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Chewing up hydrocodone?

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Yes it's safe, but you're probably better off crushing the pill and putting the powder in some water and just swallowing it...it's a lot of powder for parachuting (putting the powder into a tiny piece of tissue paper/etc and then swallowing) so I'd definitely toss it in some water and be prepared for a gross little shot (about the size I would use.) The effects can hit faster because you're increasing the surface area of the pill for absorption by your stomach which doesn't have to break it up itself, but what's in your stomach can still effect it.

So, you may feel the onset of effects faster so it may be seemingly stronger, and it's totally safe. But, chewing it is nasty, if you have a hydrocodone/apap formulation they are pretty hard and large, I'd definitely crush it into powder and put it into water instead.
 
First few weeks of when I first started taking hydrocodone I would crush up the pill & place it under my tongue. The taste is nasty & bitter & if you can take the taste, then its worth the high because it hits you faster & stronger.
 
Is that the thing they refer to as cold water extraction?? And should I maybe take a little less doing it this way?? Cuz I usually take abot 15mg. And I took
15mg at 4:30pm and it's now 8:44
 
Lillady1985 said:
Is that the thing they refer to as cold water extraction?? And should I maybe take a little less doing it this way?? Cuz I usually take abot 15mg. And I took
15mg at 4:30pm and it's now 8:44
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No, CWE is a method of taking out as much of the tylenol as possible before drinking the hydrocodone. If you do a CWE, I recommend doing it with several pills, not just 1 or 2.
 
Lillady1985 said:
Is that the thing they refer to as cold water extraction?? And should I maybe take a little less doing it this way?? Cuz I usually take abot 15mg. And I took
15mg at 4:30pm and it's now 8:44
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No, a cold water extraction is the process where you crush it up and use cold water to filter out the APAP, you would usually do that if the dosage of hydrocodone you wanted to take would also contain a large/dangerous amount of APAP...for such a low dose I don't think you need to. We're just suggesting crushing it up instead of chewing it since, well, chewing it is kinda nasty, much easier to crush it with something and then just deal with ingesting the powder. Also, a cold water extraction (CWE) usually means you lose a little bit of hydrocodone in the process, so for a small dose where mg's matter, it's usually a waste. Unless you want to explore the plugging (up the butt) option, in which CWEing a small amount is beneficial, plus with that ROA you WOULD need a smaller dose.

How often do you take 15mg? Do you still feel any effects from it? I'd say you might want to take a little less if you don't use opiates very often/seem to have a low tolerance just because of the other hydrocodone still in your system, maybe try 10mg...but crushing it up isn't the reason for taking less.
 
I've been taking hydrocodone here and there for six months or so and for a month or so, Once a day sometimes twice. Ive never taken more than 15mg at once. I didn't know how any more than that could affect my breathing more because I notice it slows down a good bit when I take 15mg... I'm always afraid of endangering myself when I know this isn't a dangerous amount. I never feel "euphoria" like I hear everyone else feels... I feel kinda good but no extreme pleasure but I'm kind of afraid to take more than 15mgs.
 
Honestly I want some really good effects. They've never been anything terrific even when I first started!
 
^ I was nervous like that at first too, and still tend to be very conservative when using opiates --- you can always take more, but not less. Hydrocodone doesn't provide euphoria for everyone --- hell it's got nothing on oxymorphone for example, in my opinion. Do you take 15mg usually, or a smaller dose on most days? Since you took it 4+ hours ago now, I'd think you could safely take another 10mg...also, if you don't feel euphoria, have you been using it for pain daily in the last month? Or just for at-least-low-level enjoyment?



EDIT (after reading the most recent post): By really good effects, do you mean goin' for the nod? And, as I said, some opiates just aren't for everyone...
 
Anecdotal evidence seems to suggest that crushing/chewing up hydros causes a faster onset and stronger high. Hell, I used to do it myself, but I honestly never noticed any significant difference.
 
I always take atleast 10mg. I feel some itchyness sometimes which I like, gives me some energy and a little bit of happy feelings. I remember one specific tome feeling really good in the beginning. Maybe I'm chasing that? Sometimes I'll take a lil less than 15mg of Oxycodone immediate release. Took 15mg of Oxycodone the other night felt good for hours then all the sudden felt rushy and anxious and like I couldn't relax. Never had oxymorphone. I don't really want a nod falling asleep out of it feeling. I just want to feel really good. I sometimes wonder if opiates don't effect me like everyone else??
 
There's a difference between 15mg oxycodone and 15mg hydrocodone...I've read various places that oxycodone is about 1.5 or 2 times as "potent" as hydrocodone, so if you had several hours of feeling good from 15mg oxycodone but a weird anxiety-ridden comedown, hydrocodone seems a bit "calmer" in that respect and I think you could safely dose 20-25mg hydrocodone at once...perhaps you just aren't taking enough hydrocodone to feel as "opiated?" But with 15mg already in your system, I'd still play on the careful side since you are regularly taking smaller doses, I'd still say another 10mg for tonight is safe.

Oh, also, have you considered potentiators at all? Diphenhydramine is a good one and helps with the itchiness, and I hear good things about white grapefruit juice but have never tried that one myself for medication interactions reasons (don't really need to accidentally potentiate my birth control :\ )
 
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I like it at work. It helps me talk to strangers I don't want to talk to. It's 10pm now and I'm thinking about putting this a lil less than 15mg dose in some water shortly. Yeah? I didn't know Oxycodone was that much stronger. So all that anxiety was probably a come down? Sorry I guess I have a lot of dumb questions.
 
No such thing as "dumb questions," asking questions about being safe are what BL is here for <3 Yeah oxycodone is a little stronger, definitely not a 1 to 1 ratio, but at smaller doses I think each mg can potentially make a difference. And, the anxiety may have been part of the "opiate" comedown...I tend to get a bit agitated and from reading around here, oxycodone causes more stimulation for some people than hydrocodone is capable of.

And, the potentiators are something to look into, sometimes it's nice to get the same feelings off a smaller amount of opiates --- I find this method helps me with the nausea I tend to get.


And, I'm all for the water because powder is difficult to handle otherwise and it gets the taste down quicker, but I just really hate the taste of many pharmaceuticals (I think xanax sublingually wins the gross factor) and, TLB recommended sublingual dosing but, it's quite a bit of powder and I find it really sloppy and gross to keep it under my tongue for a slightly faster onset, honestly. Also, it tastes shitty.
 
Oh man. There was ice in the water. I didn't think bout that til I started drinking it. Was that dumb?
 
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