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Re: Opiate addicts support group [Re: Anonymous #7]
    #25910605 - 04/01/19 10:13 PM (4 years, 9 months ago)

I'm really sorry to hear about your predicament man. I know "predicament" is putting it lightly. You need to get on methadone maintenance. If you're unwilling to go through the suffering or kratom route I'd say methadone is your best bet. It's really good for pain though there is an uncomfortable adjustment period.

I've got 6 months clean and I still occassionally think about going back to methadone because I'm scared shitless of relapse on h or poppy tea...the instability it would cause


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Re: Opiate addicts support group [Re: Anonymous #2]
    #25910627 - 04/01/19 10:25 PM (4 years, 9 months ago)

I don't think it works for coming off high dose methadone,  but it may help once I'm deep in withdrawal. Thank you for your reply.


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Re: Opiate addicts support group [Re: Anonymous #7] * 1
    #25911744 - 04/02/19 02:32 PM (4 years, 9 months ago)

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I don't think it works for coming off high dose methadone,  but it may help once I'm deep in withdrawal. Thank you for your reply.





Kratom will work for any opoid.  It won't attach to all your receptors and won't be 100% coverage but it will help.

Your other option is to do what I did.  Go sign up for a methadone clinic.  You can choose to stay on methadone maintenece as long as you want. When my foray into pain started out the docs couldn't figure out what was causing it. Got to a point where I couldn't afford to keep doing crazy tests over and over again after I lost insurance.  I started self medicating.  The medicating led to partying which eventually led to heroin.  At the point I was ready to get off the heroin because of how inconsistent being 'normal' was I made the decision to get into a methadone clinic because at least then my pain issues are handled.

I'm now at the very very end of my methadone taper off.  Down to 3mg a day from 5 years on the shit and 2 years at 130mg.  After all those years my pain has actually gotten quite a bit better and when it kicks in gabapentin and lyrica help, far more than they did in the beginning.

tl;dr If pain is the real issue go to a methadone clinic, tell them your an addict and you want to go on methadone maint.  Your insurance may cover it as well but you will have to change your song from 'dealing with legit pain' to 'im an addict and need help'.

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Re: Opiate addicts support group [Re: Anonymous #2]
    #25912011 - 04/02/19 05:10 PM (4 years, 9 months ago)

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I've got 6 months clean and I still occassionally think about going back to methadone because I'm scared shitless of relapse on h or poppy tea...the instability it would cause




Very insightful . . .  "Fear of relapse" is a common excuse for choosing to use drugs.


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Re: Opiate addicts support group [Re: RJ Tubs 202]
    #25912822 - 04/03/19 05:31 AM (4 years, 9 months ago)

Pain is the root cause of all my problems,  I love life even when things are shitty, but the pain is a totally different thing,  constant incessant pain that drills into the very core of my being.  I never knew that a person could hurt in so many ways literally driving a person insane at times. Pain is the only thing that has ever caused me to think long and hard about taking my life. I know 100% for sure  that I will end this and perform self inflicted euthanasia.

Other than smoking some weed and eating mushrooms,  drugs weren't my thing, at least not until I had the 1st stroke,  deep vein thrombosis and 3 pulmonary embolism. The damage caused by the clots really hurt me, leading me to take powerful opioids for about 23 years. It's shocking how doctors are treating people like me and it's all because of the drug war.


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Re: Opiate addicts support group [Re: Anonymous #7]
    #25938026 - 04/16/19 01:10 PM (4 years, 9 months ago)

Hey guys! Just wanted to say it is most definitely possible with kratom. I have been using about 7 grams in the morning and another 7 before I go to bed. Im almost one week clean of a 300+mg oxycodone addiction a day. I havent touched mushrooms in over a year until this last Saturday. I had one of if not the craziest experience Ive ever had. The physical aspect of my trip felt borderline dangerous but only because I wouldnt let go. But without going into detail it left me with a new thought process and it feels damned good to break free of the addiction! I hope everyone is having a great week!


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Re: Opiate addicts support group [Re: StillSong]
    #25939091 - 04/16/19 11:10 PM (4 years, 9 months ago)

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But without going into detail it left me with a new thought process and it feels damned good to break free of the addiction!




