Monthly Archives: January 2012

Buprenorphine and Interferon / Ribavirin – it’s complicated!

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Author: tearj3rker

Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 6:46 pm

Thanks y’all…

As it often is, things come always at once. Lastnight my sister / bro-in-law had her first baby (Amelia – 5pd 5oz). We went in to see them. It was amazing the whole thing. She’s really beautiful. An Australia Day baby!

My mother will be coming out of hospital with her new metal hip next week. I offered to move back there for a few days to help out until she can take care of herself. So I’m kinda putting on a brave face and trying to push through. Other people clearly have bigger stuff going on. I originally told my mother / sister / bro-in-law about the Hep as they’re in the medical world and knew they’d be more understanding, but I don’t think I’ll tell them about the relapse. Keep it to my girlfriend, and you guys I spose. They don’t need to know.

All the while my bipolar’s been rapid cycling like a bitch since I got back from Port Douglas and off the anti-depressants, so things are far from stable at my end… and people can kinda tell from my face that something ain’t right. Esp when the Hep returning meant turning down alcohol on Australia Day. It was shameful! What does it mean to be Australian if you can’t get hammered and punch-on on Oz day?

Buprenorphine and Interferon / Ribavirin – it’s complicated!

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Author: tearj3rker

Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 6:46 pm

Thanks y’all…

As it often is, things come always at once. Lastnight my sister / bro-in-law had her first baby (Amelia – 5pd 5oz). We went in to see them. It was amazing the whole thing. She’s really beautiful. An Australia Day baby!

My mother will be coming out of hospital with her new metal hip next week. I offered to move back there for a few days to help out until she can take care of herself. So I’m kinda putting on a brave face and trying to push through. Other people clearly have bigger stuff going on. I originally told my mother / sister / bro-in-law about the Hep as they’re in the medical world and knew they’d be more understanding, but I don’t think I’ll tell them about the relapse. Keep it to my girlfriend, and you guys I spose. They don’t need to know.

All the while my bipolar’s been rapid cycling like a bitch since I got back from Port Douglas and off the anti-depressants, so things are far from stable at my end… and people can kinda tell from my face that something ain’t right. Esp when the Hep returning meant turning down alcohol on Australia Day. It was shameful! What does it mean to be Australian if you can’t get hammered and punch-on on Oz day?

Skip a day b4 taper down??

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Author: Adema

Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:00 pm

I failed!!! Made it to lunch time and depression and anxiety was to much. Basically I wussed out. Yes I’m all over the place with my dosages sometimes and I know I need to stop that!! I’m gone give it a go again 2morow. I really feel like if I can make it 48 hrs without dosing it’ll be alot easier for me to drop down significantly!

Skip a day b4 taper down??

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Author: Adema

Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:00 pm

I failed!!! Made it to lunch time and depression and anxiety was to much. Basically I wussed out. Yes I’m all over the place with my dosages sometimes and I know I need to stop that!! I’m gone give it a go again 2morow. I really feel like if I can make it 48 hrs without dosing it’ll be alot easier for me to drop down significantly!

The consensus on nitrous oxide at the dentist’s office

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Author: tearj3rker

Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:59 pm

Jimmy wrote:
I would think suboxone would block it’s effects, but apparently not! Very interesting. Maybe if they figure out why sub doesn’t block it, it would lead to some very important discoveries about opiate receptors!

It is used in some parts of the world to treat alcohol and other addictions (NO2 in South Africa). Humans react very differently to it, as do various other species. It causes dopamine release, but blocks the dopamine release of amphetamines. Very interesting reading! Wiki page for NO2

Nitrous has a v. different action to opioid drugs. It may affect opioid receptors, but that’d be just a small part of what it does. I used a lot of bulbs as a teen, and it’s surprisingly strong. I’d do a double shot, and experience the world and me dissolve to nothing for what felt days or months … When only 30 seconds had passed. The only thing I could compare it to would be … ketamine maybe?

The consensus on nitrous oxide at the dentist’s office

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Author: tearj3rker

Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:59 pm

Jimmy wrote:
I would think suboxone would block it’s effects, but apparently not! Very interesting. Maybe if they figure out why sub doesn’t block it, it would lead to some very important discoveries about opiate receptors!

It is used in some parts of the world to treat alcohol and other addictions (NO2 in South Africa). Humans react very differently to it, as do various other species. It causes dopamine release, but blocks the dopamine release of amphetamines. Very interesting reading! Wiki page for NO2

Nitrous has a v. different action to opioid drugs. It may affect opioid receptors, but that’d be just a small part of what it does. I used a lot of bulbs as a teen, and it’s surprisingly strong. I’d do a double shot, and experience the world and me dissolve to nothing for what felt days or months … When only 30 seconds had passed. The only thing I could compare it to would be … ketamine maybe?