Posted by MB on July 22, 2001, at 1:31:46
In reply to Re: Ultram withdrawal! » MB, posted by Elizabeth on July 21, 2001, at 22:22:06
> > You know what's really funny? I had a dream last night about this whole converastion...in the dream I was counting the tablets in the blister pack, and the blister pack kept getting bigger and bigger...I finally counted like 40 tabs and was thinking, "holy sh*t, I can't believe I took that many!"
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> That's pretty funny, yup!
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> > (using the word "like" in conversation, by the way, is one sure way to demonstrate one's erudition).
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> You mean as in "to be like" = "to say?"
It's like all funny to say "like."
> > Opiates cure my depression, but sadly, I *am* compulsive when I use them. I wonder if I would be with buprenorphine. Probably.
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> As far as I know, buprenorphine doesn't get you high. FWIW.
That detox place (not the methadone clinic, this was after that) in California, that stole my Xanax and put me on Tegretol, gave me buprenorphine for H withdrawal. They were too cheap to have a nurse practitioner or MD on site, so we couldn't get injections. The gave it to us sublingually. It didn't work, I thought it was bull****. Then one day they took me to the doctor for a checkup (this was inpatient treatment) and he gave me an intramuscular buprenorphine shot and I felt much better...cleared the chills and runny nose right up. I have no idea what it would have been like to take if I *hadn't* been withdrawing. But I can tell you (as you've said before) that sublingual buprenorphine is for the birds.> > > Are you on the west coast, by any chance?
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> > Yeah. I lived on the West Coast at the time. Any of the major cities along that coast (San Diego, L.A., San Francisco, Eugene, Portland, Seattle...) are innundated with the stuff (tar).
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> Yeah, that's what I was thinking: tar seems to be a west-coast-specific thing. I don't think one sees it in New York or Baltimore or Boston, for example.
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> > > Pot? I associate that more with, you know, high school kids. (and springtime, for some reason)
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> > Oh yeah, well, when you're a deadhead, it's always springtime, dear < g >.
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> < sniff > Ahh, spring is in the air!
I hear ya. Thank god for Flonase. I was a wreck until I got a script for that stuff (that *is* the "sniff" you're talking about, isn't it?).
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