Discussion I want to use opioids to relieve pain from my serious illness but I want to keep them open a ctb option. how?

[Caribbean Sky]

I'm going to ctb soon. until then, I don't want to go insane from the pain of my chronic illness.

I'm thinking of taking opioids to relieve that pain.

But I want to leave them open as a ctb option - and I worry that would disappear as I start gaining tolerance to opioids.

Is there a way around that though ? can i still ctb with opioids with a tolerance? do i just increase the dose?
people hooked on them do still OD and die but I don't understand the mechanics of that and don't want to assume.


Please don't be upset with me about this choice. I understand the risks and i'll die anyway - whether it's from ctb or my illness.

 

[hoeni]

i heard that you can slow gaining tolerance by taking dxm with opioids. idk about using them to ctb. please stay safe and reconsider:(

 

[elenaboo25]

Get them prescribed and collect them, don't take any until you have enough to reliably ctb with?

It is a thing I am considering as well. I have chronic pain for which I have not yet gotten treatment because for my job I need my brain and I am afraid that if I told my GP about my chronic pain I would get opiods, or maybe some other painkillers, that would impact my ability to do my job. I need to keep my job because I need the money from my job to be able to live my life (ironic, I know) and dying does involve money as well, regardless of which method I end up choosing.

Maybe you already know this, maybe you don't: Assuming you don't have problems with your liver, kidneys, stomach, blood pressure or take blood thinners (or you don't care about those problems), you can safely combine Paracetamol and Ibuprofen.

 

[DeadManLiving]

The certainly help with the pain.

 

[Caribbean Sky]

i heard that you can slow gaining tolerance by taking dxm with opioids. idk about using them to ctb. please stay safe and reconsider:(

i know. but if i had a diagnosis i would receive opioids probably for pain anyway here.

I would still make sure tolerance wouldn't take this option away from me.

of course, then I might be offered euthanization, but that is why I am keeping this option open :)

 

[HangMan123]

Isn't that how the guy in knives out 1 died? It's a good movie; you should watch it if you haven't.
Anyway, due to the nature of opioids, I'd assume that the death would be painless. In the movie, they said he'd die in ten minutes, iirc. I think it was 100mg intravenously? At that high of a dosage, I don't think that any built up immunity would matter. In any case, you could just increase the dosage (100 mg isn't a lot volume-wise, but it depends on the opioid's concentration, which should be on the bottle).
Then again, it is a movie, and you should double-check everything I'm saying.