Author: TeeJay

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 4:49 am

It might be worth revisiting this old thread. I’ve finally stabilised after relapsing on heroin and finding myself with a habit that made it difficult to re-induce on Sub. I might not have known it at the time, but I may have done a bit of Homer’s technique without knowing it.

When first coming back on Sub, I found myself with some of the PW symptoms Stargazer mentioned. Sweating, goosebumps, limbs twitching like a crazy-man. Myoclonic jerks have been mentioned on this forum before, usually when falling asleep. I literally found myself elbowing anyone and anything sitting next to me. That was dosing approx 18 hours after last use, and I’d also cut down my habit from 1.7g a day of China to under a gram to prepare for the switch.

So against better judgement & conviction I kept using, in this limbo-land of really wanting to get back on Sub, but running back to the H to relieve precipitated withdrawal. But as I kept dosing intermittently, gradually the heroin was blocked more as the Sub stacked in my body. Eventually I found myself dosing more, and using less. While all this was going on, sanity gradually returned. My 12mg of Sub now holds me the full 24 hours, which was the dose I was on before the relapse.

While the induction was far from painless, I can see how there’d be merit to Homer’s idea. There’s been some people recently struggling to induce with large gear-habits, so it might be worth aiming for this smooth transition.