Heroin Longest time experienced as your opioid receptors are blocked?

[Tuvya]

Hi guys,
I was taking gabapentin for maybe a year and a half or 2 for a muscle injury and as a pain reliever/ opiod antagonist... I was open with my doctor about my habit. I am also taking tizanidine for the injury. Well I'm on my 8th day without gabapentin and still don't feel the effects of h. However, I felt the effects from suboxone awhile ago if that makes any sense. My real question is, What is the longest time you guys have ever felt your opioid receptors were blocked from any of the opioid antagonist stuff out there?

 

[The Doc.]

well it depends on the substance theres naltrexone shots people get that block opiates for a month or more but for you it shouldn't be much longer.
detox your body best you can drink lots of water and fluids exercise lots just give it some time.
its normal you would feel suboxone and not heroin as buprenorphine has a much stronger higher affinity for the opiate receptors meaning even if you took the naltrexone shot you could feel Suboxone no problem. Subs are very powerful drugs in that way you could take suboxone to get high or just wait a while everyone's body is different some could get high a few days after and some would have to wait a couple weeks.

 

[The Doc.]

ive never heard of gabapentin doing this to anyone its not classified as an opiate antagonist I don't take the stuff myself but I know many opiate addicts who take gabapentin with their doses to make the pain relief/euphoria better so I don't see how it could block opiates when opiates and gabapentin being prescribed at once is quite common. I do know gabapentin is a weird drug though and not a lot is known about how it works so who knows maybe your body is different and gabapentin's block opiates but I cant find anything saying gaba pentin is a blocker of opiates which is why I cannot tell you how long your receptotrs will be blocked for I don't know how they could even be blocked. are you sure theres nothing else you've been taking?

 

[Tuvya]

I do take tizanidine...

I googled: gabapentin blocking opiate receptors.
And there is a blue light topic: http://www.bluelight.org/vb/threads...zos-amp-opiates-Unable-to-get-any-pain-relief

and the member issokay experience is near identical to mine.

Gabapentin may need to build up or take a bit of time to start blocking.

My doctor admitted the medicine had opiate blockers in them, after I told him I couldn't feel the affects any longer... However I didn't ask if it was the gabapentine or the tizanidine.