Find Methadone Treatment Near Nineveh IN
If you are taking methadone in order to treat opioid addiction, skip the missed dose. Take the next dose as soon as possible. Do not take two doses to make up a missed one.
If your doctor has advised you to take methadone for your pain, then take the missed dose as soon and continue your regular medication schedule. Skip the missed dose if you are near the end of your next dose. To make up for missed doses, don't take two doses.
Talk to your doctor before you start taking this medication.
You will get the same dose every day for the next three days so that the medicine can build up in your body. After three days, you and your doctor should talk about how well the methadone treatment is working and decide whether or not to keep doing it. Your doctor will increase the dose every three days until you reach the maintenance dose that works best for you. If you are still having withdrawal symptoms, this could take a few weeks. As long as you have withdrawal symptoms, this will keep happening.
The time after you switch from opiates to methadone is called the stabilisation phase. The first dose of methadone for your treatment will be between 10 and 30 milligrammes. The medicine can be taken by mouth in the form of a pill, a tablet that dissolves in the mouth, or an oral solution.