Anyone else here on NO opiates of any kind whatsoever?

[dieselbaby]

I was curious if anyone else that is a regular poster (or even those who are usually lurkers) are currently not on any type of opiates whatsoever, including maintenance, prescriptions, etc. who haven't been on anything for at least 3+ months. Please post in this thread or let me know, I would like to ask people some questions about their health and general physical well-being. Figured this would be the most appropriate place to ask.

[Ickyuck]

*crickets chirping, wind rustles..*

[hovadagod]

Give me 5 months and I can help...

[Morfiend]

other than 1 perc about 3 weeks ago, in 3 more days itd be 3 months without any opiates of any kind. The fuck up never lead to anything... but it happened. I'd be happy to answer questions.

[Papa Verine]

Nope... sorry man.

(Duckfeet has been opiate free for a while now)

[GOLD N DIEMONDS]

^^^^CUTE^^^^
yes i am sure are a FEW of them.
why is it you ask?
find yourself getting stuff like common cold, every 3 weeks
or down and blue
or getting sick ever 3 weeks
THAT WAS ME EXPERIENCE so i said
fuck it, at about 8-9 months with that

[SHELLEY]

didn't you already ask this, a month ago or so?
either way, i qualify
no opiates for 7 months (when i got off 'done)

[hovadagod]

SWIM never gets sick when he's on opi's. But the constipation...

[Morfiend]

didn't you already ask this, a month ago or so?
either way, i qualify
no opiates for 7 months (when i got off 'done)

serious respect. +1

[upstate_007]

10 Months aside from a few trips to the ER. Those trips were legit for a change too and not just to see what I could get.

[nhop]

I would like to ask people some questions about their health and general physical well-being. Figured this would be the most appropriate place to ask.

I'm curious about your questions, about what you want to know, if you are inclined to share. (I dont want to be rude...)

edit: I've had significant clean time in the past, but am not clean right now.

[China white]

......na

[More Feen]

I'm in my first month, so I don't qualify for your 5 months+ category, but the first few weeks have an interesting nature to them.

Yeah, it just seems like colds & influenzas are "waiting" to hop into your system after stopping opies. Went a very long time without noticing sickness while taking opies.

I think that is important to note--you probably don't notice a cold or flu when you're on opiates, the symptoms are well masked.

M F

[Narkotikon]

I take Suboxone and have since April. I'm not currently using anything illegal. And recently I've started seeing a doctor for mental health issues who prescribed Prozac and Ativan. Everything I take is prescribed.

[Woody Bear]

I used to have a prescription for codeine, 60 x 30 mg tablets every 5-6 weeks. I stopped taking them in August as they were making me irritable, and haven't had another prescription for them since.

I'm trying to get my GP to prescribe something else, (morphine or oxycodone) but she won't until I've tried everything else first. So I've been doing the drug test guinea pig shuffle.

First Naproxen, then Diclofenac, finally she told me that as they weren't working, other anti-inflammatories wouldn't be worth trying.
Now I've been taking Amitryptaline for just over a week.
She wouldn't even do a referral to pain management when I asked, but I agreed to keep trying the Amitryptaline for another couple of weeks, and she agreed that she'd at least phone up pain management to ask what to do for someone with infrequent severe pain, rather then someone with chronic daily pain.

And when I asked what would happen if the Amitryptaline didn't work, she told me that she'd try me on Gabapentin or Pregabalin next.

But that's just my prescriptions, not what I'm actually taking, which is 20 mg morphine sulphate, plugged. I do the morphine just once a week, for when the pain is really bad or I get in a negative spiral or if I've not had any for a week and just want to get high.

The prescription hoops I have to jump through are bizarre and upsetting, because I don't want to take drugs everyday. I just want to have an effective opioid to take no more than a couple of times a week at most, and once every week or two at best. But opioid are so stigmatized that she'd rather me become physically dependent on GABA type drugs, which have fatal withdrawal symptoms, then take an opioid stronger than codeine, even thought I've been on codeine for 2 years and not used it inappropriately.