We're all told (repeatedly) that addiction is a life-long chronic disease we will battle forever.

Can you talk a bit more about defeating addiction? Is it a pipe dream or is it real?


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Re: Opiate addicts support group [Re: RJ Tubs 202]
    #25939483 - 04/17/19 07:44 AM (4 years, 9 months ago)

Ahhh. Thank you for the correction. I will always consider myself an addict. HEven now if I were offered dope I'm not 100% sure I wouldn't cave. Breaking of the mindset that I need opiates to cope with an underlying issue is more on par. I had a mental reset from my last trip. I was shown that I have the power to turn off that mentality and that that the grass is still green on the other side. I woke uup everyday and found myself making excuse after excuse to use. My job being to strenuous, thinking about how I've already wasted so many years so whats another year of misery. I'ts not been particularly easy but I wake up now and tell myself look what you still have to lose. Motivation is something I've struggled with my whole life. I now try and plan a routine that works for me. I take my dose of kratom early in the morning and then go and meditate for an hour. Meditating has been a HUGE help. Ive learned to be able to control how I feel and can literally pull myself out of a bad mood as well as ignore the physical bodies desires. I usually retreat to the woods out behind our residence and soak in the sun until my mind becomes still as well as any worldly distraction. I cant tell you how this works but I've meditated to get rid of back pain and headaches and it doesnt always happen immediately but eventually I lose all connection with my physical self and it just works for me. I've done my homework by blocking contact with anybody associated with before hand. That is a must because who needs the extra temptation right? Sorry this wasn't the sophisticated detailed answer you were probably looking for. Other lifesavers for me have been lowdose gabapentin,catapress combo. Makes it very easy to go through the withdrawl. Ibogaine has a history of rewiring the brain, which I've considered but mushrooms and starting meditation along with kratom has done the trick for me.

I want the best for everyone of you. I wish you all the best in getting clean. I'll always struggle with the urge but so far so good for me


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Re: Opiate addicts support group [Re: StillSong]
    #25939591 - 04/17/19 09:28 AM (4 years, 9 months ago)

I'm on Methadone Maintenance Treatment.  Previously i've done Suboxone, Rehab, 12 step meetings.  If you can believe in god 12 step programs are the best way to get clean IMO.  Those programs haven't worked for me in the past though.  So methadone was my last solution to this problem of shooting dope for 12 years.

It sucks to have to get up and go to a place 6 days a week but next month because of successive clean drug screens i'll go there 5 days a week.  Eventually going every 2 weeks.  However this is the only thing that has worked for me.  I've been off of heroin for more then a year now and i'm a functioning member of society.  Methadone not only takes away all and any cravings for opiates it also takes away cravings for alcohol too which is something I didn't expect was going to happen. 

I am a functioning member of society now.  I'm able to support myself, work full time and generally take care of business.  Methadone is what has worked for me, I wish I had gone this route a lot sooner.


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Re: Opiate addicts support group [Re: RJ Tubs 202]
    #25940626 - 04/17/19 09:06 PM (4 years, 9 months ago)

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I've got 6 months clean and I still occassionally think about going back to methadone because I'm scared shitless of relapse on h or poppy tea...the instability it would cause




Very insightful . . .  "Fear of relapse" is a common excuse for choosing to use drugs.



Theres no reason to belittle someones own experience. You dont know what ANON 2 has going on in their life.


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Re: Opiate addicts support group [Re: trvptamine] * 1
    #25942554 - 04/18/19 09:54 PM (4 years, 9 months ago)

I been on methadone for a lil over three and a half yrs that shit saved my life that forsure. Now that is been yrs since I've had a dirty drop I only have to go in once a week so its not bad at all. The past 2 yrs I've been slowly tapering from 95mgs now down to 27mgs. Looking back at where I was at 4 yrs ago from now is a HUGE difference now I'm back traveling and going to music festivals in the summer and taking care of my family.
It also has helped my girlfriend we both went to the clinic around the same time after our addictions got so bad I was robbing my family daily and things were very unmanageable. Thankfully I got help when I did cause I know I was on the verge of being 100% on the street if I woulda let things go on for another yr if not dead since around the time I quit was also when the fent laced dope started coming around more and was the start of friends I used with dieing I've now lost count at how many friends have died since I've been at the clinic def makes me think about how luck I really am.


