Cocaine Sudden & big increase in Cocaine tolerance.....why?

[waldo777]

As of 2-3 weeks ago, my tolerance to coke has gone from having 0.6 grams last me all day, broken into 5-8 lines.....to now where that same 0.6 grams breaks into 3 lines and last me just about 3 hours....

I use the coke to keep me awake/alert during the day, not for pure fun, and have found I need double the doses I used to need to get the same effect. I can of course think of a few reasons why this is, but was wondering if anyone else has experienced such a large and sudden increase in tolerance?

I've been doing coke on and off for 10 years: tried it 10 years ago, had a hunny moon phase then didn't do any for a while, then used recreationally, rehab, dabbled, etc....and most recently have been using it consistently for about 1.5 years. Always same supplier.

For the past 7 months I've been on MMT and now take 140mg/day. Been on that dose for over 2 months now though... I was thinking the 'done may be playing a role in increasing my tolerance, but why so suddenly and abruptly? I've been on it and on the same dose even for a while, and on that same dose for at least 1 month+ since my sudden jump in tolerance....

I also thought that maybe my head was playing tricks on me, that I don't need to use so much and that I was trying to get high(er) instead of just trying to keep myself awake at work.... But now when I take a pre-tolerance-inncrease dose, I stay groggy and sleepy and don't get the jolt I need and used to get just a few weeks ago...

Last, I always get from same guy, I got nowhere else to get from anyway, so I thought maybe the quality of hisbstuff had gone down. But it always changes every couple of weeks when a new batch comes in, and always has slight differences btwn batches, but this stuff isn't considerably differant from previous batches....

Anyway, if anyone has any insight I welcome your comments. Also any suggestions, thoughts, w/e. Thanks

 

[Cornishman]

Cocaine is such a short acting drug. It's nigh on impossible to gain a tolerance.

Are you sure you're snorting cocaine?

 

[laCster]

^this

when you take a break from a drug that you already had a tolerance to, when you start to use that drug again the addiction and tolerance almost picks up right where you left off.
happened to me multiple times with heroin. i would take 1-2 months off, have a slim tolerance, and within a couple days i was right back where i stopped, well actually i was worse then when i stopped :/

methadone should actually should halt the advance of tolerance through NMDA-antagonism. it won;t completely reset your tolerance, but it will help from it from getting to large too quick which is probably why it took you as long as a month to get your coke tolerance back. usually i see people go from 0mph to 100mph when they get back on coke and gain their tolerance back in 2-3 days.

 

[DooMMooD]

I'd say its definitely possible to gain a cocaine tolerance after 10 years of on/off use and after "using it consistently for 1.5 years"...

other than that, the other possibility is your supplier finally decided this would be the day to fuck you over. And none of that "oh hes a nice dude he'd never do that", "oh well its blah blah blah thats not possible" thats BULLSHIT. Dealers fuck customers over alllll the time. Especially if he himself does a lot of nose candy. I mean, has HIS cocaine addiction gotten worse lately? If so thats your answer right there.

Honestly if youre not feeling it even a little bit...with or without tolerance you should feel SOMETHING, even a tiny bit. Sounds like he finally decided to start fucking you over for whatever reason.

 

[HOP SING TONG]

Speaking as someone else who is on MMT at a relatively high dose (110 mg a day for over 3 years) I know that cocaine use is very common amongst people on maintenance. It is extremely tempting to use cocaine for some reason, even as someone who was never a big cocaine user before I find myself shooting cocaine and smoking crack all the time now. Probably because it's the only rush I can get, when I combine cocaine, xanax and methadone. And, yes, I am not suggesting that anyone do this combination because it is very dangerous and not in the interest in harm reduction, I'm just speaking from personal experience. My cocaine tolerance is massive and I think that the methadone for some reason plays some part in it, but I can't be sure. I usually use for about a few days or a week straight, sleeping of course after being up for maybe a day and a half to 2 days at a time, and then afterwards quitting for a month and letting my arms heal from all the tracks and bruising from shooting coke, and I usually sleep a lot for about 3-4 days afterwards and then have crazy cravings and dreams where I'm injecting coke for up to a month or two afterward. Then I end up using again eventually when finances permit, rinse and repeat the cycle, lol. Best of luck to you, I'd quit while you're ahead.

Also, 140 mg is a massive dose. I also think my dose of 110 is too much and I'm in the process of tapering down. Methadone is so powerful and it's deceptive to a lot of people, even those who are very educated and on maintenance. I just had a friend with a somewhat significant opiate tolerance (40 mg of opana injected per shot) die from taking about 40-50 mg of methadone and 1mg of xanax.

 

[pbuilder]

I didn't even read this but sudden tolerance = likely your getting lower quality coke now?

Okay I read it now, how does the cocaine look visually, and is it similar to how it has always looked from this guy?

 

[DonStatus]

Tolerance to cocaine exists I can tell you that. I was a big user and it went from .5 a night to 3.5g really fast

 

[pbuilder]

^yea same, but the high got worse the more I did anyways. A half gram in a night is the most anyone should do, or else the comedowns become something filthy. I've never used benzo's before and don't have access to them so never used those for comedowns, and rarely I had opiates, so most of the time when I went on little benders i'd just be drinking with the coke, and by the time the coke was gone the alcohol was done to so I had nothing at all to comedown with but some DPH, sweating my fucking ass off in my bed awake as fuck feeling so fucking terrible from the comedown, such a nasty drug. 2 weeks clean today.

 

[cj]

sounds like a drop in quality combined with a rising tolerance.

 

[waldo777]

Yeah the quality has gone down due to a switch in my dealers supplier. I figured this was the reason, but the quality hadn't dropped to the same degree my tolerance rose.

For a week when his supplier was locked up, my guy was selling w/e garbage he could get, his main guy is out now, so my dealer has his usual blow again, but I think 1 of 2 or both things is happening:
-my guy still had some garbage left and is mixing it with his usual stuff to get rid of it. Or my guy is cutting it down more to stretch it in case his supplier gets locked up again (he was freakin when his guy got locked up and he couldn't re-up...)

So that, and/or, I got used to doing/seeing big ass lines when I was getting the weak stuff while my guys supplier was away so now my head is tricked into thinking I need big doses even tho the quality has improved.

 

[Tryptamino]

you probably just bought some shitty coke

 

[Venrak]

^yea same, but the high got worse the more I did anyways. A half gram in a night is the most anyone should do, or else the comedowns become something filthy, especially since most of the time I didn't have opiates, and I've never used a benzo either, and the alcohol is already done man just thinking about it gives me shivers. 2 weeks clean today.

I'm glad to hear you've got two weeks under your belt, man! Good work.

 

[bronson]

There are so many factors at play that it's almost impossible to say with any degree of certainty. The best advice I can offer is to just take a break for a while. It's good in a lot of ways, increasing your dose here simply leads to a situation of diminishing returns, if your dealer did screw you it might send the memo back that you noticed, and there are plenty of healthier ways to get the energy you need. (i.e. good sleep, exercise, diet, et al.)