Author: tearj3rker

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:31 pm

Having nitrous oxide at the dentist’s is a relapse?

Your friend sounds like some kind of recovery zealot.

Would having an epidural in labour be a relapse? I don’t think so. If it’s being used for legitimate painkilling purposes, and not abused, then it ain’t a relapse. However, if you weren’t actually in any pain, and you accepted it anyway because of how it’d make you feel… then that’d be pushing it IMO. But in this case only you would know within yourself whether or not you have relapsed.

Attitudes like this remind me of some of the people in NA who gossiped that I’d relapsed because I got put back on Seroquel.

In summary. Nitrous oxide in the dentist’s office for analgesia = not relapse.
Sucking down nitrous bulbs sitting on a rave dancefloor = pushing it.