this has been a curiosity of mine for quite some time

[nickrosenbery]

Im new to blue light as a member but i check it all the time, though to get the answer ive been curious about for quite some time, i thought i would join.

this is just a strange curiosity but is there any physical reason why i seem to be able to process drugs faster and take much higher doses of substances then most people. naturally i would say tolerance would be the obvious answer, BUT i seem to have a high tolerance to all drugs (save marijuana for some reason), even after long long periods of abstinence. for example, i went a year without any opiates and yet when i did take them a year later, i needed to take 15 vicodin 750s to feel anything. with amphetamines i don't have to take all that many to feel but in an hour all feelings of the drug have disappeared. then with benzos, i have no tolerance and rarely drink and yet i took 30 1mg Ativan in a matter of hours. didn't feel high, didn't black out, didn't even feel sleepy and its the same thing with z class drugs (ambien etc etc). ive been taking prescription mood stabalizers for 4 years now and maybe that has something to do with it but im just curious as to why my body can take such huge quantities of substances, filter them out so quickly and not show any major signs of intoxication. more curious from the physical aspects of it like if my body is somehow more programmed to take such doses. just curious. oh on a side note i am 5'10 and 200 pounds. answers would be appreciated, especially those of some scientific medical basis.

 

[nickrosenbery]

on a side note, i probably shouldn't have used my real name as my login for the world to see but eh, live and learn. plus ive been good the last couple months (no street drugs at all besides medical marijuana) and i take my medications as prescribed. this was just a curiosity i had quite a while ago when i was using quite heavily but i figured that i might as well find out now

 

[angeleyes]

Hi Nick, if you want you can just delete your posts so that you have a post count of 0, then create a new account with a new username if you don't want to use the one with your real name. You won't get into any trouble so long as you're only posting from one account and there is no overlapping of the post dates.

In relation to your first question, age, weight, height and experience all play a factor into tolerance. You are pretty tall and aren't a light dude so this would definitely play a factor in your metabolism in general let alone your metabolism for drugs. Your prescriptions would also definitely contribute to a tolerance especially against things like amphetamines.


Is your consumption of medical marijuana pretty heavy? That may play a factor in some other things as well.


Take care in the meantime, hope you enjoy your time here.

 

[Captain.Heroin]

Welcome to Bluelight!

 

[nickrosenbery]

thanks everyone and my marijuana consumption is heavy to a point. I smoke it quite often but its changed over the years for me. when I first started smoking weed when I was 16 I would get super stoned (almost like I was on a weak hallucinogen) and I loved it. it made me giggly and fun and social, it made me enjoy music and art and well, television soooo much more and I would get intense euphoria. then I quit for a while. I started back up again when I was 19. I noticed that I didn't get as stoned as I used to be but I still really enjoyed it. still loved music and hanging with friends and life. I would say from this point at 19 till id say 21, I became a functional marijuana connoisseur. I could hold serious conversations with my parents, I could work stoned, I could drive on it with no problem and I mean I was smoking all day every day so you kind of had to become a functional smoker. I would still get silly when the occasion arose or depending on who I was hanging out with but if I had to keep it together it was not a problem at all. I even talked to the cops high on numerous occasions, not because I got pulled over or was in trouble or anything, just making conversation if I bumped into one somewhere (of course I used to do the same thing on LSD (my sunglasses were on of course lol). it was just a part of life and I loved the stuff. still when I was 19 I started getting into harder drugs and it started to lose its magic for me but I still loved it. when I hit 22 though (my current age though Ill be 23 before I know it), weed changed for me. maybe its because of the past years of coke, heroin, hallucinogen and amphetamine abuse (ive been prescribed Adderall and painkillers as well for a couple years now) but now when I smoke I get ZERO euphoria and I get VERY paranoid. not paranoid like the cops are outside but paranoid in two ways. im no longer a functional smoker and get really stupid and spacey now, so the first way I get paranoid is im afraid im making a fool of myself in front of my friends and am embarrassed though funny enough when im stoned I never talk anymore, just sort of zone into whatever is on the tv so I don't sound stupid, just look spacey. the other way I get paranoid is since im on the Adderall, when I smoke weed my heart starts pounding really fast, my extremities start tingling and I feel a lot of pressure in my forehead (not a headache, just uncomfortable pressure) and im afraid im going to die so I panic (though like I said, Im a quiet panicker and no one can tell im freaking out cuz it just looks like im watching television). there have also been numerous occasions where Ill feel like im not breathing because I cant feel the air coming in and out of my lungs (which is ridiculous because you don't feel that sober either haha). weed basically makes me panicky and anti social now and I cant function for shit on it anymore, cant hold conversations, cant work, obviously cant drive in this state. now instead of smoking with a group of close friends and having a good time, I find myself slinking away quietly into my room, laying down on my bed in the dark and just play mellow tunes till its over. only reason I smoke it at all anymore is because it knocks me the fuck out (basically because I panic so much that when I finally come down im exzhausted and pretty much pass out.) I haven't bought weed in over a year for that exact reason and the only way I smoke it now is that im living with my cousin who has his med card and an endless supply of weed and he is more then happy to share, even though he knows ill take two hits and head back into my room. and its not even that im smoking the wrong kind of marijuana. all the stuff we buy is from a dispensary. I never much cared for sativas in the past so my cousin only buys indicas but even those just freak me out. its weird, I just cant handle weed anymore and yet I can drop 5 tabs of acid and be right as rain, I can drink massive quantities of dxm and be fully functional and those are way more psychoactive then weed. even dmt and salvia didn't trip me out as much as weed seems to. I just cant explain it, and its a shame because its like the most harmless psychoactive drug on the planet and I just cant use it, meaning I often resort of harder drugs because they don't bother me (that being said I haven't touched any hard drugs besides prescription narcotics which I am prescribed since early November of last year. I don't know, do you have an answer for that one haha.

 

[nickrosenbery]

I can usually get around using weed to sleep though because of my meds. my daily dosages of the meds im prescribed are 60 mgs of Ritalin, 1 milligram of Ativan, 120 mgs of codeine, 50-100 mgs of trazadone depending on how hard it is to sleep and 10mgs of zyprexa. I also take a melatonin every night and usually have one to two (never more) beers in the evening. its hard to knock me out though because ive been on so many sedatives for so damn long. I once went through 30 10 mg ambien in one night because I was so desperate for sleep and yet I still couldn't sleep AND I didn't get high or blackout like most people do after only taking 2 pills. once again this goes back to my original thread about being able to take crazy amounts of drugs and have them not affect me. last summer I went to the hospital 3 times for insomnia because I hadn't slept in 3 days each time and was losing it. first the doctor prescribed Xanax. it worked the first time but not the second, so the second time he gave me ambien and that didn't work at all. basically the 3rd time I went in desperate for sleep, the doctor looked at me and said, ya know, if you still cant sleep with all the sedatives you're on, the only thing I can do for you is put you under anesthesia (which obviously he couldn't). I was desperate enough I asked if I could get a barbiturate which are the ONLY drugs that scare me because its so ridiculously easy to overdose. he wouldn't do it because he knew I had to work and he said one of those pills would knock me out for up to 3 days.