Opioids Can reduced shitting from chronic opiates be really bad?

[mike.vick]

Like if I shit 30% less now than I am on opiates,
and I also feel sick all the time like: sweating, increadible g.i. disturbances that are ungodly, horrible dryness in esophagus, mouth, and lungs, Horrible head feelings like I am loosing my mind from the nastiness that my body is feeling.
Could this be from shitting ~30% less for about a year?

Does anyone else feel this horribleness?

I have been on prescription nexium for months, and I have cannabis-induced hyper-emesis syndrome, I am pretty certain.

Also recently I have had: lack of appetite, horrid diet, apathy to any outdoors, and complete technological-sensory-exhaustion anytime I look at a computer screen for 20+ minutes.

Edit for HR:

NOTE: AVOID STIMULANT LAXATIVES IN CHRONIC laxative use BECAUSE STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THAT ONE YEAR OF STIMULANT LAXATIVES COMPLETELY ELIMINATES THE HOSTRAL FOLDS OF YOU LARGE INTESTINE THAN SQUEEZE YOUR SHIT OUT.

 

[HeadHigh]

This sounds more like withdrawals AND something else on top of it. Not sure what though. But depending on how long you're constipated, and how often, it may cause some problems with your bowels, but probably not with much of the other stuff.

 

[HeadHigh]

From my quick research on the cannabis-induced hyper-emesis syndrome, it seems as though it calms itself in just about a week because it has 3 phases and each phase lasts 48 hours. Treated with fluids and anti-emetics

 

[mike.vick]

^^^ only if you quit smoking does it stop.
And yeah, I just got some HORRIBLE quality "heroin" that I suspect is not heroin at all, some shitty rc that makes me bassically withdrawal without any euphoria - or either me conked out to the point it feels like OD - but never euphoria.

But this stomach issue has been going on for the longest time with the cannabis-hyper-emsisis - I really have to quit, constantly nauesus including right now and always.

 

[N0 W4RN1NG]

The short answer: Probably.

The long answer: It depends on your body's individual chemistry, diet, and medications/supplements.

Infrequent defecation leads to reabsorption and consequent recirculation of many 'toxic' natural metabolitic resultants, via bile diffusion.

You also run the risk of increasing the viscosity of the mucous in the colon, potentially resulting in diminished absorption of some vitamins, nutrients, and drugs...but this paragraph hinges more on shaky science than the rest of this post.

It also increases your chances of successfully harboring an intestinal parasite by a rather wide margin, again dependant on geographical location and diet.

I suggest all opioid users take a good fiber supplement. Benefiber is good but pricey. Miralax is controversial, but comes highly recommended from the medical community.

My personal preference for both efficacy and price point is PSYLLIUM FIBER capsules. Seriously, they really are quite a useful agent.

EDIT: You may receive better replies in Basic Drug Discussion

 

[DixiChik]

Hey mike...Yes, definitely. It sounds like you could be dehydrated. Please drink plenty of water, whether you enjoy it or not. I'm forcing myself to drink 4 pints per day.

I was hospitalized in 10/15 for partial bowel obstruction. I have chronic GI issues due to disease and adhesions caused by surgery. I've never had normal, healthy bms...ever. I never realized how much my blocked bowels were damaging my body.

I have horrid pain for decades now, for which I could not take pain meds for any prolonged period of time. They constipate me further, of course. Last year I tried Kratom and believed it to be helpful for if nothing else, the suicidal depression that rides "shotgun" with my pain. I actually think it contributed to my hospitalization for obstruction.

I can't stress enough your need to keep hydrated. Dick doctors put me on Miralax which is an osmotic (draws water into bowel). I wasn't drinking enough water to compensate. I could hear sucking noises of fluids being robbed from my muscles! I had to have 6 days of IV fluids/meds.

I am about to try medical MJ sublingual, hoping for a miracle for GI issues.

Feel better after you've flushed those toxins...pun intended!

 

[tightlywound]

I agree you sound dehydrated. dehydration will also make it harder to shit.

 

[N0 W4RN1NG]

...Miralax is controversial, but comes highly recommended from the medical community...

...Dick doctors put me on Miralax which is an osmotic (draws water into bowel)...I had to have 6 days of IV fluids/meds...

THIS is exactly what I mean. Sorry for your bad experience, DixiChiks. However, you have illustrated exactly why I said to be careful with Miralax. Some Doctors just aren't taught about this! Your Pharmacist may give you a better second opinion than your Doctor can, when it comes to OTCs.

Feel better.

 

[pbuilder]

Have you been taking high dose loperamide?

What opiates have you been using?

