Does Methadone Wear Off If You Sleep (Top voted first)

I take 70mg of methadone every morning as maintenance to stay off of H. Sometimes I get tired and want to take a nap and there have been a few times that I have taken a nap in the past. Those few times when I woke up I felt like I had not had any methadone that day. Does methadone wear off when I go to sleep and why does it feel like I haven't had any even if I take a nap only 2 hours after taking it?

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I have a theory on this, hallucinogens including dimethyltryptamine or DMT push opiods out of your receptors, when you get into deep sleep your pineal gland releases DMT, in fact that's why we dream, we trip balls. I have noticed that if stay in a lighter state of sleep, you know the kind where you can feel everything going on around you, I wake up feeling completely dosed, its when I get into that deep sleep, the kind where you either have crazy dreams or feel like you where in a coma, that's when I wake up with an eaten dose feeling, the deeper the sleep, the more DMT released into receptors, the more methadone pushed out. This is my theory.

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You could be more right than u think... The same thing happens to me when I sleep and when I wake up I feel as if I haven't taken anything.. Those who say this doesn't happen obviously don't know crap.. They obviously aren't taking methadone or aren't on it long enuff to notice it like we do... I've been on this for 15 years!!

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he/she's right, it DOES wear off when you sleep

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When people say things like "Im not teying to call you out" or "Im not trying to be an ass" it mean thats exactly what you are doing calling you out or being an ass. You arent a doctor so stfu.

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Dude, you are clearly on the wrong dose here. If you feel sick just doing your day to day activities, you're either not at the right dose or you're trying to get stoned off it. You do realize that your reason for methadone is to be able to function in your family life without drugs right? If you can't do anything simple as nap, work, or even walk around without feeling sick or feeling like your dose wore off, you need to see your doctor for an increase because methadone should get you BACK to your normal routine, not disrupt it.

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The same thing happens to me and everyone I know. I usually fall asleep after taking my methadone and without fail, whether I sleep for 20 minutes or 4 hours, when I wake up its as if i didn't take it. I've spoken about this a lot and no one can give me an answer

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Thank god it ain't just me. I wake up at 6 and feel like crap, but if I take my methadone and fall asleep for a bit, maybe half hour to 2 hours, I know I will feel crap with hot flashes during the day.

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Yup,it doeas the same to me i wake up n after a while i start to feel sick n i had a question i wake up now like around 6@m so i go to the clinik early wen i get off work i feel sick also which before i use to take(methadone) it like around 12pm i wonder does it wear off while your working n moving

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Im currently seven months pregnant and have been falling asleed for a couple hours in the day and i feel coldsweats and chills when i wake up if so many other people are feeling withdraw the way i am i think the topic should be further studied.

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Folks,

Attacking other posters serves no purpose in helping others that are truly in need of help. ADDICTION is a deadly disease that NO ONE CHOOSES!! So I'll simply correct the stated misinformation. If you're dosing clinically there's always staff that you can report these inconsistencies to. Dosage adjustment is normally sufficient enough to correct metabolic irregularities. Labs exist that can decipher metabolic rates most commonly a peek and thru blood evaluation. Once clinical evidence is established resolution to stabilization can be achieved in most legit cases. Hope this helps those serious about recovery utilizing an opiate/opioid assisted protocol, as I do. Whichever one chooses recovery is an individual journey and reintegration into a quote "more normal life" should be the goal. Until we can buffer this stigma, acceptance of good people who are ill will never be achieved.... So very sad....but I digress, this is my attempt to assist others in need. Best of luck to all.

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How is tha being dangerous? Were sick of feeling sick in the morning before our doses so were just trying to make it through the morning until we dose. You don't need to be rude or "wise". I experience this too and was looking for answers but when I see stupid comments like this it's NOT helpful so keep your thoughts to yourself and let us find answers to how we can feel better between that 24 hour period. The split dosing is actually done at the clinic both doses but you get half in morning and half at night so if anything it's safer

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It may not wear off as such but it sure feels that way, I have been in methadone for about 10 yrs now I currently take 45ml, I am in conflict about when to take it because it does when taken before bed, knock me right out , I know this as Iv taken it in the day or morning whichever/both and been asleep for at least 4 hrs, but if I take it in the morning and stay awake I will have a good day and feel energetic/normal, but if I take it at night before bed say 11pm/12am I will feel the aches (where a woman feels it) and a quite a bit tired and weak, so I have come to the conclusion that I take only 5ml at night before bed otherwise I find myself waking up in the middle of the night for it, and I will wake up in the early hours between 5am -7am go back to sleep till 7:30-8am and sometimes don't wanna wake up but I do and I feel much better, hope this helps

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When I take naps my methadone wears off. I'll wake up feeling like I haven't taking anything.

