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Opioids Am I the only one who rations their doses to save money and avoid withdrawal?

FunctionalJnkieGrl

FunctionalJnkieGrl

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Just wondering. Its pretty easy with pills if you only take 1 dose a day. I just cut them in half or quarter them. The worst part about rationing is getting through a couple of sleepless nights while adjusting to a dosage change, but you likely won't experience full-blown withdrawals. After that, its all about willpower.
 
I'm glad that you feel this way at this point in time. Wait until the greed kicks in. Some can resist it for a prestigious amount of time--years even. But once the greed comes out it becomes a whole new ball game that's not "recreational" anymore. The main problem with opiate ab(users) is their coping mechanisms for dealing with life's shiz. They tend to just redose on stressful days. Try to keep your tolerance as low as possible for long as possible anyone reading this. An insatiable tolerance is too hard to keep up with and then it's sick city. Withdrawal can't kill you but you kind of die every time in a different sense. Don't be like me towards the end and constantly say "let's enjoy now and deal with it later." Btw I like your eyes we have the same color :)
 
GetMeOutOfThisCRAP said:
I'm glad that you feel this way at this point in time. Wait until the greed kicks in. Some can resist it for a prestigious amount of time--years even. But once the greed comes out it becomes a whole new ball game that's not "recreational" anymore. The main problem with opiate ab(users) is their coping mechanisms for dealing with life's shiz. They tend to just redose on stressful days. Try to keep your tolerance as low as possible for long as possible anyone reading this. An insatiable tolerance is too hard to keep up with and then it's sick city. Withdrawal can't kill you but you kind of die every time in a different sense. Don't be like me towards the end and constantly say "let's enjoy now and deal with it later." Btw I like your eyes we have the same color :)
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I've been an addict for over a decade but I'm proud that I have some sense of self-discipline despite having to dose once a day. Thank you for the compliment, by the way. My eye color is one of the very few things I wouldn't change about myself.
 
FunctionalJnkieGrl said:
Just wondering. Its pretty easy with pills if you only take 1 dose a day. I just cut them in half or quarter them. The worst part about rationing is getting through a couple of sleepless nights while adjusting to a dosage change, but you likely won't experience full-blown withdrawals. After that, its all about willpower.
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I do this rationing all the time. I have a Pain Management Doctor who is great, but she watches my monthly dosing closely. She is afraid of the possibility of Serotonin Syndrome for me. But I ration out my Tramadol, Morphine IR & Gabapentin as best as I can. Withdrawls are hell....a lot of us have been there....
 
Well considering when I get some it’s usually couple years worth I HAVE to be good at rationing as well as force tapering myself if need be. This is Suboxone however...

Also though I have some full agonists laying around which I only use if I’m in true bad pain. That requires additional willpower not to just use those all day instead (of which I can always get more once it’s gone..)

I think human beings in general need to evolve to a point where they can be around such drugs and not touch them if need be because this world is only getting flooded with more and more daily.

-GC
 
Wormwood44 said:
I do this rationing all the time. I have a Pain Management Doctor who is great, but she watches my monthly dosing closely. She is afraid of the possibility of Serotonin Syndrome for me. But I ration out my Tramadol, Morphine IR & Gabapentin as best as I can. Withdrawls are hell....a lot of us have been there....
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God I miss morphine. I haven't had ms contin in over a year. I preferred that over anything else. Oxy is the best I can get at the moment.
 
Yes, I ration... sometimes. Maybe most times. Seems no matter how little I use it always runs out without fail. FTS! haha
Acquired some diazepam and def gonna ration those as I think I dislike alprazolam now... go figure. What a wonderful life I love it when my tastes change as it portends other life adjustments. ;)
Peace
 
I tried to until I was so addicted i would start getting sick after 4-6 hours
Quit while you're ahead, what you're doing will not last for very long and you don't want to be full on addict .
 
