DOSE: T+ 0:00	10 mg	oral	Hydrocodone
T+ 2:30	5 mg	oral	Hydrocodone

BODY WEIGHT:

125 lb

All of the experiences that I read (which is not to say, however, that I have read every one) tended to focus much more on the addiction/downward spiral element commonly associated with opiates, and failed to mention how they can be a hoot if you don’t take them like a jackass. What do I mean by that? I mean don’t take them every damn time you want some. Your tolerance goes through the roof, the acetaminophen starts to get to toxic dose levels, and you’ll always be disappointed by not getting high enough. Do it a couple times a month tops. For instance, tonight is my first time taking any opiates for about a month and a half, and it only took 15 mg of hydrocodone to get me feeling just dandy.

So now that we’re past my introductory bullshit, let’s get down to brass tacks, as they say. So around 6:00 PM I chewed up 10 mg of hydrocodone. I stress the chewing because it’ll get into my system faster and harder if I chew it up, as opposed to just taking it like a normal pill. Look at it as a halfway point between taking it normally and snorting. It tastes like utter, utter shit. About 10 minutes later was when the effects started to slowly kick in. The first thing I notice is a tingling in my extremities (especially the legs, in my case). It’s kind of that feeling I get after a really good but really long run. I don’t really have the motivation to move my legs, partly because my motor control is inhibited, but partly because it feels so damn good to do absolutely nothing. Emotionally, everything gradually becomes dulled. I wasn’t yelling at the tv like I usually do (election years put me in a bad mood), and I found things I probably would have ordinarily found hilarious as simply amusing. However, the flipside of this coin is that, since my emotions are kind of dulled anyway, I don’t care that my emotions are dulled, so this all becomes kind of a non-issue.

After a couple hours, I chewed up another 5 mg dose. Since it tastes like such shit, I decided to pre grind it using an empty izze bottle. This was a lot easier to take, but the pregrinding left a fair amount of residue on the surface I was using. No matter, though, I snorted the remainder. Not a lot of it, maybe about 10% of what I had in the first place. The snorting has left me with a kind of itchy nose (although I don’t do it often, so people with more nasal fortitude may not have this problem), but once the 3rd one kicked in, I simply had no motivation to do anything. Picture the lack of motivation you get if you’re smoking pot. Now imagine that same mindset with more mental clarity. This is one of my few problems with opiates: I don’t feel like doing anything, but am mentally clear enough to feel like I should be doing something.

A few other notes to make here: I find my attention span is shortened as the drug peaks, so for a while I pull the “sitting and staring thing”, which is comprised of precisely that. Doesn’t matter what I’m staring at, but for a solid half hour when the high is the most intense, I just zone out and stop focusing, stop thinking. It’s like being dead, but with sensory input. Also, and this is mentioned elsewhere, but I will mention it again: Do not drink alcohol. It sounds like it’ll be awesome, and for a couple hours it is, until I wind up lying on the bathroom floor shaking for half an hour trying to keep my stomach contents in my stomach. Weed, however, can be a great mixer, putting my head in the same pleasant “do nothing” fog that my body is in, and it’s always nice to have a little perceptive equality.

Exp Year: 2008	ExpID: 73176
Gender: Male
Age at time of experience: Not Given
Published: Apr 26, 2016	Views: 8,427
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