For Hailie

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Hi Hailie,

I talked to and got the methadone withdrawal info.

There are two things to try.

1. Go to www.theriversource.org and email them asking for a referral

in your area. They do natural methadone recovery.

2. Find a pain management specialist in your area--they generally

know a protocol for getting people off methadone.

These are both things that have worked for other people.

Regards,

Kim

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[Guest guest]

Thanks for the help.

I tend to run from reality....so I just logged in today to see what

kind of answer I could get to come off of methadone.Sad,huh?Tomorrow

will HAVE to be my last dose.Not according to the clinic....but I

simply can't drive that distance,afford the $70 a week,and also

maintain a job,home and all my bills.I can't see any other way out

than to just go cold turkey,ya know? Getting off opiates cold turkey

in the past almost killed me physically.Of course I know that

methadone isn't an opiate....but I wonder if there is gona be as much

pain and confusion in my head like opiate withdrawal.If so....I'm

scared to death!!!

Gona go to the link you sent....but I'm not even sure I could afford

a regular doctor/pain clinic or whatever.I thought there might be some

kind of med that helps the withdrawal.

Thanks for the link and all.

In Withdrawal_and_Recovery , Kim

<kdenise1111@g...> wrote:

>

> Hi Hailie,

>

> I talked to and got the methadone withdrawal info.

>

> There are two things to try.

>

> 1. Go to www.theriversource.org and email them asking for a referral

> in your area. They do natural methadone recovery.

>

> 2. Find a pain management specialist in your area--they generally

> know a protocol for getting people off methadone.

>

> These are both things that have worked for other people.

>

> Regards,

> Kim

> co-moderator

>

> --

> Visit my art blog at http://kimdenise.blogspot.com/.

>

> " Thanks to my work everything's going well " --Claude Monet

>

> To Purchase Supplements at discount:

>

> Swanson Health Products

>

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>

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>

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>

[Guest guest]

Methadone withdrawal is every bit as bad as opiate withdrawal. I'm

not sure how you're going to maintain your job, home and bills while

in cold-turkey withdrawal, if you can't do it while driving to the

clinic.

The only HAVE TO about tomorrow's last dose is your own choice.

That's not a HAVE TO; that's a choice. Don't fool yourself.

You might want to consider doing the drive and the $70 a week for a

couple weeks more while you investigate the options. Seems a little

hasty to put yourself in abrupt, terrible, damaging withdrawal before

you've investigated your options.

You're right that you were running from reality--while there are ways

to get off methadone, none of them are as simple as just taking a pill

every day. If there were such a simple solution, why would there

still be addicts?

However, there ARE drugs that help with the withdrawal. It's a very

specific protocol, which is why we suggested seeing a pain management

specialist. They know about such things.

Regards,

Kim

co-moderator