>>56137
Allow me to tell you about REAL physical dependency on opioids :
On Monday, May 4th 2009 I was having a very simple surgical procedure (referred to as 'day surgery', because you are in and out and back home the same day) at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta.....
Just a simple procedure.. no big deal..
But the anesthesiologist over administered the conscious sedation anesthetic PROPOFOL...
and I had a massive coronary right there on the operating table... I actually extubated myself during the heart attack (ripping the breathing tube out, without deflating the balloons at the bifurcation beforehand, which ruined my vocal cords) and fought back swinging and punching the doctors and operating room staff as they tried to defibrillate me...
I was indeed eventually defibrillated, and they immediately put me into a medically induced coma, and set me upstairs to the cardiovascular intensive Care unit (CVICU) to monitor the damage to my heart muscles....
I was in a medically induced coma for FOURTEEN DAYS.....
The entire time, I had a PICC line in my neck, delivering drop after drop after drop after drop ofFENTANYL
14 days of a steady drip of fentanyl while I was in a coma........................
I realize intravenous fentanyl drips are nothing compared to that badass kratom you've been buying at the convenience store, but pay attention anyway
At the end of the 14 days, they yanked me out of the medically induced coma, and I suddenly woke up for the first time since suffering a massive heart attack on the operating table, actually DYING, being shocked back to life, then locked in a horrible stasis Frozen in a coma for 2 weeks....
At first I didn't know anything about a fentanyl drip in my neck... When they pulled me out of the coma nobody told me anything about the fentanyl in my neck...
My wife took me home, and 4 hours later I WENT INTO THE FIRST "DOPE SICK" OF MY LIFE !!!
I hate to use that stupid term 'dope sick', but that's what all the needle junkies call it when they go into heroin withdrawals.... As much as I hate to use the term, it correctly expresses the horrifying level I had reached at the hands of medical professionals..
It was horrible.... But quite honestly I've experienced a lot worse..
It was terrible.. but honestly, I've experienced much more terrible things before...
I simply went back to the hospital, checked myself into their emergency room, and when the doctor came in to see me, my wife yelled at him, "you idiots got him addicted to fentanyl and now he's in withdrawals!!!"
The doctor got my charts and his eyes opened up really big and wide, "DAMN !!! WE SURE DID!!"
Fortunately for me, I've studied internal medicine my entire adult life, and I am extremely familiar with the physiological process of becoming UN-addicted to opioids.... I explained to the doctor that I was aware it would take me ONLY 3 DAYS of discomfort to wean myself from the physical dependency....
He said "you're right. And you're the only one who's going to be able to get yourself off of them so I'm trusting you'll handle this right"
And he wrote me a prescription for two gigantic bottles of oxycontin, each of them had like a hundred 80 mg oxys in them...
And I took a few of them, sure....
In fact my wife and I crushed several of them up and snorted them, and I fucked her in the ass on oxycontin for about 3 days before I actually decided to begin the withdrawal process....
So I sold the rest of the oxycontin
And for 3 days I felt rough...
Yeah man.. diarrhea....
Nobody likes diarrhea
But you can get it from eating too many jalapenos
And it happens more often than we would like
Yeah man my stomach felt bad
But my stomach feels bad
Every time I come to this board....
Yeah man I was having cold sweats....
But I've had lots of cold sweats in my life
Yeah man my skin felt clammy
My skin feels clammy a lot
I don't give a fuck
It really wasn't as bad as people would have you believe..... The reason heroin junkies always over exaggerate the effects of withdrawal is because they are trying to make it sound like it's impossible and hopefully you will sympathize with them and give them money to go buy some more heroin while they allegedly "continue trying to quit"
After 3 days I was FINE.......
again: AFTER 3 DAYS I WAS JUST FINE
So don't go trying to Garner sympathy from me
Because you and your over the counter convenience store kratom addiction are almost as interesting as any random strangers toenail fungus problem....