant taking opiates is a total waste of money as they can't break through the naltrexone and is there as a safety net

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OMG is everyone on here an uneducated drug user? .

Once you stop thee methadone metabolite should be undetected within 2 weeks, but it stored it's self in body fay like thc, do if your burning lots of fat cells in can maybear show up. That being said testing for methadone in typical tests is not common, unless by court as it is more expensive and not considered a real recreational drug.

If it's a big deal with a job, and they do ask tell the you had a pill from an injury a few yrs ago and took it, but most drug tests won't even screen for it

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Hi! I have been on methadone for the last 32years. I will give you my experience. I tried to stop only twice and had one forced stop of one month. The two stops that I was unhappy about had withdrawal symptoms that lasted six months (dose was 70 mg once and 35mg the second time) and weren't anywhere near being over. The time that I was happy about the choice, the symptoms lasted only FOUR DAYS. I was getting my kids returned from a parental kidnapping so had a lot to gain to make the stopping of methadone worth it. After many years on this drug /medicine, my opinion is that the mind has a lot to do with the length of withdrawal. Good luck!

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I have a question that I hope won't bother anyone. I live in Italy. I receive methadone from the government health service at zero cost. This includes excellent doctors, psychologists and counseling of all types. Not to leave topic, but rehab here almost always consists of a minimum of two and a half YEARS of medium to hard physical labor of all sorts. I worked in industrial size greenhouses growing tomatoes, which the non profit rehab then sold along with other things that we grew /made. I came from an upper class background and had never done an honest days work before that. Anyway - in my 32 yrs. on methadone I have never received more than 70 mgs. of the medicine daily. Before I left the U.S. in '98 (involuntarily) it was not the practice to give dosages of more than 80 mgs.a day. Obviously, with exceptions. In Italy, however, I have seen people who take 238 mgs. a day!! My husband takes 180 mgs. a day. Reading here, I see mentioned dosages that 17 years ago, when I left, would never have existed. I understand that the war in Afghanistan changed things. My question is: am I reading correctly? Has the daily dose of methadone really increased so drastically? When I was 15 I went to a clinic in New Orleans to try to get on it. An older couple said to me "Oh, honey, are you here to get on the clinic?" When I said yes they looked concerned and said "Please, please don't!!! You will become a slave to this stuff!!" Internally, I laughed and thought what do these old i****s know!?!? Hell (in order to not say something much stronger) 32 years later and still a slave, I say "Sorry I didn't know better!". I admit that 15 yrs. old is a little young to understand some things! If anyone wants to respond, please do. Thanks! and Good Luck!!

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I just took one and it showed up 18 days later.

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Are you talking about methadone?.....listen whoever you've been talking to, all of them, they are i*****s. Methadone is one of the hardest things to kick. And especially after 7 years. If you just stopped, like cold turkey, you should consider going back on and tapering down. If you did it tapper down, and your still having these kind of reactions, like blood in your urine, that is a sign you need to go to the Dr right away. Whoever said 2 days for every year needs to be slapped. It's people spreading misinformation like that that can cause people to do things that are very unsafe.

I was on methadone 100mg a day for 6 years. I took suboxone in a detox house for a month and then ended going back on the methadone, even after a few months of being of suboxone because it was so bad. If you were on a lower dose, maybe it won't be so bad, but I can assure you it will be like this for a few weeks if not longer.

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How long did the withdrawal last?

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I got on it a year and 4 months ago. Ever since then I've struggled with it to get off. This is the worst idea ever. I should of just got off the opities the old fashion way. Why did you leave the states if you don't mind me asking? Have you ever gotten off before? Yes, I'm on 85 mg right now. It's totally stopped my periods. No libido at all and gained 65 pounds. I want off. I hate it. {edited for privacy}.

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I have been on methadone for the last 10 years as well as heroin & crack. I've been up & down on methadone but while using, it doesn't matter how much u r on. I've been clean now for 8 months slowly reducing on methadone. I had a liver transplant at xmas, was in the hospital on 30 ml methadibe, £60 a day heroin habit, did cold turkey in intensive care as I couldn't talk to tell them I was an addict but the time spent in there gave me the chance I needed to get clean. I am now on 20 ml methadone reducing 2ml every forth night. It's a lot easier not using on top of that. I can't wait to get off it as I can start processing to get my girl back home. It's been a long hard 10 years. I lost my partner of 15 years last year, then almost died myself, but I've got a second chance now to sort my life out. It will be hard to not be dependent on anything but all I can say is I'm taking 1 day at a time & I keep telling myself what I have got & done in the last 8 months to what I had in 10 years is unreal not waking up every day thinking I'll be needing to go raise my dose just to feel well. I thank god I don't have to do that any more. When temptations come I tell myself there will never be just once; that once leads to another then so on & before u know it I'm back where I started. Everything I've got & achevied in the last few months will be gone in a few seconds. My last chance to get my girl back will be gone. No way on this earth will I ever give this life up for that s*** life. Well I can't really call it a life cus it's not, it's just trying to exist, trying to get thru each day. It's s***. I can't wait to be off the methadone. Each day I feel stronger. 10 years from now I'll have so much to be proud of. All I have from the last 10 is a load of hurt, pain & feeling upset to show know which road I'll choose to take.

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