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Re: Opiate addicts support group [Re: AVShroomer]
    #25943762 - 04/19/19 01:37 PM (4 years, 9 months ago)

I have been turned down by the methadone clinic 3 times, but I was seeing a pain management doctor. Hopefully,  things will change Monday and they will let me in now that the doctor has dropped me.

I'm terrified of having to go through withdrawal and deal with my pain issues at the same time, it's the only thing that has ever made me suicidal and I'm not that kind of person, but pain takes me to a place that I can't deal with on my own.


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Re: Opiate addicts support group [Re: Anonymous #7]
    #25946528 - 04/20/19 09:43 PM (4 years, 9 months ago)

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I have been turned down by the methadone clinic 3 times, but I was seeing a pain management doctor. Hopefully,  things will change Monday and they will let me in now that the doctor has dropped me.

I'm terrified of having to go through withdrawal and deal with my pain issues at the same time, it's the only thing that has ever made me suicidal and I'm not that kind of person, but pain takes me to a place that I can't deal with on my own.




I feel you on that! a little over a yr ago a yr ago I got very sick with prostititus which is a infection in your prostate and I was in so much pain on top of constantly peeing I dunno how it happened and the drs couldn't tell me anything either it lasted for weeks aswell and on the 3rd week of going thru that agony I broke down and found a heroin dealer and copped. The dope I got was def fent and the feeling I got from it wasn't what I was hoping for I was high as hell but it wasn't that euphoric heroin high.

The next day after fucking up I beat myself up a bit about it but I told myself I just have to make sure I don't go back again I needed to just get thru the sickness and pain I was dealing with and not cave.

Thankfully I did just that and didn't go back out and since then prostititus went away but now I have an enlarged prostate which from the sounds of it ill have to deal with for the rest of my life (I'm in my 30s btw). The prescription they been having me take for it seems to be helping alot atleast. It just pissed me off that I gotta deal with this shit in my 30s normally you don't hear about shit like that happening to people my age but I been trying to remind myself that things could be MUCH MUCH worse in many different ways everything else in my life has never been better and I don't even count that one slip up a relapse now if I woulda kept going out for the next week or so then that woulda been a relapse in my eyes.


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Re: Opiate addicts support group [Re: AVShroomer]
    #25949925 - 04/22/19 09:59 PM (4 years, 9 months ago)

I just found this thread and glad it exists, I am a former heroin addict and ever since getting off of it, I haven't felt as happy as I used to be. I don't know if it's because of the drugs or if it's because I'm depressed. I never used to think I was depressed because I have happy moments in my day. But looking at it as a whole I really don't have much to look forward to at all when I wake up. I'm constantly anxious, I don't like leaving the house any more, I am irritable more frequently, and I just don't feel like I'm in a good spot in my life. I've even considered volunteering at a Mormon church, and I can't stand those guys. I live in a semi toxic environment and I can't get out of it and I feel like it's all piling up.


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Re: Opiate addicts support group [Re: Anonymous #9]
    #25950404 - 04/23/19 07:37 AM (4 years, 9 months ago)

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I just found this thread and glad it exists, I am a former heroin addict and ever since getting off of it, I haven't felt as happy as I used to be. I don't know if it's because of the drugs or if it's because I'm depressed. I never used to think I was depressed because I have happy moments in my day. But looking at it as a whole I really don't have much to look forward to at all when I wake up. I'm constantly anxious, I don't like leaving the house any more, I am irritable more frequently, and I just don't feel like I'm in a good spot in my life. I've even considered volunteering at a Mormon church, and I can't stand those guys. I live in a semi toxic environment and I can't get out of it and I feel like it's all piling up.



Maybe you had some underlying problems before you ever started heroin. I certainly did and I didnt start dealing with them until I had been off of heroin for 3 months. Your opioid receptors could also still be recovering.

The thing is heroin makes living so easy. It takes a while to learn to deal with all the physical and emotional fatigue and pain regular sober people have to deal with every day.


