Hi everyone, I have a few questions here for my dear friend. First some background; she drinks a cup of poppy tea a day. She also has a script for Vicodin 5/500, 20 tabs, which she gets every two weeks or so. The pills last her 2-4 days, depending. So, she had an event one weekend a month back which would have made it hard to find the time to grind pod, steep, and make the tea. So, she got her script and decided to just use the pills for the weekend. She'd start with 5 or 6 in the late morning, and then continue throughout the day, having a few here and there, and used perhaps 9 or 10 each of the 2 weekend days (Sat. and Sun.). But then Sunday night, she started feeling those horrible withdrawl symptoms; runny nose, weakness, anxiety, muscle pain. She took the last 2 Vics and went to sleep. Monday morning she was in bad shape. She made the tea, drank her cup, and one hour later she was a normal and happy human again. So, the question is: was she withdrawing from the tea, even while taking the pills? If so, why would that be? Is it a question of certain alkaloids contained in the pods that are not present in Vicodin that caused this? She'd love to hear anyone else's experience along these lines.
Actually, she's come to much prefer the tea to the pills. She won't say no to her script, hahaha, but aside from the more labor-intensive process of making the tea, plus the cost of the pods,(the prescription is covered by insurance and costs maybe $8), the tea seems to be the way to go given a choice. Of course travelling becomes a challenge, especially staying at other folks' homes... dragging along pod powder, strainer, etc. is a nuisance, she says.
What's anyone's take on all this? Don't want her to repeat the withdrawal again, that was on the brink of horrifying.
Thanks, all!
-The Nocturnal Jeweler
18-06-2009, 05:46
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