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Experience in opioid/opiate tolerance

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Ive been looking up threads on opioid tolerance and found people say 1-3 weeks and ur almost good again, I started using a tenth of a bg of dope to get high and worked up to 10 bags to get the same high(insufflated, only 4 I'v) and noticed I can go a month and still need more than two bags to even feel it, anyone got experiences like that? Is it sometimes significantly different for some people?
 
It is indeed different from person to person...

Plus heroin is always of random purity so its difficult to gauge using that as an example...
 
Please be care ful it does change from person to person but for me takes months to drop tolerance just a little when was using. Just becarful when trying to reach that high because bags have different purity like NT said.

you don't want an over dose. Be careful and I'll try to find you some links to read to help you with your question :)
 
It can take a while. Depends very much on you. It will drop to some extent over a period of weeks, but it won't come back to zero. It's debatable if it ever comes back to base levels before you started using even after years of no use, though it gets damn close, but it might take you some months to get somewhere even approaching base level tolerance. The effects of opiates on the brain are perhaps semi-permanent then IMO. Your brain will always remember what opiates are and what to do with them, evidenced by the fact that tolerance reestablishes itself very rapidly once you've had a habit, as does addiction. As others said be cautious, because you're not gonna know where your tolerance is after a period of abstinence until you hit it with opiates. Assume it will be low and titrate dose accordingly.
 
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If you're having trouble with tolerance, you can try using stuff like DXM and magnesium supplements, which can lower it. Could also try potentiation, 1st gen antihistamines, benzos, and OTC opis (just be VERY CAREFUL combining downers)

The best way to deal with it in the long-term is of course just to stop using for a period of time.
 
I think if you start cutting down your doses slowly over a few weeks then take a drug holiday you could significantly lower your tolerance. And then when you start up again start slow and try to take least amount to get you high and take it slow. :)
 
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