hey everyone...i just found this page this morning on line and signed up...i just had a few questions and was wondering if anyone could help me out. here is my situation. I started off on pills then back in 2008 i started buying methadone on the streets. i was buying anywhere from 25-50mg a day....sometimes not everyday. just depended on what i could afford. so i eventually stopped buying from the streets and got on a clinic in April of 2008. I peaked at 95mg and stayed there for an entire year. This past April i decided to do a detox and get off the drug. in order to keep my privledges and take home bottles you have to do a slow taper so your dose will be considered stable. At my clinic that means that you can't come off of the methadone faster than 5mg a month. So coming down has been pretty easy so far. I actually stayed at 70mgs for 2 months because a councilor told me that you can actually trick your body into thinking that the most its ever had was 70mgs. because that other 25mg is outta my system. anyways i think i'm still to high in mgs for it to matter. so heres the thing. i'll be coming down 5mgs a month until i'm done. where i go is not the liquid form. Ours are the orange 40mg discs then we have 5 and 10mg pills. they disolve in water or juice and thats how we take it. so once i come down to 5mgs thats it. i can't come down any lower. So i wanna know...is there anyone out there who has successfully come off of methadone from 5mg doing a taper. from what i understand a taper is the safest and least painful way to come off methadone. I dont wanna go from one drug to another because i know some people say to switch to suboxine and the detox is easier...id rather just do this and be done with it. So basically i'm looking for some words of inspiration. Can this be done with out being horribly sick. Does anyone have any tips on ways to feel better when you are coming off that last little bit. i wish i could come down to 1mg but the pills we have there just won't let us do that. 5 is the smallest i can go. i come down to 60mgs next week...stay there for a month...then like i said i come down 5 a month. Really if you can do it coming down 5mgs a month is really easy. the 3rd day after the 5mg taper i feel a little off, but i don't feel sick by any means. so i'm hoping as i come down lower and lower it will be the same way. that i won't be sick. i just really hope that jumping off 5mgs to nothings isn't going to be horrible. at the same time...i have take home bottles so i guess when i have that last 5mgs for a month or so...i don't have to take all of it. i could break it up and take less than 5mg. i don't know, i guess there are ways without doing another drug. so if ya have tips please help me out. much love to all of you out there..god bless and good luck at getting off drugs.