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JasperTheReckless

JasperTheReckless

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What do you guys do to fight that little bug that says "take more, it won't work" ?

I always feel like I didn't take enough, tonight is no exception. It's got me crawling the walls and staring at the bottle... It's only been ten minutes since dosing.
 
Are you talking about any substance in particular? I see you wrote "staring at the bottle," but didn't know if that mean alcohol or prescription bottle. Some substances are more "fiendish" than others.
 
I think being more specific and less nebulous would be helpful here.

:)

I'm going to send this to Drug Culture for the time being.
 
The only pills that I've had a long standing problem with have been Xanax. Th majority of my opiate and stimulant use has been through street drugs, but I guess it can still compare.

With Xanax I always have a pretty good idea of how much it would take me to get th "that place I want to go". Right now I have a low benzo tolerance, so I know .25-.5mg would definately be enough. And if I want to up the dose with alprazolam, I'll usually add an extra .5mg. There comes a point with Xanax that I've found, where you have to start pretty much just doubling the dose that used to get you ice and buzzed, which becomes a real bitch. Xanax starts off as such a cheap habit to maintain, but over the course of a few months it's just another monkey on your back.

As an IV user, I always start low, even if I have a tolerance. With heroin for instance, it might take a four bag shot to get high, but I'll always test out a bundle by doing a two bag shot. And with cocaine I always start by throwing about 50mg in the spoon.
 
If I have enough to last at least the following day, I don't fight a battle I can't win ;)

Although if resources are scarce, I have less of a problem not redosing, somewhere in my junkie mind I know I have to ration or suffer the consequences, in the truest sense of the word.
 
I'm n suboxone right now, and over the last five months I've tapered down from 16 mg to 1mg a day, which I'm really proud of, and I also feel my dose way more than ever before, but I often get the urge to see what would happen if I took 4mg, but I have to battle that demon, because I don't want to raise my tolerance. A few times I've taken 2mg, and I did get a bit more of a pronounced buzz, but I'm trying to sty away from doing that anymore. It's really hard to get used to the idea that with some drugs, taking more actually results in a more negative experience. I feel as though I'm suffering from suboxone anorexia...
 
My first day on opiates, for a broken bone, I started at 10mg hydro/dose instead of 5, not even three weeks in I up it to 20mg hydro at a time, one month later I up it to ~30mg at a time.

Same with benzos: 15mg Valium/day first week of doing benzos, 20mg second week, 30mg third week, 40 the fourth week, added Xanax 0.5mg here and there, added 3 somas a day by the second month, along with occasional Lyricas and beers. What did I learn? GABA tolerance is a fucking bitch!

It didn't help that my first experiences with opiates/benzos came from steady perscriptions, and they were at the same time.

Resist the urge to redose, man! Opiate hyperalgesia kicks in at some point and opiates end up causing you more pain in the long run if you abuse them heavily.
 
Its most prounonced with phycadelics for me. Ill take a couple hits of L then 20 minutes later convince myself its weak double the dose and end up huddled in a corner tripping balls. Cant tell you how many times a variation of that has gone down.
 
^^ this is what I go through from time to time, substance varies.

I was found sitting on the highway "playing poker" with some friends, because I thought I wouldn't notice any effects from my initial dose. 8o
 
^ And picking up models.

The only substance Ive really consumed more of constantly has been Ketamine. Its the ultimate fiendish substance for me, other than during my Meth or Dope days. Meth, Id basically just smoke/snort until it was gone and then come down with Clonazepam. With Dope, I didnt redose too often but when I did it was quite a bit. Id end up going through anywhere between 2-4 bags a night.
 
yeah, it's kind of weird. The first two years that I was using heroin, I was pretty good about not redosing more than once a day. But I got clean then for nine months, and when I relapsed, I immediately was doing upwards of three shots a day, and within the last two years, I will go through unnecesairy ammounts of heroin if I have the money to afford it.

And when it comes to stimulant's forget it. Not only do I up the dose, but I just dose repeatedly. There was only one time when I had any cocaine left in the morning from the previous night, and that was only because I passed out from taking a gigantic dose of xanax and clonazepam. I woke up with a syringe dangling out of my arm, and while I look back at that with horror, at the time I was all "fuck yeah! Morning shot!"
 
i've kind of stopped, well trying REAL hard to not up my opiate dosage anymore. i do them 3-4 times a week at ~75mg oxy and always think about doing 90 o_o
 
Some drugs tell me upping the dose is not really in my best interest. Like if I take a sufficient dose of opioids, I don't feel the need to take more, or doubt my dose. With DXM, I know not to go above a certain dose. With booze, this usually doesn't apply so much, and it doesn't apply at all with benzos really. If I were left to my own devices I could burn through benzos very quickly, and have had the desire to up my dose since day 1, well no, there was a point 0.5 mg Xanax satisfied me. Hah! No more! I always want to up my barbiturate dose when I get the chance to do them, but on the other hand worry about OD cause I take benzos daily and often extra with butalbital if I am taking it (I know, dangerous). I don't have much experience with stims, so I can't say much there. GABAergics are fiendish for me in that I always would up the dose. I can control amount of an opiate I would take at a given time, but that doesn't mean control the frequency of dosing. Whenever I have free access to opioids, they are used daily until I can't any more.
 
I'm always doing more, more, more, more... There's the amount that I plan to do and then the amount I end up doing... So far, knock on wood, I've never overdosed but I'm sure I've come damn close... I cannot control myself when the drugs are around. I do have some self-control with opioids because if I'm dead, I can't enjoy my nod... 8) Ha, but otherwise... I'll do all my drugs until they're gone. I always plan on saving them, but I never do... even when it would be smarter just to save them... Bleh! Like, I have about 3/4ths of a gram of cocaine left right now and I plan on getting some oxy tomorrow and I know I should save the coke so I can do my ghetto speedballs but I'm probably going to have at least one more line before I take some benzos and crash... I also plan on doing some writing... Which is always fun on coke for me... I wanna smoke some of the bud I got too... It's supposed to be really good. :D
 
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