do people tend to have sugar cravings when on methadone?
but should sugar be avoided? why?
read a few old posts about this but am still a bit confused?
Hello ..Sash..i for one have really strong cravings for sweets,choc,etc&i know in myself the cravings come from being on meth.am not to sure why the body/mind makes me crave this sorta stuff but it does.Also when i was an active addict i would also love sweet stuff,if i had any money after smack,so im presuming its something to do with what the opiates coz i wasnt a mad suger fan before i used heroin.Is it bad for you?like anything in moderation no,but when it becomes one of yer sole sources of nutrition yes,course its gonna have its side effects.Why ?...does your b/f crave sugery stuff a lot,its not uncommen.All the best ..Davey
Sugar hits the same pleasure center of the brain that the H use to hit. I don't think it has anything to do with the methadone. More of replacing what the H use to do in a much milder form.
yeah he seems to crave sweet things and chocolate, think he has always had a sweet tooth but seems to get proper cravings now and eats loads. i'm not worried on the nutrition front as we are living with his parents and his mum loves cooking so we get good food here ..half the time i'm not sure if the weight gain is the methadone or just a change in lifestyle? but then he said he generally in his life has eaten a lot and lot of rubbish and never put on wieght? so who knows!
plus now that he is trying to eat more carefully and not gain any more wieght he seems to crave it more! suppose thats the same as all people..what you cant have you crave! plus i dont know if he suffers more from this type of craving (wanting wot you cant have)
plus now that he is trying to eat more carefully and not gain any more wieght he seems to crave it more! suppose thats the same as all people..what you cant have you crave! plus i dont know if he suffers more from this type of craving (wanting wot you cant have)
Hello ,..Sash,what would us boys do without our ma...eh.my mums Irish&yer fellas mum is Italian,so those two races seem to smother their boys with food.Take eze all the best ...Davey
I USED TOO LOVE TOFFEE PUDDING WITH CUSTARD. YUMMEE
I craved Fruit Loops. I would load them down with walnuts, bananas and strawberries, And EXTRA sugar. I would get up in the middle of the night and take a Jethro bowl back to bed with me. Of course I gained 70 lbs. I've quit eating the fruit loops and I'm exersizing.(not as much as I should) It's alot harder to lose the weight than it is to gain it. Everyone I know around here on methadone has this problem but the guest is right. It has nothing to do with the methadone. It's your brain trying to replace the heroin. The guest explained it alot better than me. All your old man can do is try to resist those cravings and these cravings for sweets are every bit as strong as cravings for H. I'd rather be fat than go back there, though. Have a great day. PEACE, Shirley
fat but clean! your right its better,
he is a night time munchier too!
have a good day shirley x
he is a night time munchier too!
have a good day shirley x
I have never tried Herion but I could tear some Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream up when I was on methadone for those 2 years. Then again, most pain pills I have taken made me hungry at some point in the day especially for sweets..I think everyone is different.. I can only speak for myself.
I went to bed many nights with good old Ben and Jerry's & woke up many mornings with ice cream ALL over me and the bed...That was due to taking methadone and nodding off while eating..My ex husband was on methadone for pain as well and he was the same way. He would even fall asleep with cigarettes in his hand. I still have the blankets with the burn holes in them. I am lucky to be alive.
Like I said pain pills in general made me hungry for sweets at some point through-out the day..Benzo's such as Xanax & Valium will give you a big appetite as well. Although I don't take them I use to here and there years ago!
I stopped eating so many sweets once I detoxed. Well when I detoxed from methadone in 2002, I didn't eat much at all for weeks...I lost tons of weight and looked horrible...It was a brutal detox. When I got clean I stopped eating so much junk and became healthier.
Rae
I went to bed many nights with good old Ben and Jerry's & woke up many mornings with ice cream ALL over me and the bed...That was due to taking methadone and nodding off while eating..My ex husband was on methadone for pain as well and he was the same way. He would even fall asleep with cigarettes in his hand. I still have the blankets with the burn holes in them. I am lucky to be alive.
Like I said pain pills in general made me hungry for sweets at some point through-out the day..Benzo's such as Xanax & Valium will give you a big appetite as well. Although I don't take them I use to here and there years ago!
I stopped eating so many sweets once I detoxed. Well when I detoxed from methadone in 2002, I didn't eat much at all for weeks...I lost tons of weight and looked horrible...It was a brutal detox. When I got clean I stopped eating so much junk and became healthier.
