Intense pain after accidentally mixing opiates with alcohol

[Intenselife]

Hey, ok so this is the second time that i had taken opiates and drank hours later after i had taken the opiates, and it both times resulted pretty bad. The first time was 2 months ago when i was visiting my home city, and also went to malibu for vacation with my two cousins. One of them gave me some oxycodone's that i paid her for. Anyhow (no tolerance to opiates, never have so far) i took 15 mg of the oxycodone. It wasn't a decent high, but many hours after it had woren off (atleast the inital high), we went to go buy some weed from my cousins friend who worked at a bar.

I decided to have just a double shot of vodka while he was getting the weed from his backpack, (to me a double shot is barely a buzz). Anywho we smoked some of it in the car in the parking lot, and i noticed this nausea starting. It actually started after i had taken the double shot but was increasing. I think the weed in this case made the nausea worse (sometimes it can help). 10mins later when we arrived back at my cousins parents house, i went straight to my cousins room telling them how i felt and how i burning up and feeling so hot, one of them looked concerned the other one was laughing. I kept telling them to open the window, and i just felt like i was running out of breath and very close to throwing up with a sharp sharp headache and very hot (somewhat like a hangover).

After laying down in pain next to the open window i fell asleep, i woke up 6 hours later freezing with most of the symptoms from earlier gone, except when i went to smoke it brought back the nausea and headache. So today i took 120mg codeine t3 (total of 1,200 apap not tooo high) and smoked and then eventually took 2 of my prescribed 20mg dose that i'm suppose to take daily, but only do a few times a week. Although i was awaiting for the comedown eventually, it never came or not then atleast so when we went to a restaurant i wasn't hungry at all, but managed to get a few bites of food down, and secretly tell the server to get me a pina colada margarita (since my family is very religious and doesn't even tolerate alcohol even though im 21 long story).
Normally if i ever drink after coming off of adderall, i feel great it takes away the anxiety, and makes me stimulated and speedy again but yet tired and calm too. However instead of that i felt this intense nausea (their was only shot of tequila in the whole drink! and i usually have 6 drinks) i ignored the feeling since it had been 12 hours since i took the t3's, but the feeling steadily increased and i felt slightly dizzy and faintish like the first time. When i got home i immediately threw up what appeared to be the alcoholic beverage. I felt much better and after slowly smoking more and more the symptoms have subsided.

I don't understand how people intentionally mix the two although many prefer opiates alone, i have seen many who like to mix them and they never seemed to complain of nausea or would throw up, like i did these past 2 times despite of waiting such a long time afterwards to drink, and it was only 1-2 drinks! and a pretty low dose of opiates! (Both alcohol and opiates in high enough doses alone and seperate still and has cause me to vomit before, so double the trouble) But really one drink sent me into so much pain and nausea, only 2 drinks (first time) made me feel like i was gonna die, i couldn't imagine mixing them regularly or even recreationally, is this a common side effect?

 

[Cuhpcakes]

Alcohol potentiates opiates very well, it can be overwhelming. Even one drink changes the feeling completely.

They're both very hard on the liver.

Acetaminophan is very common in pain killers, perhaps the ones you took contained much of it.

Alcohol and tylanol is a very, very, very bad idea, they put your liver in overdrive.

Next time do some research before heading head first into your own experiment. I personally don't think I can handle alcohol with opiates.

 

[Intenselife]

The amount of apap in both seperate experiences were pretty low, and i waited several hours both times till after i took the opiate(s) in those pretty low doses, and 1-2 drinks. Idk maybe i'm more prone to the nausea, i've seen friends do the same at higher doses without feeling nausea or the need to throw up.

 

[neversickanymore]

I personally don't think I can handle alcohol with opiates.

+1 or have much of a reason or desire to do this.. combo is really not prevalent with users and addicts.. most likely cause its not that good.

 

[Cuhpcakes]

The amount of apap in both seperate experiences were pretty low, and i waited several hours both times till after i took the opiate(s) in those pretty low doses, and 1-2 drinks. Idk maybe i'm more prone to the nausea, i've seen friends do the same at higher doses without feeling nausea or the need to throw up.

I throw up every time I take opiates. Even pharmaceutical doses produce extreme nausea. These negative effects are why I don't take them often. Even if I got them prescribed for an injury I wouldn't follow dosing advice.

I tried anti-histamines and weed with no success at combating the nausea.

