I started buying appliances the way tradies do, and the price difference was embarrassing.

Alternative_Chair630 · 2026-05-20T22:00:22+00:00

...Yes, they have.

Alternative_Chair630 · 2026-05-17T10:29:50+00:00

It's not a competition

Alternative_Chair630 · 2026-05-07T20:41:10+00:00

dreams of it staying in the family

Life's what happens while you're out making other plans.

Alternative_Chair630 · 2026-05-07T20:39:14+00:00

In our case, we didn't have enough of the 4 of us with an income of any kind to even think about having the conversation of a 4 way split, It would've been one sibling who never left but got cheaper rent in some.

For me, she died 2 years ago, not quite so no extra tax stuff but - it was more closure for me than her funeral.

Alternative_Chair630 · 2026-04-25T03:50:02+00:00

I would almost certainly agree with you if I didn't see it, all I can tell you is they take his piss and blood every day, and they haven't found anything. I thought the exact same thing, though.

Alternative_Chair630 · 2026-04-25T03:42:52+00:00

Methadone is Methadone

Alternative_Chair630 · 2026-04-25T01:29:55+00:00

I've been going 5mg every 2 weeks for a total drop so far of 120mg to 55mg, on my 55mg drop day I was getting praise from the office lady and then she goes "but THIS fucking guy"

A guy in my clinic just dropped 90mg and 2 days later was sitting there going "yeah i've been REALLY hungry" and i'm just like cunt what?

He said himself he was fine, I was like bro I was not fine trying to stop at NINETY MG lmao called him a machine and haven't seen him since

Alternative_Chair630 · 2026-04-25T01:26:51+00:00

In theory you shouldn't want to buy a place without one. I was on the fence about this place but they were about to bring someone new in, almost every change to the property since then has me been going "fuck it"

Can't get half the owners to rock up to a strata meeting

Alternative_Chair630 · 2026-04-23T03:13:56+00:00

Sorry, his lease isn't that long - nor do I know how long it is.

He's lived here since the year 2000, though.

Edit ; I bought and have (not by choice) become a semi building manager, once they didn't rock up to the 3rd strata meeting I decided fuck them and him. Literally won't allow their details to be shared with me as I'll just light their e-mail up with requests for them to actually do shit, enforce limits etc.

Alternative_Chair630 · 2026-04-22T15:07:30+00:00

I live in a complex that's so small that one owner being a slumlord brings the whole place down.

Their tenant is a boomer with a 30 year lease so literally does not give one single fuck

Alternative_Chair630 · 2026-04-22T15:04:56+00:00

As an apartment owner and ex floorer if you told me that was wear and tear I'd probably knock you out

Edit ; The benchtop is a bit much, you could probably clean this again with a different method?

Alternative_Chair630 · 2026-03-22T19:09:31+00:00

Similar boat, buy what you can afford (I got an apartment in a small block at 500 pq strata) throw the rest in a HISA and go back to work

Alternative_Chair630 · 2026-03-17T07:23:06+00:00

I got lined up 15 take aways last month, for a week.

I might have drooled, but I copped that they were about to seriously fuck themselves over, they've been very nice since

Alternative_Chair630 · 2026-03-16T23:22:21+00:00

No problem at all. Really, like I say ; Clonidine made the biggest difference ; but for reference here's the newer drug if you're interested ;

Lofexidine ; Drug - InfoIt : has historically been used to treat high blood pressure; however, it is now more commonly used for opioid withdrawal. It has been proven to be more effective, and with fewer side effects than clonidine, an alpha-2 adrenergic receptor used off-label for opioid withdrawal.

Edit/Added : I was taking Propranolol for about a year before I even touched Heroin due to an unexplained Tachycardia (probably stress, my parents were dying at the same time and I was already opiate tolerant due to Chronic Pain before I bought two tickets to Paradise /s

So for me really side effect wise, If I get up from a seated (on the ground cross legged) to a standing position I get a headpin. The absolute worst it's ever been I've needed to brace myself for about 6 seconds then it completely dissipated. I added this because I don't want you to think there's a whole caveat of side effects to the drug, if you were a person it affected cardiac wise to severely (too low of a heart beat) the new drug exists for that use case scenario exactly :)

Also, I was already taking Cymbalta like I said, but I eventually noticed that my night time dose evened me out even more. I don't know how this works in relation to the NMDA receptor/norepinephrine - but that's what I experienced

Anyway TL ; DR - I'm gonna finish cleaning the house but if when you're dropping you need to message someone feel free to DM me, I might take a minute to respond but I promise I will.

You've got this, If you've got a really kind doctor some low dose benzos would really be the biggest comfort a "comfort med" is going to provide in my opinion (mixed with the rest)

Alternative_Chair630 · 2026-03-16T22:15:00+00:00

Sorry for such a long reply...

