I usually do opiates on the weekends and then I refrain during the week. During the week, I workout 4x at the gym, eat very light, drink tons of water and get lots of sleep. Is living healthy 80% of the time a viable way of maintaining a low opiate tolerance?
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Best way to retain a low drug tolerance?
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piller97
Bluelighter
Maintaining a low tolerance is very difficult.
IMO the only way you can give yourself a fighting chance at keeping your tolerance relatively low is by very frequent breaks.
I know you say you use opiates on weekends and for the time being this may be enough to keep your tolerance down, but you'd have to ensure that your breaks don't start getting shorter and shorter, cause before you know it you'll be dosing daily and any hope you had at low tolerance is gone.
IMO even if you're only using on weekends it would be extremely useful to take a 2 or 3 week break every month or so, if you can stick to that I don't see why you wouldn't keep a relatively low tolerance.
Another thing to keep in mind would be the dosage that you are taking, even if you're waiting a week between, if you're taking relatively high dosages, thats also gonna up your tolerance.
Good luck keeping your tolerance down!
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IMO the only way you can give yourself a fighting chance at keeping your tolerance relatively low is by very frequent breaks.
I know you say you use opiates on weekends and for the time being this may be enough to keep your tolerance down, but you'd have to ensure that your breaks don't start getting shorter and shorter, cause before you know it you'll be dosing daily and any hope you had at low tolerance is gone.
IMO even if you're only using on weekends it would be extremely useful to take a 2 or 3 week break every month or so, if you can stick to that I don't see why you wouldn't keep a relatively low tolerance.
Another thing to keep in mind would be the dosage that you are taking, even if you're waiting a week between, if you're taking relatively high dosages, thats also gonna up your tolerance.
Good luck keeping your tolerance down!
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MoreFeens4Morphine
Bluelighter
It is said taking a small dose of DXM with opiates prevents tolerance build up, but I've never tried.
If you're only dosing on the weekends, I wouldn't worry about it. It should maintain at a fairly moderate level.
If you're only dosing on the weekends, I wouldn't worry about it. It should maintain at a fairly moderate level.
Blind Melon
Bluelighter
From what I read of your original post you are already destined to become a fellow junky. Welcome to the club. I'm not sure which opiate you're using, but don't trick yourself into believing you're any better off than a heroin user. Vicodin, Percocet, Morphine, Heroin, Fentanyl, Hydromorphone..... it's all the same addiction at the end of the day. No matter what route of administration you use.
Keeping your tolerance down? If you keep using, even only on weekends, that will still be impossible. It may be possible to keep your tolerance down using once a month, but good luck sticking to that. Your best bet is to avoid the temptation of higher doses. Also, use potentiates rather than higher opiate doses. Eat half a valium with your opiate. Drink some white grapefruit juice with it. Fuck, even an anti-histamine like diphenhydramine (primary ingredient in most OTC sleeping pills) will do to increase your opiate buzz nicely. It may not be quite as clean, but the honeymoon phase is called a phase for a reason.
No ill will intended. Best of luck. I hope you can do what I couldn't. At least you have the luxury of knowing what you're flirting with.
Keeping your tolerance down? If you keep using, even only on weekends, that will still be impossible. It may be possible to keep your tolerance down using once a month, but good luck sticking to that. Your best bet is to avoid the temptation of higher doses. Also, use potentiates rather than higher opiate doses. Eat half a valium with your opiate. Drink some white grapefruit juice with it. Fuck, even an anti-histamine like diphenhydramine (primary ingredient in most OTC sleeping pills) will do to increase your opiate buzz nicely. It may not be quite as clean, but the honeymoon phase is called a phase for a reason.
No ill will intended. Best of luck. I hope you can do what I couldn't. At least you have the luxury of knowing what you're flirting with.
Mr.Scagnattie
Bluelighter
The only thing you can do to keep your tolerance low is to use intermittently. If you start using everyday, or even every other day, it will skyrocket. You need to take long breaks off in between using, and even when you are using, you need to keep it to only a couple days a week.
It's a very difficult thing to do..