And ya, chronic constipation is horrible for the body and mind. Just imagine all that filth stuck up in you. I've read before the gut is the second "brain". Causes anxiety, acne, and all other sorts of other psychosomatic symptoms that can make life really uncomfortable and dysphoric feeling.

Pick up some magnesium citrate and stool softeners and make sure you start drinking a lot more water and other hydrating fluids.

 

[tacodude]

I almost tore my asshole this morning letting out the turtle heads.... If I had really tried to poop I'd be crying, bedridden, and bleeding. You tell me how bad reduced bowel function is with opiate use...

 

[mike.vick]

I almost tore my asshole this morning letting out the turtle heads.... If I had really tried to poop I'd be crying, bedridden, and bleeding. You tell me how bad reduced bowel function is with opiate use...

God dude, use 3-6 stool ducolaxs per day plus 30mg of sennosides till that goes away... the $11 thing of miralax works in a day minimum but only has a few servings

 

[Raysu]

So when was the last time you used opiates or has this been going on for a whole year already? Withdrawal wouldn't be that long that severe. I think most people fall short of adequate water intake. It takes effort and time to adjust. Expect to piss every twenty minutes when you start pushing fluids. But seriously if it's a year and you have nausea and emesis on top of that you may wanna see a GI specialist and see what's going on.

 

[Raysu]

I almost tore my asshole this morning letting out the turtle heads.... If I had really tried to poop I'd be crying, bedridden, and bleeding. You tell me how bad reduced bowel function is with opiate use...

Lactulose. It helped me when I was on fentanyl and every bathroom trip was like getting ripped a new one.

 

[mike.vick]

So when was the last time you used opiates or has this been going on for a whole year already? Withdrawal wouldn't be that long that severe. I think most people fall short of adequate water intake. It takes effort and time to adjust. Expect to piss every twenty minutes when you start pushing fluids. But seriously if it's a year and you have nausea and emesis on top of that you may wanna see a GI specialist and see what's going on.

I got really shiity "heroin" that I dont think is acutual heroin cause it sucks - but before that, I was weanin down a little.

 

[adder]

This miracle drug lactulose only makes it worse in my experience when you take opioids, your shit gets more voluminous, sticky, and it's harder to move it. Buprenorphine makes me terribly constipated and if I skip one day of shitting, it only gets worse and worse from that point, unfortunately, to shit every day properly it takes a soldierly discipline of dosing the last dose (if you split) both early enough and late enough so that it's loose enough in the morning but at the same time you can fall asleep at night. If you can master that, all it takes in the morning is 1-2 glycerin suppositories for the stones to slide out, however, if you make a mistake by a low margin, you might as well have problems with getting the suppository out...

 

[Raysu]

Well if it wasn't long ago and you've been weaning down and the shit ain't legit then it may be withdrawal. The symptoms fit. Tapering or switching substances can do that if it isn't just right. And if you go a while between using you may be prolonging it by back to back cycles of wd.

 

[mike.vick]

Well if it wasn't long ago and you've been weaning down and the shit ain't legit then it may be withdrawal. The symptoms fit. Tapering or switching substances can do that if it isn't just right. And if you go a while between using you may be prolonging it by back to back cycles of wd.

Damn, what a nightmare. I got a subutex I might do in the morning- it makes me feel more normal than this dope I got I am pretty sure.

 

[Jetthecaf]

After using dope for a couple years I did a few sessions of colonic irrigation, they gravity feed several gallons of water up there and it cleans you out, feels a lot better and I started going normally after that. Costs around 80$ and it saved me when laxatives and enemas were not doing shit

 

[Dharmy]

You gotta take breaks from the smack for poops man.

I learned after my first binge I didn't poop for a good 6 days, basically had some packed hard bloody shits for a few days.

Now when I on a dope binge I eat a very light, high fiber diet. And if I don't poop one day I wont dose again until I do.

Coffee, cigarettes, and a good line of cocaine always get me poopin

 

[AnonFury]

Like if I shit 30% less now than I am on opiates,
and I also feel sick all the time like: sweating, increadible g.i. disturbances that are ungodly, horrible dryness in esophagus, mouth, and lungs, Horrible head feelings like I am loosing my mind from the nastiness that my body is feeling.
Could this be from shitting ~30% less for about a year?

Does anyone else feel this horribleness?

I have been on prescription nexium for months, and I have cannabis-induced hyper-emesis syndrome, I am pretty certain.

Also recently I have had: lack of appetite, horrid diet, apathy to any outdoors, and complete technological-sensory-exhaustion anytime I look at a computer screen for 20+ minutes.

I actually saw an ad on TV for opiate caused constipation. It seems to be a common issue with chronic opiate use. I'd imagine improving your diet may help though. If it continues to be a serious issue for you, talk to your doctor about it.