I am having issues finding the proper place to post this on my phone and do apologize. Hopefully it belongs somewhere.
I was wanting to find out some specific information regarding harm reduction for a certain type of individual. Exact details will be given regarding weather, environment, work, eating and drinking habits, other drug use, sleep patterns, vitamins and supplements, and anything deemed relevant. If something isn't listed that someone needs to know, just ask. I do understand that this isn't a site ran by doctors or medically qualified people to answer the questions with 100% accuracy and always take anything said on the Internet with a grain of salt. Just figured maybe other people have some insight or opinions that could be potentially useful in leading as safe and healthy lifestyle as possible.
Please state if you read the entire thing when you list a response if possible to make sure all aspects were taken into consideration. I do apologize for the lengthiness of the post but I am trying to find out information that might be more specific instead of having my acquaintance try all kinds of different things to figure out what is good and bad for him. I have done a ton of reading here and on another site similar that starts with www dot drug dash (wasn't sure if listing full site was against rules but I'd assume anyone that takes the time to give a response is familiar with the other site I mentioned). Hopefully the formatting looks ok on desktop and mobile.
Age/Location/Sex
The person this thread pertains to is a male between the ages of 20-24. They are located in the Southern US and specifically work/live between the cities of Houston, TX and Galveston,TX. Just to give an idea of the weather, for those not familiar, it is quite hot and humid during the summer. An average day ranges from a high of 90-105 real feel temperature once you factor in a humidity rate between 40-80% with the average running probably around 60ish % humidity.
Vitamins/Supplements/Prescriptions
-Prescriptions
-- Escitalopram 20mg once in morning (generic for Lexapro, an SSRI)
--- dose actually taken is 10mg because 20mg led to serotonin syndrome
-- Ranitidine 300mg once in morning (generic for Zantac, acid reducer)
-- Clonazepam 1mg tablets (generic for Klonopin, as needed - 15 total per month)
-Vitamins/Supplements (all taken in morning with prescriptions)
-- NatureMade MULTI Complete, 1 a day
-- Swanson Condition Specific Brain Essentials, 1 a day
-- SpringValley Fish Oil 1290mg/900mg Omega3 per serving, 2 per day (serving size is 2 a day in mini soft gels)
-- NatureMade Magnesium 250mg, 1 per day (as magnesium oxide tablet)
-- NatureMade Potassium Gluconate 595mg, 1 per day (99mg of potassium from the 595 of potassium gluconate)
-- SpringValley Calcium 600mg, 1 per day
Current Health/Relevant Past Health Issues
Past issues/Current health
-- He rarely gets sick but when he does it's usually worse than most people that get sick frequently. He's never had a broken bone or surgery.
-- At round 16, he developed an allergy to marijuana that causes him to have extreme panic attacks. During these attacks he is disoriented, dizzy, vomiting, and has diarrhea (sorry for specifics here). Anytime he smokes or uses it himself this happens but he can be around it as long as there is adequate ventilation. Prior to developing an actual allergy to marijuana, he used to smoke a lot everyday from the ages of 11 to 15ish. He stopped to take a specific drug test in high school and during that time used cocaine instead. The allergy developed after he passed the drug test, almost a year later, and tried smoking again. He still is unable to smoke more than a hit or two at most and rarely does that unless he's going straight to bed. After that first panic attack he had never ending attacks for a few months and didn't leave his house. Slowly he started trying to overcome it and once he turned 18 doctors started prescribing him different medications. During all this trial and error he went through numerous tests including the following: stress test, EKGs (showed mild arrhythmia but no concern), inner ear balance tests, X-rays of brain and lungs, cat-scans of the brain and head, tests for stomach acid issue that resulted in diagnosis of GERDS, as well as a couple similar tests that he stated he forgot. Nothing was found except that he had labial hypertension and generalized anxiety disorder. These attacks are now almost nonexistent. Occasionally he has very mild ones as compared to before that cause extremity numbness mostly and perceived difficulty breathing. After the first attack around age 16, he instantly gave up all illegal drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes. He didn't start smoking cigarettes again until around age 19-20 and didn't start drinking again until roughly the same age maybe a little later.
