Opioids Brain damage from opiate use

[MrRoot]

When I first did Mensa IQ test I had a result of 148. After using benzos for few years it dropped to a 142 and after started using oxycodone with benzos 20-60mg for daily it went up to a 146. I wonder what it might be after I stop using benzos and still continue using oxycodone. Seems to me that oxycodone causes new neural pathways to evolve in brain resulting into faster and more complicated thinking but the benzos are limiting my total ability.

 

[System7]

Thread's teeming with speculation...

 

[Blueschil.]

Ive been taking morphene for over a year now, for one 8 month period it was constant morning noon night very high doses as i had cancer and they could only give me the guideline doses im a well built fella and needed more so i got my own stash of oromorph on top.

Now im in remission but it has affected my memory mostly short term, and caused a brain fog ( which could also be chemo related ) and has definatly caused insomnia because it started while i was in hospital and i am still suffering from it now.

Im not saying its brain damage, my doc sais it should come back over time when i am clean from my medication.

 

[kokaino]

I've never heard of opioids causing brain damage in long-term use. Maybe long-term oxygen deprivation due to respiratory depression causes some kind of problems with the brains of opioid users but opioids themselves are not damaging to the brain or any other organ as far as I know. Their only really negative long-term problem is addiction.

They certainly don't cause brain damage the way methamphetamine/amphetamines, MDMA, PCP or even cocaine do. Even benzodiazepines have been known to cause "organic brain damage". At least according to the following:

Abrupt withdrawal from very high doses is even more likely to cause severe withdrawal effects. Withdrawal from very high doses of temazepam will cause severe hypoperfusion of the whole brain with diffuse slow activity on EEG. After withdrawal, abnormalities in hypofrontal brain wave patterns may persist beyond the withdrawal syndrome suggesting that organic brain damage may occur from chronic high dose abuse of temazepam. Temazepam withdrawal has been well known to cause a sudden and often violent death.

 

[Ksa]

It's from oxygen deprivation caused by opiate use, so yes the brain damage is caused by the opiate use.

no, so then the damage is caused by oxygen deprivation because correct opiate dosing will not cause such deprivation.

 

[Ksa]

When I first did Mensa IQ test I had a result of 148. After using benzos for few years it dropped to a 142 and after started using oxycodone with benzos 20-60mg for daily it went up to a 146. I wonder what it might be after I stop using benzos and still continue using oxycodone. Seems to me that oxycodone causes new neural pathways to evolve in brain resulting into faster and more complicated thinking but the benzos are limiting my total ability.

you're either very rich or you just took your IQ tests online (waste of time)

 

[Coraline]

You can buy them for $20-40 online and at Walmart.

 

[dopiate]

you're either very rich or you just took your IQ tests online (waste of time)

This is conjecture but I would also bet that there is some random error in test questions or even mental state that could account for differing scores of +/-6.