Well i had clonodine , panamax, doloxene, maxalon for the nausea, plenty of valium and sleeping pills and i still couldn't do it, the fever put me in hospital and now im back on it, any feedback? ohh i was only on 40 mg
2007-04-21 07:21:30 · 5 answers · asked by nightdreamer 3 in Health ➔ Other - Health
I am not a great fan of cold turkey's (unless other measures have failed). It puts a massive strain on the body and brain, hence you ending up in hospital. Doing something that puts you in hospital is obviously not good for your health. But I guess continuing drug usage has serious consequences to. Have you not tried gradually reducing your methadone? If you reduced by 5 mg every say 3 - 4 weeks the withdrawal symptoms would be much less intense. When you get down to 10 mg of methadone you could reduce by 2.5 mg every 3 or 4 weeks.
Often when people fail a cold turkey withdrawal the addict gets the blame for the failure rather than the intensity of the withdrawal symptoms which is out of the addicts control. You can't think or wish away withdrawal symptoms.
Be careful that you don't keep adding in more and more drugs to come off one drug because you will end up with multiple addictions. I see this happen a lot with people I help off benzos. They cold turkey or taper too quickly and go crazy and get on antidepressants, antipsychotics, hit the alcohol, abuse opiates and they still fail the benzo withdrawal and are left with 5 new drugs to wean themselves off.
A pill for a pill for a pill. This is another reason I don't like cold turkey or rapid detoxes, people just end up on more drugs and fail, unless they are lucky.
2007-04-21 16:23:00 · answer #1 · answered by mark f 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whenever a body is addicted or even just dependant upon a drug it will experience withdrawals when the substance is taken away. I recently got off of prescribed Percocet and still had withdrawals. Some drugs, however, are too strong to quit cold-turkey; Heroin being one of them. If you want to get off, using other drugs isn't the best idea to get off of a different one. Go to the hospital to begin with and talk to a doctor to get help.
2007-04-21 07:30:18 · answer #2 · answered by Josh C 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am on heavy medications for years now and withdrawl sucks. It is a very hard struggle that only u and a doctor could fix. Your doctor should put you on a lower dose every month till you are at the lowest dose . and if you still have a hard time use 3 acetaminophen with codein tablets .
2007-04-21 07:29:40 · answer #3 · answered by matt r 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-18 02:54:29 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What do the doctors have to say? You need to follow their advice
2007-04-21 07:33:26 · answer #5 · answered by diannegoodwin@sbcglobal.net 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