Rae
my boyfriend is always dropping off to sleep..with the cigarettes as well..he is always burning himself and the sheets if i dont keep an eye on him. at the moment he has a burn on his chest that is quite bad
he is worse in the morning and at night, in the morning he has on countless occasions dropped his drink all over the place, all over the bed as he has fallen back to sleep.
at night he also takes a sleeping tablet and so can get really really hazy and dozy and he will literally drop off sitting up, he sometimes gets really droopy and i dont like to see him like that its horrid, doesnt know what he is doing, talks a lot of rubbish and falls asleap in the middle of what he is trying to doing, swaying all over the place and acting really dopy.
god knows what he would do if i wasnt there to catch his thigns that he is dropping!
he is worse in the morning and at night, in the morning he has on countless occasions dropped his drink all over the place, all over the bed as he has fallen back to sleep.
at night he also takes a sleeping tablet and so can get really really hazy and dozy and he will literally drop off sitting up, he sometimes gets really droopy and i dont like to see him like that its horrid, doesnt know what he is doing, talks a lot of rubbish and falls asleap in the middle of what he is trying to doing, swaying all over the place and acting really dopy.
god knows what he would do if i wasnt there to catch his thigns that he is dropping!
i gained about 50 pounds on methadone i CRAVED sugar. I should have advoided it I did not. Don't know why it happens it seems common however my lil brother who had used H longer then me and stayed on methadone longer has steady lost weight. He's about 40 pounds lighter on the methadone eats very little and is still very active "he has relasped a few times on the done" can't say how regular he takes it now either as he gets his from a pain clinic month at a time. I had to to go daily to dose.
well maybe its just my observation but it does seem to be that it is basically the WOMEN in recovery who seem to gain the weight, maybe its our body chemistry or something, but I for one find this totally unfair........
Rae! Why did you have to bring up Ben and Jerry,s. Now I have to go to the grocery store. I used to love Rainforest crunch. I don't see that one much anymore. They're all heavenly, though. I'm thinking about going off the 'done and taking subs. Hopefully, i'll start losing weight. It does seem like it's mostly women that gain alot on 'done. I guess our metabolism is different and it isn't quite fair. Is it? PEACE, Shirley
hi there. sashab , do u mind me askin how much meth ur b.f. is on because he shouldn.t be gaugin out like that. methadone is there to keep u stable and not to get u wrecked.
Sash,agree with what Herman said yer b/f souldnt be goofing off.hes on 50ml &goin down 1/2ml per wk.&you said earlier he took his meth.in split doses(25ml2).on this dose he shoulnt be feeling as sleepy as to drop cigs&burn himself.JMO....Take care ..Davey
hi there you two, i dont understand my boyfriend very much either and i live with him!!
well he went down his 1ml dose yesterday so only took 49ml
he took it all in the morning cos he got it from the clinic and so felt bad yesterday..he never explains it very well..but he didn't want ot be touched at all, was anxious didnt sleep and felt rough he said, then this morning he didnt get up until 1 and still said he falt rough and not good
so he took his next dose of the methadone late (when he got up) so had a long gap between the two doses..a lot longer than normally.
he had worked a lot this week so dont know if its that making him tired, i personally am exhausted but dont have the sleepiness like him?! but then i'm not on anything?!
have started making him taking his sleeping tablet at the same time each night so at least we are getting that regulated.
am finding it hard to undersatnd the situation, i know that its a difficult time for him, way more than it is for me but still am finding it so hard, have so many questions..about the situation now, about his life b4 etc etc
today has been hard as like i said am already really tired, have been working hard and then with him not sleeping well last night..hence i didnt sleep well.. adn then this afternoon he has gone wiht work to another city and is still not back (am not worried about his doing drugs as he is in the car with work people so would be difficult for him) but this means he will return late which will add to him being tired and this will add to him feeeling rough etc etc
sorry to ramble on and on but at the moment this board is like the only place i can get to exit all thats in my head thats stressing me out and making me sad
i just want to help him and its not easy, dont know the best way to help him
huh now i have to go as some of his relatives are over so have to go and say hi and act all happy and normal...huh huh huh and he isnt even here
well he went down his 1ml dose yesterday so only took 49ml
he took it all in the morning cos he got it from the clinic and so felt bad yesterday..he never explains it very well..but he didn't want ot be touched at all, was anxious didnt sleep and felt rough he said, then this morning he didnt get up until 1 and still said he falt rough and not good
so he took his next dose of the methadone late (when he got up) so had a long gap between the two doses..a lot longer than normally.
he had worked a lot this week so dont know if its that making him tired, i personally am exhausted but dont have the sleepiness like him?! but then i'm not on anything?!
have started making him taking his sleeping tablet at the same time each night so at least we are getting that regulated.