It's a very difficult thing to do..
tricomb
Bluelight Crew
Damned near impossible. If you use once a week, you will begin to notice decreased effects and you will require escalating doses of your opioid of choice to get where you want to be, trust me, with opiates, there are no such thing as weekend warriors. Someone may be able to regulate their intake for a matter of time, but it's only a matter of time until it's the only thing you do or think about doing, and rapidly forget what life was like without them. The only way to keep a low tolerance is to barely ever do drugs. Please save yourself the misery that awaits you. Misery loves company, it creates a void inside you that you are retraining your body to think can be "fixed" once you get your fix. If you are taking opiates once a week, I would take this as a last warning and last chance to stop what has the potential to ruin your life. Once you go there, it's very very hard to come back...
I totally understand what I'm flirting with and I am still in control. I have my boundaries. For example, if I ever start sucking dick for pills, then I know I have an issue. I have so many responsibilities that I hold down that even people who don't use drugs would have problems holding down. That includes working 3 part-time jobs and graduate school (BTW I've been getting all A's). Drugs are like junk food- I know if I use everyday then it takes the fun out of it. And as laughable as it sounds, I can stop if I needed to. I was in the running for a position within a police department (civilian position, NOT as a cop). I knew I wasn't going to get it even though I was in the final 3 but for those few months, I stopped using and I would have passed any drug test too. I'm not bragging because it's nothing to brag about. If my life was worth bragging about then I wouldn't need drugs. But I also need the lecture even less.
Whosajiggawaaa
Bluelighter
+100000000000
That depends on the person, not the drug. If what you said were true, then every person who used opiates on a recreational basis (and I think we can agree that it's A LOT of people) would end up as a junkie.
Mr.Scagnattie
Bluelighter
Lots of them do..
I am not one of those people. I haven't used MDMA.
Mr.Scagnattie
Bluelighter
^^
What does mdma have to do with anything? We are talking about opiates.
What does mdma have to do with anything? We are talking about opiates.
Point is that you are assuming that I have a drug problem. I'm not sure if you are an addict or whatever but if you are, you have no credibility to lecture me as I've obviously made better choices than you. It's like a teen mom lecturing people who practice safe sex.
rollonsafely
Bluelighter
I think that you are gettin off topic with these personal attacks. You have had your question answered, you dont need to bash others who are trying to look out for your well being.
That being said I think I would be more likely to listen to the teen mom that is trying to lecture on the importance of safe sex as they have seen the possible downsides to having unprotected sex, just as many people hear are very well versed in the dark side of opiates.
How old are you and how long you been using opiates so damn responsibly? How long have you been making such great life choices?
You think people who are addicted were born that way or something, and they never used "just on weekends"? Maybe they even only used once a month at one point, though I am sure that is too crazy of a notion to wrap one's head around.
Also I would like to reiterate the question of what does MDMA has anything to do with what was being discussed in this thread?
Mr.Scagnattie
Bluelighter
bennyZA
Bluelighter
If you are worried about retaining a low tolerance, that's an early sign. that's like a teen mom lecturing her son cause he's not having safe sex.
Honestly though, why do you do opiates?
Honestly though, why do you do opiates?
You are wrong. Addiction depends on the person, not the drug. Furthermore, I came to ask a question about tolerance, not a request to be lectured by holier-than-thou people. I feel like the next thing that's going to happen is I'm going to be PM'd stuff about Jesus being my savior. This isn't a fucking Narcotics Anonymous website; it's a website where people can ask these kinds of questions.
bennyZA
Bluelighter
You know it's a harm reduction website, not a "how do I get higher" website... right? So trying to convince you this is the wrong path is harm reduction. You do realize that the only trick to keep tolerance down is to not do the drug often, if there was any other way junkies would have figured that shit out a long ass time ago. Just the fact that you are building tolerance in general is bad sign, are you honestly denying that?
Oh, and yes, it is the person, but it is ALSO the drug. You know that a large section of addicts were just like you are now, just as successful and in control than you, if not more so. Your hubris will get the best of you... it does for most people who are trying to get their tolerance down to be able to still get as high.
Oh, and yes, it is the person, but it is ALSO the drug. You know that a large section of addicts were just like you are now, just as successful and in control than you, if not more so. Your hubris will get the best of you... it does for most people who are trying to get their tolerance down to be able to still get as high.