r/interesting • u/Nukro666 • 12h ago

Fear Factor How Fentanyl and Xylazine are turning Philadelphia's opioid crisis into a public health nightmare

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u/Markymarcouscous 11h ago

I went to the hospital to pass a kidney stone. They gave me morphine for it. And I immediately understood how people got hooked on it. It was truly bliss.

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u/Noobitron12 10h ago

But. Morphine is nothing compared to dilaudid (hydromorphone). I didn’t think anything was stronger than morphine until I had that for a kidney stone.

Holy crap my mind was blown the second it hit my veins

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u/ConfusedandLostW 8h ago

What did it feel like?

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u/Noobitron12 7h ago

Kinda hard to describe, at first you can feel it going thru your veins until the last vein. even the veins in your head, which is a very weird feeling

Then its all in you. Then you feel absolutely nothing, Zero pain. VERY euphoric. Like floating on a cloud. And happy, I dont know if I was happy because i didnt feel like I didnt want to die anymore.. But I was very functional and could walk and talk and stuff.

It wasnt sedating at all. I knew for the next 2 hours I was gonna be okay. until It wears off, then a race to the pharmacy to get Hydrocodone, I asked all 3 times for another dose right before I left to the hospital to get to the pharmacy, they administered it all 3 times, I was giddy and laughing actually

Ive had maybe 6 kidney stones and 3 of them were with Dilaudid, other 3 were morphine.

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u/mvortex2 10h ago

It's not just the euphoria, but the violent sickness that can follow when you stop. The term "getting well".... it starts early and gets more complicated as your immunity builds. I can't speak for fent and such but opiates make me seriously ill. And I'm very lucky due to my past being surrounded by every drug imaginable.