am finding it hard to undersatnd the situation, i know that its a difficult time for him, way more than it is for me but still am finding it so hard, have so many questions..about the situation now, about his life b4 etc etc
today has been hard as like i said am already really tired, have been working hard and then with him not sleeping well last night..hence i didnt sleep well.. adn then this afternoon he has gone wiht work to another city and is still not back (am not worried about his doing drugs as he is in the car with work people so would be difficult for him) but this means he will return late which will add to him being tired and this will add to him feeeling rough etc etc
sorry to ramble on and on but at the moment this board is like the only place i can get to exit all thats in my head thats stressing me out and making me sad
i just want to help him and its not easy, dont know the best way to help him
huh now i have to go as some of his relatives are over so have to go and say hi and act all happy and normal...huh huh huh and he isnt even here
Sash just to say yer b/f is very lucky to have you&that you are trying to fin out as much as you can about his recovery&i can imagine the difficultly understanding some things in the crazy world of addiction.as i said above seeing how long your b/f is on meth&49ml is by my estimate a fairly low to average dose,he really shouldnt be goofing out as much&as bad as you say he does.i dont want to put alarm bells ringin but maybe confront him on the issue.also Sash ya gotta think of yerself&let yer b/f be a big boy and ask himself a few Qs.All the best ...Davey
apologising is the last thing for u 2 b doing. that's wot the board is here 4 . i'm sure u will get alot of good answers ( and alot of bad ones l.o.l.) 2 some of ur questions online.have u not tried 2 get ur b/f 2 come join us ? might b an idea. good luck anyway , hugs , herman.
well he came home late last night and we talked..mainly just about normal stuff, was nice.
turns out he didnt go down the 1ml yesterday..yes we talked about why he didnt tell me this yesterday..its not actually that he didnt tell me its just we didnt really talk yesterday..but i explained that i want to know things and he needs to tell me what is going on with his medification...this ihe understood.
the reason he didnt taper is beacuase on fri we go on holiday (to ireland..hiya davey!!! ...meeting up with my family there and then we are go to my home in uk) adn so to start to taper a couple of ml's then stop when on holiday didnt seem ideal (somethign which i had already said to him) and so to start after the holiday when hopefully we will have had time to relax and he will be less stressed.
after last night being nice..though late as the pair of us coudlnt sleep..was at least 5 by time went to sleep..him even later, this morning has been bad...started of fine adn then he did he usual..oh i'm off to see so and so for work blah blah and was out the door..his mum who has had years of this type of exit then got stressed, but i went out after him and sorted out where exactly he was going, but still he is sooo inconsiderate sometimes, even though i believe him the way he goes about really isnt right, he forgets about other people sometimes, so basically we then argued all this morning...i feel suprisinlgy calm now though..though have a thuimping head headache.
when i say all stuff about how he is behaving adn how its not right and he has to think about other people etc etc he always says i'm right and he is going to change but to give him time,
its true that he has already changed and is a lot more honest with me now but sitll not 100%
his paretns are at the point where if he messes up another time thats it, they ahev already helped he soooo much, they are nearly dead from what he has put them through, this i know almost kills my boyfriend but then he seems to shut off that part of him and forgets and carrys on acting the way he does. his mother was telling me this morning to think of me and my life and what i want from life and think to think long and hard about staying with him...this was a hard thing for her to say as she is like a mother to me out here. its hurts me to see her so distraught about her son and think that is one of the reasons i was having such a go at him this morning.
anyway glad to have got that all off my chest..hope it makes sense.
oh herman he wouldnt be able to use to baords beacuse he is italian and this level of englsih is way to hard for him! nice idea though x
turns out he didnt go down the 1ml yesterday..yes we talked about why he didnt tell me this yesterday..its not actually that he didnt tell me its just we didnt really talk yesterday..but i explained that i want to know things and he needs to tell me what is going on with his medification...this ihe understood.
the reason he didnt taper is beacuase on fri we go on holiday (to ireland..hiya davey!!! ...meeting up with my family there and then we are go to my home in uk) adn so to start to taper a couple of ml's then stop when on holiday didnt seem ideal (somethign which i had already said to him) and so to start after the holiday when hopefully we will have had time to relax and he will be less stressed.
after last night being nice..though late as the pair of us coudlnt sleep..was at least 5 by time went to sleep..him even later, this morning has been bad...started of fine adn then he did he usual..oh i'm off to see so and so for work blah blah and was out the door..his mum who has had years of this type of exit then got stressed, but i went out after him and sorted out where exactly he was going, but still he is sooo inconsiderate sometimes, even though i believe him the way he goes about really isnt right, he forgets about other people sometimes, so basically we then argued all this morning...i feel suprisinlgy calm now though..though have a thuimping head headache.
when i say all stuff about how he is behaving adn how its not right and he has to think about other people etc etc he always says i'm right and he is going to change but to give him time,
its true that he has already changed and is a lot more honest with me now but sitll not 100%
his paretns are at the point where if he messes up another time thats it, they ahev already helped he soooo much, they are nearly dead from what he has put them through, this i know almost kills my boyfriend but then he seems to shut off that part of him and forgets and carrys on acting the way he does. his mother was telling me this morning to think of me and my life and what i want from life and think to think long and hard about staying with him...this was a hard thing for her to say as she is like a mother to me out here. its hurts me to see her so distraught about her son and think that is one of the reasons i was having such a go at him this morning.
anyway glad to have got that all off my chest..hope it makes sense.
oh herman he wouldnt be able to use to baords beacuse he is italian and this level of englsih is way to hard for him! nice idea though x