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I used to take 130mg a day and yes it did me the same way. And I am not sure why . But I got off that crap. I now take suboxon. And It is much better. If you are only taking 70mg get off it now.

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Re: Kathrynne (# 7)

Ummm...if your comment is in response to Bobbie M (Katheynne) then aside from being overzealous or (lying) about telling people you are a physician, there is absolutely no reason for you to call Bobbie out! TWO SEPARATE TIMES (in beginning and close of his insightful intelligent statement) he very responsibly states, he is writing in regards to his THEORY!!! Furthermore, what "medical advice" did he give that could injure (or even affect) anyone, taking methadone or not?? He basically said the SAME THING AS YOU (just more eloquently, and actually using medical terms, rather than describing sleep as "working on ourselves"). The reason for my hostility (and likely the reason you feel the need to troll Q and A threads to shoot down others who DARE make an intelligent theory, while you boast of your medical status rather than research ways you can keep YOUR OWN patients healthy and disease free), is likely due to the rapid decline in the trust and respect patients (and the general public) have for physicians (especially those like yourself, who spend their time trolling threads rather than educating yourself in ways you can actually HEAL your patients, and KEEP them healthy so they DON'T require medical attention, if you really are a doctor, in areas such as healing through nutrition, body movement, healthy emotional exercises, and positive decisions) rather than dump a bunch of prescriptions in their bags and send them on their death journey....oh, and because I'm a holistic practitioner who utilizes HEALTHY ways to promote health and healing, there is definitely a need for a well educated medical team, (such as, when my daughter's finger was cut off, leaving me eternally grateful to the talented surgeon who was able to reattach it without pins, or her body rejecting her appendage), but the way doctors inj. themselves (and everything else) into facets of our health where they have NO BUSINESS, merely for a better paycheck, will soon be a thing of the past that future generations will look back on as the time of BARBARIC physicians (might as well be hammering a chisel into patients frontal lobe as far as your generation of doctors will be regarded). So hopefully in the future, rather than spending your time making yourself feel more important, you will refrain from interjecting (at least in situations like this, where your accusations aren't even logical), in areas where us little people, are outwitting our medical professionals, and actually thinking for ourselves... FINALLY, and we would appreciate not being chastised for it. Thank you very much!

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Re: Kathrynne (# 7)

I completely agree with you. I do feel like I'm going into cold sweats when I wake from a nap.. I take 150 miligrams a day. When I sleep and wake up that's what happens every time.. I have had my dose split to combat this and try not to lwryself sleep after my dose. But sometimes I'm just to tired and That's what happens..

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So as Iv been looking on this subject I have come to the conclusion that splitting my dose (well not exactly splitting equally) taking a percentage of it b4 bed and the majority in the morning gives me a good day, tho I don't know how this will work as I'm reducing, I'll prob just reduce the majority first and work on that when I get there

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I've been on methadone for years and was on 170 ml and am down to 7 ml and if i go to sleep during the day it definitely wears off and can make u feel a bit ruff. My best advice is get into a routine taking it at the same time. Then cut down very slowly. I am cutting down 1ml every 6 weeks now. It used to be 5 ml but I will get there and am clean so definitely sleep on them. You will feel it.

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Re: silverleaf (# 10)

I'm not sure you understand, if you have never experienced what he's talking about. For instance, whenever I went hiking or rock climbing, I noticed an "eaten dose" feeling, while every other day I felt just fine. Eventually, I began feeling worse and worse, and discovered my metabolism was ridding my body of the methadone too quickly, requiring me to receive a split dose. This made sense, as the more physical exertion, the faster you metabolize, so there is definitely something to that. In addition, I don't think so many other people would be having this issue if there were not a link, so just because you personally don't experience something, you shouldn't tell someone else they are not experiencing it.

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I've been experiencing the same issue. I dose early in the morning after my daughter is dropped off to school. I then go home and if I lay down I fall asleep and wake up feeling like I haven't dosed. I been wondering this same thing. Does it wear off while sleeping I wake feeling groggy and not good at all.

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