Narcotic use for energy

[worried878]

The side effect mentioned on hydrocodone is sleepiness/drowsiness...yet almost every addict i have seen post got the oppsite effect of energy from the narcotics they took be it oxys or hydros....the majority of the population gets drowsy....so there is something i think that affects our brains differently that makes us prone to abuse them....if I fell asleep after using, i am sure i would not have abused them...is there anyone who took them/abused them for sedation?   How about how many abused them for the energy and good feeling they gave you?  just wondering

[Mikeinthesouth]

I was just reading this thread again since it was bumped up to the top and it still amazes me of how many responses you received regarding the energy received and I would have to agree with the original post when you said it has those adverse reactions because I have seen many people use pain meds including my wife and it puts them to sleep. I can remember going for days not sleeping like it was amphetamines or the like not that I don't have insomnia now but it was always awake and wanting to be. I think possibly I was just scared to waste the effects of the drugs. Funnmy how it feels when we can relate so so well to each other.

[gg222]

I use the fact that I have to clean the house or get something that takes energy done as an excuse to do more pills...when I'm sober, I have zero energy and don't want to do anything. When I'm on pills I feel energized and can do anything. Unless if I take a LOT like way too much I nod out and get drowsy...depends on how much you do I think and what you're doing. Methadone makes me more drowsy than things such as oxys and percs...

[enemy48]

Gosh.......did your boyfriend not know too?  You know mine didn't and still doesn't!

When he was gone away w/job and he'd call and ask what I had done that day, I can recall saying:

I woke up early and cleaned the whole house, did the grocery shopping, went to mom's to pay her bills, helped my sister work in her garden, picked up the dry cleaning, cooked, hand washed my car, did 3 loads of laundry and now I'm sewing a dress to wear for you when you get home.

He'd be like.............WTF?

[worried878]

My boyfriend..at the time...used to marvel at how much i got done...i would be like waxing my car and **** on saturdays and he was so impressed!  LOL...He said he like me so much because i was so much "fun"  Little did he know...geez...i can not say i dont miss all that energy and i have been working hard on getting it back...but i will never have that kind of energy again and this i have accepted...it was ABNORMAL!  I think i am at the energy level now that most women have at my age..probably more than most, but it was hard to accept that i can no longer be the "Energizer Bunny" and keep going, and going, and going

[enemy48]

I'd challenge you on the cleanest house.  

Isn't it weird how we LOVED housework on pills??????????????

[Kate228]

Like so many of you, when I first started using them, I didn't notice this energized feeling.  However, the longer I was on the codeine, and the more I used, the more I could keep going.  It was the weirdest feeling - I felt relaxed, but I also had so much energy I could stay up till 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning, working away on various things, and never feel tired.  If I was dragging in the morning, I just popped another pill, and the game was on for another day.  I think that's one of the hardest things now - after working all day, I am tired, and not able to sit up like I used to.  Do I miss that?  I would be lying if I said I didn't.  But I also wonder how much longer I could have gone on without destroying my body.  People aren't kidding when they say the mental part is often tougher than the physical.  

Kate