Posted by bulldog2 on March 20, 2010, at 17:48:43
In reply to curious: vicodin potentiates stimulant?, posted by floatingbridge on March 19, 2010, at 23:22:15
> My back has seriously been out--worst in years. (I see a pysiatrist in a month.) So I've resorted to an old bottle of Vicodin 5mg/325mg. I don't know if that's a high dose or what. After a few weeks of pain that keeps me from sleeping, I've overcome my puritanical ways and have been taking 2 per day. Not only is the pain a shadow of itself, but I take way less stimulant. My mood is really pretty good. I don't feel high, impaired, uncoordinated, or fuzzy.
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> I'm hoping, of course, that I'm not writing you all from rehab next month.
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> So what gives? Energy from Vicodin?Sounds like synergy to me. Your situation sounds somewhat similar to mine. This winter all the snow shoveling aggravated my sciatica. Now at the time I was already on parnate 30 mg. My pain specialist came up with an idea. He felt that percocet would not only help with the pain but would benefit mood. He had run blood and urine studies that showed a shortage of endorphins.
I feel like a different person. The two meds work better when used together than each one used apart.The parnate pulls me out of depression but not much else. The percocet turns the pictures in my mind to color hd three dimension from a dull black and white.People who are endorphin deficient need to tinker with dopamine and endorphins. An maoi like parnate that enhances neurotransmitters provides the perfect background for for a splash of endorphin and dopamine.
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