Finally caving..

[slimradio]

Hello Bluelight members! My name is slim and I have been creeping around bluelight and forums like it for some time now. Over the past 4 years I have fought a losing battle with opiate addiction and I am always googling info on different ROAs, proper safety techniques, detox help and support, and sometimes when I'm sick just to make time move by a little faster. 90% of any question I have ever had about opiates has been answered by an open thread on this website but lately I have wanted to ask specific questions about different factors and situations that could only be answered if asked specifically. Anyway I have decided to become a member for this very reason! My usual vicious cycle is to use Boi and suboxone. Most questions I have are related to those so if there is a good place I should start to post about those please direct me that way! I hope everyone here is safe in all that they do including there habits and I wish everyone the best of luck in reaching there goals! Cheers! -slim

 

[The Doc.]

Welcome to Bluelight

Glad you decided to join ive been struggling with opiates for about 8 years now and today my poison is Suboxone tablets.

Any questions feel free to ask me

 

[Captain.Heroin]

Suboxone Mega Thread in Other Drugs is very helpful.

Welcome to Bluelight!

 

[TheSheExperiment]

Hiya! I'm new here too and have also been lurking around the forums for awhile. I too have had issues with opiates, especially with quitting Suboxone - the withdrawal syndrome is gnarly. I'm now on 30mg Morphine for myalgia and miotitis, which is a actually a real and valid complaint (it's very painful, and occurs in my back around the lower perispinal muscles). At the same time, it's also addressed all my opiate problems because I now just have a regular, valid, monthly prescription. Anyway, just wanted to say hi and that I understand where you're coming from. I hope you find a solution or an ability to abstain if that's your decision

Best of luck,

--TheSheExperiment

 

[ComfortablyNumb95]

Hi and welcome to Bluelight what's boi?

 

[Addict3dtodillys]

Hiya! I'm new here too and have also been lurking around the forums for awhile. I too have had issues with opiates, especially with quitting Suboxone - the withdrawal syndrome is gnarly. I'm now on 30mg Morphine for myalgia and miotitis, which is a actually a real and valid complaint (it's very painful, and occurs in my back around the lower perispinal muscles). At the same time, it's also addressed all my opiate problems because I now just have a regular, valid, monthly prescription. Anyway, just wanted to say hi and that I understand where you're coming from. I hope you find a solution or an ability to abstain if that's your decision

Best of luck,

--TheSheExperiment

I am having the same pains.... it awful. I'm told I should have pain. I have bulging disks and inflammation but the kaiser docs say I should not hurt. I am beginning to think I might have fybromyalga.. my mom suffered from non diagnosed back pain that would crumple her in tears from as early as I can remember... I pop cracked and click when I stand up... There is never a time when I stand or roll over in bed when I don't feel sharp pain.... life suck... now I'm being weaned off the meds because I got a steriod shot that is supposed to me a miracle cure all.... how did you get a fybromyalga diagnosis..

 

[flyhighk]

Hello Bluelight members! My name is slim and I have been creeping around bluelight and forums like it for some time now. Over the past 4 years I have fought a losing battle with opiate addiction and I am always googling info on different ROAs, proper safety techniques, detox help and support, and sometimes when I'm sick just to make time move by a little faster. 90% of any question I have ever had about opiates has been answered by an open thread on this website but lately I have wanted to ask specific questions about different factors and situations that could only be answered if asked specifically. Anyway I have decided to become a member for this very reason! My usual vicious cycle is to use Boi and suboxone. Most questions I have are related to those so if there is a good place I should start to post about those please direct me that way! I hope everyone here is safe in all that they do including there habits and I wish everyone the best of luck in reaching there goals! Cheers! -slim

Welcome and Other Drugs is the best place to post your questions about opiates. Check out the megathreads there too.

 

[TheSheExperiment]

I am having the same pains.... it awful. I'm told I should have pain. I have bulging disks and inflammation but the kaiser docs say I should not hurt. I am beginning to think I might have fybromyalga.. my mom suffered from non diagnosed back pain that would crumple her in tears from as early as I can remember... I pop cracked and click when I stand up... There is never a time when I stand or roll over in bed when I don't feel sharp pain.... life suck... now I'm being weaned off the meds because I got a steriod shot that is supposed to me a miracle cure all.... how did you get a fybromyalga diagnosis..

It sounds like your pain has an actual origin, not a neuropathic pain like fibromyalgia. Well, basically you've stated that already since you said that there are bulging discs and other things that can be seen on an MRI. Neuropathic pain syndromes like fibromyalgia have no visible physical origin - there are no tests that can be done to diagnose it and there's nothing that shows up on any sort of imaging. Also, fibromyalgia pain is more of an ache that radiates out into a wide area - not a sharp pain. Anyway, the way they attempt to diagnose it is by testing your response to, "tender spots," located in very specific areas. People with fibro tend to have their pain in places where when someone else presses on a specific spot, it causes the radiating pain and then doesn't relent for hours afterward. So, if you've got neuropathic pain, but it's not on those specific tender points, then they'll give out another diagnosis like chronic fatigue disorder or neuropathic pain NOS (not otherwise specified). You may very well have neuropathic pain, but not all neuropathic pain is specifically fibromyalgia. It doesn't make it less valid though by any means, and they treat the other neuropathic pains with the same meds they use for fibro (Lyrica, Neurontin/gabapentin, Nortryptaline, etc.) In your case, you may be having a combination of both neuropathic pain and pain with physical origin from those discs that are bulging. As for getting diagnosed, you have to be pretty persistent.

Basically, I came into the doctor and told him that I suspected I had fibro and pushed him to investigate it over the course of several appointments until he finally relented and decided to consider the idea. As it turned out, my pain isn't in the exact tender point regions. I actually found out yesterday that he dropped the fibro off the front and I'm now diagnosed with Myalgia and Myositis - meaning, muscular pain and inflammation of the muscles. So, it's really a ring-around-the-rosy through a bunch of hoops, but if you're in pain, you have the right to pain management as well as being treated with dignity and respect, which, in my opinion, includes thoroughly ruling out this or that and/or diagnosing this or that. It wasn't easy for me... It took an entire year of appointments before I got any real treatment or pain management setup... Hope things work out for you

Blessings,

--TheSheExperiment

 

[TheSheExperiment]

Oh yeah, people with fibro often get something called, "fibro fog," which is a type of derealization. They also suffer from extreme chronic fatigue. Those are major symptom clues to whether a person's pain is neuropathic or organic. Here's a link to what derealization is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derealization If you're suffering either or both of these symptoms, you definitely need to let the doctor know because these are pretty consistent symptoms in that nearly all fibro patients have and describe - it would help your doctor to know whether you may have it or not.