But see, you gotta remember that my habit seems extreme until you realize I'm a small guy and moderate the shit out of everything. .5mg alp' at a time, a beer if I feel like it because I'm sick, and the Cheratussin because that codeine potentiates the fuck out of the Xanax but the guafenisin (or whatever, it's a weird word) dehydrates the ever-loving shit out of me. I'm guzzling probably 4x more water than beer, and that's while drinking. Throughout the day I've probably downed about 15-16 bottles a day since I got sick and picked up the cough syrup, it's fucking crazy. Like I'm hiking through a desert all day... and I only take 5mL at a time, twice a day. Once at about 9am and another time around 4pm-6pm. If it was the Qualitest I was told it was supposed to be, though, that shit would've been gone days ago. Promethazine w/ codeine is just too easy to drown yourself in when you have a legitimate bronchial issue going on.
Don't get me wrong, I'm dizzy as fuck right now... But like I said, I'm stressed the fuck out and have a work-related problem that I haven't been able to stop thinking about and has continued to escalate for about a week and a half straight now. Like, every waking hour on or off the clock I can't get this shit out of my head, and intoxication + books/video games helps me keep my mind off that shit. Granted, the intoxication levels are increasing but it was a hell of a Monday, bro.
Admittedly, though, since 7:30am (I started work at 1:30am today, ended at about 9-ish) I've taken about 2.5mg spaced throughout the day, and it's 8:11pm as I'm editing this.) That's not normal for me and definitely a heavy day, but my tolerance has gotten to the point thanks to taking Xanax medicinally that this is the kind of dose/dosing I need to actually get a high off the shit that lasts for more than a couple hours. It's also cool that after about a milligram it starts to have what feels like an upper effect and I get super energetic-- one of those weird paradoxical effects when you become addicted to a medication at one point or another, I guess.