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How Many Times Have You Relapsed (opiates)

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shawnmacfierce

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Im in day two of full blown withdrawal from a opiate addiction I've been battling for 6 years 5 years sniffing pills and a year on the spike. I've quit and full blown relapsed probably 5 times now and hope this is my last time but hell I love that rush.....
 
My opiate use spans about 15 years. I managed to have intervals of sobriety, longest being 3.5 years. I too have lost count of my relapses ( the major ones stick out) and am quite ashamed at the perpetual viscious cycle I allowed to endure. The 30-40 day mark appears pivotal in my case, as if I typically make it that far, I am usually on the road to a period of sustained sobriety. Most of my relapses occur in the 1-3 week time period. When I have managed to escape the darkness, complacency has been one of my biggest problems. I often ponder my self-destructive behavior. Some relapses occurred when things were going extremely well in my life (great career, great $, promotions, wonderful gf etc) which makes me wonder if there is something in my subconscious thoughts that cause me to choose self destruction.
 
I relapse every day. In fact, I'm about to relapse right now!!

No seriously the longest I've gone in two years has been 2 weeks. And I was sick as hell that entire time, perhaps I should have rode it out. But it got to a point where I couldn't take it anymore. I was at a point of ( no joke ) not a single minute sleep in 5 days, not being able to eat or even drink water. I was starting to hallucinate, Probably drinking the minimum amount to stay alive. I was at a point I was fearing having a stroke or seizure or even heart attack, unlikely at 29.... It was getting to dangerous.
 
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Relapsed a lot. Had 5 years clean, all gone. Watch out for PAWS and try to remember the bad times. Being sick, no money etc. You'll make it.
 
I feel you Bling, kickin is so traumatic on the mind and body. I know the feeling of not being able to eat or drink. You would think that a few bong rips would take care of the appetite thing but for me it doesn't. I kicked quite a few times over the past year and lost insane weight. I usually get me appetite back in the 3rd week. This time around the kratom did stimulate my appetite. I believe I only spent 3 days no food, which is fucking amazing. The insomnia is a whole different monster. I can eat ambien like they were tic tacs and nothing. A good benzo will work for a night or so and then I'm screwed again. Seroquel is the only med that put me in a coma, post opiates. You wake up with a feeling shitty but that's a price in willing to pay for sleep.
 
day 4 no sleep yet i get home tomorrow night at midnight told my dealer who I'm in debt to already 100$ that I'll be by tomorrow night at 2 am and im putting 200 mg of morphine in a fit and getting the best pins n needle rush I've felt in months and going straight to sleep im so excited for a good rush but disappointed I failed again will this be my last hit?
 
day 4 no sleep yet i get home tomorrow night at midnight told my dealer who I'm in debt to already 100$ that I'll be by tomorrow night at 2 am and im putting 200 mg of morphine in a fit and getting the best pins n needle rush I've brmonths onths and going straight to sleep im so excited for a good rush but disappointed I failed again will this be my last hit?

You really going to shoot 200mg's at once man? I remember being iv'ed 20mg's of morphine in the hospital and I was feeling nice.... Im sure i could have handled 100, but 200 sounds pretty insane man. And at that point I had a pretty high tolerance. By high tolerance I mean I could do 25 40mg oxy's in a day.... This is not bragging, it is very sick, lol...
 
I've used opiates for 6 years, Id call myself an addict though I do it in a way where I don't get physical withdrawal's but still do it way more than I should. I'll do em (oxys percs hydro H etc) for 3-4 weeks but take a day off every week & have done that for years. I've relapsed about 2-3 times though I've only quit for a couple weeks in that time lol

Opiates are my worst enemy personally with drug use.
 
200mg is my happy place a massive rush feel like you need to scratch your insides out but I love it. lots don't like morphine cause the pin and needle and itch but i do. I also pay the same for a dilly 8 as a ms or eshlon 100 and i like to do 24mg hydro shots so that gets expensive I hate banging oxys I'm from Canada and the neos are a hastle to prep and the irs are full of filler I wish I could get h but i none where i live
 
200mg is my happy place a massive rush feel like you need to scratch your insides out but I love it. lots don't like morphine cause the pin and needle and itch but i do. I also pay the same for a dilly 8 as a ms or eshlon 100 and i like to do 24mg hydro shots so that gets expensive I hate banging oxys I'm from Canada and the neos are a hastle to prep and the irs are full of filler I wish I could get h but i none where i live

bra stay away from the horse.. dude i felt the same way.. then the oc's dried up and that shit came in.. maybe its in my head but the W/D is shorter but the psych is way worse.. stick to the pills if ya gonna shoot shit. IMO
 