It's also bad because I have depression, and when I'm depressed and in pain, it makes me suicidal. I tell her this, and say that codeine is the only drug that both stops my pain and stops me feeling suicidal, but the 3 drugs that she has to try before another opioid: Amitryptaline, Gabapentin and Pregabalin, all have warnings that they increase suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

[reddragon3668]

I am in my 6 month now. I didn't think the lethagy would ever fade. Returning to work was a big plus. I only really think of it when I'm hurting but still remember the kick after 10 plus years of daily use for CP.

[Spork]

Try an anti-histamine with your codeine. Opiates cause a histamine release which can make people irritable. It helpes my aggravation when I take some Benadryl with a dose.

[HandMeSomeOpiates]

interesting topic. Today I'm 2 days clean, just taking kratom to function. I hear a lot of talk about how after 45 days or so you will feel better than you did when on the opiates. That's hard to believe for me. I wish/hope I can get there and see for myself. Right now, life just looks so boring w/o opiates.

[Morfiend]

^^ that inner-junkie never goes away completely I don't think... but looking back I'd have to say it was hell having the drastic ups and downs (mostly downs) associated with that life. Getting high even once made me feel awful for two days after and my attitude lacked optimism for another day at least (this was after 2 months totally clean and only 1 single perc). How could a few hours of an opiate high be worth that? I can never do opiates again... it just won't ever be worth it.

[HandMeSomeOpiates]

I can never do opiates again... it just won't ever be worth it.
Hat's off to you bro. I'm hoping that becomes my mentality too. I'm just gonna smoke massive amounts of weed when ever I crave ;)

[SHELLEY]

I can never do opiates again... it just won't ever be worth it.

i feel the same way

[hovadagod]

Pods last more than afew hours....

^^ that inner-junkie never goes away completely I don't think... but looking back I'd have to say it was hell having the drastic ups and downs (mostly downs) associated with that life. Getting high even once made me feel awful for two days after and my attitude lacked optimism for another day at least (this was after 2 months totally clean and only 1 single perc). How could a few hours of an opiate high be worth that? I can never do opiates again... it just won't ever be worth it.

[Duckfeet]

^^ that inner-junkie never goes away completely I don't think... but looking back I'd have to say it was hell having the drastic ups and downs (mostly downs) associated with that life. Getting high even once made me feel awful for two days after and my attitude lacked optimism for another day at least (this was after 2 months totally clean and only 1 single perc). How could a few hours of an opiate high be worth that? I can never do opiates again... it just won't ever be worth it.

i feel the same way

I never know, me. A few months now, off'em...It helps me stay off thinking I'll probably do'em again. But there's nothing here that appeals to me, and my life is alright now...get more used to it daily. Swim, hang out, I'm happy. Every once in a while craving hits me, but it passes. Mostly I think of how much I dread having to get on methadone again, I was in the bathroom today, thinking about the miserable coffee enemas and stuff I used to try, in attempt to have BM...and most dope roads, in the end, seem to lead back to some maint drug or another, and I really can't stand bupe or mdone, so I bop along, do best I can on a daily basis, and don't sweat the future too much.

I'm sure it right situation, right doc, or right country, I'd do it again...past track record of mine, would make it insane for me to think "I'll never do them again..." I'm like most on here: struggle when I'm on opies, miss'em sometimes when I'm not...mornings are hard, since I ache, and know how even a couple of vicodins would change all that...but I know myself too well, and can't keep the shit around and control it...and sure don't miss crossing town to the clinic....

It's not a race or a competition: everybody needs to do the best they can, to make life a good thing rather than a burden...dope or no dope...mostly you just want to be careful, not do anything too self-destructive...and if you want off them, you'll find a way...

[HandMeSomeOpiates]

It's not a race or a competition: everybody needs to do the best they can, to make life a good thing rather than a burden...dope or no dope...mostly you just want to be careful, not do anything too self-destructive...and if you want off them, you'll find a way...
Amen brotha!