I HAVE to protect my liver, at this stage in my drug-taking life, 'cause I've been off and on various strong painkillers for several different pain problems my whole adult life, and I seriously worry about allowing my liver to have to absorb any more damage at ALL. Anyway, I've grown so sensitive to Tylenol/APAP that it actually makes me nauseus, but right now I only have these 7.5/750 generic Vicodin for my back-pain, so... I've finally started practising the CWE method, after much reading of threads here and how-to sites elsewhere on the 'net.
It is so fucking tedious!After like two hours of patient crushing up 11 tablets with my little mortar/pestle, waiting for the mixture to cool in the freezer and checking on it/mixing it every 5 minutes or so, straining it through not one but two different types of tight-woven white cloth as well as letting the stuff drip through a coffee filter, then prepping my system with a cimetidine tablet.
Then, I set to putting the fat glop of white paste through a second extraction to get out whatever more hydrocodone might have remained in it, then FINally drinking half of my finished bitter elixir and chasing it with a big glass of freshly squeezed grapefruit juice - yes, it worked, it pretty much killed the pain, and made me feel "warm and fuzzy," however I didn't get any itchies (I like those itchies,) but - but - christ, the whole process took half the damn day! And I'll need to do it all over again tonight when I get my new script.
Just thought I'd come 'round and bitch & moan about the CWE process. I DID have something significant to say or ask here, but I've forgotten what it was I wanted to say/ask. I'll come back here when I remember...