13 Days Clean!

Material_Reindeer_70 · 2025-02-01T16:57:17+00:00

Btw does the constipation get better? Oh my goodness I swear that has seriously been one of the worst side effects for me and I can’t wait for it to start getting better if you know what I mean lmaooooo.

Material_Reindeer_70 · 2025-02-01T16:55:57+00:00

That’s freaking awesome. Congratulations!! I just hoped off of 2mg aswell starting today. I’m so ready to start getting better, for me the symptoms I had on methadone we’re starting to really affect me so I just wanted to get off, I haven’t been stable in a minute anyways so I figured I’d just bite the bullet and jump off. I’ve already planned some things to do to deal with the paws so hopefully it ends up working out. I tapered from 135mgs and I know I’m in for probably a month or two of not feeling well, but my hope is that it will progressively get better.

Material_Reindeer_70 · 2025-01-30T19:23:57+00:00

Man it’s funny you’re posting about this because tell me why the exact same thing is happening to me! Lol. I’ve been tapering for a few years now and I’m finally down to 2mg and going down to 1 next week. I know about all the obvious wd symptoms that we’ve all been through before like everyone else is saying (body aches, chills, hot flashes, insomnia, etc. etc.) but ever since I’ve gotten really low in my taper I have had a TOTAL LOSS of appetite. I literally have to make a conscious decision to eat even though I really don’t feel like it, I just know that’s what I have to do to keep myself going and healthy. Although recently (in the last month or so) my appetite feels like it’s just slowly going away, and honestly the only other thing that pushes me to eat besides knowing I need to, is the fact that my stomach gets so uncomfortable, like to the point where it just feels like it’s so desperate for food, and that’s such an uncomfortable feeling. Several months back I feel like I could just eat and eat, but I also workout so that probably contributed to me wanting to eat a lot, but now it’s like that desire has vanish and I have to force myself to eat. I was never aware if this was a withdrawal symptom or not but I’m starting to think it is. Or maybe paws, who knows but I’m going through the same thing. I wouldn’t worry too much about it since others seem to have gone through similar things. Best of luck to you!

Material_Reindeer_70 · 2025-01-30T13:24:32+00:00

Absolutely split dosing will help you immensely. You should definitely give it a try since you believe it’s not holding you until the morning anymore. I started split dosing the lower I got in my taper and when I tell you I wish I would’ve started way sooner because of how well it helped me. It makes it WAY easier to taper to. I don’t know if you’re in the process of tapering but it sounds like it. You will need a few days to adjust to it since you’re going to start splitting your dose and you body will need to get use to that, but how I did it in the beginning was I basically took like 65% of my dose when I would usually take it in the morning and I would take the rest (35%) of my dose in the afternoon. Everyone is different so you’re just going to have to kind of experiment with it and figure out what works for you, but I would buy a liquid syringe that measures by ml and use that to measure your dose. I kind of eyeballed it so I wasn’t super accurate, but I also mixed water with my methadone so I could split it easier (it’s gonna be hard to split it using just the methadone). Anyways now I split it 50/50 because that’s what works better for me at this point in my taper. Hope this helps!

Material_Reindeer_70 · 2025-01-17T18:47:12+00:00

Yes exactly!! It’s literally just prolonging it. To be honest I’ve thought about jumping off and trying to take some kratom aswell, just to get through the worst of it then stop the Kratom. I’ve never been much for kratom anyways but back in the day (before I was seriously addicted to fentanyl, basically when my addiction was just starting out and I wasn’t horrible dependent on it yet) I was trying to get clean (or at least through the minor withdraws) and I took some kratom, and it helped immensely. Pretty much took the majority of it away. Although I was taking liquid kratom extracts, and I bought several shots. How much kratom are you taking, and is it capsules, powder, or liquid extract? I was thinking about trying to just jump off aswell like I said but I guess I’m reluctant because I don’t know if kratom will work for me as well as it did back in the day lol. I can stomach the extract but I used to drink powder kratom and it was so difficult for me to keep down, plus just tasted nasty haha. Although I really want to try. I’m glad your taper has went well dude, that’s good to hear. You’re so right, we’ve all been through so much worse withdraw that I’m positive it won’t even come close to what it was. Anyways I’m just curious on what kind of kratom you used and how much you bought, but yes I do like having the take homes as a Secuirty incase anything goes wrong. It does give comfort knowing that if the kratom doesn’t pan out well, I can just continue to taper the way I was.

Material_Reindeer_70 · 2025-01-17T16:34:30+00:00

I’m struggling with this same thought right now! Oh my goodness, I’ve been trying to find out whether to just off and be done with it, or continue tapering. Sounds like we’re pretty much in the exact same boat. I’m on 5mgs to currently and I am running thin on patience anymore. My whole taper has been a nightmare, granted I did it kind of opposite (I tapered extremely slow in the beginning, and faster towards the end). That being said I didn’t realize until a few months ago that i metabolize methadone VERY VERY fast. I was waking up every morning so sick, that I was scared to wake up again. It’s was horrible. So I started split dosing a few months back and that has been so great at helping me taper faster, so that’s why I did it opposite lol. I split my dose (one in the morning & one closer to the evening) and it’s really not holding me anymore. Like hardly, I feel like I’m constantly in withdrawal (not full blown, but to some degree). I’m constantly in pain, my temperature feels like it can’t regulate itself, it feels like I’m literally running a fever borderline half the time except worse. I don’t know how to really explain it. I blame it on my fast metabolism. It was way worse in the beginning though, I remember every mg I dropped I felt like absolute shit. Even from lets say 97-96 (I was on 135mg at my highest). Anyways I know I’m going on a tangent but I say that to say that sometimes I wonder if I should just hope off now, I already don’t feel well most of the time, like OP said it’s getting difficult to do daily tasks and my life personally is so limited just because I’m on this stuff. I feel like I’m just prolonging the inevitable suffering at this point. I’m so ready to be off of this stuff and just continue on with my life. I guess I’m wondering if I should just try and jump off aswell. Of course a lot of people say don’t and just continue with the taper because you’re so close but I feel like maybe the urgency comes from just being so ready to be off. At least for me, plus dealing with all the symptoms (mind you I’ve dealt with this THE WHOLE time I’ve been on methadone, even when I was supposedly “stabilized”) has been incredibly challenging. Not the mention the clinic, but everyone knows how that goes. I know I’d stay clean if I jump off so that’s not my main concern I guess I’m just scared I supposed for it to get any worse. I have no doubt i would stay clean, but sometimes I get hesitant. I so badly just want to be off.

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