I always had a hard time rationing my doses. Actually, I only do it with benzos, but it is not the same as opiates. If I have opiates, I will probably take all of them, or more than I had planned to take even though I am nodding my head and in my comfort zone. Even when the pandemic started I bought a 50ml bottle of ketamine of 50mg / ml, that shit has 2.5g of ketamine, I thought about rationing it and that it would last for months, but this was not like that, I ended up taking large doses and my nose was destroyed. Lately I'm going to the hospital to have my abstinence controlled, they leave me with serum for a while and they apply morphine, it's the only way to contain myself I guess ... here in Argentina there are no methadone clinics or something similar, I received methadone sometimes but the hospital in my city denied it to me after 2 months. So, I could say no, it is very difficult to ration my dose of anything, especially opiates, with marijuana something similar happens to me but it is not so compulsive.

It may seem funny to you, but the price of my DOC today is equivalent to 2 dollars. And I don't even have that, I'm sweating a lot and my anxiety is unbearable as is the pain.
 
PtahTek said:
Yes, I ration... sometimes. Maybe most times. Seems no matter how little I use it always runs out without fail. FTS! haha
Acquired some diazepam and def gonna ration those as I think I dislike alprazolam now... go figure. What a wonderful life I love it when my tastes change as it portends other life adjustments. ;)
Peace
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Hey buddy - I've noticed you & I have similar likes with meds. I've never taken diazepam. I've been offered it before. Wouldn't it make me sleepy as hell? What's it do for you?
 
GetMeOutOfThisCRAP said:
Wait until the greed kicks in.
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I was thinking wait until tolerance kicks in.
Because sooner or later that one pill ain’t gonna do shit, and the. It’s like, why am I doing this 1 pill if it ain’t doing nothing....

Oh ..... too be young and naive.

My best advice is be careful functionaljnkiegrl. You’re playing with Fire.
All of started out in the beginning thinking “we got this” ! LoL!
 
iLoveYouWithaKnife said:
I was thinking wait until tolerance kicks in.
Because sooner or later that one pill ain’t gonna do shit, and the. It’s like, why am I doing this 1 pill if it ain’t doing nothing....

Oh ..... too be young and naive.

My best advice is be careful functionaljnkiegrl. You’re playing with Fire.
All of started out in the beginning thinking “we got this” ! LoL!
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When you swallow an M30 blue of Purdue's finest and feel drop dead sober that's when you know the game is over. You can still take more or go to higher things but it's going to be a bad time after that.

I don't miss the perpetual feel of withdrawal. I do miss the buzz a bit :/
 
Wormwood44 said:
Wouldn't it make me sleepy as hell? What's it do for you?
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It can make one sleepy... it is a musculoskeletal relaxer, iirc, and once those deep/soft tissues are relaxed slumber may in fact follow shortly thereafter.
It takes the edge off of my razor-wired brain. At relatively high doses it makes me drowsy but not overly so. One word? Relaxed.
Weed-like without anxiety?
Has become my DOC (for maintenance) again.
Ptah
 
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By the way.. the price of oxy without a prescription is double... no TRIPLE what it used to be. Hence how my addiction was able to even occur in the first place. They say, "it will go back down after the quarantine." Yeah and I have a pet dragon and Harambe walks the earth again.

Now it's like 2/2.5 dollar per milligram and it's only getting higher and higher. I'd rather spend my money on things that don't have a withdrawal. That leaves heroin in the cost negotiable category but not one junkie veteran can recommend it. I love getting high but not that high. Still, if it was a dollar per milligram I'd probably be addicted to this very day. I'd say the dealers did me a favor.

@JunkieGal keep doing what you're doing. If that's what makes you happy then nobody here can say it's wrong because most of us have lived that way for a while lol. In the grand scheme of life though you will probably one way or another be forced to go without it for an unforseen amount of time. Try to build friends and maintain a good life regardless.
 
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Kara Kava said:
I tried to until I was so addicted i would start getting sick after 4-6 hours
Quit while you're ahead, what you're doing will not last for very long and you don't want to be full on addict .
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Too late. I've been taking opiates daily for over a decade now but so far, so good as far as rationing goes. I had less self-control when I first started using, actually.
 
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