opiates and eye focus!

[FrostyMcFailure]

ever just get done alot of any opiate and chill back to read a good book or check out your favorite online site and notice you cant focus?! I resort to covering one eye so i can read at like 30% my normal speed...

Usually i end up "falling asleep at keyboard" but thats beside the point.

I figure that dopemead has something to do with regulating eye focus so in turn a bunch of any opiate will make you loose focus, thats merely speculation though. Any one know what the cause of this is?? Thanks for the input BL.

 

[fastandbulbous]

Lack of light getting to the retina with tiny, tiny pupils and a lot of opioids have some degree of anticholinergic activity, which leads to a lack of accomodation of the lens (it doesn't change shap as well to focus object near by or far away).

If you've ever had an old style antihistamine, a tricyclic antidepressant or decided to find out what sort of a trip belladonna, henbane etc produces, you'll know all to well about 'lack of accomodation' & having blurred vision for days!

 

[haribo1]

Remember the scene in Drugstore where they swap some morphine for some speed? The buyer comments 'I can't see straight on that stuff'. I think it's pretty common knowledge...

 

[FrostyMcFailure]

thanks everyone!

 

[Smyth]

Yes, I get that. It's even worse if you are nodding and go to sleep.

Also, has anybody had the pins & needles effect in their hands?

 

[FrostyMcFailure]

you bet

 

[Boiling in Acid]

once we had a conversation in rehab that you actually are seeing better on heroin... some old guy told us he's friend used to tell that when he's reading a newspaper on heroin, he sees it like in a theater in front of him, but when he's clean, he can not read...

it's actually the opposite... i don't remeber myself experience on that, but i guess it's your eyes shaking or crossing a bit while fucked up on opiates so you can't focus...