Please email me. I have had a addiction to opiates for over 20years. I have been on methadone for 2yrs and I'm about a month into weening from 120mg/daily at 3mg a week. I have chronic lymphocytic leukemia and it is difficult to tell which the hot flashes are from. I'm uncomfortable about 40% of the time and wanted a little more information about the withdrawal. Is there a period of clammy, painful reality that makes you feel like you dying or am I reading correctly that there is a comfortable transition to sobriety? Methadone does nothing but keep me from being in withdrawal but I'd love to be done with it all together. 