If I Take 130mg Of Methadone Per Day Will A 60mg Morphine Sulfate Help Get Me Through One Day?
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I go to a methadone program and have for about 4 years. I've recently had the flu which caused me to vomit up my methadone (I get 5 take home bottles per week). Tried taking another bottle and threw up again. I'm feeling sick from not taking it so I took a 60 mg morphine sulfate pill. Will this help at all?

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Re: drtypawprints (# 29) Expand Referenced Message

I know this is an old post, but no, they don't make a 90 mg morphine pill. And why would you take that AND a Valium while waiting on your methadone dose? Are you TRYING to kill yourself? Pretty stupid!

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Methadone stays in your system a long time, it has a long half life. I don't think you really need the morphine tablet. It's psycho-somatic.

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Re: drtypawprints (# 29) Expand Referenced Message

They dont make 90 mg Morphine ER. It comes in 15, 30, 60, & 100 mg. It will be out of ur system in about 3 days. But why did u take this....while waiting for a Methadone dose??? Weird?

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I would be really careful mixing these two types of narcotic medications. In answer to your question it may help with withdrawal but you have accumulated a pretty hefty dose of methadone into your system, and since flu symptoms mimic withdrawal symptoms you may not actually be withdrawing from methadone. My advice to you if you are unable to keep your medication down, you should go see your primary care physician or go to the emergency room where they can give you intravenous methadone.

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Re: Fred (# 35) Expand Referenced Message

My wife was on 160 mg and the hospital took her off that day giving her 530 mg morphine 3x's a day. That's a 10 to 1 ratio. We were home and she passed right in front of me and I did resuscitation, breathing for her and was so nervous I don't think I did anything right but god bless I got her awake and to the ambulance. We called the ambulance 3 hours before and when they came her heartbeat was down to 40 and the *****s said it was from not eating. 3 hours later we called and went to the hospital and her rate was 42 and the nurse said if she hadn't come she would not have made it thru the night. No matter what a doctor or emt says, listen to your body. You know when something doesn't feel right.

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Re: nickynub (# 2) Expand Referenced Message

I dropped dead on 60mg a day of methadone in 2001 before it was on the list of LQTS drugs. I was treated for pain with it...I ended up with an ICD/PACER due to this drug. This is one of the most dangerous cardiac arrest meds there is.

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Re: drtypawprints (# 3) Expand Referenced Message

So just wondering, who takes a pill "some guy" at a pharmacy? And then takes other meds and then starts to worry? People never cease to amaze me!!

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Re: Verwon (# 1) Expand Referenced Message

Not unless you use it IM or IV. Morphine is about 30% less if ingested.

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You will be fine? What he wanted to know was would morphine help with methadone withdrawal . From your answer no and then you said that you should be okay. I'm just a bit confused could you please clarify thank you

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Bunny, undoubtedly you know absolutely NOTHING about detoxing off methadone. The fact that he's come down from 280 mg. is Awesome! It doesn't matter how long it took him to do it. You should be praising him!

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Xxxsome girlxx,im quite sure she didnt take a pill from some guy.just kind enough not to advertise name on public forum.smart lady.

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Yes, CONGRATS on tapering yourself off of such a high dose of methadone and for so many years, I'd pat you on the back if I could. That's a major accomplishment I'm sure. I haven't been on it but I do know opiate sick and withdraw, I have a friend on methadone and I've seen her withdraw sick. Pay no attention to the neg. they're just jealous haters. You go gurl!!!

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Hello just somegirl,are you brain or high to actually think that she took a pill Forum some guy don't you get what she's trying to say. And I don't blame her unless you think outing someone put on a public forum by name is a cool thing to do . Geez Louise some people don't think before they act not the lady with the pill from some guy but you XX some girl XX. Didn't take me but one reading of the sentence to figure that out. So give this person a break will you. And you hope something happens again please.

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Shell
No you make no sense with your conversion of 60 mg morphine equals 120 mg methadone. In actual fact the conversion rate is 5:1 so 100 mg oral morphine is equivalent to 20 mg methadone. Get your facts right as conversion done wrong could seriously harm someone or kill them

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No you make no sense with your conversion of 60 mg morphine equals 120 mg methadone. In actual fact the conversion rate is 5:1 so 100 mg oral morphine is equivalent to 20 mg methadone. Get your facts right as conversion done wrong could seriously harm someone or kill them

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Poor advice from above poster - methadone doesn't have metabolites, it's metabolized by the liver as unchanged methadone so no U/A would determine the levels. You will however turn up as having consumed morphine.

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Shell,

Giving conversation charts from someone who posted that request from over 6 years ago probably won't help very much. For those with take home privilege's by law a contract is signed by the client stating they understand how to proceed in the case of illness and inability to ingest ones dose AWAY from clinical observation. Common sense would dictate if you vomited up your first dose chances are good you'll vomit the second. Methadone is one of the most powerful opioids on the planet so double dosing can be fatal, especially if you're ill and your system is compromised to begin with.

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Im from the UK & I just looked up the opioid conversion chart our lovely Docs use over here. Liquid morphine (Oramorph 10mg/5ml) is 10mg to each 5ml dose so 120mg/ml of Methadone liquid 1mg/1ml would be 60ml of oramorph equal to 120mg/ml of Methadone. Hope this helps :-)

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Then just go to the clinic and tell them ur addicted to pain meds. Quit taking them and I'm see u are trust me i know all to well and went down that same road. It was my only option but it worked. Hope the best

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I just got a 90 mg morphine ER pill while waiting for my methadone at the pharmacy. I took this with 10mg diazepam. PLEASE let me know if I will survive or should I go to the hospital? I will be sitting here by my phone checking. I am on 120 mg methadone/day and haven't taken any extra opiates before with it. Will this be in my system longer than 3 days? I will be given a drug panel in a few days by my clinic. PLEASE HURRY, I will be checking on my email.

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