Originally Posted by lurching View Post
"to you guys with an o-dt habit (using every other day / 3 or 4 times a week): do you have any appreciable opioid-experience & have you ever used a strong opioid as regularily as this? do you plan on stopping this frequent dosing at a certain date, or do you plan on sustaining it on a longer term?
just wondering if you have done this kinda usage pattern before or if you're simply naive/inexperienced, cos this substances feels like quite a serious one to me. just curious..
i like it, but i'd definitely put it in the oxycodone/morphine/demerol class, e.g. a good step up from tramadol/hydrocodone."
Hi again all, I've just spent the last 6 weeks totally sideswiped on ODT-up to 750+mg per day. One big dose on waking, a smaller one at lunchtime and another large one around tea-time. I've been to work each day too, although it's not been easy.This gear IS strong and totally seductive, as I think someone said earlier.It's definitely a "functional" opioid,in that you can walk and talk and think fairly rationally but that doesn't, of course, mean your'e not totally out of it.It's just that you don't realise it and, thankfully, nor does anyone else.
Anyway,this is by-the-by, I would guess that in the last 5 weeks I've probably got through nearly 30 grams(pricey, I know-just as well I didn't lose my job!).I had made my mind up to stop on Friday 2nd Sept. and did so. Last dose of 190 mg(that was all that was left) was taken at about 6 pm.It is now 17.30 pm on 5th Sept. and I feel ok, if a little tired and achey.The second day was the worst,really not much fun at all. 3mg doses of Etizolam every 6 hours were a blessing, and I only shit myself twice. The point I'm trying to make is that it just wasn't that bad.And yes, I do have experience of "heavy" opiates. I had a moderate heroin habit for over a year about 4 years back,around, about 180 quid a week.and I gave that up when I realized the drug was in charge of me rather than vice-versa. Now that WAS nasty, particularly because I had to stop seeing someone I really loved because of the whole situation.
I wonder if ODT could find a use as a maintenance medication or even a useful tool to going clean? My personal experience (and I'm fully aware that everyone is different) makes me think that a month's substitution of ODT for methadone would make coming off shorter and easier.