4-5 times. If you want to quit then you have to remind yourself 2 things that I tell myself everyday to keep clean:
1. "Opiates will never really please like they once did, so if I used I would just be chasing a high that I wouldn't be able to experience"
2. "I can't continue using opiates forever and my best chance to quit is NOW"
 
in my 15 years of drug abuse, i have relapsed as many times as i have used. i only had a year clean when i was 17 thats cuz i was in rehab. i was in state prison for 3yrs and 3months straight, and i was in solitary half the sentence from dirty urines, smoking pot and doing dope, i even was getting dope in solitary confinement, i was addicted to my RX "Fioricet" they had me on there, and always buying people pain pills (methadones, percocets)...but thats my only real clean time was prison, when i had a few good stretches, and rehabs...i hate being an addict
 
I feel you that's why I love BL^ no one I know has been a real genuine addict like I have thepast 6-7 years. Only people that understand how it is.
 
probably relapsed about 15 times.

probably should've died about 15 times too.

i was doing about 1.2 grams of oxy a day about two weeks ago, ran through 100 tabs of 80's in the space of 5-6 days... shit it was more than 1.2 grams a day then..... my last night when i still had some oxy i essentially had died, i took about 15-16 of the tabs throughout the day because i was just feeling so down, luckily i had a sitter to wake me the fuck up. thats my 7th overdose if i'm counting too.

since then i've been chugging bottles of codeine cough syrup likes theres no tomorrow, topped with some kratom that i somehow acquired (i can't actually remember buying it, but i just had it lying around), and snorting like 1.2mg of subutex at a time, it's holding me ok, but it's being topped off with like 2 grams of gabapentin, some benzos here and there, fuck my life is such a mess. when you write it out and see what the fuck you're doing you just think, "wow- look what the fuck i've become".

i remember when i first took opiates, it was 25.6mg of the stuff, i was as high as a fucking kite. i've been searching for that buzz ever since. when i first took oxy too - the rush was just.... i can't begin to describe how i felt, it was so intense, so powerful, so joyful. the world had colour - but it was blooming, the world was finally looking good to me. i kinda blacked out, coming in and out of consciousness - but in an amazing way, not like alcohol. i've always been a really aggressive drunk, and its the reason i turned to drugs too - easier to conceal your highness, and I'm always peaceful. i've noted that i for some reason develop really intense and rapid tolerances to drugs, for instance alcohol - i can drink about 10 pints and feel OK, i won't be blacked out, but ill know i'm drunk. my tolerance to opiates shot up like there was no tomorrow either, going from recently 80mg of oxy, to 1.5 grams in the space of two months.

this is by no means bragging either, i'm ashamed of myself. and to be honest if anyone read this as if i was bragging about my addiction, well... cool.

i'm getting some more tomorrow. i don't know why, i just feel there is no life without opiates for me. since my childhood i never enjoyed anything, then when codeine came into my life at the ripe age of 15 - suddenly the world became a brighter place to live in. i genuinely think that there is a condition to do with opiates, they produce something (and i don't believe the whole endorphin bullshit either) that some can't. i can't enjoy anything whatsoever when i'm clean, i've been clean before when i was around 16 for 6-7 months simply because i was forced to go without opiates and it was just a total misery. i was also (semi) clean for about 6 months when i met my ex girlfriend, but you know there was still just that something missing.... i was madly in love with her, i still am, my drug use pretty much destroyed our relationship tbh, but fuck the opiates are so much better in the end of the day. i'd rather spend $1000 on some oxy than a fucking ring or bracelet or some shit like that for a girl.

i always relapsed on hard opiates whenever something bad happened in my life, id use heavily when things were going OK too - but nowhere near as hard, during my exams last year (for college) i was so stacked up on drugs i can hardly remember sitting them. i still managed to get some good grades though and into university - but fuck, my university was such a mistake to go to. everyone there is older than me (granted i wanted that, i'm so fucking tired and sick of kids my age, hah i'm one to speak aren't i?) but i thought there would at least be a couple of people around my age that were decent. nope.

