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04-12-2023, 12:33 PM #351
Plenty of info on oxy. They sold it as 12 hour pain relief.
Nope. 8 hour breakthrough.
Fuck the sacklers or whatever the fuck their name is. They’re being sued over this shit. I never ground up and snorted or smoked the oxy I had.
Broken bones need opioids. And oxy was fine. But it didn’t last a long time.
Fact.
PS. Oxy doesn’t mean oxycodone. That’s just percs.
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04-12-2023, 01:03 PM #352
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04-12-2023, 01:08 PM #353
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04-12-2023, 01:43 PM #354
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04-12-2023, 04:44 PM #355
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04-12-2023, 04:44 PM #356
The key to developing tolerance and addiction is maintaining a constant blood level, which is what makes extended release opiates so dangerous. Constant blood level is ok for a week or two for acute pain but not for chronic pain--unless the patient is terminal.
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04-12-2023, 08:30 PM #357
Joey, man...just a heart breaking and touching experience you recount. I am glad you got to write a new chapter for yourself.
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04-12-2023, 09:56 PM #358
Right on for feeling comfortable to share one of the hardest posts I’ve ever read on TGR with us. It doesn’t get more real. Proud of you for conquering this journey. And praises to the people in your life that love you dearly. I wish you nothing but the best.
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04-13-2023, 06:36 AM #359Registered User
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That's one side of it.
The other side is patients that get the feeling from opioids that is better than anything they've ever experienced and the only thing they want is to do is feel it again.
I was lucky enough to never have a serious addiction, but I certainly understand and have experienced that feeling. Luckily I didn't have access to become dependant and I was aware and educated enough to recognize that that was a road I did not want to go down.
It easily could have went the other way.
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04-13-2023, 08:38 AM #360
Yes, I understand. You can build dependence with regular oxycodone easily as well ime. I stopped taking it after I crushed my chest because it stops working after a week and you need more for the same results. It didn’t really do anything for the pain, I just didn’t care about the pain.
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04-13-2023, 09:59 AM #361
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04-13-2023, 02:58 PM #362
The difference is that extended release is intended to maintain the blood levels. With standard release you have to work at it. Or to put it another way--it's a lot simpler to wean off standard release than ER.
As far as someone getting an opiate for pain and willing to do anything to feel that good again--they're getting too much opiate.
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04-14-2023, 11:02 AM #363
Thanks guys. I have to share that shit, it makes my current days struggles seem like a walk in the park when I revisit those memories. It also helps to share and help others understand that battles that some people face and deal with. I am also more then willing to ever talk with anyone, whether they have a problem or if it’s trying to understand why a loved one is walking that path or how to help.
The only way to end the opioid crisis is to show the users there is something better to live for them that, but that’s a pretty hard struggle in this country with the current state of affairs. But every junky is a master manipulator, so giving free things, or breaking laws with no punishment makes a junky not change anything.
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04-14-2023, 01:58 PM #364
Your earlier post was enlightening to put a face (or at least an avatar photo) to the problem. Appreciate the openness - it will likely benefit another mag or a friend/family member of a mag in some way.
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04-14-2023, 02:18 PM #365
We are sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, best friends. It's a tragic and dangerous situation. Very few addicts/alcoholics wake up one day and decide to become unemployable criminals. It should be treated as illness, not crime. Recovery prospects are pretty slim for most. But, miracles do happen. Thanks for sharing Joey.
Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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06-06-2023, 11:32 AM #366
Think it's time to bump this thread after THIS late breaking news (cross-post from the Shit that annoys you thread):
Court grants Sackler family immunity in exchange for $6 billion opioid settlement
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/30/busin...ity/index.html
An Appeals Court Gave the Sacklers Legal Immunity
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/31/h...y-opioids.html
With the countless lives lost and still being flushed down the toilet thanks to these demons, that entire family deserves some vigilante justice since our corrupt justice system just basically gave them the proverbial slap on the wrist.
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06-06-2023, 11:41 AM #367
They deserve to spend eternity in hell while Satan shoves a flaming pineapple up each of their orifices.
And I'm going to point a very large polyass finger at the political party that most supports this kind of business practice and has most recently installed judges that feel the same, including a SCOTUS supermajority.
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11-18-2023, 03:48 PM #368
Bumping this because I found myself rereading posts. The hard days now are leaps and bounds easier then the hard days of my past.
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11-18-2023, 04:50 PM #369
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11-19-2023, 05:24 PM #370
i guess it works. I often wonder how people deal with the shit in life that made me do what I did. I know I did it so I couldn’t feel the hurt or pain, a coping mechanism.
i got rejected from a peer counseling group for labeling myself as an “ex-junky”. Labels aren’t allowed, wait what!?!? If someone touches kids, pedophile. Someone rapes people, rapist. Murders someone, murderer. But calling myself a junky, no fucking way, not allowed.
Guess that’s what I get for giving a shit and wanting to help, books teach it best, not the person that’s lived that path.
Rant over.
Signed by an ex-junky
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11-19-2023, 09:04 PM #371
Let's Talk About The Opioid Problem
Rant away (if you want to) - its helpful to hear about your experiences.
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11-19-2023, 09:19 PM #372
acceptance is one of the basic stones on the path. bravo SoVT Joey.
not all people who've gone down a path can find ways out for others. disbarring labels seems like an awfully inflexible path, almost hypocritical.Merde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
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11-20-2023, 07:15 PM #373
Right on man. Going on 4 years off benzos. While I’m very happy where I am in life now, that junky part of me still occasionally thinks about popping a pill to not deal with things, especially when things are just going wrong left and right.
But I don’t.
Strength to us both to just don’t. And the rest of you all reading this. Just don’t.
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11-20-2023, 08:17 PM #374
I would take Ativan every night if I could without professional, family, social, and health detriment. None of those are possible, but I understand the allure.
Weaning off benzos can actually be life threatening, and miserable. Where withdrawing from narcotics, while miserable, is almost never life threatening.
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11-20-2023, 08:28 PM #375
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