Hey guys, hoping for a bit of advice. I'll try to make this as brief as possible.
I daily take opiates and have been for 2 years now, minimum 40mg a day. I also have a fuckton of anxiety and am a tad bit of a hypochondriac. I only take p.k.'s though, no more benzos for me. I don't mix my opiates with anything, except for my morning dose of adderall, 10mg.
Ever since a really bad anxiety attack with opana, I have had a lot of anxiety with pain killers. Basically freaked out one night driving home, went to the hospital, they said I was fine. I only took 10mg er and then hours later 5mg. This is how it goes. Take pill, experience minor respitory depression, have major anxiety.
Almost there, thanks for staying with me...
My phone has a feature that can check your sp02, which is awesome, unless you're like me. I've noticed that when I exceed 20 oxycodone or 25mg hydrocodone, my sp02 drops to around 92%. Btw, I've verified that it is within 1% accurate. Ive seen it down to 88% though, but that was in public at a huge nerd convention. Now if I focus on my breathing and take deep breaths, I can raise it up to 96-100, but 1, that's basically fighting against the anxiety. 2, prevents me from enjoying it. And 3, prevents anything but a little stronger than mild buzz. I should note too than I am in a high altitude place, former cig smoker-now on ecigs for 2 years. It also happens mainly at the 45 min mark of dosing and lasts about an hour, then I'm goes away.
K, question time. At what point does respiratory depression become a serious concern. Can I correlate sp02 with this? At what point do I become concerned about OD?
Thanks guys, you all are awesome. Much love
I daily take opiates and have been for 2 years now, minimum 40mg a day. I also have a fuckton of anxiety and am a tad bit of a hypochondriac. I only take p.k.'s though, no more benzos for me. I don't mix my opiates with anything, except for my morning dose of adderall, 10mg.
Ever since a really bad anxiety attack with opana, I have had a lot of anxiety with pain killers. Basically freaked out one night driving home, went to the hospital, they said I was fine. I only took 10mg er and then hours later 5mg. This is how it goes. Take pill, experience minor respitory depression, have major anxiety.
Almost there, thanks for staying with me...
My phone has a feature that can check your sp02, which is awesome, unless you're like me. I've noticed that when I exceed 20 oxycodone or 25mg hydrocodone, my sp02 drops to around 92%. Btw, I've verified that it is within 1% accurate. Ive seen it down to 88% though, but that was in public at a huge nerd convention. Now if I focus on my breathing and take deep breaths, I can raise it up to 96-100, but 1, that's basically fighting against the anxiety. 2, prevents me from enjoying it. And 3, prevents anything but a little stronger than mild buzz. I should note too than I am in a high altitude place, former cig smoker-now on ecigs for 2 years. It also happens mainly at the 45 min mark of dosing and lasts about an hour, then I'm goes away.
K, question time. At what point does respiratory depression become a serious concern. Can I correlate sp02 with this? At what point do I become concerned about OD?
Thanks guys, you all are awesome. Much love
And really, that is the best outcome out of all the possibilities. Being a CPP, it would suck for it to be a huge concern where I would have to go off of them.