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Pinside Medical Support Thread!

By Frippertron

6 years ago


Topic Heartbeat

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#23 6 years ago
Quoted from Frippertron:

You know it's embarrassing to say but I don't care. With my back problems, I was prescribed opiates for many years. I ended up with unrelated heart problems and wanted to get off the meds. My doctor didn't recommend it because of my heart but there was a new medicine for people trying to get off opiates called Suboxone. Well I started that and have been on the medicine for a decade. I don't feel a thing from it and I have to take it at least every 48 hours or I have violent withdrawal symptoms. If you have a high opiate tolerance when you start taking the drug, it's like taking an aspirin. I wish I never started It. Every month I have to sit in a waiting room for 2 hours with a bunch of heroin addicts. I don't have many options with my health, so I just keep taking the medicine, it sucks. Since it's a long acting drug and how long I've been on it, the doctor thinks I would be in withdrawal for months. Not something I can physically or mentally handle. The more information that comes out on that drug suggest it should only be used briefly and they've had me on it for 10 years!

Look into kratom as it greatly helped me get off of a nightly too much vodka habit. Apparently works well / better for people with opiate dependencies.

#27 6 years ago

fear mongering by big pharma and FDA. Ban lettuce, sprouts and Chipotle restaurants as many more are sickened by that. I make mine into a tea which would kill any bugs like salmonella.

After over prescribing incredibly addictive opiates and having the spotlight finally come on them they want to keep people $$$ coming in with maintenance opiates like suboxone. Kratom is a direct threat to profits so they want to squash it any way possible. Follow the $$$. Alcohol companies, big pharma, FDA are all dirty AF.

#33 6 years ago
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It's funny years ago people at the pain specialist used to talk about buying dried poppy pods and crushing them and making tea, instead of dealing with pharma. This essentially made straight up drinkable opium that a lot of people were arrested for growing and eBay was reprimanded for selling around 11-12 years ago. Look up poppy pod tea.

I was a dumb teenager once and know about the poppy pods... Problem with poppy pod tea is its just as addictive if not more than pills. The "ornamental" poppy loophole was one that was probably good to be closed off.

If you want to get off Suboxone i really think you could come up with a taper or go as long as you can until withdrawl is kicking then switch to kratom. Taper down Kratom doses, which is supposed to have a much more managable withdrawl than subs, and then jump off kratom and be clean.

#73 6 years ago
Quoted from Frippertron:

I need to try that kratom stuff. Is there a best online place to buy it?

I like Canopy Botanicals. Super cheap and highly effective. My dosing schedule works out to be like only $0.50 a day. I did trade drinking booze for taking kratom but it was so worth it. Drinking a handle of booze a week felt like it was killing me. Now I am over 6 months alcohol free. No hang overs. No high chasing. I take one single dose a day that has not changed that completely quells my urge to drink. Quality of life improved.

Like marijuana, differences in strains of kratom are highly exaggerated. There are some minor differences, but to me they are subtle at best.

https://canopybotanicals.com/index.php/green-hulu.html

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