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Opioids Grapefruit juice opioid potentiation

db7132

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Hi all,

I am currently working in lowering my daily dose on my Oxycodone and I am using grapefruit juice to help potentiate it a little bit because I have been on a high dose for a long time and want to taper down to about 40-50% of what I was taking. I was taking 40mg x 3 oxy per day but now am at 32.5 x 3 within 2 weeks with the GFJ.

Does anyone know if using the GFJ to inhibit those CYP3A4 enzymes raises tolerance over time, kinda like how raising your dose for a day or two (without GFJ) raises your tolerance for about 3-5 days or so? Just curious cuz if so, what I am doing is kinda counter-productive! From what I gave read online, it doesn’t seem to affect overall tolerance, just current plasma levels of the drug but AI and Google searches are not always the most reliable sources. Thanks!

(if any is curious, goal is to get to 6-8 10mg roxies a day)
 
Hi all,

I am currently working in lowering my daily dose on my Oxycodone and I am using grapefruit juice to help potentiate it a little bit because I have been on a high dose for a long time and want to taper down to about 40-50% of what I was taking. I was taking 40mg x 3 oxy per day but now am at 32.5 x 3 within 2 weeks with the GFJ.

Does anyone know if using the GFJ to inhibit those CYP3A4 enzymes raises tolerance over time, kinda like how raising your dose for a day or two (without GFJ) raises your tolerance for about 3-5 days or so? Just curious cuz if so, what I am doing is kinda counter-productive! From what I gave read online, it doesn’t seem to affect overall tolerance, just current plasma levels of the drug but AI and Google searches are not always the most reliable sources. Thanks!

(if any is curious, goal is to get to 6-8 10mg roxies a day)
Did you ever figure this out? I just had surgery and my doctor has me on 60mg a day of Oxycodone. This is the second surgery of this type I’ve had. I have major back pain from a car accident 30 years ago. It’s rare that I can get an Rx from a doctor. Infigurebthatvmy dic will give me one more Rx of (40) 5mg pills. 10 helps my back. I’d love to take a 5mg and grapefruit juice so I can make the bottle last longer
 
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