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Pain Sufferers, but we still like getting high.

opiateaffair

opiateaffair

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Greetings,
I would like to have this thread so we can talk about, although we suffer with chonic pain, and not feel bad because we still like feeling good. I have had an affair with opiates for many years. Rehab after rehab most of us know the scene. But I am not afraid to say, Yes I love a good clean opiate that I can feel and chill on. My First priority is getting rid of the pain. I am on 50mcg Fent patch every 48hrs and it sticks perfectly with the tegaderm tape. I feel them sometimes, but for the most part put it on and don't mess with them, don't chew them. AT ALL! I don't want to die, I just want a Lil buzz. Am I alone here? I have gotton some 15mg Imm and I pretty much use them for a high. But we all know there is little or no bioavailability unless it is plugged. Up the Annie if you know what I mean. Since I don't IV anything anymore, and snorting these have almost 0 effect eating them is nobetter. I just use a child's dropper, it works like a syringe but no needle...Gezz ouch..anyway cold water with the amout of water the apparatus holds no filter no needed, they break down in less then 5min. A Lil lube and just up the Annie, don't have to plug it to far, just make sure the apparatus is up enough so it won't leak back out. Go lay down on your left side for about 20 30 mins. Now I don't plug unless its necessary and this works great. So yes it was worth it. But I'm going ask for hydromoph as breakthrough so I can just have them and not have to go thru all that. Ok anyone wanna jump on so I don't feel so alone, I welcome your thoughts.
 
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Hi op healthy living is not the place to discuss drug use so I'm moving this to Other Drugs
 
if i didn't hurt so bad i wouldn't touch another oxy the relief is what gets me to shoot that first shot then i go on a run
 
I'm kind of thinking this is more of a blog post. It's not really a question and it doesn't really offer much information from a harm-reduction standpoint.

edit: from this thread.

Personally, I do not consider it harm reduction or in anyone's best interest to discuss how to make the best crack pipe, how to get the most out of IV meth, how to tamper with and abuse fentanyl transdermal patches "safely" (ironic, if you ask me, how do you safely abuse fentanyl?) etc. One could make the argument that this discussion is the antithesis of harm reduction.
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^Well there are certainly "safer" ways to abuse fentanyl patches. If someone is planning on it then it is HR to tell them what not to do. The other 2 are not HR, that is agreed.

But lets be serious, There are plenty of threads started here with no HR relevancy.
 
Psychedelic Jay said:
You got to choose one or the other.

Recreation runs into a wall the fastest.
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That's incredible insightful to what I was thinking at the moment.

I've dabbled in opiates for recreation but more recently have developed pain that needs treating most days--so it's a difficult transition going from using opiates to relax whenever I feel like to having to manage my prescription like an adult 8(
 
Felonious Monk said:
That's incredible insightful to what I was thinking at the moment.

I've dabbled in opiates for recreation but more recently have developed pain that needs treating most days--so it's a difficult transition going from using opiates to relax whenever I feel like to having to manage my prescription like an adult 8(
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I agree with you both! One of the downsides of chronic pain managements that recreational drug or alcohol use typically goes bye-bye. In exchange, if we're lucky, we can dial the pain down from 11 to a manageable level. No more marijuana--shows up in random urinalysis and violates my pain practice's contract. No alcohol: causes nausea at best, or death. No tinkering with fentanyl. Nuh-uh.

That said, I'll be on a first-ever trip to London and drinking Diet Coke while my family members hoist pints in the pub... at least I can make the trip, right? Right?!? (I still have to give myself little pep talks.)

Be well and play safe, all.
 
Captain.Heroin said:
Analgesia is euphoria.
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/\ Agree with this 100%.

Im not sure where I would draw the line...when I am in chronic pain and I get relief from medications and then suddenly feel so much better that I feel I can face the tasks ahead of me, do the things that sound like fun with my kids that I cannot do when I am hurting so badly, actually get better sleep due to not tossing and turning from hurting and being uncomfortable all night, put 110% of my effort at work whereas when I am hurting I am pretty much only there physically, so miserable that it is difficult to accomplish the simplest of tasks....my emotional and psych health is better when I have relief from the pain, mostly due to the aforementioned things and because I am not feeling a constant distraction by my pain and irritable and grumpy due to not feeling well, lack of sleep, guilt due to unfinished or half ass tasks..all of the relief I feel contributes to a total increase in quality of life and euphoria. It is very hard for me to determine where drug induced (specifically) euphoria begins and ends next to the euphoria I feel due to the total sum of all of the above.

Enter the abuse portion of being a chronic pain management patient...generally we tend to be undermedicated either due to lack of sufficient legally prescribed meds that will dull the pain or because we have developed tolerance and no doc wants to increase the medications. Due to this, we tend to use what meds we do get in a way that we feel is more efficient or seek more meds.

