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I'm writing on behalf of a friend A. He was smoking black tar for about a month, and due to his generally high tolerance for any substance, developed a tolerance to the point of 1 g/day. After a month he willingly stopped and was able to successfully wean off suboxone in just 3 days. Then he developed an injury in his leg, and despite warning his orthopedic doctor against prescribing him any narcotic pain killers, the idiot doctor did so anyway, pushing my friend A to relapse and start smoking again for another 2-3 weeks, during which time I was away. After the three weeks, again with my finding out he willingly stopped using, but this time it was not so easy. He was on suboxone, tapering down over a period of a week. We were both new to this and getting our information from internet forums and experienced friends, but the information we got was often mixed. Apparently, a week of tapering down was too quick for A's receptors to adjust, and that's why it didn't work. A's withdrawals continued. So we started over, this time tapering down over a longer period of time, but again it didnt work. Three months of on and off withdrawal and suboxone use continued. Apparently Some of it had been absorbed by A's body fat and released from time to time, meaning that A's body wasn't fully detoxed. To compound the fat storage problem, we had to make the hard decision of having A smoke again the night before his last college final, because he had gone into precipitated withdrawal and needed fast relief in order to prepare for his final. Then we started from scratch again with suboxone, and while the number of days when he is feeling fine with or without suboxone have increased, his withdrawal has persisted. A would often black out, and in his black outs start gagging, leading us to believe that it was A's body's mechanism of getting rid of the stored H. When A did throw up, it was black colored, confirming our hypothesis. While A no longer blacks out or throws up black vomit, the withdrawal has persisted. To make it worse, sub has become unreliable in treating the withdrawal and is actually compounding it with its own side effects. We don't know what else to do; A's quality of life has completely deteriorated with this problem. A is a great person and has kicked the habit, and just wants to find physical peace. It's been 6 months of non-stop discomfort, pain, and depression. We don't know what type of doctor to turn to and trust because the knowledge on the topic is not very advanced, and doctors are either too judgmental to care or have their own agendas. Can anyone shed some insight on A's complications? Thank you for your time in reading this long post but we're desperate and I think it helps to know the full story. Oh and I think it's worth mentioning that A has used a lot of stimulants in A's past, but never got addicted or even physically damaged by it in the least, probably because of protective genetic factors, which also gave A the idea that trying H wouldn't come with addiction for A. I wonder if A's complications are due to the possibility that due to the large amount of substance use, A's body has been so thrown out of whack that it can no longer recover as easily? Also, A takes benzos (not close in time with sub use) which some times help with the withdrawal and the negative side effects of sub.
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We got married and have a child now. I have stoped smoking for years now, ever since becoming a parent. (as I thought he would too).
I am a stay a home mom and my husband is a very hard worker. His job is very stress full and he has all this dreams of starting his own business, so every year he works for this goal, and every year he doesn't accomplish it so he turns to smoking pot. His job is seasonal so on his months off all he wants to do is sneak around and smoke pot all day. I don't know how to help him see that he will never accomplish this dream off his if he just lounges around smoking pot on his months off!!! Our kid is young and hasn't noticed "yet". But today I had the dissapointment of watching him sneak around the backyard to smoke and then came in to give our kid a pep talk (after he had just punished her before going for a smoke). I had a melt down. I just don't belive our kid deserves to have a high parent taking care of her or giving her any kind of guidance.....now I feel like i've just told you my whole life...but I really don't know what to do anymore...help.View Thread
Can someone reply please as I would like to advocate for a change in drug laws if the science substantiates it. Think of how much money we could divert to prevention and curing of addiction, if we did not have to spend it on fighting the drug law violations.View Thread
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He started off taking one ever few days, then it was one a day, then two then three... can you see where i am going with this? Finally he admitted to me that he was doing 10 30mg a day, I feel somewhat responsible that it got this out of hand, with the busy every day mommy duties and i was in school full time i feel so stupid that i didnt realize what was happening. He came to me about a month ago and said that he wanted to stop.. all the way! I am finally working a "real" job that gives our whole family insurance so he can get real help for his hand.
I did my research and told him that with the excessive amounts he was doing that he needed to cut down slowly, as to not cause too much damage to himself, well at least not any more than has already been done! He has now been on 1 a day for a week and on Thursday this week it will be his first day without one. I am looking for any kind of suggestions on what i can do to help him through the "hump"? I hate to see him going through the DTs that are comming.
I went to the local health food store and purchased a bottle of Sonny's 7, i have read that this helps to rapidly take toxins out of the body as well as putting the good stuff back in. I have also got him lots of Gatoraid, Extra Strength Tylenol PM, and Soup! Is there anything else I can get to help him help him-self? ie Nausea medicine or anything like that.