-- As mentioned above, he started experimenting with cocaine around 15ish and that only lasted roughly a year. Use eventually reached almost everyday use at this time with upper limit of daily amounts totally 1.6g and lower limits being around 0.5 to 0.8. The next time he touched cocaine again he was an adult and responsible for whatever happened. He started slowly and not very frequently and over the course of 6 months eventually reached a max of 3.2g over the course of a week. He no longer does this drug as it induced mild serotonin syndrome and increased anxiety that he was unable to deal with due to it acting more on the serotonin receptors in the brain instead of the dopamine receptors like methamphetamine does.
-- He went to the hospital in the past month once after work for abdominal pain. They did blood work, piss sample, and a cat-scan of his abdomen from the bottom of the lungs to the pelvis and found no issues in any of them. The hospital staff was notified by him that he used methamphetamine.
-- He weighs between 130-140 lbs with current health issues being generalized anxiety (mostly under control), labial hypertension, and occasional acid reflux even with max dose of Zantac taken each day.
Drug use/ROA/Frequency/Quantity
Drug of choice is crystal methamphetamine and it's done through an ROA of nasal insufflation. Average daily amount used is approximately 160-180mg per day with average amount per dose between 30-40mg depending on 3-5 doses per day. This drug has been used since February 2014 and has maxed out at those amounts due to harm reduction and physical/mental/psychological signs and thoughts encouraging stopping somewhere around that much. Usually this is done anywhere from 4-6 days per week and has been going like that for probably close to 1 month now.
Work (including eating/drinking/sleeping habits during work week)
For work he cleans and repairs community/commercial pools 5 days a week between approximately 40-45 hours a week. He lifts a max weight of 120lbs at a time. Since he does manual labor in the hot weather here, he makes sure to drink at least 2 Gatorades a day and between 3-6 Gatorade bottles refilled with water depending on how he feels and how much he sweats. He usually drinks a Mango Naked pure fruit juice everyday (it's a specific brand, sometimes it's a different type of the same brand) to get a good intake of fruits and vegetables each day as well as to help with constipation. He tries to eat some kind of breakfast everyday which usually consists of some inexpensive fast food or yogurt. He doesn't always eat both lunch and dinner and instead usually eats something near the end of the work day or after work. This is where he tries to get a more balance and healthy meal of chicken or some kind of meat (still fast food though). He showers every day after work or before bed and makes sure to brush his teeth in the mornings to take care of teeth and skin. Most of the time he sleeps around 6 hours a night during the work week. Sometimes he doesn't sleep and used to stay up for around 3 days but has been more responsible to not stay up more than one night without sleep.
Weekend (including differences from work day habits)
The weekend isn't much different from the work week except that he doesn't have to be exposed to the harsh temperatures like he does during the week. He also makes sure to stop using on Saturday night and not use on Sunday to ensure a good night’s sleep before the work week. On Friday and Saturday he sleeps quite a bit, or overall around 10-12 hours each night he said. He also eats 3 times a day on Saturday and Sunday with no fast food most of the time and still makes sure to take care of hydration.
Other Remarks
I can't think of anything else that is important here but I'm sure I probably missed a few details because I tried to remember everything he's informed me of over our time knowing each other. Again, I do apologize for the lengthiness of this post and not knowing where to post it. Just trying to find out useful information for him if at all possible. The things he was concerned about was having a blood pressure regular around 140-150/85-99 while using. The past week it's went down to 135ish/85ish with better sleep and eating patterns. He was also concerned with occasionally getting headaches and feeling somewhat dizzy sometimes. And lastly the thing he informed me that worried him the most was noticing that his heart tends to stay around 70-80 bpm after doses in the late afternoon when he's finished working or at home. Compared to 105-120 bpm all other times.
