1 week is too short a time to become addicted to anything. And youre only cutting back. Not quiting.
Good luck, Jim

i was on 10mg every 6 hrs for 10 days.made me sick dr put me back on hydro.never had any withdraws.

slowly on Methadone. I started on 5 mgs and did not increase for the first 2 weeks. It tends to stay in your system a very long time. I too was very sick when I first started taking it. I was desperate for some pain relief so I stuck with it. I used ginger for the nausea and it worked very well. The side effects only lasted for 2-3 weeks until my body adjusted to it. Don't give up on it yet though because I was amazed at how well it works for pain. I woke up one morning and about 80% of my pain was just gone. It was amazing! I would not worry about lowering the dose after only being on it for 1 week. You may just need to start very slowly like I did in order to adjust to the medicine. Good luck and let us know how you make out.

It's already been covered, but after only 1 week on that med the reduction from 10s to 5s will be completely transparent to you. Enjoy the new doc.

JWM

I started off on 20mg a day and now I'm up to 30 and I didn't have any significant side effects. I did have a hard time with pain until I was allowed to take BT meds and then the Methadone seemed to work better for me. I think it's a good medication because it's cheap and it has a long half life so it's convenient if you're going to stay on it on a long term basis.

Glad to see that some of you get pain relief from methadone, and I'm sorry that some are having problems with it. But like all medications, some can and some can't take certain drugs. I can't take vicoden, gives me hives. And I can't, or should I say won't, take pure oxycodone. That one messes with my head in some weird ways.
My physiatrist is looking at putting me on methadone. He says it has properties that help with nerve pain, and that would be a good thing. I have a question for everyone that tried methadone. How does it compare to oxycodone? or morphine based drugs?
Thanks for your help,
Bobb Jo

Hmmm. I have been taking methadone for about 2 years now and I use oxcycodone for breakthrough pain. The Methadone stays in your system for a very long time and the percocet does not. The most notable difference that I see is that the methadone is way longer lasting so I get more level pain control. The oxycodone is fast acting so the pain control is up and down requiring more frequent dosing. The Methadone does not contain acetaminophen so it will not damage your liver and other organs with long term use like the oxycodone will. Morphine makes me so sick that I can barely stand it. It just does not agree with me at all. Methadone has really been a lifesaver for me as many other drugs either did not work or side effects were too severe. I hope that helped answer your question.

Well, the Methadone lasts much longer than Oxycodone of course, but I found that it works better if you take something like Oxy for BT pain. I take the pure Oxycodone 15mg tablets and it does make me a bit tired when I do. I think that Methadone works better than MS Contin/morphine because it's stronger and it doesn't make you tired and sleepy all the time like morphine. I had to take 180mg of MS ER and 60mg MS IR daily and I still had quite a bit of pain. Of course everyone is different and it may work for somebody else much better than it did for me.