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Posted by reese7194 on January 9, 2006, at 9:01:04
hi,
everyone. i see that people are taking / trying buprenex which i am glad to see. i remember five years or so ago...trying to get that stuff. my god was it hell.
i am currently on opiods and have been for the past few years. i don't know if anyone else has been on any opiod for this amount of time. but i am curios what side effects they have felt.
besdies the obvious of tolerance...what else?
for me the one thing that worries me and makes me stop taking them sometimes is a feeling that it dries up my passion / mental activity. it's the only med that works like the stereotype of how lithium is supposed to work for the crazed manic / depressive. it did save my life. i can sit still. no longer feel like i am on fire. i can sleep. etc etc etc
but i do feel like it has lowered the voices in my head somewhat. i don't know if this makes sense. or i think it can be the fact that i have gotten older. more jaded. more angry. more pathetic. more hopeless. you know? it's hard when you feel like you have nothing left to turn to.
put it this way. if anything ever happened again the last place in the world i would go is a mental hospital. why? there is nothing they can do for me there that i can't do for myself at this point. people who have been there enough understand that the main thing it does is ... it's like a waiting room but it goes for days or maybe a week.
i am rambling now. currently taking depakote, adderall, klonipin, cymbalta (useless) anyone else taken this, some other stuff as well
bye bye
reese
Posted by ed_uk on January 9, 2006, at 16:11:28
In reply to opiod side effects, posted by reese7194 on January 9, 2006, at 9:01:04
Hi Reese
Did you used to post under a different name?
Ed
Posted by reese7194 on January 9, 2006, at 19:33:18
In reply to Re: opiod side effects » reese7194, posted by ed_uk on January 9, 2006, at 16:11:28
yeah i did. i'm trying to think what it was. but for awhile i was in and out of here a lot. that's funny. did you have the same name then?
Posted by Declan on January 10, 2006, at 1:06:05
In reply to opiod side effects, posted by reese7194 on January 9, 2006, at 9:01:04
I think the drying up of passion can be both age related and the result of opioid use.
I know what you mean about not going to mental hospitals. I was talking to my doctor about health insurance and when you might need it, and he said, 'why would you need to be in a hospital when you're dying?'
Declan
Posted by reese7194 on January 10, 2006, at 1:34:49
In reply to Re: opiod side effects » reese7194, posted by Declan on January 10, 2006, at 1:06:05
declan,
what makes you think it could be opiod related? it's strange. i actually think that...i don't know....it's two thirty. if i'm not careful i'll be up all night. so before i start writing i should try to lie down and listen to music or something.
what is your expierence with them if you have any may i ask?
Posted by Declan on January 10, 2006, at 12:12:02
In reply to opiod side effects, posted by reese7194 on January 9, 2006, at 9:01:04
Hi Reece
I do remember a time once when I was listening to some music and haveing an intense response, Mozart or something, and when the Palfium started to work the special character of the music died for me. And then there's the (I assume) long term low grade depression from methadone.
So are you in the position that you have traded the intensity of the voices in your head for being more jaded, angry, pathetic and hopeless?? Hmmmm, I dunno. Over 40 years the intensity of the voices in my head has greatly diminished, which I think is age and just general damage; getting stupider and wiser is what happens as you get older.
I don't think of opiates as haveing side effects, which is silly, maybe it's just that they're all so familiar. I have a 30 year relationship with them.
Declan
Posted by ed_uk on January 10, 2006, at 14:03:10
In reply to Re: opiod side effects, posted by reese7194 on January 9, 2006, at 19:33:18
I've always had the same name :)
Ed
Posted by reese7194 on January 10, 2006, at 17:23:47
In reply to Re: opiod side effects » reese7194, posted by ed_uk on January 10, 2006, at 14:03:10
what made you think you remembered me from before. do you remember who was around then. i remember elizabeth. she was like the patient doc for a lot of people and some other people. but i don't rememer your name and i think i would have cause my best friends name is ed and when i saw your emai l thought it was him making fun of me
Posted by ed_uk on January 11, 2006, at 9:05:37
In reply to Re: opiod side effects, posted by reese7194 on January 10, 2006, at 17:23:47
Hi Reese,
I don't think I knew you. I was just curious.
Elizabeth hasn't posted for a very long time I'm afraid.
Ed
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