I was wanting to find out some specific information regarding harm reduction for a certain type of individual. Exact details will be given regarding weather, environment, work, eating and drinking habits, other drug use, sleep patterns, vitamins and supplements, and anything deemed relevant. If something isn't listed that someone needs to know, just ask. I do understand that this isn't a site ran by doctors or medically qualified people to answer the questions with 100% accuracy and always take anything said on the Internet with a grain of salt. Just figured maybe other people have some insight or opinions that could be potentially useful in leading as safe and healthy lifestyle as possible.
Please state if you read the entire thing when you list a response if possible to make sure all aspects were taken into consideration. I do apologize for the lengthiness of the post but I am trying to find out information that might be more specific instead of having my acquaintance try all kinds of different things to figure out what is good and bad for him. I have done a ton of reading here and on another site similar that starts with www dot drug dash (wasn't sure if listing full site was against rules but I'd assume anyone that takes the time to give a response is familiar with the other site I mentioned). Hopefully the formatting looks ok on desktop and mobile.
Age/Location/Sex
The person this thread pertains to is a male between the ages of 20-24. They are located in the Southern US and specifically work/live between the cities of Houston, TX and Galveston,TX. Just to give an idea of the weather, for those not familiar, it is quite hot and humid during the summer. An average day ranges from a high of 90-105 real feel temperature once you factor in a humidity rate between 40-80% with the average running probably around 60ish % humidity.
Vitamins/Supplements/Prescriptions
-Prescriptions
-- Escitalopram 20mg once in morning (generic for Lexapro, an SSRI)
--- dose actually taken is 10mg because 20mg led to serotonin syndrome
-- Ranitidine 300mg once in morning (generic for Zantac, acid reducer)
-- Clonazepam 1mg tablets (generic for Klonopin, as needed - 15 total per month)
-Vitamins/Supplements (all taken in morning with prescriptions)
-- NatureMade MULTI Complete, 1 a day
-- Swanson Condition Specific Brain Essentials, 1 a day
-- SpringValley Fish Oil 1290mg/900mg Omega3 per serving, 2 per day (serving size is 2 a day in mini soft gels)
-- NatureMade Magnesium 250mg, 1 per day (as magnesium oxide tablet)
-- NatureMade Potassium Gluconate 595mg, 1 per day (99mg of potassium from the 595 of potassium gluconate)
-- SpringValley Calcium 600mg, 1 per day
Current Health/Relevant Past Health Issues
Past issues/Current health
-- He rarely gets sick but when he does it's usually worse than most people that get sick frequently. He's never had a broken bone or surgery.
-- At round 16, he developed an allergy to marijuana that causes him to have extreme panic attacks. During these attacks he is disoriented, dizzy, vomiting, and has diarrhea (sorry for specifics here). Anytime he smokes or uses it himself this happens but he can be around it as long as there is adequate ventilation. Prior to developing an actual allergy to marijuana, he used to smoke a lot everyday from the ages of 11 to 15ish. He stopped to take a specific drug test in high school and during that time used cocaine instead. The allergy developed after he passed the drug test, almost a year later, and tried smoking again. He still is unable to smoke more than a hit or two at most and rarely does that unless he's going straight to bed. After that first panic attack he had never ending attacks for a few months and didn't leave his house. Slowly he started trying to overcome it and once he turned 18 doctors started prescribing him different medications. During all this trial and error he went through numerous tests including the following: stress test, EKGs (showed mild arrhythmia but no concern), inner ear balance tests, X-rays of brain and lungs, cat-scans of the brain and head, tests for stomach acid issue that resulted in diagnosis of GERDS, as well as a couple similar tests that he stated he forgot. Nothing was found except that he had labial hypertension and generalized anxiety disorder. These attacks are now almost nonexistent. Occasionally he has very mild ones as compared to before that cause extremity numbness mostly and perceived difficulty breathing. After the first attack around age 16, he instantly gave up all illegal drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes. He didn't start smoking cigarettes again until around age 19-20 and didn't start drinking again until roughly the same age maybe a little later.