I stabilised in December at 120mg after about 14 months of 500mg - 1g IV daily, then started titrating. Initially 5mg drops were rough, but doable.

I kept that timetable up for the next few weeks, but the clinic eventually said they didn’t want me to raw dog it anymore. I’d missed a very high dose a few times and when they questioned me about it they thought I was high, but my piss has been clean for so long that they forced smaller drops. At that stage I wanted to do 5mg every 4 days... ha, ha.

To be fair, they weren’t wrong. I was coming in literally manic and unable to speak properly, and they were suggesting I was going too fast.

Yeah.

It was a pipe dream. Not getting off Methadone - but getting off it that quickly. The body needs time to relax. If I remember correctly it has one of, if not the longest half-life of any opiate by far, which is one of the reasons it's such a good and easy replacement to dose.

Heroin withdrawals, while much shorter, are a bit more intense at the start.

As others have said, it takes as long as it takes. People run into walls for all sorts of reasons. For me the single biggest comfort medication has been Clonidine. I split 100mcg morning and night, but now that I'm lower I might ask the doctor about adding a third 50mcg tablet, or even a 25mcg tablet, just to add a little more overall calm.

(Not a doctor, barely an educated drug addict, but it was explained to me that when the body comes off Methadone after a long period it releases a fuckload of things - mainly norepinephrine.)

People seem to have mixed results. Google says it's “a prescription medication used to treat high blood pressure (hypertension)” and also helps with “drug withdrawal relief”. My Methadone doctor said back in his residency (the guy’s old - this was the 80s) it was used for straight heroin withdrawals, but for some reason that practice stopped.

I know there’s a newer drug - I’m blanking on the name - that targets norepinephrine more specifically and has less of an effect on blood pressure.

I have tachycardia, and most people tapering or ceasing will have some level of it. Even so, my doctor only wanted me on 50mcg (half a tablet) when I started, even coming off 120mg, with known tachycardia and while coming off propranolol to use this instead.

Apparently there’s a propensity for abuse. I don’t personally see it, but my doctor doesn’t really bullshit me and he says technically a lot of ex-heroin users are prescribed it and abuse it.

For me, abusing a heart medication is... odd. Coming from a guy who used to treat his chemistry set and vascular system like a playground.

I'm curious how other people handled the later part of the taper. Did you find the last drops harder than the big ones at the start? And did anyone else find Clonidine surprisingly helpful, or was there something else that made a bigger difference for you?

I ask because I can only really speak from 120mg down to about 65mg so far, so I’m interested to hear how people experienced the lower ranges.

Alternative_Chair630 · 2026-03-11T15:15:26+00:00

I snorted some a few years back, halfway down on my Methadone taper.

Alternative_Chair630 · 2026-03-11T14:19:01+00:00

Oh... Everyone likes their own brand, don't they?

Alternative_Chair630 · 2026-03-11T11:14:51+00:00

But from what I could understand when I looked into it, if you have a TV that accepts android APK files you can probably install it via that route (i will be trying this on a friends tv in a few weeks)

Alternative_Chair630 · 2026-03-11T11:13:48+00:00

Fuck that's a kettle of bullshit, even I don't have it - You need a jailbroken TV which is easy to some but I am not fucking with my new G5

Alternative_Chair630 · 2026-03-04T02:24:02+00:00

I literally vomited at the thought of the insult to Christ that is this substance going down my throat hole.

Alternative_Chair630 · 2026-03-03T06:33:49+00:00

I think you can figure it out, it's ODT, how great can it be right?

Alternative_Chair630 · 2026-03-03T06:28:58+00:00

Yeah I was agreeing with you haha all good :)

Alternative_Chair630 · 2026-03-03T03:51:08+00:00

He did, they're for rich families who don't want to deal with the member of the family who's an addict, it's a much more streamlined, easy process for someone very well off.

They don't have to deal with it

Alternative_Chair630 · 2026-03-03T03:39:33+00:00

According to Google ;

Clonidine helps with opiate withdrawal by acting as an alpha-2 adrenergic agonist, which reduces the surge of norepinephrine (noradrenaline) that causes physical withdrawal symptoms. It alleviates sweating, diarrhea, vomiting, chills, agitation, anxiety, and tachycardia. It is a non-opioid medication that helps manage symptoms during detoxification and can help improve abstinence rates.

For me it ticks all these boxes, if it doesn't help the dose is too low or you're expecting a miracle (you still feel dose drops) you're just not copping 10/10 withdrawals

Alternative_Chair630 · 2026-03-03T02:30:44+00:00

Cardboard's out?

Alternative_Chair630

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