I imagine the problem for you is not getting high but the risk of having to increase the meds over and over again as your body adjusts to the meds thus making your body more dependent on them until it is taking too much and starts overdosing. That is the way I have to look at it since most of these type of drugs do nothing for me as far wow I am getting high feeling.
Genetics plays such a huge role in the way you process any drug and most doctors don’t seem to know how to deal with it. My doctors didn’t even catch it despite me saying things like oxy doesnt work on me.. I had to find out myself. And now that they know...it still doesn’t help that they know.
When I am prescribed any drug now I have to look at how it is metabolized. If I say okay I am defective in that enzyme so how do we adjust they are dumbfounded.
Metabolization is a factor. My now passed friend had pretty good information and advice having been a federal doctor.
His methods for using percocet and oxy was that 90% of medicine is metabolized in the stomach. Thus, a person can break off a small piece and hold it under their tongue and get about 4 doses from one.
Sometimes you skip a week and your body resets. That’s probably the positive with the disruption of supply these days.
It is routine to hurt and as I have learned to mitigate pain my best days are those going to the spa and hitting the steam, sanu , hot tub and then actually swimming for 30 - 60 minutes.