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After the arrest I got my sister into a drug clinic where she attended classes. A couple weeks ago I noticed she was showing up at the house high again. Last week my mom told me two of her very expensive rings were missing. I could immediatley make the connection between my sister using and missing items once again, she had very poor hygene, and also radical mood swings. My mom has become extremley distressed and depressed over the situation. I confronted my sister that she needs to give it back. She FREAKED out, being extremely defensive (her effort to try and manipulate me). Tonight I went to my moms and noticed she is still terribly upset about the whole thing. So I went to my sisters room and rumaged around. Didn't find much besides a scale, an empty container of Dayquil, and some blunt wraps. I then went on her facebook messages to see if maybe she had talked to any friends about selling my moms rings. All I found was that she is back using pure MDMA (45$ a hit) and excessive amounts of acid and stated "the pawn shop is my favourite place'. When she got home she noticed that I had been on her stuff and FREAKED out again. I told her I had found 'all i needed to know' and that 'you wouldn't be so upset unless you were hiding something'. I felt bad leaving my mom to my sisters temper tantrum and that I ruined my moms day. But I honestly believe that my sister had invaded our privacy via stealing and had unearned our trust. I do not believe that she deserves her own privacy. She now is saying horrible things, threatening me and saying that she doesn't ever want to hear from me again even though we have always been the CLOSEST sisters pre-drug use. Her court date is June 13th : / Was I wrong for going through her stuff? What should I do about my mom? What do I do about this entire situation? Please help : (View Thread
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gahhhh it's really stressing me out and I would really apreciate advice on personality alterations as result of smoking weed.View Thread
Last November I decided to experiment and see if 5htp would help alleviate my anxiety in any way. I took a dose of 50mg for about 2months before it started making extremely shaky and jittery. At the same time I had dropped my Paxil down to about 1mg so I am not sure if it was the HTp or the Pax that caused the issue but I decided to play it safe and discontinue the Paxil. I upped my dose of Paxil back to 2.5mg and it took about 1 week for the jitteriness to fade. After that I felt like my old self for about 2 weeks. Then I started suffering from dizziness and just overall bad feeling on a regular basis this went on for about 2months. One day I felt so horrible I decided to see if it was the Paxil and upped my dose to 5mg. Within 1 hour I went from being bedridden to being %100 fine. I had my answer I for some reason needed a higher dose of Paxil. I did fine for two days and then got even sicker than I had been. I toughed it out for 2weeks and but the side effects were horrendous, shakiness, disorientation and extreme dizziness. I then went back to 2.5mg and felt ok for a couple of days and then the symptoms all came back again. I stuck it out on the 2.5mg for about another week and then I just couldn't take it anymore so I stopped taking the pax altogether. That was 4 weeks ago. I felt ok the first week but since the second week I have had horrible sickness, dizziness, insomnia and have been an emotional wreck constantly crying (I have never had depression issues). I have missed significant time from work and now in week 4 this is showing no signs of letting up. I have had blood work done and no other issues have been found so I am fairly certain I am suffering Serotonin Discontinuation Syndrome. How long should I expect to continue suffering?View Thread
I am a 27 year old female who lives alone, is single, and has a very successful career. I worked hard and moved up very FAST. I am also putting myself through Grad school to get a Masters in Business. My entire life I was the over achiever. I came from a very bad abusive childhood and got through that by becoming the opposite of what I grew up around. Hard work, goals, success...thats what always gave me validation. When I was 24 I had my first Vicodin after surgery and was in heaven. I Couldnt believe a pill could make you feel so good. Over a few years, a really bad break up and another surgery I ended up with a 15 Norco a day habit. Thats 1500MG a DAY, every day for the last 2.5 years. Nothing happened that made me "hit my bottom", but I came to a point where I realized it was VERY close for me and I have too much to risk losing it all. I noticed my personality changed, I am always emotion, irritable, tired and relying upon pills to do every day things like wake up in the morning, go to a movie. I paid a pretty penny for an expensive support group/detox program. I am on day 2 of Suboxone 1 8mg pill a day, and so far I am really happy. I hvaent felt this normal in years. I dont think about pills, I have NO Cravings, no withdrawals. its kind of amazing that I can feel this way and I had no idea there was this much hope. I woke up this morning and didnt even feel like I needed the suboxone today, so I am going to try to taper off as FAST as possible. My doctor has me on a 6 week schedule but Id like to get off within a week. I am signed up for 3 days a week support group. I am ready for the change. I flushed my 100 Norco I had left. I told my family.....nobody knew. Its time for a change. Problem is I am scared . I have no idea how to live wihtout this crutch I created for mysef. Is it dangerous for me to get off the sub sooo fast? I feel lke I can do it but is that a false feeling of confidence? I dont drink smoke have never been a "partier" , so thats why it took me so long to accept I had a problem. I really classified myself in a different category and it took a lot for me to come to terms with reality. I feel so alone and scared and I am tired of the guilt and shame of this dirty secret I have had for so long. Any general advice for me?View Thread
I just wanna pretty much find out how long will it take my brain to return to a "normal" state and how long will it take my lungs to recover because I really miss playing Baseball and Basketball but I feel like I would suck if I started back playing right now in the current state my body is in. Also would it help my body recover quicker if I began to work out and drink nothing but water (I have already started to do this btw)
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Now when we have a drug like Naltrexone, which blocks the opiate receptors in our system if they are messed with, crushed, melted, whatever they do to get an instant high, we dont put it in all opiates and hide the fact that it even exists. To late by now they have already figured out a way to get around it. They always will. we have to stay one step ahead of them which we will never do. What needs to be done is put a stop th this instant gratification sh__. Ew may have alredy lost a generation or two but it's time to put the words NO, WAIT, YOUR NEXT, Hold On For A Minute, Take A Damn Number and Wait Your Turn. Stop being afraid of hurting their feelings or raising an insecure kid. Dead is not an alternative. Teach respect, patience, sensativity, morals and the rules of life. Forget December 21, 2012 unless we change we are going to end the world as we know it. Take a few minutes out of your self indulged lives and think about it. If you can't see what we are doing then we are going to kill our children or grandchildren. Think, act and pray it's not to little to lateView Thread
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