Once you feel that relief that you now know is possible it is difficult to go back to suffering not only the pain but all of the other things above that go with it. Personally this will cause me to start "abusing" pain meds.

I know that there are a lot of CPPs who just also abuse meds, but for me it is difficult to distinguish between truly abusing those meds and just wanting that relief/euphoria that comes from sufficient pain control. I guess this is why when people talk about nodding on drugs that I also use it is hard for me to understand wanting that feeling...I just want to feel good enough to accomplish life not be zonked out and once again unable to perform day to day.
 
Me too, I just want to live pain free, and be able to do my part. By pain free We can only hope for a 3 or 4 which is good.
 
Agree with the posters before me about being pain free being as close to what I'll call euphoria. for me "getting high" is suppressing my physical and emotional pain to such a satisfying degree that I can actually function like a normal human being, whose happy.

There is no other recognisable euphoria atm for regardless of the dose (over 200 mgs oxycodone i will just fall asleep, not "nod" or watever the fk addicts do when they all bent and leaning, I just sleep).The enjoyment is as much as one can enjoy sleep. I've experienced proper opiate euphoria but that was done IV in a medical setting, I see there's a big difference.

Getting high is being able to walk not shuffle like an old lady. With Oxy I actually have a spring in my step, whether that's euphoria I don't know.
 
After having tried unsuccessfully to live without pain meds my life was completely unmanageable. Thanks to opiates at least I can get out of bed and function. I am meticulously careful about the proper doses I put in my system. If I can get a little high off of it in the process, although short lived, well that's the reward I'll take for suffering with chronic pain. Hell yes I used to party in college and in my 20's. Coke, pot, alcohol, etc. etc. But those days are long gone. I don't drink alcohol anymore so The Times they are a Changin. I get the little rewards and am grateful. It helps me feel like less of a victim for having chronic migraines and more of a person who is taking control of the card they've been dealt.
 
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Ive had chronic pain for the last 6 years and i am in the same boat.

I was prescribed oxy for almost 2 years and after i was done that i still had an unmanageable amount of pain so i turned to Cannabis, and that always helps me dull the pain so i can at least go about my day.

Now to say i only smoke weed for the pain dulling effect would be a complete lie. Its just kind of a kicker to it. I love getting high. I love tripping. I love the experiences with others when im high. So i guess i just have more than one reason to get high.
 
kayaker318 said:
After having tried unsuccessfully to live without pain meds my life was completely unmanageable. Thanks to opiates at least I can get out of bed and function. I am meticulously careful about the proper doses I put in my system. If I can get a little high off of it in the process, although short lived, well that's the reward I'll take for suffering with chronic pain. Hell yes I used to party in college and in my 20's. Coke, pot, alcohol, etc. etc. But those days are long gone. I don't drink alcohol anymore so The Times they are a Changin. I get the little rewards and am grateful. It helps me feel like less of a victim for having chronic migraines and more of a person who is taking control of the card they've been dealt.
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Haha I'm still in my early twenties and I've also gotta say my experimenting and binging is outta the way (i think). 18 is the drinking age here , so we started at 14 lol. Tried meth around then too. Then e raves and coke binges + alcohol binges. Last coke binge was 3 years ago, so yeah just meds and marry jane now.

I don't get why I should stop something I'm prescribed or even drop the dosage when it helps me function so effing well.
 
Meatballs,
So wish I was still in California, weed is a wonderful thing, I love the smell the taste and how it does help dull the pain, but it also helps kick in what I'm already on for pain. I'm in a pain clinic and its a no no here in this sweet Lil late blumming place. N.C. sometimes ill catch a wif while I'm driving and long for my sweet Mary Jane. My friend is headed toward 70 and smokes like no bodies business. I have an ungodly tolerance to opiates, benzos, everything. But weed gets me so High I can only take a few long hits. That's the weirdest thing to me that My insurmountable intake of various other drugs in my past, but weed, I'm gone. Happy cuddles an content. But can't do it, something as simple as. That. Well they need to hurry up and legalize. Yen right here it may take another 20 freakN years. Peace
 
Kaylar I know, I can't do anything without my Fent patch and even with those I'm still limited, but if I didn't have that I wouldn't be here because the pain is way to intense. And I'm pretty tough. I need breakthrough meds and that allows me to really active. I just pray the government don't screw around with our meds. They are life saving for us.
 
Honestly, I really like to get high, always have. Started smoking weed at 12 or whatever, then everything else thereafter. Stopped all that for about a decade, then along came chronic pain.

I've ran out of pills lately, and really it can be unbearable. I've been reminded of why I started on all of them in the first place.

I have no issue at all about anyone getting high, I would just implore you not to turn to heroin if you don't have to and by no means start banging pills. If you want to get high, find a different drug.
 
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