methadone\withdrawals

[hul gil]

Swim has always heard that methadone withdrawals are the worst as a general consenses but in swims experience methadone has been mild compared to a few others swim has unfortunately experienced, is there any others who find this not as bad as other opioids to withdrawal from (no opioid withdrawal is a picnic by the way even methadone) swim just does'nt seem to feel the extreme of withdrawals with methadone as swim does with say oxycontin or fentanyl or any longer lasting effects although swims first withdrawal from 240 mgs oxycontins a day 6 years ago took one month to get through ,any others find methadone less severe to withdrawal from (mind you still no picnic).

[blackdb1]

Swim has also seemed to notice that it helped make withdrawals alot easier. He wasn't on it for more than a few days but it significantly lessened the withdrawals. Swim guesses that others become dependant on the methadone itself? Instead of using it as a tapering mechanism to get off some other opiate making the withdrawals less intense by prolonging them over a period of time longer than with fast acting opiates? Right now swims quite nervous about detoxing off of methadone because he's heard that it is way worse to w/d from! He's been on it for about 2 and a 1/2 weeks now. 3 weeks before that he started this opiate binge. Swim was using around 60mgs a day of oxycodone. Then the supply ran out so swim planned to do a taper with methadone to make the w/d's easier but then just kept taking them. He has been taking 20mg's a day, he doesn't know if this will make the withdrawals worse? Tommorow somemore oxycodone's available and swim is thinking of just going back on that for a couple weeks before withdrawing so he's just w/ding off of the oxy and not the methadone. What's some swimmers opinion on this?

[steady_mark87]

I hate this bullshit about withdrawal, everyone keeps crying about how bad it is and they want more and more pills to help them get clean (in reality just switch drugs).

SWIM was blowing 2 oxy 80's a day for about a month and a half, an 80 a day the month prior, then switched to snorting bags of H for a week cuz his OC connect went to jail... you lay in bed and man the fuck up! It hurts like hell and you wanna die but its not that bad.

For a week SWIM would make the trip to the E-room everyday to get hooked up to saline to stay hydrated and then go home and sweat that shit out, other than that all you need is someone who cares about you to hold you down when the shakes are at their worst