-- As mentioned above, he started experimenting with cocaine around 15ish and that only lasted roughly a year. Use eventually reached almost everyday use at this time with upper limit of daily amounts totally 1.6g and lower limits being around 0.5 to 0.8. The next time he touched cocaine again he was an adult and responsible for whatever happened. He started slowly and not very frequently and over the course of 6 months eventually reached a max of 3.2g over the course of a week. He no longer does this drug as it induced mild serotonin syndrome and increased anxiety that he was unable to deal with due to it acting more on the serotonin receptors in the brain instead of the dopamine receptors like methamphetamine does.
-- He went to the hospital in the past month once after work for abdominal pain. They did blood work, piss sample, and a cat-scan of his abdomen from the bottom of the lungs to the pelvis and found no issues in any of them. The hospital staff was notified by him that he used methamphetamine.
-- He weighs between 130-140 lbs with current health issues being generalized anxiety (mostly under control), labial hypertension, and occasional acid reflux even with max dose of Zantac taken each day.
Drug use/ROA/Frequency/Quantity
Drug of choice is crystal methamphetamine and it's done through an ROA of nasal insufflation. Average daily amount used is approximately 160-180mg per day with average amount per dose between 30-40mg depending on 3-5 doses per day. This drug has been used since February 2014 and has maxed out at those amounts due to harm reduction and physical/mental/psychological signs and thoughts encouraging stopping somewhere around that much. Usually this is done anywhere from 4-6 days per week and has been going like that for probably close to 1 month now.
Work (including eating/drinking/sleeping habits during work week)
For work he cleans and repairs community/commercial pools 5 days a week between approximately 40-45 hours a week. He lifts a max weight of 120lbs at a time. Since he does manual labor in the hot weather here, he makes sure to drink at least 2 Gatorades a day and between 3-6 Gatorade bottles refilled with water depending on how he feels and how much he sweats. He usually drinks a Mango Naked pure fruit juice everyday (it's a specific brand, sometimes it's a different type of the same brand) to get a good intake of fruits and vegetables each day as well as to help with constipation. He tries to eat some kind of breakfast everyday which usually consists of some inexpensive fast food or yogurt. He doesn't always eat both lunch and dinner and instead usually eats something near the end of the work day or after work. This is where he tries to get a more balance and healthy meal of chicken or some kind of meat (still fast food though). He showers every day after work or before bed and makes sure to brush his teeth in the mornings to take care of teeth and skin. Most of the time he sleeps around 6 hours a night during the work week. Sometimes he doesn't sleep and used to stay up for around 3 days but has been more responsible to not stay up more than one night without sleep.
Weekend (including differences from work day habits)
The weekend isn't much different from the work week except that he doesn't have to be exposed to the harsh temperatures like he does during the week. He also makes sure to stop using on Saturday night and not use on Sunday to ensure a good night’s sleep before the work week. On Friday and Saturday he sleeps quite a bit, or overall around 10-12 hours each night he said. He also eats 3 times a day on Saturday and Sunday with no fast food most of the time and still makes sure to take care of hydration.
Other Remarks
I can't think of anything else that is important here but I'm sure I probably missed a few details because I tried to remember everything he's informed me of over our time knowing each other. Again, I do apologize for the lengthiness of this post and not knowing where to post it. Just trying to find out useful information for him if at all possible. The things he was concerned about was having a blood pressure regular around 140-150/85-99 while using. The past week it's went down to 135ish/85ish with better sleep and eating patterns. He was also concerned with occasionally getting headaches and feeling somewhat dizzy sometimes. And lastly the thing he informed me that worried him the most was noticing that his heart tends to stay around 70-80 bpm after doses in the late afternoon when he's finished working or at home. Compared to 105-120 bpm all other times.