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Re: Opiate addicts support group [Re: trvptamine] * 1
    #25950726 - 04/23/19 11:36 AM (4 years, 9 months ago)

Ok, I had an appointment at 6am this morning at the methadone clinic, they said that I had to wait 9 days before they could dose me, wtf, I swear I am the only person I have ever known to have so much trouble getting into a clinic. They told me to do whatever I have to do to make it work until then, someone donated 100mg so that will keep me from getting to freaking sick.

The doctor freaked out that my doctor dropped me the way he did,  she seemed like she was going to get in his ass about it, but she couldn't help me until the 3rd of may because of the way he wrote my last scripts. Good news is that I can start at a pretty high dose compared to the normal protocol because of my unique medical conditions. Thank you for sharing your experiences everyone,  it makes a difference, at least y'all have helped me get into the right direction and believe that this is the best option for me, I know that I can never be completely drug free from opioids.


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Re: Opiate addicts support group [Re: Anonymous #7]
    #25951781 - 04/23/19 09:02 PM (4 years, 9 months ago)

With how bad your pain is I think it would be hard for you to stay away from opioids too. Plus if you were to just take NSAIDs for the rest of your life you might end up with some pretty serious health problems. With opioids that should be less of a concern, although being an addict for the rest of your life wont be easy. Im sure you know that though. I dont have extreme chronic pain of any sort myself so getting off of heroin wasnt really that hard. The hard part for me has been staying away from it ever since I got "clean". I find it hard to not use every once in a while still because I miss the feeling so much. The last time I used, about 3 weeks ago, I overdosed and had to go in the ambulance to the hospital. Its the most scared for my life Ive ever been seeing my blood oxygen level go below 40%. I had never realized how the lack of oxygen during an overdose could cause serious problems down the line even if I survive the actual OD. The scare from my last overdose has been enough to make me never want to IV again, although I still think I will probably end up smoking H every once in a while still in the future.


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    #25953101 - 04/24/19 03:42 PM (4 years, 9 months ago)

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I just found this thread and glad it exists, I am a former heroin addict and ever since getting off of it, I haven't felt as happy as I used to be. I don't know if it's because of the drugs or if it's because I'm depressed. I never used to think I was depressed because I have happy moments in my day. But looking at it as a whole I really don't have much to look forward to at all when I wake up. I'm constantly anxious, I don't like leaving the house any more, I am irritable more frequently, and I just don't feel like I'm in a good spot in my life. I've even considered volunteering at a Mormon church, and I can't stand those guys. I live in a semi toxic environment and I can't get out of it and I feel like it's all piling up.



Same here. Kinda realized the anxiety was covering up some depression. Started meditating and getting the anxiety down and found underneath was just sad-ass, bummed out depression. Better to be honest with yourself and see it for what it is so you can address it. Start learning to cultivate joy and visualizing a better you. Practicing mindfulness helped me get an objective view and found the depression was crying out for some deep love and nurturing that I was neglecting to give myself.


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Re: Opiate addicts support group [Re: Cjmckay]
    #25953898 - 04/25/19 12:23 AM (4 years, 9 months ago)

What's up fellow junkies. I have been away from shroomery for over a year now. I lost my phone with all my acct info and couldn't remember my passwords or passwords to the email addys used to recover my passwords SMH. So I quit the forums for a while.

While I've been away I made and lost progress with getting off opiates (heroin primarily) I went to detox twice, then had 4 months clean, doing great before fucking up. I'm now fully physically addicted to IV heroin, though functioning with a decent job, home, and happy relationship with my girlfriend.

I actually decided to do what I always said I wouldn't. - I am waiting on my Dr. appointment to get on subs..

That's my update for anyone who cares, I Dont know if yall are any of the same people that was on here a year or 2 ago when this thread was made - crazy it is still going! - what happened to connoisseur? I see he is banned. Him and I were pretty good friends. I haven't talked to him in a long time and I feel bad. Anyone know the scoop on him?


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    #25954949 - 04/25/19 03:16 PM (4 years, 8 months ago)

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I actually decided to do what I always said I wouldn't. - I am waiting on my Dr. appointment to get on subs..





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