Not sure why anyone would care what people think about you taking PST...most of the general public would lose their shit over a cold water extraction see you as some kind of drug addict/possible drug manufacturer.
Wazza - Did you have any luck with making poppy seed tea from your home grown pods? I tried it with my harvest last year and it had literally -zero- effects compared to good quality wholesale bought poppy seeds.
Good PST and pods I find to be literally indistinguishable.
I found the pod experiences (I tried a few ways) to be overall a 'lot' better than PST but I've only done PST (with seeds) 2-3 times. I always had a mild affect, probably for me, my tolerance induced judgement was '20-40mg' OC feel (taken as directed, not crushed/chewed).
With the pod teas, I probably felt 80mg - 100/120mg feel, it's all VERY subjective, I'd need to be able to get 'high' from the teas but I couldn't get high due to daily use/tolerance I have from pain relief use but as stated, that's the OC mg I'd compare to to at 'best guess' and I feel I have diminished feelings of OC (I've stated in other posts/threads, morphine in hospital as NEVER given me enough to say I 'feel' it in a few hospital surgery experiences and this was way before ever experiencing any opiate whether medical or recreational use/consumption)
Various ways of pod tea was, grinding up the whole pod and about 5inches of the stalk. Other ways were grinding up just the pod and the 'connection bit under it, cbf looking up the name. I also tried freshly taken pods from the ground and also air dried for 2+ weeks.
The methods of tea were, putting ground up produce into 2 re-usable teabags in water ranging from hot, warm, tepid/mild to cold tea, seep for 1-12 hours in diff tests. Most gave the same overall feel, the '80-120mg' OC feel (may be 200-300mg OC consumption for someone 'normal' possibly? I REALLY need to see if my metabolism of various opiates/opiods is diminished compared to 'normal' people.
I also had a cocktail shaker with produce and roughly 500ml water (warm to fairly hot), Oh, ALL water with some bottled lemon juice or freshly squeezed lemon juice in it. And use a stocking pulled over the top and poured into a cup 2-3 times to be dranked after shaken + seeped for 1-4 hours.
Most of the methods produced similar feelings but also a 'ok' time of 'just' a few hours as opposed stuff I've read of "all day" for strong PST/pod tea. But also, I genuinely feel EVERY time pain relief/feeling of "12 hour" OC time released tabs get me back to baseline feeling (i.e feeling before taking OC) roughly 5ish hours with no further 'feeling' of the OC, this is from single use "test days" here and there over the 5 years of my pain which haves me need pain relief drugs for well, pain relief so I have some quality of life.
Anyway, I must be off, our daughter went back to bed for 1-2 hrs after breaky this morning, I just heard her stir, mum went back to bed, she's 7 months pregnant and usually tired so I do Mr Mum (and dad) often as needed, hence the somewhat heavy/prolonged OC use as I NEED OC most times I 'move about' or else I'm sweating literally due to the pain it's inducing in my 'busted shoulder' from my injury.
I take tramal roughly 5am, back to bed, wake 6:40-7:30 depending when our daughter wakes, I help breaky, I 'hang out' until we plan to go to pool for my hydrotherapy/pool play with our daughter while my wife does water aerobics, I seem to be ok for pain whilst in water, then after, I start to get SORE from movement so hence usual first OC is taken here, sometimes before pool if Im having a 'bad day' (Im still FCKN sore after 2-3 hrs of tramal 200mg time release tab taken), then I take DLPA, 1/2 hr-1 hr later, I feel good enough to do 'stuff', such as clean at home, or we go out (shopping, playing with daughter somewhere, whatever) and/or as of late, I do job 'stuff', I'm recently wanting to try [some] work as I feel in a place where I can work 3-4ish hrs a day as my OC routine kinda assures me I'm "fairly" pain free without being 'high' from OC consumption.
So, that's my usual day, I sometimes ride the mbike if I feel 'good' or 'have to' as it helps me with my injury, takes 'pressure' off my injured arm since it's standing/moving/gravity which HURTS to do and sitting on mbike has me "put" my bad shoulder in place due to seating position etc. I just don't PUSH myself riding unless I have planned the day (extra OC) so I can 'use' my shoulder and not be bloody sore, not at least my 3-6 hrs is up which is by time dinner happens, so post dinner is quiet time and relax til bed, sometimes I take sleep meds due to either pain and/or 'just can't sleep' insomnia happens.
There ya go, my life and pain meds in a nutshell
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