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Opioids Lack of metabolic enzyme?

nAON

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Yes please.
Basically, i've been using opis for a long time. However, i've always had a HUGE natural tolerance, even if I hadn't using be for months. Like i'd be sitting next to someone who vapes up 2mg fent and nods out, while I can sit there vaping triple that without a nod. Applies to most other drugs too, oxy, gear, etc.

I've also noticed that I tend to get the itch for much longer, today from DHC which I dosed over 24 hours ago, and often with poppy pods i'd itch for 3 days. So my theory is that if im lacking the enzyme needed to metabolise them, and the opis are prodrugs, then its gonna be a much more extended effect releasing [histamines] over a long time.

Now i've read before that many people lack or have lesser function versions of various CYP enzymes, there were some values on how it varies with ethnicity but I can't seem to find it now. Does this seem to be an indication that I lack this enzyme, or it acts weakly?
And if so, what can I do about it, I know stuff like white grapefruit juice can inhibit metabolism. But is there anything that can make it work stronger?
 
if you had deficient enzymes, then you would receive 10x the normal effect of oxycodone. pro-drugs would absolutely blow for you, but oxycodone, methadone, morphine/heroin (debated do to 6-MAM), ect... would give you astronomical effects that would last 6+ hours because of the inability to metabolize the substance.
 
I have a similar problem, though all my opiates seem to last much shorter. I too have a high natural tolerance. From the time i started i was taking 30+ mg of hydrocodone as well as oxycodone.
But my high never lasts longer thn 2 hours. I will peak at about the one hour mark, and by the 2 hour mark i am almost at baseline. Could this be from overactive enzymes or metabolism?
 
thats crazy i wish i could be faded for hours on hours...but when you refer to other drugs are you saying they might not feel cocaine and stuff like that
 
Referring to opis only. And it's only the itching effect that lasts particular long, but this I suspect only occurs in pro-drugs to histamine-releasing active opis. The actual effect I feel is relatively little, ie. when I first took oxy (with no tolerance) i didnt even feel anything below 60mg. Similarly, i can smoke fent with someone, I can smoke it literally non stop without nodding, while most people I see nod out after 1-2mg smoked.
 
if you had deficient enzymes, then you would receive 10x the normal effect of oxycodone. pro-drugs would absolutely blow for you, but oxycodone, methadone, morphine/heroin (debated do to 6-MAM), ect... would give you astronomical effects that would last 6+ hours because of the inability to metabolize the substance.

Are you 1000% sure on that? If you are, then thank you!! I was wondering why hydrocodone didn't do much for me, and why it lasted less long as my friends, and why tramadol kicked so much butt in comparison. Ultra-rapid CYP2D6 methinks
 
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