Hi. I?m hoping I?ve come to the right place for some advice. Basically I?m just worried and concerned about what the actual best thing is to do to help him because I feel I don?t know enough to know for sure what to think.
if I think he?s using do I need to leave him to enable him to find himself and get better in his own time? Problem is he denies using anything other than his methadone and a bit of weed but his body language and the way he presents sometimes definitely looks like he?s using something. It?s obviously easy on this side Of things to be too suspicious or paranoid or doubtful. I don?t want to make any decisions based on a feeling without knowing if it it just in my head or not.
But for example, he has his dose of methadone in the morning around 10am. He?s been on maintenance for a few years now. His dose is 44ml. Can anyone tell me why his pupils are more pinned 18 hours after he?s had the methadone than they are an hour after? Could this really just be methadone like he tries to tell me it is or does it suggest other opioid use? He knows I have no previous knowledge or experience on methadone and heroin etc. He sits there at night nodding in an out of consciousness, looks like he?s asleep but still responds when I talk to him and he says this is just because he is tired. But in my experience you don?t stay conscious if your that tired, you just fall asleep.
I hope this isnt isn?t an inappropriate thread. Any advice or insight would be hugely appreciated to help me figure out what on Earth I?m supposed to do. I feel totally alone with all this as my partner just gets angry when I ask questions.
if I think he?s using do I need to leave him to enable him to find himself and get better in his own time? Problem is he denies using anything other than his methadone and a bit of weed but his body language and the way he presents sometimes definitely looks like he?s using something. It?s obviously easy on this side Of things to be too suspicious or paranoid or doubtful. I don?t want to make any decisions based on a feeling without knowing if it it just in my head or not.
But for example, he has his dose of methadone in the morning around 10am. He?s been on maintenance for a few years now. His dose is 44ml. Can anyone tell me why his pupils are more pinned 18 hours after he?s had the methadone than they are an hour after? Could this really just be methadone like he tries to tell me it is or does it suggest other opioid use? He knows I have no previous knowledge or experience on methadone and heroin etc. He sits there at night nodding in an out of consciousness, looks like he?s asleep but still responds when I talk to him and he says this is just because he is tired. But in my experience you don?t stay conscious if your that tired, you just fall asleep.
I hope this isnt isn?t an inappropriate thread. Any advice or insight would be hugely appreciated to help me figure out what on Earth I?m supposed to do. I feel totally alone with all this as my partner just gets angry when I ask questions.
