MarginalProphet
Bluelighter
- Joined
- Sep 5, 2017
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Hi Guys, I'm here because of poppyseed tea (PST).
Thumbnail of my life: I was a fairly heavy alcoholic (averaging ~7 drinks daily for the 6 years that I've kept data) in my 20s and 30s. After an ugly confrontation of my wife in Nov 2016, I stopped drinking altogether. I pretty much used PST to kick my drinking habit.
Before this I wasn't exactly opiate naive, but I have definitely never taken any kind of opiate for this many consecutive days -- not even close.
I damn near overdosed on it on my first try: 8 oz of seeds (popular brand) mixed with near-boiling water. I knew something was wrong pretty quickly. I passed it off to my wife as food poisoning, but I was delirious, vomiting and awake all night (too scared to let myself sleep) and into the next morning, and slept the morning away before I started to feel well enough to eat some food.
After waiting a few days and based on my prior attempt, I defined one dose as 2 oz of seeds. I always supplement with ~10 mg THC or so, to potentiate and also keep myself honest. This gave me the feeling I wanted, and I began making the tea regularly.
I've kept meticulous records of my dosage, which has escalated predictably over the course of 2017 from 1 dose/day to several days of 6 doses/day in the last few weeks, spaced throughout the day, almost never more than 1.5 doses per "session". (I can't share my data here because I'm still a greenlighter, sorry).
Although this level of dosage (<1 lb at my heaviest, but spaced throughout the day) seems objectively fairly small compared to other accounts I've read here and elsewhere, I went on vacation to Hawaii in Feb at much smaller levels than my current daily average and suffered through a couple bad days of withdrawal there. Flu-like symptoms included extreme lethargy, runny nose, diarrhea.
I joined Bluelight, and am posting this now, because I will again be away from home starting next Saturday, for about 3 weeks. I am trying to spend the next 1.5 weeks tapering down to the smallest dose I can tolerate, so that when I jump off the W/D will be as mild as possible.
I am also looking for innocent and readily-available OTC or other remedies to help with what I figure will be some kind of inevitable W/D. After reading several threads here and elsewhere on opiate withdrawal in general, it seems like Immodium will be important to have on hand... What else? Besides making sure to keep myself nourished, getting as much exercise as I can, and continuing or perhaps elevating the THC dose, I am open to ideas, advice, shared experiences with this, etc. Thanks.
Thumbnail of my life: I was a fairly heavy alcoholic (averaging ~7 drinks daily for the 6 years that I've kept data) in my 20s and 30s. After an ugly confrontation of my wife in Nov 2016, I stopped drinking altogether. I pretty much used PST to kick my drinking habit.
Before this I wasn't exactly opiate naive, but I have definitely never taken any kind of opiate for this many consecutive days -- not even close.
I damn near overdosed on it on my first try: 8 oz of seeds (popular brand) mixed with near-boiling water. I knew something was wrong pretty quickly. I passed it off to my wife as food poisoning, but I was delirious, vomiting and awake all night (too scared to let myself sleep) and into the next morning, and slept the morning away before I started to feel well enough to eat some food.
After waiting a few days and based on my prior attempt, I defined one dose as 2 oz of seeds. I always supplement with ~10 mg THC or so, to potentiate and also keep myself honest. This gave me the feeling I wanted, and I began making the tea regularly.
I've kept meticulous records of my dosage, which has escalated predictably over the course of 2017 from 1 dose/day to several days of 6 doses/day in the last few weeks, spaced throughout the day, almost never more than 1.5 doses per "session". (I can't share my data here because I'm still a greenlighter, sorry).
Although this level of dosage (<1 lb at my heaviest, but spaced throughout the day) seems objectively fairly small compared to other accounts I've read here and elsewhere, I went on vacation to Hawaii in Feb at much smaller levels than my current daily average and suffered through a couple bad days of withdrawal there. Flu-like symptoms included extreme lethargy, runny nose, diarrhea.
I joined Bluelight, and am posting this now, because I will again be away from home starting next Saturday, for about 3 weeks. I am trying to spend the next 1.5 weeks tapering down to the smallest dose I can tolerate, so that when I jump off the W/D will be as mild as possible.
I am also looking for innocent and readily-available OTC or other remedies to help with what I figure will be some kind of inevitable W/D. After reading several threads here and elsewhere on opiate withdrawal in general, it seems like Immodium will be important to have on hand... What else? Besides making sure to keep myself nourished, getting as much exercise as I can, and continuing or perhaps elevating the THC dose, I am open to ideas, advice, shared experiences with this, etc. Thanks.
I may go down to the drug store today and stock up on Immodium, Benadryl, Zantac, and whatever else I can find on the shelves that may help... Perhaps 5-HTP, melatonin, chamomile tea. A good night's sleep is the thing I am lacking most right now.