Prescribed Dilaudid ROA

[WickLess]

Hi,

I'm new here so I'm posting again in the "homeless" forum. I hope I'll get the hang of where things go after I see where my posts end up!

I've been using a strange "ROA" for Dilaudid pills that I "discovered" on my own, and I wanted to take the opportunity to run it by you all.

A few years back, I was doing a titrated water solution withdrawal from Ativan. The instructions had me put the solution of water and ground-up ativan under my tongue. The withdrawal worked great.

Now that I'm taking Dilaudid, I've had trouble swallowing the pill, so I started grinding it up very fine, and then dipping my moistened fingertip into the powder and putting my powdery fingertip under my tongue. It definitely "works" - I get effects from the dilaudid, more than if I swallow the whole pill.

But I'm just wondering how much I'm getting this way, and if it would be better for me to try making a water mixture like I did with the Ativan.

I'm not sure what to call this ROA that I am using - oral, or something like plugging or shelving (though through my mouth rather than other mucous membranes like anus/vagina.

Has anyone here used something powdered like I am using it? Is there any reason to add water? I could just try this on my own, but I don't want to waste any and I'm curious if there are statistics on bioavailability for what I'm doing.

Thank you very much for any replies!

 

[T. Calderone]

Homeless --------- > Basic Drug Discussion

 

[Kittycat5]

Its called sublingual if absorbtion occurs in the membranes under the tongue. For Dilaudid, the bioavailability is at least as good as oral this way. Making a solution would be ideal.

 

[WickLess]

Thank you so much!

 

[The.Ghost]

Note that SL is a more direct ROA than oral. Instead of going through the digestive system and liver (first-pass metabolism, can be significant), the drug diffuses right into the bloodstream. Don't do this with every drug before reading up on the relative bioavailabilities of PO / SL (oral / sublingual).