honeywhite
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As usual for me, I've been temporarily rotated from 10 mgm. diamorphine to 35 mcgm./h transdermal buprenorphine as my chronic pain reliever at my request, to prevent my tolerance rising. I'll probably go back on the diamorphine next month, or the month after next.
Anyway, I don't use either as prescribed; I tend to p.r.n. my diamorphine instead of using it by the clock, which prevents the well-known discontinuation syndrome as well as tolerance, and I do the same to buprenorphine. I also occasionally use them intravenously in the spirit of recreation. For buprenorphine, I do it by splitting the patch and soaking the inner plastic layer (total content: 20 mgm.) in water.
What's puzzling, though, is that buprenorphine is so much more recreational to me than diamorphine is (the former is known as TranstecTM and the latter as HeroinTM or DiagesilTM). I'm not sure if I'm using an equipotent dose of both (I use 10 mgm. of either) but with the exception of the initial pins-and-needles, diamorphine gives me nothing more than a pleasurable warmth, while buprenorphine frequently knocks me out, as in I get a droopy head for a moment, wake up, and then my head starts drooping, etc etc. Buprenorphine taken in this fashion lasts 12 hours; I'm lucky if the diamorphine lasts half that.
Yes, there's a ceiling effect with buprenorphine and tolerance builds F-A-S-T; I lose the buzz with buprenorphine on the fourth or fifth consecutive day of (mis)use in this manner, whereas with diamorphine I probably wouldn't if I used it day in and day out for a month. Still, on that first or second day, Transtec easily outstrips Heroin when it comes to that famous inner warmth and inner moisture.
Why is bupe so much stronger with its pleasurable effects? Hydromorphone is also very strong, but intensely short acting. I feel like 10 mgm. buprenorphine or 1/4 gr. hydro is about as strong as 50-60 mgm. diamorphine, but the latter still wouldn't make me crave it as much as bupe or hydromorphone does.
Anyway, I don't use either as prescribed; I tend to p.r.n. my diamorphine instead of using it by the clock, which prevents the well-known discontinuation syndrome as well as tolerance, and I do the same to buprenorphine. I also occasionally use them intravenously in the spirit of recreation. For buprenorphine, I do it by splitting the patch and soaking the inner plastic layer (total content: 20 mgm.) in water.
What's puzzling, though, is that buprenorphine is so much more recreational to me than diamorphine is (the former is known as TranstecTM and the latter as HeroinTM or DiagesilTM). I'm not sure if I'm using an equipotent dose of both (I use 10 mgm. of either) but with the exception of the initial pins-and-needles, diamorphine gives me nothing more than a pleasurable warmth, while buprenorphine frequently knocks me out, as in I get a droopy head for a moment, wake up, and then my head starts drooping, etc etc. Buprenorphine taken in this fashion lasts 12 hours; I'm lucky if the diamorphine lasts half that.
Yes, there's a ceiling effect with buprenorphine and tolerance builds F-A-S-T; I lose the buzz with buprenorphine on the fourth or fifth consecutive day of (mis)use in this manner, whereas with diamorphine I probably wouldn't if I used it day in and day out for a month. Still, on that first or second day, Transtec easily outstrips Heroin when it comes to that famous inner warmth and inner moisture.
Why is bupe so much stronger with its pleasurable effects? Hydromorphone is also very strong, but intensely short acting. I feel like 10 mgm. buprenorphine or 1/4 gr. hydro is about as strong as 50-60 mgm. diamorphine, but the latter still wouldn't make me crave it as much as bupe or hydromorphone does.
