Hey everyone, I am knew to this site so first I will introduce myself, my name is Brian and I am 31 married with two kids and one step daughter. I am currently on the methadone maintenance program and I am having a really hard time with cravings still, they keep uping my does and they go away a little for awhile but then they come right back. I need to go to meetings but I am too depressed to go, hopefully I can get motivated here.
WELCOME!
I am usually on the pill board but i have done it all. Except the maintanence. I didn't have the chance I went to jail following my last high. So Good luck welcome and I am sure that someone will be comming by on the H board to help.
Jane
I am usually on the pill board but i have done it all. Except the maintanence. I didn't have the chance I went to jail following my last high. So Good luck welcome and I am sure that someone will be comming by on the H board to help.
Jane
Justjane
I think you are a caring person just like your avartar
Emily
I think you are a caring person just like your avartar
Emily
Hi brian,
I have been on a methadone maintanance programme for around 4years, The cravings are hard and dont dissapear over night, they can take months to go and even when you think youre over them, they can come back at any moment, but it does get easier to deal with them, and when you learn how to control your cravings youll be surprised how quickley they dissapear!
Are you on a comfortable dose that prevents all your withdrawal symptoms? And have you been using anything on top?
I started around 45ml, went up to 95ml and noe im currentley on 32ml, which gets reduced 2ml every 2-weeks, I had a drop yesterday and feel a bit rough but managable.
It WILL get better, you just need to keep motivated, try not to sit around doing nothing because although you might feel like you cant be botherd to do anything but sit in front of the tv, that is when your mind wonders and your brain starts playing games,
KEEP BUSY, but make time to relax aswell, try to have somebody (non-using) with you as much as possible.
Anyway i think youve heard enough from me, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, and sorry about the blabbering on
Love Claire
I have been on a methadone maintanance programme for around 4years, The cravings are hard and dont dissapear over night, they can take months to go and even when you think youre over them, they can come back at any moment, but it does get easier to deal with them, and when you learn how to control your cravings youll be surprised how quickley they dissapear!
Are you on a comfortable dose that prevents all your withdrawal symptoms? And have you been using anything on top?
I started around 45ml, went up to 95ml and noe im currentley on 32ml, which gets reduced 2ml every 2-weeks, I had a drop yesterday and feel a bit rough but managable.
It WILL get better, you just need to keep motivated, try not to sit around doing nothing because although you might feel like you cant be botherd to do anything but sit in front of the tv, that is when your mind wonders and your brain starts playing games,
KEEP BUSY, but make time to relax aswell, try to have somebody (non-using) with you as much as possible.
Anyway i think youve heard enough from me, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, and sorry about the blabbering on
Love Claire
Hi Brian, I did the methadone program the first time around. I had only a few years on heroin then, so I chose the rapid program. Coming off of methadone sucks... I didn't have any problem on it, was stabalized for about 2 months... had little cravings, mostly mental, I had coffee and chocolate! Man, believe me if it's not the coffee the chocolate surely helps maybe you know. But coming off it slowly is the best way... it still sucks, you'll be depressed, you wont be able to sleep for a long time, but it gets better!!! Not everyone likes going to meetings, post here man it def helps! Take care dude, and keep posting!!!
Brian,
GYAC stands for :GIVE YOURSELF A CHANCE! WELCOME! My name is Darin and I am a recovering addict. Methadone was apart of my story as well. To me it was like putting plaster over a severed head and once I realized that I began to free myself from the liquid handcuffs. What more can be said that has not already been said above but along with GingYAC add to that a commitment and a will to live and you will live outside of this pain! All the best to you!
Darin
GYAC stands for :GIVE YOURSELF A CHANCE! WELCOME! My name is Darin and I am a recovering addict. Methadone was apart of my story as well. To me it was like putting plaster over a severed head and once I realized that I began to free myself from the liquid handcuffs. What more can be said that has not already been said above but along with GingYAC add to that a commitment and a will to live and you will live outside of this pain! All the best to you!
Darin
Darin, I felt the same way dude, using one drug to get over another, still end up with another addiction! For me comming off of heroin was worse than methadone, but the withdrawls of heroin were shorter than the methadone! I went c/t this time, best way I think.
Thanks Tropper....I am totally with you on that one!