What I do find to work is laying down with illumination at an absolute minimal. It really does help.

 

[Tommyboy]

I don't see how what you did can be seen as 'accidentally' mixing the two, but that is neither here nor there.

I only met 1 person that would mix the two, and he would just black out most times from drinking so much. People that mix the two don't seem to be going for just the pleasant opiate high being potentiated a bit, but rather they are just looking to get as fucked up as possible and black out since they obviously have some issues with not wanting to deal with reality at all. So I don't think that people actually enjoy mixing the two in mod-high doses, but rather do it to completely escape reality.

My philosophy was always 'why ruin a perfectly good opiate high by dirtying it up with alcohol?'

 

[Intenselife]

To the post above, i explained how i "accidentally" mixed them. I simply on both seperate occassions waited a minimum of 8 hours after taking the opiate(s), and their effects or high had long woren off by the time i had 2 shots the first time, and only one drink the second time (not enough for me to even get a buzz).

I didn't intentionally take the opiates and had it planned that i was going to drink some alcohol afterwards, but long after it wore off and what seems like a long enough time gap to have only 1-2 drinks is what i did, with no intentions or even thought of having taking an opiate so much hours earlier and even moreso at lower safe doses, with very little amount of alcohol long after it wore off...

I have heard of many people some who have been past opiate addicts, and some recreational users say that they do NOT like this combo and prefer the opiate euphoria alone or with another drug than alcohol. However, that doesn't mean i haven't heard/seen people who are recreational users, or addicts of both opiates and alcohol. Many alcoholics actually use opiates (if they know what they are or have access to them) to relieve the many daily painful physical effects of alcohol including frequent hangovers.

---I've actually had 1 5mg oxycodone, one small glass of red wine, and weed before and it was real good intense feeling and never threw up, but when i think about how i felt i can understand how even taking slightly higher doses of the opiate with even a small amount of alcohol can drastically change from even a slight increase in the dose. If i had access to opiates when i used to get hungover quiet a bit on the weekends, i would have probably used them more for when in situations like hangovers/comedowns or legit pain.

 

[DuckEcho]

Alcohol potentiates opiates very well, it can be overwhelming. Even one drink changes the feeling completely.

They're both very hard on the liver.

Acetaminophan is very common in pain killers, perhaps the ones you took contained much of it.

Alcohol and tylanol is a very, very, very bad idea, they put your liver in overdrive.

Next time do some research before heading head first into your own experiment. I personally don't think I can handle alcohol with opiates.

^^^ THIS 100%. i agree fully. also, if its happened before why did you do the same thing knowing you would most like get sick again? or did you think it was just a one time thing? in drug use if you mix things and you feel sick, or odd, or whatever, its never a 1 time thing, sometimes youll get lucky tho and wont get sick from the same kind of mix but thats usually because something was chemically different in one or all of the things you did.

p.s. i feel your pain tho, i just started doing meth and both times after about 12 hours id get an extremly intense stomach ache. i dont know why, ive asked about it and my friends never get that feeling. the first stomach ache was because i did to much, in a short period but the second onei did one medium sized line at 5am and another line not even an inch long a god 11 hours later, no where near as much as i did the day before... then again out of no where about 4-5 hours later, the stomach ache came. UGH!!!!

 

[DuckEcho]

I throw up every time I take opiates. Even pharmaceutical doses produce extreme nausea. These negative effects are why I don't take them often. Even if I got them prescribed for an injury I wouldn't follow dosing advice.

I tried anti-histamines and weed with no success at combating the nausea.

What I do find to work is laying down with illumination at an absolute minimal. It really does help.

i was exactly like that when i first started taking them. just 1-2 5mg hydrocodones would make me want to puke and now i can easily take 15 at a time, or 3 to 4 30mg oxys...i guess you just get used to it cause i never feel nauseated anymore, not for long time. not saying the same can be true with you, i know people who have been on opiates for years and still get nauseous when taking them.

 

[BeachBum4u]

I've been on narcotics for years and they did initially cause some nausea, especially if I took and extra dose to soon and again, if it was real hot outside. I remember having to throw up after drinking a bunch of Gatorade and basically puking every drop out. Sorry! I do know that some people really really need something on their stomach when they take narcotics, maybe that applies. Personally I like weak American beer and usually drink some every night but I CAN'T drink hard liquor. It puts me over the top a the drop of a hat. So, you live, you learn, and you readjust. Good Luck and be careful.