The ONE side effect from MMT I can't stand is the sweating. You?

[Ozzy]

The constipation, the loss of libido, the weight gain. Fuck it all. The constant sweating of the head is fucking rediculous to me. It's the worse. It's like I'm constantly running a little bit hotter than normal at all times. I gotta carry tissues with me all the time now. Can anyone relate?

[BigMak]

I hate going to the fucking clinic......which is why my ass is trying to transistion from diverted methadone pills - heroin - suboxone DR. 1st visit $150 no script/not charge - usually start w/ 60 x 8mg bupe......

no insurance,, but with generic bupe out now, I'll have an Opiophiles Inhaler around in my pocket. (in the form of a dub bottle.

[GOLD N DIEMONDS]

Originally Posted by Ozzy

The constipation, the loss of libido, the weight gain. Fuck it all. The constant sweating of the head is fucking rediculous to me. It's the worse. It's like I'm constantly running a little bit hotter than normal at all times. I gotta carry tissues with me all the time now. Can anyone relate?

ah NO, NOT AT ALL REALLY.
not sure what you wanted or expect.
no one is forcing you to go.
if you are so unhappy with it
and you must be as this is like the 10th my MMT suck thread
do a taper- get out
try sub maintenance-
or drug free life
you open Pandora box.
nothing will be quite the same again
this can be a positive -or a negative, depend what you do with it

LIFE is just HARD

[DollaSignAL]

I can def relate man, but I just tell myself that it beats being sick. So I keep a sweat rag, a few fiber bars and just suck it up cuz this is life I chose and things can always be worse

[Flaco]

Originally Posted by DollaSignAL

I can def relate man, but I just tell myself that it beats being sick. So I keep a sweat rag, a few fiber bars and just suck it up cuz this is life I chose and things can always be worse

Wise Words

[oneironaut]

Originally Posted by DollaSignAL

I can def relate man, but I just tell myself that it beats being sick. So I keep a sweat rag, a few fiber bars and just suck it up cuz this is life I chose and things can always be worse

much much worse

[OpiateQueen]

I hate the sweating at night. i never ever used to sweat then. Now i feel like i wake up stinky every morning...

[Citricburn]

ask to switch to SUGAR FREE juice......thats what my MMT nurse told me....when i started on normal 'full fat' methadone' he told me "If you find you are overly sweaty with this come back and ak for a switch to sugar free" I did, so I did...and now I dont..

[MissLow]

Having to wash my hair every day because my neck has been so sweaty it's made my hair stink is pretty damn annoying.. but so is life when your using smack, so I'm happy to put up with it.

[Canis aureus]

Don't eat junk food and stare TV all the time, don't eat fatty or sugary things and especially don't sit all the time.... Don't eat too much in relation to what you burn... and you don't get weight and it helps to sweating thing also.

Sweating will lessen over time... I sweated more than I used, few years ago, but I don't sweat too much anymore.


Move, walk and be active and you''ll start losing your fat/weight. Activity helps to constipation too... 90% of ex-junkies start living passively and indoors when they don't have to go out scoring drugs anymore...

Get yourself up and going, try to find something which makes you excited

[b00ty_m4n]

Originally Posted by Ozzy

The constipation, the loss of libido, the weight gain. Fuck it all. The constant sweating of the head is fucking rediculous to me. It's the worse. It's like I'm constantly running a little bit hotter than normal at all times. I gotta carry tissues with me all the time now. Can anyone relate?

Omg Oh can I relate I have to carry extra tissue everywhere cuz of the sweating! How much is your dose or does it even matter bout that?

[Narkotikon]

First of all, let me say I've not been on methadone since Oct. 2006. But from what I remember, I never really sweated a lot.

The two (and I know you asked for one, but I'm going to have to say two) biggest things that pissed me off about methadone were:

1. The weight gain. Man, I would go home after dosing and watch TNT in the daytime and eat one or two half-gallons of chocolate chip ice cream. Then pass out. I ruined two slip covers for my couch by falling asleep with ice cream containers in my lap. Then woke up in this sticky, vanilla, choloatey, gooey mess. Do you know how much it takes to dry-clean a big slip cover, or replace one because the stain won't come out? Outrageous.

2. The sedation. I just did NOT like methadone. I think part of it was because I was on 140mg a day, a bit naive (I knew what methadone was, the basics, stuff like that, but not what I know now), and kept believing the doctor and nurses when they said that "you won't be tired when you find your dose." Like it was supposed to be some kind of fucking magical moment when you just "know." Fuck that.

I had a trough done. They said my ng/ml levels was a 180. They said it should be between 350-450. So, of course I kept going up. I think that was a big big mistake. I should have stayed lower, because the higher I went, the more sedated and more miserable I got. I mean, toward the end, I would purposefully skip a day (never more than one, because if you missed two or more, the clinic would lower your dose, but missing one was okay) every other week or every ten days or something like that just so I wouldn't have to dose.

And of course they wouldn't consider split dosing. You had to have take-home priviledges to be considered for that, and even then it was rare. I mean, I was there from Dec. 2005 - Oct. 2006 and never once got a takehome, aside for Holidays when everyone got one b/c the clinic was closed. And it wasn't b/c I was testing positive for anything. It was because I couldn't go 90 consecutive days without testing dirty AND coming to dose consecutively. I had the not using thing down by the beginning of March. The hard part was just showing up every day for 90 days b/c I really didn't want to dose sometimes.

The doctor ended up giving me 200mg of Provigil a day at first, then 400mg after a while, and then wouldn't go any higher or consider anything else.

In the end, I regret going on methadone. I just don't think that stuff agrees with me. I think it was partly my fault for not being as educated as I should have been, and should have said "NO" when they kept telling me to increase my dose; and I also think it was partly their fault for telling me to up my dose. It's just that the higher I went the worse it got.

Subs work much much much better for me. They're not perfect, but they're certainly better than MMT was for me.

And don't get me wrong. I don't hate methadone. I still believe in MMT for people. I personally just think it's not for me, not at that time, and at least not yet. I'd have to be pretty bad off to agree to do that again. I just don't think MMT should be taken lightly.

[Anthropioid]

I feel ya Ozzy. If I'm just sittin around or not really doin much I don't sweat at all. But the minute my heart rate increases, especially at work, I turn into the human water faucet. Kinda strange how it's only on my head tho.

Does anyone know specifically why this happens? ie. change in body chemistry or something.

I do know that most clinics will sell a vitamin supplement called either vitadone or nutridone that are supposed to help with the sweating, constipation, sugar cravings and lethargy bullshit. Have you possibly tried the supplements to see if they help?
You can also order it online if your clinic doesn't carry it.

[Stonnewolf]

i hate not pooping O_o

[Dolofinell]

I've been in MMT 6 yrs. now, and I can honestly say
side effects have never been a problem for me,I am on 130mg.
I guess I am one of the lucky ones. No problem with sweating,
constipation,I was lethargic at 130 once daily until I started
split dosing 90 days into treatment Besides that nothing,suppose
thats why I've stuck w/ it for so long.