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

[ladyboop]

Don't know about you, But when I first started, I and the cleanest Hosue in town!!! lol..lol..


        Lady

[On a Clear Day...]

I related to your post about how at the end of your usage, pills made you tired more than giving you energy.That is the point I am at with my perc habit. It has been four days, although I have never been a heavy user, I was very consistent. Daily...one half to as much as two 10 mgs. If I broke off little pieces, which is how I did it, I would get a litte "weeee" feeling for maybe 30 minutes, after that they would make me tired. So, what I am doing today is I am thinking about taking a piece of one, and have been thinking this way for days, but I am reminded of how tired I feel, and look!! This has been stopping me in my tracks, that God. I used to take a pill here and there over the years, smoked pot in the 70's, hash, qualudes (sp?), but never addicted to anything. Very different today with what we have access to and how powerful mind drugs they are. I read you took pills for mental pain rather than physical pain, and so did I. I had a huge family blow-up with my Sister and my Mom jumped on the band-wagon over something silly, but I was devastated by the way they treated me during this time. I dropped a bunch a weight, which was the only good part of all this, and had friends give me a Vicoden here and there. Those actually give me a headache, but the Percocet...now that was an animal of a different color for me! Loved it! So, I went from being given something once and a while, to a friend who gets them on a monthly basis from his doc and does not use them all, so calls me up and ships me a quantity every month or two. He knows how hard it is to get and that I have a herniated disc (big deal) so thinks he is doing me a favor. Once I can tell him I will not be needing these anymore from him when he calls is when I know I am done. Can not promise I will never take "one" down the road if the moment is right, but have to get away from having such easy access to these things. This is what has gotten me in trouble with myself. If I have them, I go to them every single solitary day, whether I need it/want it or not. Funny thing, I think I have at least 10 or 15 in my drawer and I am staying away. Don't want to go count them because not sure how I will react holding them in my hand-yikes. So, for four years since this huge family shake-up, was when I started taking these as much as I could get to them, which was not easy. As I sit here today, and actually the family issue mended over one year ago, I was medicating my emotional pain with non other than pain medicine?! I had to face the emotional pain of that event and understand why it happened as it did and then say, so what? All done-in the past where it belongs-leave it there and stop whining about it and medicating myself over it.  I am a small user it looks like, but I am consistent-or was-which is just as hard on the body I am sure. But forget the boday for a  moment and how about the heavy laden guilt and feelings of no self worth from taking these when you know better? That is the heaviest burden I carry and really can not handle that feeling. So...the percs I have come to realize only make me tired any  more so the fun days of staying up painting my whole house because I was so energized are gone, the guilt is gone when I don't take any...what more can I say to  myself? This should be the end of my Pills for Pleasure part of my life. Oh, how I pray this to be so.

[CR_ST_NA]

hey worried, and all who posted.............. GREAT QUESTION !!!!!!!

for me........EUPHORIA......... lots of energy and a (false) sence of well being. i agree if they made me sleepy or feel drowsy i would have stayed away from them.  "C"

[faith_hope_love]

Put me in the energy group too.  Intially though, I owned a cleaning svc. and as my business started booming my back started killing me so long story short, called an orthopedic dr., did x-rays and found all the problems so he puts me on lortab and then I became superwoman.  My back didn't hurt and I could clean the day jobs and the businesses at night without a problem.  This went on a few years and then the opposite started happening like most of us have said.  They stopped working and slowly but surely I ended up losing everything because I couldn't work like I used to.

Btw, where is sablezen?  I remember him saying something about lortab and percocets coming from the part of the poppy plant called the thebaine? or something like that.  He was explaining that is why those 2 drugs gave energy whereas some other opiates like morphine didn't.  He could explain it better.

[desperate1111]

i spent a **** load of money chasing that high. i had so much energy and no one knew were it came from. its nice to just be high on life now. i don't need to be superwoman. if it gets done it gets done.

[Korley]

I definitely got energy from them, and I loved that feeling! I could get so much housework done, but then they turned on me, just like alcohol did.

Korley