i listen to nirvana, massive attack, all that depressing music and stuff and just think i'm a god when i float off. see i don't have many friends either - nobody wants to hang around with me because i'm such a risk its a joke, i'll probably drop dead someday, and nobody wants to fucking deal with that. i have two friends in my life - and i'm 21 years old. its fucked up. i don't know if opiates ruined my life or are just preventing the inevitability of my death. i never had any real friends throughout my time at school, i was a "rebel", people didn't want to come near me because they knew they'd get caught doing some shit with me, and get in trouble. i was at boarding school you see, i couldn't stand it, and then my father died when i was 15. you know the happiest memories i have are with my father, all the times i was smiling, enjoying myself, it was with him. i've been searching for a replacement ever since. and i've found it with opiates.

i've blown through about $500,000 if not more on this shit. thats in the space of 6 years.

if i had a gun it would have been pressed against the side of my head and taken it clean off a while ago. un/fortunately they are impossible to acquire. i wonder if my drug abuse is suicidal - my therapist says that its the case considering the dosages and the states that i get into, i was thinking well i'm going to die if i take these tabs, but i countered it with "well i'll be high as fuck, its worth the gamble". i'm rolling the dice every time i put some oxy down me, i'm not just playing with fire, i'm engulfing myself in it. i can write this all down and see what i'm doing yet mentally this will never stick, and i think that in some senses thats one of the worst parts of being an addict - your fucking stubbornness to use drugs. you just can't resist the temptation, and boy the temptation is all around me. i'm a walking, talking miracle in some sense.

i always think about my mother, how i should look after her, when in reality its her cradling me in her arms instead. i think of what a disappointment i am, what a failure and false hope that something good would come out of me- everyone had such high expectations for me and now look at me. i'm sitting at home all the time, fucked out of my head, with the memory of a goldfish. i can't remember past about 3 days now, i have little glimmers, but if you asked what i was doing at say 1pm last monday i couldn't tell you, simply because i can't remember.

since i broke up with my ex girlfriend who i thought was the love of my life and i would marry and live happily ever fucking after with, my drug use has gone through the roof. it's never been this bad. the past two months are just a huge blur - when she was moving her stuff out of my house i remember i was just sitting on my sofa, silent, i couldn't physically move because the emotional pain was so fucking hard. i crawl into my bed at nights nowadays, and turn over to try and hug her, she isn't there. i have to sleep with a fucking teddy bear otherwise i'll just lay awake thinking about her, unless i'm ridiculously doped, then i'll just pass out- my favourite, and my method for sleep for the past 6 years. i've had insomnia since i was a little kid - my mum always complained about it, and still does. you know i went for 4 days without sleep when i was 15 because i just couldn't-and id even tried to dose myself with stuff for the first two nights, but i just gave up after that, i realised shit i'm not going to sleep. i didn't even have a hefty drug habit then - but my mind just wouldn't shut the fuck up.

i've also realised that when i start going to the gym properly i get addicted to it hardcore. i'm a pretty big guy, but my muscles are wasting away now. i've not been in three months, and I'm just scared to go back because i think i won't be able to do anything, and that i'll have to leave after 10 minutes of being in there rather than the 5 hour sessions i used to push out myself everyday, obviously not 5 hours intensively training, but i'd do circuits, weights and i was heading to be a professional boxer. i have a 14-0-0 record in amateurs, i KO'ed a guy in 11 seconds- tyson did it in 9, the bastard, i couldve had the record. since opiates reduce testosterone so much i also wonder how much bigger/faster/stronger i would've been if i didn't use. but thats all the things i shouldn't be saying - could've, would've, should've, didn't. instead i should be thinking towards a better future. but it seems impossible.

sorry for the long post/ranting, too busy server.
 
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Relapse is a part of recovery and the cycle of addiction. Before we get "fully clean", we're going to relapse. Some people relapse 7 times, some people relapse 37 times- but that doesn't really matter. What matters is being free of addiction. Even if you have 3 consecutive years free of addiction then go on a 1 week bender and go back to not using-- you can still count that clean time. Relapsing after being clean/sober is something that those who are "addicts" will always struggle with overcoming.

Try not to focus on the negative, but rather the positive. How long you've been free of active addiction, how you can improve to avoid relapse in the future, etc.

If you want assistance in getting clean, I encourage you to start your own thread with more information about yourself and your struggle with addiction, or post in the January sobriety thread. I am going to close this thread just because I do not really see it creating any positive discussion.
 
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