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heavy exercise while on an opiate binge.

Lsdemon

Lsdemon

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For me a binge is anywhere between one and three weeks. I workout a lot and I don't want to give up staying fit or opiates.
My question is this, is it dangerous to do heavy workouts like weight lifting running and high intensity stuff while binging on various opiates. I will normally take what ever I get my hands on. Oxys, methadone, morphine, hydrocodone, those are the most common.
Also I don't have any known health issues.
 
Not sure if it's dangerous at all, but from experience it will give you the worst nausea you've ever had in your life.
 
For me i have never experienced nausea induced by excercise while on opiates.
Unless I was already feeling sick from the opiates before hand.
I'll still keep it in mind though. Thank you.
 
They can cause respiratory depression, and decrease heart rate (which will lower your blood pressure), so I guess it's a possibility that you'll get light headed or lose consciousness. That would seriously suck if you're on the treadmill or mid squat if you're doing free weights.

I'd use caution.
 
dizziness was an issue for me back when I did this. also opis affect a lot of areas that are related with gaining and maintaining muscle mass. not really bad per se but it definitely slows down progress. not to mention what you eat on opis isn't always the best for health either.
 
if you happen to injure yourself - a pulled/strained muscle, wrong posture resulting in awkward lifts, etc - the pain killing effects are going to mask to majority of the pain and you're likely to ignore it and continue on, potentially doing further damage. you're also susceptible to accidents such as when lifting free weights. you may lose some strength and end up on the ground with a bench press bar landing on your chest with >9000lbs of lead; cracking ribs, breaking backs and a sore ego.

to avoid such problems don't workout under the influence or drop your dose so you can feel the pain making you more aware of potential injuries.

i avoid working out on opioids whenever possible mainly for the above reasons.
 
i would do it all the time and liked it.. but like serotonin said it definitely slows down progress ..and if you do hurt yourself the dope might mask the pain and might put u in a situation where u cause more damage
 
Stick to running, push-ups, crunches, pullups, interval training, whatever.


Avoid weights or any machines where one could seriously injure oneself, such as a treadmill.
 
Thank you all for the useful advice. I guess I'll lighten up a bit on the workouts while on opiates.
 
I enjoy working out on opiates, but it's normally just squats, light weights, push ups, sit ups, planks and such.

It's really the only time I have motivation and can work out lol.
 
I am a competitive triathlete and I also go on binges from time to time. If anything its hard to stay motivated mentally to work out without opiates, but other than that i havent noticed it affecting performance.
I typically dont ever go over 1 oxy 30mg so when I wake up in the morning I am able to work out without being on anything. I think its important to not let yourself get to a point where you wake up dope sick. If that starts to happen it could begin to affect your performance.
As far as exercise while your on opiates, it probably isnt the safest things.
 
this:
Lsdemon said:
I will normally take what ever I get my hands on. Oxys, methadone, morphine, hydrocodone, those are the most common.
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contradicts this:
Lsdemon said:
Also I don't have any known health issues.
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if you're popping whatever you can find, yeah anything can be dangerous, whether driving or running. nodding out under a barbell isn't a safe prospect lol.

since i know you won't like the truth^, i'll tell you what i think you were looking for:
- training hard on opiates lets you go further in respects of going harder; this will fuck you in the medium/long run, as you'll burn yourself out
- opiates slow digestion, so you're not going to be able to fuel and repair the way your body needs
- opiates hurt testosterone, so don't expect yourself to gain at the normal rate EVEN IF you're able to consciously account for the previous two items.
- opiate usage in any manner similar to what you describe, is all but guaranteed to make you 'junkie' before you get better (cannot say i know anyone who has a 'see-pill' diet who gets better w/o hitting rock.bottom first - if they ever get better). so, yeah, i think most advice you're looking for here...you're missing the point. training is f'ing irrelevant to you, get the dope under control then worry about the little(comparatively) things.
 
I am also interested in this. Not because I take opiates but because I thought opiates lowered testosterone extremely and someone in SD said that if you are going to use any drug during body building, it should be opiates. Any thoughts?
 
LOGan1314 said:
I am also interested in this. Not because I take opiates but because I thought opiates lowered testosterone extremely and someone in SD said that if you are going to use any drug during body building, it should be opiates. Any thoughts?
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if anything I'd use ghb/gbl to stimulate growth hormone release. if you're on cycle WITH TEST BASE then you can get away with using opiates. of course this is not confining mixing junkie lifestyle with bodybuilding/powerlifting/Olympic lifting. this is more or less saying those on maintenance programs can lift with exogeneous test in their system.
 
i'd take g because g is chill as hell, would never consume it 'nutritionally' lol.

and yes if on cycle you'd be compensating for opiates' biggest [direct]concern, but ppl using opiates in a recreational capacity usually aren't in a position where they're making proper use of their cycle (it's possible tho, just can't say i've ever seen it)
 
bmxxx said:
i'd take g because g is chill as hell, would never consume it 'nutritionally' lol.

and yes if on cycle you'd be compensating for opiates' biggest [direct]concern, but ppl using opiates in a recreational capacity usually aren't in a position where they're making proper use of their cycle (it's possible tho, just can't say i've ever seen it)
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I think guido is the sole example of maintenance and juice. they are few and far in between.
 
whoa...i'm a retard. i was speaking in the context of the OP, ie not in regards to someone on a stable maintenance program, but rather cases wherein ppl want to still use recreational products and figure 'opiates are better than alcohol' (which, physiologically, they absolutely are- but being a dope-head while on cycle will ruin the cycle most anytime w/o a doubt. ppl on maintenance don't fit that and i didn't intend my reply to cover them, that was my bad! living where i live, and having been soooo f'ing involved in all that shit, i have a tendency to view ppl on stable maintenance(read: bupe or suboxone; mmt never seems like full maintenance to me, have never known a stable mmt patient) as if they were 100% off chemicals, like akin to straight-edgers who take an allergy pill or something lol)
edit: in the context of maintenance, then yes i do know ppl who have (and are currently) killing it on their cycles while taking suboxone strips; i'm not sure whether bupe/naloxone have the same effects on (endo)test as the more 'classical' semi-synthetic opes, but whether they do or don't they clearly are wayyy more than negated by a cycle)
 
Heavy exercise and recreational opiate use is stupid. It just doesn't work. There is too much stress on the body.

Heavy exercise and opiod maintenance or pain management is fine once you are stabilized.
 
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