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Opioids weird nodding experience

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lolitaofott

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when I use opiates I "nod".. basically going into a state where I am seemingly unconscious.... I'm not too sure what nodding is exactly, but when I nod it's always the strangest thing... I travel places.. have conversations with people... sometimes I'll see cartoon like images that tell a story but I can never make sense of it.. sometimes I'll be talking to my friends.. or doing inane things like getting a glass of juice...

the other day I was nodding and I thought I was getting a piece of gum and all of a sudden I was covered with liquid which snapped me out of it... thinking it was a container of gum I had poured a bottle of juice on my hand!!! even stranger was when I thought I was at the eye doctor and my boy friend shook me so that I would "wake up" and my hands were on my eyes and my mouth wide open.

that's another thing.. when I nod, my mouth is sometimes gaping open (makes for an ugly facial expression)... am I the only one that experiences this when using opiates?? Or am I just completely CRAZY??

sorry for the wall of text.
 
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I have never had this happen to me but nodding off is when you're on a nice dose of opis and your head keeps drooping down as in dozing off. Sometimes while trying to stay awake you will repeatedly snap your head in its upright position causing a "nodding" motion. For me it gets a little annoying. I'll be sitting watching i good movie and nodding, but just wanting to fucking stay awake and watch the damn movie. The other day i got upset and like gripped my eyelids open to listen to someone. Kinda funny, you would've had to see it.

Also some opiates dont make me nod as bad as others. Hydrocodone doesnt have too strong of an affect on me due to using it so much in the past, but H and oxy makes me nod like crazy. Surprisingly tramadol (although not a opiate) makes me nod on high doses. If i'm sitting that is.
 
I hate the nod. I've sometimes come out of it noticing my heartbeat is abnormally slow, which makes me think something is wrong and then I snap out of it like thadocta said.

But no, your experience sounds very common. A lot of people have told me that they literally escape where they think they're somewhere else and are fairly lucid in these scenarios. I don't know if it's a dream or hallucination or what, but it happens.
 
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Also some opiates dont make me nod as bad as others. Hydrocodone doesnt have too strong of an affect on me due to using it so much in the past, but H and oxy makes me nod like crazy. Surprisingly tramadol (although not a opiate) makes me nod on high doses. If i'm sitting that is.
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This is because tramadol is a low potency opioid prescription pain killer. It's "different" in many ways, just like oxymorphone feels different from hydromorphone, each opioid feels distinct to most people. These differences are probably because unlike most opioid pain medication, tramadol is synthetic and it acts as a partial agonist and SNRI antidepressant

It also has a very dangerous dose/response curve, seizures have been reported at doses as low as 250mg. Abuse of tramadol is not advised.
 
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i could see that happening. I think they say dreams occur during REM sleep but ive had times where i'll be starting to fall asleep (not on anything just sober) and i'll have like a super short dream and then i'll snap out of it and wake up and be like "what the fuck?" cuz it'll only be like a couple minutes maybe less. I'm assuming that's what it is like. I might have had that happen while nodding and just forgot. Who knows.
 
tricomb said:
This is because tramadol is a low potency opioid prescription pain killer. It's "different" in many ways, just like oxymorphone feels different from hydromorphone. These differences are probably because unlike most opioid pain medication, tramadol is synthetic and it acts as a partial agonist. It has a very dangerous dose/response curve, seizures have been reported at doses as low as 250mg. High doses of tramadol are not advised.
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Old news to me buddy but thanks. :) i normally take it with a benzo as i get it from a person who has both tramadol and either diazepam or clonazepam. I like to have a stash of benzos on hand because they can be very useful for different things. Its anticonvulsant properties are a life-saver ;)

also tramadol doesnt go very well with my metabolism for some reason, so i like to spread the dose out over a course of time. that is if i'm taking more than 300mg.
 
thadocta13 said:
Old news to me buddy but thanks. :) i normally take it with a benzo as i get it from a person who has both tramadol and either diazepam or clonazepam. I like to have a stash of benzos on hand because they can be very useful for different things. Its anticonvulsant properties are a life-saver ;)

also tramadol doesnt go very well with my metabolism for some reason, so i like to spread the dose out over a course of time. that is if i'm taking more than 300mg.
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Funny, only time I ever took it was combined with a benzo, while on bars I just thought I'd take it to "get it over with" cause I heard it was such a shitty high. That was actually a very intense nod for some reason, and especially since I only took 100mg (I keep my tolerance low, as opiates are hard to get here).
 
Lolita, the exact same thing happens to me when I am nodding...I will "come to" in another room, or pour a glass of water over my self, it id like very vivid lucid dreaming or something....
 
I've only had a couple of opiate experiences, but yeah, while nodding I had the same kind of dreaming experiences. I'd close my eyes and be very lucidly and realistically somewhere I'd been earlier in the day, at work or whatever. I just took it to be normal because it happens to me at the edge of sleep anyway, especially after a long, tiring day.
 
that does sound right... I always know when I've done enough when in this state, I have heard that nodding means that you are pretty close to overdosing and for that reason and tend to stop using when I'm nodding
 
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i could see that happening. I think they say dreams occur during REM sleep but ive had times where i'll be starting to fall asleep (not on anything just sober) and i'll have like a super short dream and then i'll snap out of it and wake up and be like "what the fuck?" cuz it'll only be like a couple minutes maybe less. I'm assuming that's what it is like. I might have had that happen while nodding and just forgot. Who knows.
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Very much like this. On a deep nod I was surfing some kind of lucid waking dream and would act out quite often. My mates also, one of them used to be especially animated.

RobotRipping said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia

i believe that sounds about right.
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^This also is spot on IME.

Lolita, it's perfectly normal and really common. Nothing weird about it at all.
 
I love to nod...its just like what you described almost...

I pretty much can travel to the most beautiful places from the comfort of my bed or anywherer for that matter..i hear cool sounds too
 
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