D-BoyJake
02-19-2008, 11:19 PM
As I’ve stated in other posts, I’ve been taking opiates daily for the last 4 years or so. My tolerance started to get so bad I was taking 400mg a day at one point. I knew I had to do something, so I started playing around with different potentiates
My usual is to take Unisom Gel’s along with the hydro. Usually I’ll take 4 Unisom with every 100mg of hydro. Surprising, it doesn’t make me very sleepy. Actually, if I take Unisom by itself, I get highly agitated. So I think the hydro and Unisom work against each other in my case. I still feel the hydro, but I can completely function at all levels of life.
Flexeril. It was OK, but I never noticed much of a difference, no matter how high of a dose I took. Complete waste for me.
Soma. I did notice a bit of an extra oomph when I mixed Soma in with my regiment. But not so much that I go out of my way to get my hands on them
But I did find one muscle relaxer that worked WAY too well.
Zanaflex. (Generic = Tizanidine). This is a muscle relaxer, but is also prescribed to help a person sleep. My doc gave me the Zanaflex because I was having trouble sleeping. I took one pill with my normal hydro/ Unisom intake, and about 20 minutes, I just about passed out. It was the strangest thing. The only way I can describe it is it was like going under anesthesia for surgery. You can feel that heavy blackness coming and you try your damndest to fight it off, and then POW!! You’re out.
It scared me a bit too because I’ve always been functional even while on drugs. Been pulled over for speeding a few times and the cop never mentioned anything about being suspicious. Work never knew how brain numb I was. I was 100% functional.
Zanaflex? I thought I was going to die that first time. I remember trying to keep my eyes open long enough to try and write out a will. (Funny, here I thought I was going to die and rather than calling 911, I was trying to write a will. I’m a jackass).
Since that first time I know now I’m not going to die. I also know I need to be at home, laying on my bed if I decide to add Zanaflex to my dosing. If you can get your hands on it, it’s worth a shot.
My usual is to take Unisom Gel’s along with the hydro. Usually I’ll take 4 Unisom with every 100mg of hydro. Surprising, it doesn’t make me very sleepy. Actually, if I take Unisom by itself, I get highly agitated. So I think the hydro and Unisom work against each other in my case. I still feel the hydro, but I can completely function at all levels of life.
Flexeril. It was OK, but I never noticed much of a difference, no matter how high of a dose I took. Complete waste for me.
Soma. I did notice a bit of an extra oomph when I mixed Soma in with my regiment. But not so much that I go out of my way to get my hands on them
But I did find one muscle relaxer that worked WAY too well.
Zanaflex. (Generic = Tizanidine). This is a muscle relaxer, but is also prescribed to help a person sleep. My doc gave me the Zanaflex because I was having trouble sleeping. I took one pill with my normal hydro/ Unisom intake, and about 20 minutes, I just about passed out. It was the strangest thing. The only way I can describe it is it was like going under anesthesia for surgery. You can feel that heavy blackness coming and you try your damndest to fight it off, and then POW!! You’re out.
It scared me a bit too because I’ve always been functional even while on drugs. Been pulled over for speeding a few times and the cop never mentioned anything about being suspicious. Work never knew how brain numb I was. I was 100% functional.
Zanaflex? I thought I was going to die that first time. I remember trying to keep my eyes open long enough to try and write out a will. (Funny, here I thought I was going to die and rather than calling 911, I was trying to write a will. I’m a jackass).
Since that first time I know now I’m not going to die. I also know I need to be at home, laying on my bed if I decide to add Zanaflex to my dosing. If you can get your hands on it, it’s worth a shot.