Is that Jack Slpiser(from the shaolin showdown cartoon) under your name?
Darin
Is that Jack Slpiser(from the shaolin showdown cartoon) under your name?
Darin
Hi Brian
Welcome- I also am on mdone,I ve have been for many,many years. Just last week after not using dope for about 10 years - I screwed up. I dont know what happened. I just let sh** get to me and I screwed up. So far it has been that 1 time. However,now if I dont get back on the right track I will lose more than I ever had the opportunity to lose.
I stopped with the meetings,and all the recovery things that I should have been doing- and made a bad decision.
Just using that one time brought on a depression that I wasnt ready for.
I came down from 80 to 35 in a relitively short time ,maybe that didnt help things- but Im not looking for excuses.
I learned that it doesnt matter if you dont use 10 days or 10 years- that feeling comes back -just like that!!-
There are some great people on this board- make use of all the knowledge.
peace-respect and
best of luck
struggling,but hanging tuff!!!!!
jack
Welcome- I also am on mdone,I ve have been for many,many years. Just last week after not using dope for about 10 years - I screwed up. I dont know what happened. I just let sh** get to me and I screwed up. So far it has been that 1 time. However,now if I dont get back on the right track I will lose more than I ever had the opportunity to lose.
I stopped with the meetings,and all the recovery things that I should have been doing- and made a bad decision.
Just using that one time brought on a depression that I wasnt ready for.
I came down from 80 to 35 in a relitively short time ,maybe that didnt help things- but Im not looking for excuses.
I learned that it doesnt matter if you dont use 10 days or 10 years- that feeling comes back -just like that!!-
There are some great people on this board- make use of all the knowledge.
peace-respect and
best of luck
struggling,but hanging tuff!!!!!
jack
Darin, yup, Jack Spicer it is! He cracks me up, I have no idea why I love cartoons so much!
I never did heroin. My DOC is lortabs. But I was on methadone for over two years ago to get off the pills. For me, when I was on methadone, if I took anything else, I couldn't feel it. My Dr. told me that methadone blocks the high you would get from using anything else while on methadone. I guess he was wrong based on some of the things I've read here. My advice would be to not up your methadone dose any higher. I know it is very hard struggling with cravings. But if the methadone can just keep you from having feelings of w/d then be thankful for that. Methadone is very hard to come off of, even if done properly. I weaned all the way down, and still had a hard time for a few months. But it is so worth it. You will be so thankful and proud of yourself if you can just get through this time. And think how proud your family will be. You can do it, because I did. And if I did, anyone can. Just remember the higher dose you go up on methadone the longer and harder it will be to come off it. Good luck. Stay strong.
Shelly
Shelly
Michelle, hey there, I think that the drug companies originally marketed methadone as an opiate antagonist, but it's not, it's an opiate itself! If someone with an opiate tolerance takes methadone they wont feel high (given the right dose) But I remember taking methadone before I was a heroin addict and getting completley high off of it! Though it did help me get off of heroin, it's a good program if the right clinic is involved.
Trooper 114 had it dead on. Methadone is NOT an opiate agonist. Any lack of high due to taking other opiods while on methadone maintenance is due to tolerance, not "blocking". If someone tries to overcome the methadone "blocking" by using more opiods, they have strong risk of death by breathing suppression (the effects of methadone with other opiods is ADDICTIVE).
Hey Daddy-O, welcome to the Site. I know exactly what that Maintenence is like, been on it a couple times come off, etc,ad nauseum...Everyone here knows I think Done is an evil Nazi invention,made expressly to get Fat Herman Goering off morphine, then used on soldiers on the Eastern Front.It IS an opiate, & also a Depressant;if you're feeling so depressed it's natural-you're on a depressant! Done made me v. angry & hateful, & maybe you are on too high a dose. As repugnant as it may sound, you may want to get yr. dose lowered-Gradually!- Also, I have found that diet & exercise helped me TREMENDOUSLY & also getting off sugar-This is sort of my Trip around here- eating right, no sugar,exercise-I just found it to make such a HUGE difference in the way I felt,I slept (!) just generally felt better. I've been battling this for 20+ yrs. I know what's up.The advice above about distracting the mind-THAT is so, so true! Keep busy & don't think too much! Good luck-keep posting!
